I don't think the new content can raise sales immediately. 6 months from now or next year you will see results.

My sales are always down drastically after easter until september  because I don't have enough good content for the season.

Should have uploaded more suitable content 6 months ago.

good sales even today,I have nothing to complain about!

as far as rankings are concerned,it is plausible to think that the new generation of AI producers is taking off,there are more and more new contributors who produce hundreds or thousands of AI content per month,and are therefore climbing the ranks.

but all this doesn't matter to me,because even if my ranking remains the same or drops,the important thing is that my sales increase.

then as I already said,in my opinion basing a portfolio only on AI is a mistake in the long term,just as not making AI content is a mistake too!

we have to try to do everything,and be active every month,otherwise earnings may start to decline in a few months,or perhaps longer,it depends on how solid your portfolio is.

I also sell some new content in a week or two,but most of it takes time,It depends on what it is,and also luck obviously,that always helps!

Agree with Cobalt that new content takes time to sell, for me it's usually 2-4 months. I rarely sell freshly uploaded images, and if it sells once, it usually never sells again (?) so I upload and forget about them.

Quote from: bpawesome on April 30, 2024, 16:51
Weekly and Lifetime positions are simply cached and are updated every hour

Fine theory, hourly updates on position. I'll have to watch some day and check hourly. I'll need to be terribly bored or doing some other tedious project. 

I thought it was only once a day. Hourly or more often, makes more sense.

Problem is... what I quoted and wrote about.

Quote from: derby on April 29, 2024, 11:12
Exactly same trend for me I was around position 3000 and in a couple of week I'm down to 4690

About how position is calculated, my opinion is that it counts last seven days and is updated continuously day by day, so if you have a great day you go up even if the day after should be very poor. It's not calculated on fixed week monday/sunday (for example) but it's from today plus six days back downloads

Because on Sunday it resets to zero, so it's not a running 7 day total. Unless the Derby post was about lifetime, but then why mention weeks?

Slow week so far, but weekly ranking is above average.  Must be a slow week for everybody.  It's possible more buyers started generating their own AI images via Midjourney etc instead of buying our images.  That's my concern about near future.

Quote from: blvdone on May 08, 2024, 14:33
Slow week so far, but weekly ranking is above average.  Must be a slow week for everybody.  It's possible more buyers started generating their own AI images via Midjourney etc instead of buying our images.  That's my concern about near future.

A valid concern, but I don't think you would see a sudden drop at this point because of AI competition. I would guess it would be more gradual.

Quote from: Uncle Pete on May 02, 2024, 21:09

Quote from: derby on April 29, 2024, 11:12
Exactly same trend for me I was around position 3000 and in a couple of week I'm down to 4690

About how position is calculated, my opinion is that it counts last seven days and is updated continuously day by day, so if you have a great day you go up even if the day after should be very poor. It's not calculated on fixed week monday/sunday (for example) but it's from today plus six days back downloads

Because on Sunday it resets to zero, so it's not a running 7 day total. Unless the Derby post was about lifetime, but then why mention weeks?

I don't see any reset on sunday... Total weekly download reset to zero, that's true; but the position ranking doesn't reset at all, it remains quite near the previous days :-)
Well, this is what I see... I think...
I can't be sure of course :-)

Quote from: blvdone on May 08, 2024, 14:33
Slow week so far, but weekly ranking is above average.  Must be a slow week for everybody.  It's possible more buyers started generating their own AI images via Midjourney etc instead of buying our images.  That's my concern about near future.

I don't believe that is necessarily an issue. It is still "work" (at the moment) to set up a midjourney account. Get a discord account. Figure out how to use discord. Subscribe to their service. Figure out how to do a 'proper' prompt, etc. Even if it was an "easy" web-based interface (and remember - midjourney uses STOLEN content) - it would still be 'work'. Not to mention the 'pesky' little 'problem' of 'removing watermarks' (i.e., because the images were based off of STOLEN content, so needing to remove the watermark).

There is a difference between getting 10-15 nice 'fresh' ideas, and 'having to figure out' yourself do you want someone standing, sitting, reading, etc. Much easier to just 'browse' for something.

So there is still a market for produced images.

slow week, but rank moving up

it is still a holiday season in many places, people taking time off.

tomorrow is a public holiday in Germany, next week are celebrations elsewhere...etc...may is a spring holiday time.

should pick up around the 20th, if you have good summer content.

Can confirm a very slow week down in the southern hemisphere too.

