Quote from: cobalt on February 17, 2025, 11:41
@superphoto

"So... anyways - bigger portfolios (including significantly bigger ones) does not seem to necessarily equate to more sales/downloads/etc.

Whatever you are doing seems to be working, so I'd suggest just keeping it up."

There is also the factor of portfolio effectiveness, i.e. a port with a good ratio of sales to size.

Although personally I am trying to follow a long tail strategy in my second stock journey, trying to identify niches and then creating content in the hope it sell 1-5 a year.

These images do not show up in a top level search with one keyword, but they will show easily on a very specific search.

Having a large port, but not of similars, but very, very diverse content would however increase the chances of having real bestsellers, files that sell every week or even several times a day.

It also should give more balance.

We will see. If we keep sharing stats we can keep learning from each other.

@justanimage

That's why I'm now dumping images into the account with the 'big bucket' and trying to keep the quality as high as possible (the rejection rate suddenly went up from 10% to 30% a good week ago) and then I'll see what happens if I only upload camera images for a while (like 2-3 years ago).
In any case, the hourly wage remains low ;-)


Really curios about when you start to add camera content.

Suggestion: recreate well selling ai designs as camera content.

Well... that's what I thought (bigger, more varied port = more sales), but it doesn't seem to be the case.

Also - it's strange - I put a lot of time/effort into certain concepts/themes that I thought would sell well (i.e., like sets of 50-100 related items)... (was unique, seemed interesting, seemed something the market would be interested in)... and... for a number of those sets, "maybe" 1 or 2 items sold... others nothing...

So lol - I guess I really don't know Worked really hard the last 3 months to add significant additions to my portfolio, and last weeks sales were down by about 50% from 2 months ago (in spite of all the additional content), and this week, exceptionally slow start (as of right now, only single digit sales). Not too fun.

Of course - there's all sorts of other things going on (trends, other competitors, spam-all-you-can people, other companies, etc, etc) which all could be factoring into it as well... So I'm not sure... We'll see.

Quote from: cobalt on February 14, 2025, 06:34
You are very welcome.

Glad to meet someone here who is still interested in making money with stock!

Yesterday I sold a simple clip with flowers for 8 dollars that I uploaded to adobe in 2013

I think as I add more videos, my sales will grow.

And you keep reading how people with around 8k clips make 800-1200 dollars a month just on adobe with video.

Now with istock and ss merging clips will probably also sell better with them, if they merge their customer groups.

So all the best with your video journey.


eta

Yesterday was the best day of the year for me on adobe

71 dl, 19 ai, 52 camera

Valentine is over, so it will drop. But it was a fun day.

pos 1260. 7830files

As someone heard a long time ago, in this forum or another,"keep uploading!" I think that's the secret, that also works on social networks like TikTok, I know of people who have accounts on TikTok, their content is not good, but they have a lot of followers but it's because they continue uploading content every day.

Today I had an ai png accepted...hope those will soon lift my sales.

Yesterday just 24 dl, today 29 dl. weekly ranl 1170.

Nice!

It's a start.

You will move up very quickly with more sales.

my weekly dropped to 1290

Quote from: cobalt on February 19, 2025, 06:17
It's a start.

You will move up very quickly with more sales.

my weekly dropped to 1290

Now that is peculiar. Is that picture actually from 'today'? Because right now I have a higher download count than you with a much lower 'ranking'.
Possibly maybe your console just hasn't been 'updated' yet (so your ranking is say as of Monday or something). Because otherwise I find that a bit peculiar...!

Quote from: SuperPhoto on February 19, 2025, 14:44
Now that is peculiar. Is that picture actually from 'today'? Because right now I have a higher download count than you with a much lower 'ranking'.
Possibly maybe your console just hasn't been 'updated' yet (so your ranking is say as of Monday or something). Because otherwise I find that a bit peculiar...!

You might find it less peculiar, if you knew the rank is calculated based on the performance from the last 7 days, not based on the performance from the current week (which are the download count numbers you see on your dashboard). No conspiracy theory here 

Exactly this. My current rank is too high for this weeks sales. But last week was good, so I am still higher up.

Quote from: mike123 on February 19, 2025, 14:59

You might find it less peculiar, if you knew the rank is calculated based on the performance from the last 7 days, not based on the performance from the current week (which are the download count numbers you see on your dashboard). No conspiracy theory here 

Good to know and that explains why the numbers, don't match, the DL numbers.  When I was tracking this with a group of people, we had the same anomalies. People with the same DLs and different ranks. People with the same rank and different DL numbers.

