Author Topic: What's your weekly ranking and how many images? (Read 95431 times)

stocky · « **Reply #650 on:** July 09, 2024, 15:51 »

Quote from: SuperPhoto on July 09, 2024, 00:53

Quote from: stocky on July 08, 2024, 21:26
Quote from: Mifornia on July 08, 2024, 16:46
Congrats Stocky! how many years you’ve been doing stock and re you a singe contributor or a business?

Thanks! Decades sole operator.

What is revenue like @ 161st position? Are you doing $10k+/month?

Nowhere near $10k a month, I wish!

stocky · « **Reply #651 on:** July 09, 2024, 15:52 »

Quote from: HalfFull on July 09, 2024, 02:43

Quote from: SuperPhoto on July 09, 2024, 00:53
Quote from: stocky on July 08, 2024, 21:26
Quote from: Mifornia on July 08, 2024, 16:46
Congrats Stocky! how many years you’ve been doing stock and re you a singe contributor or a business?

Thanks! Decades sole operator.

What is revenue like @ 161st position? Are you doing $10k+/month?

I can't comment for Stocky but when I'm at the 100 - 200 weekly rank it's no where near $10k per month but I only do images with a small amount of footage. I probably hit a max of $3500 - $4500 a month at that point. If you mainly supply footage with a 100-200 rank then I could imagine 10k+ per month.

For me, I have a quiet spell at this time of year and drop to about 850 weekly rank. Thankfully it only lasts a short spell before improving.

Agreed, I'm the same.

stocky · « **Reply #652 on:** July 09, 2024, 15:54 »

Quote from: Injustice for all on July 09, 2024, 04:45

Quote from: stocky on July 08, 2024, 13:41
My weekly ranking went up a bit after the $5 Free images accepted.

you are not human!

It must be a great satisfaction,congratulations!

LOL thanks!

JustAnImage · « **Reply #653 on:** July 09, 2024, 17:46 »

Quote from: stocky on July 08, 2024, 21:26

Thanks! Decades sole operator.

Rank 161 is really impressive - and even more so as an individual!

It's definitely great to see that this is possible :-)

stocky · « **Reply #654 on:** July 09, 2024, 20:11 »

Quote from: JustAnImage on July 09, 2024, 17:46

Quote from: stocky on July 08, 2024, 21:26
Thanks! Decades sole operator.
Rank 161 is really impressive - and even more so as an individual!

It's definitely great to see that this is possible :-)

Thanks. Years of hard work and long hours paid off! Definitely possible with persistence and common sense

Pacesetter · « **Reply #655 on:** July 10, 2024, 03:41 »

Quote from: Injustice for all on July 08, 2024, 19:00

Quote from: JustAnImage on July 07, 2024, 18:57
@blvdone
Thanks for your chart - as you can see this crash is not present for everyone.
I've seen a few charts from different people over the last few months and about 35% have the same trend as me.
A few are clearly going up and about 50% have a "normal" straight trend.

This has nothing to do with a conspiracy, but the effect is measurable and occurs in a good third of the measurement results so far

I'm probably in that 50% you say.

my trend is slightly upwards,but really slightly,in fact the 25% higher number of sales in June 2024 compared to June 2023 proves it,it's not much if you consider that an extra year has passed,but I guess it could be worse!

lately,Mondays are dead and strangely I sell more on weekends even more than Wednesday and Thursday,most weeks it's like this for me now.

I hope for a clearer improvement,I will evaluate in September,October and November.

for the moment I'm where I need to be,I'm halfway to last year's number of sales,considering a slight percentage increase over each month,I should end the year with more sales than last year.

Yeh I've noticed similar sales activities.

As for the current month, my RPD continues to drop with the current week RPD at $1.06. I need higher video sales to break this declining trend (22 April to 10 July trend line attached).

Curiously I'm at my best weekly rank but my earnings are suffering. Even Shutterstock July earnings have overtaken Adobe Stock following a disastrous start to the month.

Pacesetter · « **Reply #656 on:** July 10, 2024, 23:48 »

blvdone · « **Reply #657 on:** July 13, 2024, 07:24 »

Still holding my usual spot. Not easy going above 1,000th. Probably I'll have to add 30% more contents at least to break above 1,000th.

cobalt · « **Reply #658 on:** July 13, 2024, 13:03 »

I admire how steady your port is. Well done!

