Strike two for me today:(

Very cool but I'm far from that rank

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well that's a lovely start. Sadly, not an emerald at Adobe.

Quote from: wds on August 08, 2019, 21:11

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!

This is very exciting!

Hi Mat,
what about video?
Any plans to allow editorial it for footage as well?

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

Quote from: wds on August 08, 2019, 21:11

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. 

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.

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???

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.

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. :/