The seven days makes good sense and resolves that conflict. I guess what you are saying is, when the counter resets on Sunday night, the week, doesn't reset. Although when I have no new DLs on Monday morning, my rank is - - -. As if I have no rank and no downloads.

Thank You

dropping, dropping, dropping

now pos 1820

Quote from: cobalt on February 21, 2025, 12:48
dropping, dropping, dropping
now pos 1820

Not a good week here too... especially the friday is very slow.
Some Video sales made my RpD look better...

Congrats on the video sales! Makes a real difference.

Only 11 downloads at 5 pm. Sad.

Good week for my standards anyway. Even my position is up relative to my own port performance. I've a total of 3555 files made up of 212 illustrations, 944 photos and 2399 videos.

Rather weak week. But finally managed to climb above 700 assets with a few more in the waiting queue (one of them since 6 months)

Quote from: cobalt on February 21, 2025, 16:10
Congrats on the video sales! Makes a real difference.

I was very lucky this week with 2 video sales for $70 each - I usually only see a handful of those all year.

That is great to hear. Not surre I ever had that on adobe.

my rank is now correct at 3390

Quote from: cobalt on February 22, 2025, 20:37
That is great to hear. Not surre I ever had that on adobe.
my rank is now correct at 3390

It seems something is changing in "the algo"... again... hopefully for the better

Quote from: cobalt on February 19, 2025, 06:17
It's a start.

You will move up very quickly with more sales.

my weekly dropped to 1290

If you are 1290, which is very good, what does that say about making money in Microstock? Only 1289 people in the world ahead of you. Very small number of people making a living at this while sales and income are dropping.

Quote from: Stock4Me on February 23, 2025, 14:43

Quote from: cobalt on February 19, 2025, 06:17
It's a start.

You will move up very quickly with more sales.

my weekly dropped to 1290

If you are 1290, which is very good, what does that say about making money in Microstock? Only 1289 people in the world ahead of you. Very small number of people making a living at this while sales and income are dropping.

Good point. Especially when you know there a lot of companies/groups that we know that sell a lot. So there will only be a small number of individual producers that can reach $3000 or more each month. Pretty depressing if your goal is to make microstock your main income. Unless you live in a country where $100 a month is enough offcourse.

Quote from: SimonSays on February 23, 2025, 15:39

Quote from: Stock4Me on February 23, 2025, 14:43

Quote from: cobalt on February 19, 2025, 06:17
It's a start.

You will move up very quickly with more sales.

my weekly dropped to 1290

If you are 1290, which is very good, what does that say about making money in Microstock? Only 1289 people in the world ahead of you. Very small number of people making a living at this while sales and income are dropping.

Good point. Especially when you know there a lot of companies/groups that we know that sell a lot. So there will only be a small number of individual producers that can reach $3000 or more each month. Pretty depressing if your goal is to make microstock your main income. Unless you live in a country where $100 a month is enough offcourse.

Well, i live in a third world country (Venezuela). However $100 is not enought for living, maybe $500 (for one person with owned house).

The people with good video sales make more with lower rank.

But stock has always been selling into a tiny group of customers.

Not like having stores on amazon, etsy or ebay and ports don't go viral liike a youtube channel.

Contrary to what some may believe, $100 is not sufficient to live comfortably anywhere.

As another member pointed out, $500 might enable some people to live "comfortably" in many developing countries. However, they could earn more by focusing on corporate shoots.

Now down to 3620

Quote from: Stock4Me on February 23, 2025, 14:43
Only 1289 people in the world ahead of you. Very small number of people making a living at this while sales and income are dropping.

The estimated annual revenues from the merger between Getty and Shutterstock will be 2 billion dollars.

Given the earnings of us, contributors, we can estimate that Adobe Stock also has 1 billion in revenues.

Total 3 billion from the 3 main competitors in this market.

And from 3 billion only 1000/1500 contributors manage to make a full-time salary?

This is incredible in my eyes.

But I wonder: Do the agencies take a slice of the profit too big or is the cake divided into too small slices? 

Quote from: danielvisuals on February 24, 2025, 10:46
Contrary to what some may believe, $100 is not sufficient to live comfortably anywhere.

As another member pointed out, $500 might enable some people to live "comfortably" in many developing countries. However, they could earn more by focusing on corporate shoots.

Indeed, $500 for just one person expeses (you have to own a home, because you would need instead  $700 in order to pay a room $200). $500 would be the base for living (you have to hire a health insurance, because the public health system don't work well).This cost for living in Caracas city,Venezuela (third world country).