Author Topic: What's your weekly ranking and how many images? (Read 90881 times)

cobalt · « **Reply #1250 on:** December 31, 2024, 02:25 »

@injustice

Have you also considered creating content with a camera again?

Because as more and more ai content comes in, non ai will be more rare and in my opinion more valuable.

There are a lot of daily life situations missing in collections that are quite easy to shoot. And then there is editorial and video.

Then you also have content for other agenvies. You keep saying you want a fulltime income. I don‘t know anyone with a fulltime income just from Adobe.

It is up to you, but personally I wouldn’t make myself totally dependent on ai.

Injustice for all · « **Reply #1251 on:** December 31, 2024, 06:23 »

Cobalt,last year you were making AI people and I was making videos,now you want to make videos and I want to make AI people!

I haven't sold a single video this month,I have less than a thousand,in November I sold several,and generally I always manage to sell videos every month too.

I haven't done the precise calculation,maybe I will,but in the last 500 sales I believe that 50% are AI and 30% illustrative editorials,10% illustrations and vectors,and the rest 10% real photos and videos.

However,as I said,I will continue to work as I always have for the moment,dedicating time to the work I do,but then certainly if this slow growth continues,unfortunately I cannot afford it,and I will have to start uploading thousands of contents per month with the AI,otherwise it will take too long here!

assuming it is possible to grow quickly!

cobalt · « **Reply #1252 on:** December 31, 2024, 08:28 »

You are right, we are switching themes

I also have to have a significant increase in stock income this year, otherwise I will need a 3 day part time job which means my uploads will drop drastically because I still need to care for mom.

If I can make stock work, it would be the perfect job I can do mostly from home.

I know it is doable, there is just this annoying time lag between customers discovering files and actually downloading them.

Pacesetter · « **Reply #1253 on:** December 31, 2024, 19:48 »

Here it is ladies and gentlemans...

My first sale for 2025 and my only sale.

May this be the start of a hopefully better year with the microstocks.

cobalt · « **Reply #1254 on:** January 01, 2025, 07:29 »

I have 3, but all after midnight, nothing for the day itself.

Also dropped again to 681.

Working on my videos for a good start to the year.

cobalt · « **Reply #1255 on:** January 02, 2025, 04:54 »

Now down to pos 1110...

Injustice for all · « **Reply #1256 on:** January 02, 2025, 06:01 »

I'm still waiting for the first sale of 2025,at 11.57 am Italian time I still don't see any sales!

Injustice for all · « **Reply #1257 on:** January 02, 2025, 11:58 »

the first sale on AS of 2025,today January 2nd at around 3 pm Italian time.

cobalt · « **Reply #1258 on:** January 02, 2025, 13:24 »

Congrats! Nice to see the higher royalty.

mike123 · « **Reply #1259 on:** January 03, 2025, 05:23 »

While Shutterstock cuts royalties every January, at Adobe we do get to enjoy some higher royalties in the beginning of January

. From what I understand this is due to decreased amount of subscription downloads - thus a larger amount is paid out to contributors per download. I got two $1.21 sales today and two $1.17 yesterday, instead of the usual $0.91 or so sales during the year. Looking at my history, the royalties started to rise already around Christmas, hitting the highest amount today.

tätarätä · « **Reply #1260 on:** January 03, 2025, 05:54 »

My guess is that a lot costumers won't renew their AS subscription for 2025 because of AI pollution.
If you do a search for classic stock photos at latest uploads. AS ist far behind istock or Shutterstock. At AdobeStock someone mostly find AI images at latest upload search. So lot of the latest trendy (non AI) images are not available at AdobeStock.
I guess subscription and EL sales will increase at istock and Shutterstock this year.

cobalt · « **Reply #1261 on:** January 03, 2025, 06:40 »

Customers can remove all ai images with one click.

That is a major advantage to Shutterstock that has quite strong ai pollution in what is supposed to be a photo only collection.

The istock collection is pretty clean, they do a good job of removing ai.

Customers LOVE ai content, it makes a lot of money which is why so many newbies are doing only ai. It is probably easier for them to make money with ai, than to learn how to properly use a camera.