I dropped down to a weekly rank of 6340, it was many, many months ago that my rank was this low.

A lot of the content I was hoping would sell now is still in the queue, over 30 days now

slow month for me too so far,on average with last year for the moment,but I think should start recovering next week.

strange is that my rank is going up even though sales have been going down lately,so it really seems like a general slowdown.

Initially my rank was also rising with slowing sales, now it dropped over 1000 poits from 5180 to 6340. And I consider both values very low

Anyway...upload, upload, upload..

My rank is also pretty good right now at 3600, while the sales are slow. Used to be over 4000 just weeks ago. So it must be a generally slow time at Adobe

Quote from: cobalt on May 09, 2024, 11:04
Initially my rank was also rising with slowing sales, now it dropped over 1000 poits from 5180 to 6340. And I consider both values very low

Anyway...upload, upload, upload..

yes,I've been uploading a lot lately too,I've made a lot of videos lately,tomorrow I'll make more,in the meantime I'll finish the day with some photos.

I confirm, something strange is happening with Adobe this week. Sales are even worse than Easter week. Normally I have well over 200 downloads a day, today barely 100

Quote from: BelieveInStock on May 09, 2024, 17:38
I confirm, something strange is happening with Adobe this week. Sales are even worse than Easter week. Normally I have well over 200 downloads a day, today barely 100

Did you notice a sales drop from last year? I see a huge difference, and the last few weeks there is another ~20% drop in revenue...

Quote from: bpawesome on May 09, 2024, 18:10

Quote from: BelieveInStock on May 09, 2024, 17:38
I confirm, something strange is happening with Adobe this week. Sales are even worse than Easter week. Normally I have well over 200 downloads a day, today barely 100

Did you notice a sales drop from last year? I see a huge difference, and the last few weeks there is another ~20% drop in revenue...

Yes, very similar observations. And I used to be around 100th in weekly rank, now closer to 200th ...

I don't think there is anything to worry about,as far as I'm concerned the trend is similar to last year,I just checked,next weekthere will be an improvement,with a few scattered clouds,and local showers,but after May 20th the sun it will shine again over much of the region and the temperature will rise again! 

Quote from: BelieveInStock on May 09, 2024, 17:38
I confirm, something strange is happening with Adobe this week. Sales are even worse than Easter week. Normally I have well over 200 downloads a day, today barely 100

Absolutely impressing. May I ask how many images you have online at AS?

Around 20k including a few thousand AI generated added last year. A one-man business.
I am seeing a lot of people copying my image titles and generating AI images that are very similar to mine. They don't even bother to change even one characted in the title.

Quote from: BelieveInStock on May 10, 2024, 08:14
Around 20k including a few thousand AI generated added last year. A one-man business.
I am seeing a lot of people copying my image titles and generating AI images that are very similar to mine. They don't even bother to change even one characted in the title.

Impressive, how long are you doing this? are you still uploading new content?

Quote from: bpawesome on May 10, 2024, 08:32

Quote from: BelieveInStock on May 10, 2024, 08:14
Around 20k including a few thousand AI generated added last year. A one-man business.
I am seeing a lot of people copying my image titles and generating AI images that are very similar to mine. They don't even bother to change even one characted in the title.

Impressive, how long are you doing this? are you still uploading new content?

15 years or so. I keep uploading on regular basis but feeling more and more discouraged. The worst thing that may happen to you is when you are in weekly top sellers. Next week all you portfolio is copied x-times by AI prompters.

Quote from: BelieveInStock on May 10, 2024, 08:49

Quote from: bpawesome on May 10, 2024, 08:32

Quote from: BelieveInStock on May 10, 2024, 08:14
Around 20k including a few thousand AI generated added last year. A one-man business.
I am seeing a lot of people copying my image titles and generating AI images that are very similar to mine. They don't even bother to change even one characted in the title.

Impressive, how long are you doing this? are you still uploading new content?

I keep uploading on regular basis but feeling more and more discouraged. The worst thing that may happen to you is when you are in weekly top sellers. Next week all you portfolio is copied x-times by AI prompters.

Ditto to that, I thought I was the only one who didn't like to be in weekly top sellers for that exact reason. Especially after the reply NeoLeo got from Adobe after his whole portfolio was clearly copied - it is very discouraging.

Sales recovered more at the end of the week. Had a couple of $26+ sales which helped to recover RPD, with one even being a photo sale of $26.40! Don't know if I've ever had a photo sale that high on Adobe before.