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Agency Based Discussion => Adobe Stock => Topic started by: MatHayward on August 08, 2019, 12:43
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Hi Everyone,
In addition to the Creative Cloud bonus program announced earlier today, I have more good news to share. We have started accepting Illustrative Editorial submissions from individual contributors. As we are just getting started, we have limited this access to contributors ranked at Emerald or above (25,000 downloads or more). We will expand this access in the future. For now, if you are not ranked at Emerald or above though you feel you have a strong Illustrative Editorial collection already established you may write to us for consideration via the contact us link at the bottom of the contributor portal. Be sure to include a link to your existing work.
To understand what Illustrative Editorial is and to learn about our guidelines, please review the information here: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/illustrative-editorial-content.html
I'm looking forward to seeing what you submit!
-Mat
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Strike two for me today:(
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I would be helpful for AS to start reading the Description field instead of the title field.
I'm pretty sure most Editorial images shooters are doing it that way as that is what we are all used to for SS.
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Very cool but I'm far from that rank :(
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Good news, but disappointing at the same time. Why only illustrative editorial?
Also, >25000 downloads is asking an awful lot for folks that weren't around in the heyday of microstock when there were a lot more downloads.
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well that's a lovely start. Sadly, not an emerald at Adobe.
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Good news, but disappointing at the same time. Why only illustrative editorial?
Also, >25000 downloads is asking an awful lot for folks that weren't around in the heyday of microstock when there were a lot more downloads.
"We will expand this access in the future. For now, if you are not ranked at Emerald or above though you feel you have a strong Illustrative Editorial collection already established you may write to us for consideration via the contact us link at the bottom of the contributor portal. Be sure to include a link to your existing work."
-Mat
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Good news, but disappointing at the same time. Why only illustrative editorial?
Also, >25000 downloads is asking an awful lot for folks that weren't around in the heyday of microstock when there were a lot more downloads.
"We will expand this access in the future. For now, if you are not ranked at Emerald or above though you feel you have a strong Illustrative Editorial collection already established you may write to us for consideration via the contact us link at the bottom of the contributor portal. Be sure to include a link to your existing work."
-Mat
Mat, thanks for the response, I guess I am more concerned with only accepting illustrative editorial. Hopefully that will expand in the future to include all editorial. But it is at least a start!
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This is very exciting! I will definitely be submitting some new content.
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This is very exciting!
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What are the order of ranks ....
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Hi Mat,
what about video?
Any plans to allow editorial it for footage as well?
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Great news even if I am not emerald (yet)!
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Hi Everyone,
In addition to the Creative Cloud bonus program announced earlier today, I have more good news to share. We have started accepting Illustrative Editorial submissions from individual contributors. As we are just getting started, we have limited this access to contributors ranked at Emerald or above (25,000 downloads or more). We will expand this access in the future. For now, if you are not ranked at Emerald or above though you feel you have a strong Illustrative Editorial collection already established you may write to us for consideration via the contact us link at the bottom of the contributor portal. Be sure to include a link to your existing work.
To understand what Illustrative Editorial is and to learn about our guidelines, please review the information here: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/illustrative-editorial-content.html
I'm looking forward to seeing what you submit!
-Mat
Excellent news Mat... took a look at the link and it confirms no recognisable people. If you're shooting locations/city scenes etc and the people are small in the image i.e. not the main focus of the image and would require zooming in 100% at full Rez before they are recognisable... would they be accepted or, is that off limits as well.
Again, great to see this move as I'm sure AS will also benefit from this in the long run. Cheers
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Hello Mat,
thank you - great news ! :)
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Good news, but disappointing at the same time. Why only illustrative editorial?
Also, >25000 downloads is asking an awful lot for folks that weren't around in the heyday of microstock when there were a lot more downloads.
"We will expand this access in the future. For now, if you are not ranked at Emerald or above though you feel you have a strong Illustrative Editorial collection already established you may write to us for consideration via the contact us link at the bottom of the contributor portal. Be sure to include a link to your existing work."
-Mat
Please note, this is only for images at present. We are (sadly) not accepting editorial footage quite yet.
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Where can I check my current level? I think I was about to turn Emerald but never checked it again since migrating to Adobe site. Now I don't know where to see it. Just logged to the Fotolia site but couldn't find any information.