And Adobe is the only large agency with a great looking ai collection, so customers get a juicy add on with Adobe with content the other large agencies don't have.

mike123 · « **Reply #1262 on:** January 03, 2025, 07:02 »

As a customer I really don't care if the image has been created by AI or if it's a real photo - as long as it looks good and illustrates the object or the concept well. Except for some topics, where I'd prefer authentic content, such as editorial, wildlife, travel destinations. Which is where Adobe with their clear separation between AI and non-AI collections fares better than SS with AI images being offered as real content.

cobalt · « **Reply #1263 on:** January 03, 2025, 07:07 »

For me it would be food, I would prefer to buy images with real food in authentic locations.

But if you just want to illustrate a generic menu an ai hamburger, coffee or pizza will do the job just as well.

Uncle Pete · « **Reply #1264 on:** January 03, 2025, 12:56 »

Quote from: tätarätä on January 03, 2025, 05:54

My guess is that a lot costumers won't renew their AS subscription for 2025 because of AI pollution.
If you do a search for classic stock photos at latest uploads. AS ist far behind istock or Shutterstock. At AdobeStock someone mostly find AI images at latest upload search. So lot of the latest trendy (non AI) images are not available at AdobeStock.
I guess subscription and EL sales will increase at istock and Shutterstock this year.

Also it seems that AS has changed the review policy and is rejecting more real photo images than they did in the past. At least that's true for mine, and since I don't do AI, less of my new images are getting accepted. (or maybe I just forgot how to make a good and acceptable image after 59 years of photo work?

)

wds · « **Reply #1265 on:** January 03, 2025, 13:43 »

Quote from: tätarätä on January 03, 2025, 05:54

My guess is that a lot costumers won't renew their AS subscription for 2025 because of AI pollution.
If you do a search for classic stock photos at latest uploads. AS ist far behind istock or Shutterstock. At AdobeStock someone mostly find AI images at latest upload search. So lot of the latest trendy (non AI) images are not available at AdobeStock.
I guess subscription and EL sales will increase at istock and Shutterstock this year.

Can't you just filter out AI imagery when you do a search?

cobalt · « **Reply #1266 on:** January 04, 2025, 03:50 »

Now down to pos 1340

. 7400 files

Injustice for all · « **Reply #1267 on:** January 04, 2025, 11:20 »

very slow start to the year for me too!

strength and courage!

Christmas holidays are finally over!

Pacesetter · « **Reply #1268 on:** January 04, 2025, 17:33 »

My start of the year is reeeaaaaaallllly slow too. Haven't even bothered to open my spreadsheet to update the sales. I just looked at the January 2024 calendar (which started a lot better than this year) and I see there were 4 working week-days following the Christmas shutdown period before the weekend whereas this year 2025 there were only 2 working week-days following shutdown period before the weekend. Well that's the way I'm looking at it

because the alternative is that the market is sinking deeper and it heralds a crap year forward. Still very early days in the new year.

Injustice for all · « **Reply #1269 on:** January 05, 2025, 07:02 »

you started with the low algorithm too!

I lost a lot of positions this week,which is a good sign!

Why is it a good sign?Because it means that I'm the one who isn't selling at the moment,but in reality many other contributors are selling.

It would be much worse if I moved up the rankings despite selling little,because it would mean that in general less is being sold.

anyway yes Peacesetter,I think you saw correctly,in fact I too had sold more at this point last year.

cobalt · « **Reply #1270 on:** January 05, 2025, 14:48 »

pos 1380

I want to go back up!!

Pacesetter · « **Reply #1271 on:** January 05, 2025, 19:20 »

This time last year on Adobe Stock I had earned $43.15. This year for the same period $3.79. Not a good start at all. Yeh it's early days but with hundreds more contents and steep fall is not a good sign.

cobalt · « **Reply #1272 on:** January 05, 2025, 19:28 »

tomorrow is still christmas in many places and others have taken time off.

lets see what happens.

also...trump is chaos, people are holding back on spending.

Pacesetter · « **Reply #1273 on:** January 05, 2025, 20:44 »

Quote from: cobalt on January 05, 2025, 19:28

tomorrow is still christmas in many places and others have taken time off.

lets see what happens.

also...trump is chaos, people are holding back on spending.

Have you too seen a similar slower start this year?

cobalt · « **Reply #1274 on:** January 06, 2025, 01:12 »

it is very very slow, like last year. But I have double the amount of files, so the same level is a step back.

But I do have the improvement of a wider mix of files, last year had a few persistent sellers, but the rest was asleep.

Now…if I have sales…they are a wider mix and older files get their first sales.

But sales are mostly in us or asia time, europe is pretty dead.

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