You will certainly move up into the top 300 at some point.

I am at 3940 with 5400 files

Winter is coming...

JustAnImage · « **Reply #659 on:** July 13, 2024, 14:20 »

I hope the numbers will pick up again soon... actually at 104dl (about 50-60 less then average) pos 4.280.

Maybe next week will be better ;-)

Edit: The big blue bar three weeks ago was the free-collection payment

blvdone · « **Reply #660 on:** July 13, 2024, 15:09 »

Quote from: cobalt on July 13, 2024, 13:03

I admire how steady your port is. Well done!

You will certainly move up into the top 300 at some point.

I am at 3940 with 5400 files

Winter is coming...

Thank you!!! But I don't think I'll reach top 300. Top 800 is doable for me.

blvdone · « **Reply #661 on:** July 13, 2024, 15:11 »

Quote from: JustAnImage on July 13, 2024, 14:20

I hope the numbers will pick up again soon... actually at 104dl (about 50-60 less then average) pos 4.280.

Maybe next week will be better ;-)

Edit: The big blue bar three weeks ago was the free-collection payment

But your sales will hit 0 in October?

JustAnImage · « **Reply #662 on:** July 13, 2024, 16:32 »

Quote from: blvdone on July 13, 2024, 15:11

But your sales will hit 0 in October?

Let me think for a moment... I said the following:

Quote from: JustAnImage on July 07, 2024, 14:31

If this continues, my account will be at virtually zero by October'24... Let's see how this continues...

So if the trend (linear regression) at the time of the original post were to develop in this way, then my sales would make the intersection with the axis in October and reach 0.
It follows directly from this that if the behaviour of the downloads changes, the trend line will also change automatically.

That's how it is with forecasts and variable behaviour ;-)

Pacesetter · « **Reply #663 on:** July 13, 2024, 17:25 »

Justanimage

Your sales trend looks like it is stabilizing albeit probably at a level lower than your historical trend.

I'm noticing there's a lot more volatility chasing RPD. My weekly position has been under 8500 this week which is my best position but the attached trend line shows where weekly earnings are at, less than half of most weeks...

JustAnImage · « **Reply #664 on:** July 13, 2024, 17:49 »

Quote from: Pacesetter on July 13, 2024, 17:25

Your sales trend looks like it is stabilizing albeit probably at a level lower than your historical trend.

I'm noticing there's a lot more volatility chasing RPD. My weekly position has been under 8500 this week which is my best position but the attached trend line shows where weekly earnings are at, less than half of most weeks...

Yes, I completely agree with you - on the one hand, downloads seem to be stabilising (even if one week is probably not enough data for this) and with RpD it seems to be a pure game of chance.

If I remember correctly you're in videos (sorry if I'm wrong) - if you have a lot of the $2.80 sales that's a big impact.

Video RpD for me (with extreme jumps in the weeks/months) - just for comparision
2022: $17,18
2023: $9,62
2024: $8,30

Pacesetter · « **Reply #665 on:** July 13, 2024, 17:57 »

Quote from: JustAnImage on July 13, 2024, 17:49

Quote from: Pacesetter on July 13, 2024, 17:25
Your sales trend looks like it is stabilizing albeit probably at a level lower than your historical trend.

I'm noticing there's a lot more volatility chasing RPD. My weekly position has been under 8500 this week which is my best position but the attached trend line shows where weekly earnings are at, less than half of most weeks...
Yes, I completely agree with you - on the one hand, downloads seem to be stabilising (even if one week is probably not enough data for this) and with RpD it seems to be a pure game of chance.

If I remember correctly you're in videos (sorry if I'm wrong) - if you have a lot of the $2.80 sales that's a big impact.

Video RpD for me (with extreme jumps in the weeks/months) - just for comparision
2022: $17,18
2023: $9,62
2024: $8,30

That's interesting, RPD on videos is a bit under half from 2022.

Yes I've a lot more video than photos / illustrations which looks like this on Adobe:

2201 videos
860 photos
212 illustrations.

Just hoping the RPD picks up again with those higher paying videos. I can't (ie: don't have the energy to) get there by high volume sales with loading tons of photos, AI etc. In fact I don't any AI at all.

yuriy · « **Reply #666 on:** July 13, 2024, 18:09 »

i'm starting to think the only way to increase your portfolio size is to build a time machine and travel back to the brief period between february and april when images were actually being reviewed. i'm waiting for the 'good news' that human generated content is no longer needed at adobe.