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Where can I check my current level? I think I was about to turn Emerald but never checked it again since migrating to Adobe site. Now I don't know where to see it. Just logged to the Fotolia site but couldn't find any information.
Contributor Account, Your rank is at the bottom.
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Where can I check my current level? I think I was about to turn Emerald but never checked it again since migrating to Adobe site. Now I don't know where to see it. Just logged to the Fotolia site but couldn't find any information.
Contributor Account, Your rank is at the bottom.
Interesting. My rank reads emerald. But my download number is a hair shy of 25,000. Hopefully I'm okay to start.
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Hi Mat,
what about video?
Any plans to allow editorial it for footage as well?
Same question from me... are you doing editorial video too???
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Hi Mat,
what about video?
Any plans to allow editorial it for footage as well?
Same question from me... are you doing editorial video too???
No illustrative editorial video yet, but thanks for asking.
-Mat
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Nice. I'm selling many of that kind at competing agencies. Waiting with excitement until my current sales volume will qualify me to upload illustraive editorials. Can take a while.
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Where can I check my current level? I think I was about to turn Emerald but never checked it again since migrating to Adobe site. Now I don't know where to see it. Just logged to the Fotolia site but couldn't find any information.
Contributor Account, Your rank is at the bottom.
Thanks. Is there a way to know how many downloads we still have to have to reach next level or the rank system died and we got frozen where we were? I have an idea this was discussed in the past but cannot remember.
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Thanks. Is there a way to know how many downloads we still have to have to reach next level or the rank system died and we got frozen where we were? I have an idea this was discussed in the past but cannot remember.
I googled it, not sure if the info is on the adobe image manager. you need 25K downloads to be emerald, and that's quite a challenge nowadays. your total DLs are on your dashboard. I am a long way off. :/
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Hi Everyone,
In addition to the Creative Cloud bonus program announced earlier today, I have more good news to share. We have started accepting Illustrative Editorial submissions from individual contributors. As we are just getting started, we have limited this access to contributors ranked at Emerald or above (25,000 downloads or more). We will expand this access in the future. For now, if you are not ranked at Emerald or above though you feel you have a strong Illustrative Editorial collection already established you may write to us for consideration via the contact us link at the bottom of the contributor portal. Be sure to include a link to your existing work.
To understand what Illustrative Editorial is and to learn about our guidelines, please review the information here: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/illustrative-editorial-content.html
I'm looking forward to seeing what you submit!
-Mat
Matt, did they quit tracking rank at the cutover from Fotolia? I have over 32K downloads, but my rank is Gold.
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Hi Everyone,
In addition to the Creative Cloud bonus program announced earlier today, I have more good news to share. We have started accepting Illustrative Editorial submissions from individual contributors. As we are just getting started, we have limited this access to contributors ranked at Emerald or above (25,000 downloads or more). We will expand this access in the future. For now, if you are not ranked at Emerald or above though you feel you have a strong Illustrative Editorial collection already established you may write to us for consideration via the contact us link at the bottom of the contributor portal. Be sure to include a link to your existing work.
To understand what Illustrative Editorial is and to learn about our guidelines, please review the information here: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/illustrative-editorial-content.html
I'm looking forward to seeing what you submit!
-Mat
Matt, did they quit tracking rank at the cutover from Fotolia? I have over 32K downloads, but my rank is Gold.
No, we are still tracking sales towards rank. I've seen one case in which the total downloads exceeded 25K though a batch were free downloads from Fotolia days that didn't apply towards rank. Shoot us an email via the contact us link at the bottom of the contributor portal and I'll take a look to see if that's the same for you.
Kind regards,
Mat Hayward
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Thanks. Is there a way to know how many downloads we still have to have to reach next level or the rank system died and we got frozen where we were? I have an idea this was discussed in the past but cannot remember.
I googled it, not sure if the info is on the adobe image manager. you need 25K downloads to be emerald, and that's quite a challenge nowadays. your total DLs are on your dashboard. I am a long way off. :/
Rank details can be found here but yes, 25,000 is the number to hit for Emerald: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/royalty-details.html
If you have an existing collection of Illustrative Editorial online, send us an email via the contact us link at the bottom of the portal and we may be able to accept your work.
Kind regards,
Mat Hayward
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Wow, this is great news!
I'm just below Emerald with Gold rank and a large editorial port. I've written to contributor support with a link to my work to see if I can be included early.
