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Agency Based Discussion => Adobe Stock => Topic started by: christiano on June 19, 2019, 08:23
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no sales since 8 days... Usually, I have sales every day ... a trend or it's just me?
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no sales since 8 days... Usually, I have sales every day ... a trend or it's just me?
Summertime Slump is part of that, but looking, my SS sales are down 77%, vs 2018 or 2017, just for a comparison. Maybe it's not just AS?
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no sales since 8 days... Usually, I have sales every day ... a trend or it's just me?
Summertime Slump is part of that, but looking, my SS sales are down 77%, vs 2018 or 2017, just for a comparison. Maybe it's not just AS?
Thank goodness my SS and other stocks compare to Adobe are better than last year.
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In my case, sales on Adobe are always in waves... days of nothing and then huge wave of sales... some kind of rotation and right now I`m looking for that wave on horizon...
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https://www.microstockgroup.com/fotolia-com/what's-wrong-with-adobe-may-sales (https://www.microstockgroup.com/fotolia-com/what's-wrong-with-adobe-may-sales)
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For me, Adobe is performing really good this year, with April my BME, almost double from what I usually earn, this month also very good, second best month this year. Completely different from what was last year which was disaster. As if someone clicked on some kind of switch and sales suddenly star to come in again.
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For me, Adobe is performing really good this year, with April my BME, almost double from what I usually earn, this month also very good, second best month this year. Completely different from what was last year which was disaster. As if someone clicked on some kind of switch and sales suddenly star to come in again.
Same here. Most months show a good improvement over the same month in the previous year. But to be fair, that has been the case for most years bar one. They have always out performed SS for me.
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Spoke too soon... volume and value seem to have gone off the edge of a cliff this week. Looks like I'm heading deep into that trough of the wave that was mentioned. Excellent start of the month though, but that looks like it is soon to be balanced out a bit.
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friday is an holiday?
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friday is an holiday?
Not in the US. I can't speak for other places.
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friday is an holiday?
Not in the US. I can't speak for other places.
Didn't think it was... although sales today would say it is... everywhere! Best part way through the day here and I normally wake up to more earnings than I have now. About as busy as a quiet Sunday. It's almost like a switch has been flicked somewhere. Most odd.
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Worst than a sunday))
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after a sale of 33 dollar yesterday i was sure 100% the day would have been a disaster and as always i was spot on...ss is so predictable it looks like having a salary fixed every monty...the rest unfortunately is not predictable but level of sales are far from ss. so better capped or not? at this point t least i know i have a fixed amount every month. not bad.
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friday is an holiday?
But it is summer in the US, so lots of people go on holiday (vacation). IIRC summers are usually slow. Then sales start to pick back up for the winter holidays right around Sept.
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friday is an holiday?
But it is summer in the US, so lots of people go on holiday (vacation).
From what I know, it is summer all over the Northern Hemisphere but vacations don't always affect sales that much, at least not for everyone.
My AS sales were way down before summer started. Now it is worse than DP.
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friday is an holiday?
But it is summer in the US, so lots of people go on holiday (vacation). IIRC summers are usually slow. Then sales start to pick back up for the winter holidays right around Sept.
But it's winter in the southern hemisphere so no one goes on holiday :D
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friday is an holiday?
But it is summer in the US, so lots of people go on holiday (vacation). IIRC summers are usually slow. Then sales start to pick back up for the winter holidays right around Sept.
No, American people so not have 3 months vacation :(
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It`s quite right now, maybe because of summer... a bit earlier this year... I hope for that big wave soon...
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May and June I sold 3 videos only. Same as Storyblocks... Wich makes me really, really worried . :-\
I have a 5K portfolio by the way...
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friday is an holiday?
But it is summer in the US, so lots of people go on holiday (vacation). IIRC summers are usually slow. Then sales start to pick back up for the winter holidays right around Sept.
Right, it's not a holiday but kids are out of school, people are out of college, families start taking vacations, businesses, many in the US, have a slower production schedule. USA isn't the end all for stock but a good percentage. It seems like June - Sept. is slower than some other periods. But of course we also have the after the holidays January, start of the year slump as well.
It's more like, there are some times when sales are good and more times when they aren't, but people want to think the good periods are the usual and the low is the unusual.
Things could be the opposite. = Most of the time we don't get much and sometimes we get good sales. :(
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It`s super slow, even for summer...
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no sales since 8 days... Usually, I have sales every day ... a trend or it's just me?
Not just you.
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no sales since 8 days... Usually, I have sales every day ... a trend or it's just me?
Not just you.
Same here, extremely slow this month, even after taking into account the 4th July etc. Hopefully there'll be an upturn soo.
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... whole June and now July were silent... sporadic, lower sales are coming - slower on higher and footage side...
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My download *numbers* are steady the last few weeks. But my download revenue is way way down below 50% of average. 2-3 weeks ago something happened and my steady revenue per download over many months dropped massively.
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Adobe has been dead for me the last few weeks. Still not a big player in video sale IMO
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My May in Adobe was very good. June was worst month in a year. July on track to be worst month since 2015.