JustAnImage · « **Reply #667 on:** July 13, 2024, 18:31 »

Quote from: Pacesetter on July 13, 2024, 17:57

Just hoping the RPD picks up again with those higher paying videos.

Oh yes, that would be very good - video RpD is clearly on the decline overall, not just at AS.

Shutter: 2022 - $12.84 / 2024 - $7.87
Pond5: 2022 - $14.08 / 2024 - $9.70
IStock: 2022 - $4.02 / 2024 - $2.84
AS: 2022 - $17.18 / 2024 - $8.30

And I fear that the AI video platforms such as OpenAI Sora, Google Lumiere and Odyssey, which will emerge at some point, will shake up the video stock sector enormously - presumably in a similar way to AI images... total flooding.

Sorry for getting a little "off topic"

cobalt · « **Reply #668 on:** July 13, 2024, 22:24 »

With good ai video you will get a flood, but will it be what is needed?

I tried ai video for a month and I wasn‘t impressed. 90% of what I got was totally unusable.

ai still has problems getting hands feet and mouth right, eyes have improved a lot but there are still a ton of mistakes.

It you cannot get it right on single images, what will they do with 25/sec?

Then there is the timing and pacing of the story as it unfolds over 4 seconds, then there are all the continuity problems.

Iz is much faster to take a normal video- With video literally all content is still open as the agencies still have less than 80 million clips? Including editorial?

I do see potential for fantasy content - spaceships, aliens, fantasy worlds.

And that would be a good addition to the reality based normal video.

All kinds of concepts that would need 3d render visualization. If you can master that with ai, there are a lot of opportunities.

But hands doing something, groups of people, even just a simple underwater clip - will the fish be real or fantasy hybrids?

eta

just saw that ss only has 34 million videos

everything in video is open

JustAnImage · « **Reply #669 on:** July 14, 2024, 08:39 »

@Cobalt:
At the moment, you're absolutely right - but I see the development here progressing rapidly (I myself come from the software development sector for image/video editing).

At the moment, topics such as fantasy, background animations with movements of water/metals/fluids, science fiction spaceships, etc. are certainly all right for video AIs.

The best available version is probably currently Runway Gen-3, but at $95 for an 'unlimited' plan it's also really expensive - and all the post-processing, scaling, etc. also takes a lot of time.

In any case, I'm curious to see what will come from the 'big' AI companies and, above all, when it will arrive.

The editorial area will remain unaffected anyway and the people, hands, anatomical accidents, etc. will certainly need a few more years before it's stable

mike123 · « **Reply #670 on:** July 14, 2024, 09:35 »

Here are my stats this week: position 5060 with almost 700 files.
Pretty slow week, I've seen my position already dipping below 4000 in the past.

Wilm · « **Reply #671 on:** July 14, 2024, 13:31 »

Quote from: mike123 on July 14, 2024, 09:35

Here are my stats this week: position 5060 with almost 700 files.
Pretty slow week, I've seen my position already dipping below 4000 in the past.

Definitely not bad, considering that you only have 700 files online. They must be good images.

mike123 · « **Reply #672 on:** July 14, 2024, 15:00 »

Quote from: Wilm on July 14, 2024, 13:31

Quote from: mike123 on July 14, 2024, 09:35
Here are my stats this week: position 5060 with almost 700 files.
Pretty slow week, I've seen my position already dipping below 4000 in the past.

Definitely not bad, considering that you only have 700 files online. They must be good images.

Thank you! Also considering I barely uploaded any good content to microstock since 2020 (when SS cut their royalties), Adobe is still doing pretty good. I's almost fully passive income by now.

cobalt · « **Reply #673 on:** July 15, 2024, 02:23 »

That is a great result with just 700 files.

In proportion you are greatly outselling lots of people, including me.

mike123 · « **Reply #674 on:** July 15, 2024, 05:05 »

Quote from: cobalt on July 15, 2024, 02:23

That is a great result with just 700 files.

In proportion you are greatly outselling lots of people, including me.

Thank you! I have a few files which sell very well. But I think what really should be compared, is invested effort vs income. In the past I used to invest many hours in perfecting a single image with the goal of reaching high positions in the search results - which lead to high amount of sales. But if someone creates 10 times as much content in the same time and only sells 50% of my content, they are actually outperforming me

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