Great news, Thanks Mat
Stu :-)
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Great news
hah, just kidding @Mat, no offense.
I got greater news, already uploaded and listed!
:P
Jokes aside, that is a nice move from Adobe side, as far as I remember
it is not that long that Mat & Dennis run a thread / poll to see our
opinions and intentions on editorial submittions :)
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I am miles away from the 25.000 downloads but I have still sent the email with my small illustrative port.
What Adobe Stock could do, aside illustrative editorials, is accept a limited per month number of editorial photos and videos until they shape an initial opinion. This could also discourage all contributors from uploading every single asset we have, since we would have to think twice about our content to send. It is not difficult to understand both sides lose earnings from not being able to do that. Such a move could make Adobe lower the risk they are probably trying to weigh prior to enabling editorial uploads.
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Thanks. Is there a way to know how many downloads we still have to have to reach next level or the rank system died and we got frozen where we were? I have an idea this was discussed in the past but cannot remember.
I googled it, not sure if the info is on the adobe image manager. you need 25K downloads to be emerald, and that's quite a challenge nowadays. your total DLs are on your dashboard. I am a long way off. :/
Rank details can be found here but yes, 25,000 is the number to hit for Emerald: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/royalty-details.html
If you have an existing collection of Illustrative Editorial online, send us an email via the contact us link at the bottom of the portal and we may be able to accept your work.
Kind regards,
Mat Hayward
How many illustrative photos would I need to be considered? I'm faaaaar from the downloads but it's mostly because I shot editorial
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This is a great beginning! Any feel for when we can expect it will be opened up to photos with non-released people in them?
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If you have an existing collection of Illustrative Editorial online, send us an email via the contact us link at the bottom of the portal and we may be able to accept your work.
Kind regards,
Mat Hayward
yeah, I don't have a lot, maybe 100. I don't focus on editorial enough.
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Hi,
I just want to direct this message to Matt and anyone else from Adobe Stock who comes on here, I've been a long time reader but not often was I posting.
Thank you for coming in on forums like this and being so honest and helpful with contributors, believe me it is more refreshing that you probably imagine considering how the other agencies deal with us including the one that used to be the most fair and reasonable to deal with but sadly they've gone in a different direction.
It's a business for us but we aren't getting rich here and when we get tricked and screwed and told all this "good news" only to see the payouts drop or realize that we've been out manoeuvred by the very company we trusted it's not good and that's putting it politely.
I am a user of Adobe products (premier and encoder) but I don't have an account with Adobe stock as I am 100% editorial, I don't have a studio and models etc so until you are able to accept editorial I won't be a contributor but I just wanted to pass on my appreciation for you guy coming on here and actually being honest and helpful, was the first thing I noticed.
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" so until you are able to accept editorial "
They accept editorial. That's the point.
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please make it available for silver too !
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please make it available for silver too !
Request to be invited through support with a link to your editorial portfolio.
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Someone not emerald accepted?
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They turned me down. They said mine was not quite what they were looking for. Life goes on....
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I was turned down, but nicely!
Steve
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I just got my test batch of editorials accepted.
This is great! More are following.
One more step for AS to close the gap and challenge SS leadership on the market.
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I cannot find the number of downloads anywhere.
Last time I saw I was Gold and not far from the next level but since then, with the changes to Adobe site, either some information has disappeared from the sites or I forgot where to look and can't find it.
Does anyone knows where to look for the total downloads? Thanks!
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Go to Dashboard ,it will list number of DL and ranking you have. Go to Contributor Account, it will list what level(Gold) you are at.
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Go to Dashboard ,it will list number of DL and ranking you have. Go to Contributor Account, it will list what level(Gold) you are at.
Thanks.
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Just scored my first editorial sale on AS, only few days after uploading it!
Nice!
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Shouldn't one video download count as about 30 downloads. Video producers are handicapped with this system because they make Adobe much more money for less downloads. Please correct this flawed system of download ranking. Give higher value sales appropriate ranking.
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Just scored my first editorial sale on AS, only few days after uploading it!
Nice!
If you can, would love to see what type of images Adobe accepted from you for editor. Thanks, Scott
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Hi everyone,
We have expanded access to contributors ranked Gold and above for Illustrative Editorial content. I will create a new thread with this announcement as well to increase visibility.
Best regards,
Mat Hayward