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My download *numbers* are steady the last few weeks. But my download revenue is way way down below 50% of average. 2-3 weeks ago something happened and my steady revenue per download over many months dropped massively.
I find it comes in waves... you either get a load of better value sales or nothing at all. I'm on the latter at the moment and feels like every sale is begrudged. Even more bizarre is that my 30 day rolling income this year is only 0.143% different to the same 30 days last year... consistent.
Edit... just to be fair, Adobe has consistently been better each month this year when compared to the same month last year. It has been a good year so far.
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Same thing for me. I don't have a large portfolio but I usually sell several images a week. I haven't sold a SINGLE ONE since Fotolia went over to Adobe in May. Something is definitely off. Maybe a minor dip on SS but Adobe has been dead.
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For me something changed suddenly on the week of June 17th and income has dropped ever since.
Its fairly clear on the graph when something changed and the average dropped suddenly. What seems to be the case is actual download *number* are constant or increasing but the actual earnings have dropped severely.
The big spikes after that are occasional video sales. (The bizarre february bit is when they overpaid then adjusted so leaving a negative week)
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For me something changed suddenly on the week of June 17th and income has dropped ever since.
Its fairly clear on the graph when something changed and the average dropped suddenly. What seems to be the case is actual download *number* are constant or increasing but the actual earnings have dropped severely.
The big spikes after that are occasional video sales. (The bizarre february bit is when they overpaid then adjusted so leaving a negative week)
Similar thing happened to me at about that time. June finished well but mainly due to the start of the month. July was bad. August has been better but mainly due to a handful of footage sales but it has felt like there has been a slight improvement
When I looked at the FT site a week or so back, each image had a notice on it saying they were no longer taking new orders and that you had to go to AS (where the licence information per size is) but now you can buy images again through credits?!? Maybe they've changed their mind ;D ;D
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... it was very good until June, but now it`s not at all... something changed and totally broke sales...
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Very slow for me right now and past few months -- and getting less per sale.
Also, I upload new material more interesting that sells elsewhere but seems like certain images sell over and over on AS, but new material not so much, even material selling elsewhere. What sells on AS not necessarily what sells elsewhere.
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September was very good for me, ahead of SS thanks to higher RPD.
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Very slow for me right now and past few months -- and getting less per sale.
Also, I upload new material more interesting that sells elsewhere but seems like certain images sell over and over on AS, but new material not so much, even material selling elsewhere. What sells on AS not necessarily what sells elsewhere.
as is king for selling old images...is not a case that there are some diamond contributor who upload practically zero content in the last 2 years and still sell tons of images....is the problem of all agency...they need to find a balance between old and new images or soon they won't have new content at all..is not a mine of yours problem is everycontriboutor problem...and as i said those who upload and have a lot of download in the first years still sell a lot without uploading content at all r very few. it's not they have amazing or exclusive content is simply they have a lot fo file in first pages.
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hi all,
i'm an emerald contributor of Fotolia/AS with growing sales. I'm a motion designer focused on 3d/2d motion design and infographics.
My new works sell better then my older ones. I think that the key is regular upload and high (very high) quality content.
Complainig on this forum, for me, is a waste time and not a productive way to conduct this business.
But...you are free to spend you time as you wish :)
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Hello everyone. My first post here. My Adobe sales have fallen hard for the past three months after staying pretty steady for 3 years. a 10% to 20% drop each month and now another 40% this month. I am active (11,000 image) and still uploading and matter of fact have just started downloading videos. What would cause such a steep drop in 3 consecutive months?
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Very bad sales this month. 123rf is making more than adobe for me.
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I`m on the same side - after months of progress, with sales rising month after month, I`m experiencing hard fall from June...
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My sales have been declining ever since I became Emerald two years ago. Back then I could make $500 - $700 a month. This month will be about $200. Very disappointing.
As many people have said, the stock photo business isn't a big priority for Adobe - they see it as a convenient 'add-on' service that they can incorporate into their mainstream products.
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In fairness, I'm quick to say it's been bad when it was (very quiet Jul Aug) so I have to say Sept has been very good and Oct better still. This month is looking to be a BME with increase n Vol and £'s and will pass last months total with nearly a week to go. Thanks AS, long may it continue!
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I was just about to come here and start a thread about how AdobeStock has been falling off a cliff for me since summer ended. I'm a 12 year stock veteran and can tell normal fluctuations from something really being wrong, and AS is firmly in the latter camp.
My Shutterstock revenue is roughly the same as it was in 2018, but my Oct Adobe revenue is less than half what it was in Oct 2018.
Seems to be dire for both images and videos. On AS, I used to consistently see a few video sales a day -- even throughout summer -- but for Oct I'm selling zero. This while consistently uploading images and videos every day.
(And before anyone suggests it, my work has no seasonal focus -- I've never been affected by seasonal demands outside of fewer sales during holidays and summer slumps.)
Mat, if you're reading and can shed some light on recent actions that are resulting in slashed sales for many of us, please weigh in.
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I`m talking and experiencing the same... totally silent, something must be going on from June to date...