It�s really weird keep reading about increased yearly income. That�s not the reality for me, last year I was in 800-1200 position consistently and this year I�m at 4000-6000, so my sales are significantly down, yet my portfolio is 25 times bigger. Last year my portfolio was featured in recent top sellers 4 times, this year only once. Last year I had a couple of images that sold 1000 plus, this year I�m lucky to get 50 downloads for my �bestsellers� Some of my best images sit completely unnoticed.
I�m scratching my head here, but happy to see that it�s working for somebody.

It�s really weird keep reading about increased yearly income. That�s not the reality for me, last year I was in 800-1200 position consistently and this year I�m at 4000-6000, so my sales are significantly down, yet my portfolio is 25 times bigger. Last year my portfolio was featured in recent top sellers 4 times, this year only once. Last year I had a couple of images that sold 1000 plus, this year I�m lucky to get 50 downloads for my �bestsellers� Some of my best images sit completely unnoticed.
I�m scratching my head here, but happy to see that it�s working for somebody.

Thank you for sharing this is really interesting. So interesting that someone at Adobe should perhaps look into this.

Like synthetick said, did you see a large number of copies after being featured? That could really crash your bestsellers and perhaps then Adobe should come up with a different system of featured artist. If the recent Bestsellers list is doing active damage to loyal producers it is not helpful at all.

When you say your port is 25 times bigger...did you really grow from 1000 files to 25000? Perhaps with the help of ai?

Or did you miscalculate, seems a little extreme? Or maybe from 100 files to 2500?

I hope you can figure out what the problem is.

I always keep checking my main competitors to make sure I don't upload something too similar to them but also to check if I am being copied. So far I haven't found a port with real copies of what I do. Lots of similar content, especially with ai, but no real intentional copies.

things are slow and steady, august lower than july

hope it picks up next month

pos 3410, files 5980

Quite good this week and overall pretty good month on Adobe with some recovery in earnings in recent weeks as the trend line shows...

Starting to move back up from a low of 750... seems like the summer slow down is coming to an end!!

Cheers...I've been at it for quite some time now. Anything is possible but it is harder now than it has ever been due to the volume of new files being added. Makes it difficult for new work to be seen and to become established in terms of sales.

Starting to move back up from a low of 750... seems like the summer slow down is coming to an end!!

Is that the "beginning" of this week? (I.e., Monday/one days sales?) Just noticed when you posted it... If so, wow, good job!

Quote from: HalfFull on September 03, 2024, 02:47

Starting to move back up from a low of 750... seems like the summer slow down is coming to an end!!

Is that the "beginning" of this week? (I.e., Monday/one days sales?) Just noticed when you posted it... If so, wow, good job!

I wish  It was for six days. I grabbed it last week but didn't get time to post. Rank 548 as of today. Looking at previous years stats it takes until mid September to regain normal momentum again.

Mifornia,

it makes me so sad to read this.

Please consider sending a link to your port to Mat. what worries me most is that you had files with an excellent season, over 1000 downloads and now that income is abruptly destroyed.

Since you were four times on the bestseller list, this indeed indicates that getting onto that list is damaging for the artist.

I think adobe should carefully investigate this and then offer those of us who want it, an opt out.

But how many contributors are there? We can only see who is better than us not who is worse than us :-)

When I was in that position...very briefly...that would have been a result for the week.

Hope to get back up there again.

@mifornia

"automated system"...this is software, not a law of nature like gravity. Of course they can change it. Adobe is one of the largest software companies in the world, so...

At the very least they could consider that you can only be on the list once per year per media type.

It will give exposure to more artist and should lessen the copycat risk.

if you were featured four times you might as well have a flashing sign on your port that says "steal ideas here".

For the image to image theft...the basic problem is that the base compositions as is are very simple and not new. The copy abuse however is very clear if you see how many times he was "inspired"

If I was an agency I would look closely - was the abusive inspiration only in the beginning? A newbie trying things out with copies? Did he then move on to do something different and creative?

Or does it remain a copycat port? 10 k duplicates of duplicates...

How does Adobe or any agency benefit from someone who only copies? Would I need more near identical duplicates?

I think that is where I would personally draw the line.

The collection already has too many duplicates.

But it is not an easy to decision, especially when it is mostly design elements.

Obviously if it happens to me I will be furious and bring out my pitchfork...

But I think for the agency things are often not that simple.

How many images do you have?