Author Topic: What's your weekly ranking and how many images? (Read 138512 times)

Andrej.S. · « **Reply #1675 on:** March 31, 2025, 19:07 »

Quote from: synthetick on March 31, 2025, 16:06

For anyone deleting files from Adobe, note the following clause in your contributor agreement:

"6.2 Managing the Work. You may remove any Work from the Website at any time, provided, however, that you do not remove more than 100 items of Work or 10% of the Work, whichever is greater, in any 90-day period without 90 days' prior written notice to Adobe."

https://wwwimages2.adobe.com/content/dam/cc/en/legal/servicetou/Adobe_Stock_Contributor_Agreement_Addl_Terms_en_US_20240216.pdf

Yes, I've already quoted this several times in this thread, but was too lazy to do it again.

It's personal risk to get banned by Adobe.
But my opinion is that they only track their work horses and not the low performers (< 1k/week). I would also assume that Adobe would first contact with a warning.

danielvisuals · « **Reply #1676 on:** March 31, 2025, 19:33 »

You can safely delete up to 100 assets or 10% of your portfolio—whichever is greater—every three months, in accordance with Adobe’s policy. Alternatively, you can contact Adobe directly to explain that you intend to delete a specific percentage of your portfolio to remove lower-quality content.

My previous comment was based on the following from Getty on this subject:

“… On occasion, you may want to clean up your portfolio. Customers typically already have a concept or image in mind and use keywords to find the content they want. It’s rare that they take the time to look through contributors’ portfolios, so editing your portfolio isn’t necessary…”

cascoly · « **Reply #1677 on:** March 31, 2025, 20:04 »

Quote from: Andrej.S. on March 31, 2025, 14:03

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I have deleted a couple months ago approx. 3k AI images because of the bad quality and started completely again with better generated quality.
As you can see my earnings increased over the months one can tell that it worked.

But I think it's rather because of the better quality because several hundreds of the old ones, which I have left are still not downloaded yet. So I would say deleting files will not harm your portfolio ranking.

congrats - your difference here is deleting lower quality images where others are deleting those w no sales

Injustice for all · « **Reply #1678 on:** April 01, 2025, 05:35 »

Quote from: synthetick on March 31, 2025, 16:06

For anyone deleting files from Adobe, note the following clause in your contributor agreement:

"6.2 Managing the Work. You may remove any Work from the Website at any time, provided, however, that you do not remove more than 100 items of Work or 10% of the Work, whichever is greater, in any 90-day period without 90 days' prior written notice to Adobe."

https://wwwimages2.adobe.com/content/dam/cc/en/legal/servicetou/Adobe_Stock_Contributor_Agreement_Addl_Terms_en_US_20240216.pdf

ok,I missed this one.

anyway I was planning on deleting 500 images,which is less than 10% of my port,if I decide to do so.

thanks!

SuperPhoto · « **Reply #1679 on:** April 01, 2025, 10:19 »

Well, good luck to everyone this week! How are things faring so far?

Bauman · « **Reply #1680 on:** April 01, 2025, 12:57 »

March on AS was a real surprise for me.

BME and today my best weekly ranking ever.

I don't have AI or video in my portfolio. Is this a return to classic photography? In the next few weeks, we'll see if this month was a coincidence.

Andrej.S. · « **Reply #1681 on:** April 02, 2025, 02:29 »

Comme-ci comme-ca this week.
One day good one day bad.

cobalt · « **Reply #1682 on:** April 02, 2025, 04:00 »

treading water at the moment, stable rank with a few ups and downs

i am very frustrated with the new random review system. while i have not been hit again with the similar decline, i am tired of uploading the more boring things that they like to take - people and food, but that is a slow seller.

But the few better ones I uploaded got a quality decline and I am pretty sure there is nothing wrong with them.

I should take this as an incentive to do more for other agencies, especially video.

Will keep uploading to adobe, but in smaller volume.

Also anyway doing more camera stuff again to have content for everywhere.

Injustice for all · « **Reply #1683 on:** April 02, 2025, 05:34 »

Quote from: Bauman on April 01, 2025, 12:57

March on AS was a real surprise for me.

BME and today my best weekly ranking ever.

I don't have AI or video in my portfolio. Is this a return to classic photography? In the next few weeks, we'll see if this month was a coincidence.

I'm glad to read it,here a small improvement,this month seems to have started a little better,but it's still too early to say anything.

here too 101 contents still blocked in review,not for long,the oldest has been waiting for 2 weeks,I'm interested to know especially for 35 videos still in review,I hope it doesn't take much longer.

Andrej.S. · « **Reply #1684 on:** April 02, 2025, 17:38 »

Broke my all time week high. That's what persistence looks like. Just keep going.

Earnings stats from 03.04.2024 to 03.04.2025.

cobalt · « **Reply #1685 on:** April 03, 2025, 06:04 »

Congratulations, well deserved.

How large is your portfolio now?

And are you getting good acceptance with new uploads?

I am very frustrated by the upload lottery. I will earn a lot less for easter because I am terrified of the random declines.

So i upload what feels "totally safe" but that is usually a slow selling file with more niche content.

alexandersr · « **Reply #1686 on:** April 03, 2025, 20:23 »

A very weak week for me!

Andrej.S. · « **Reply #1687 on:** April 04, 2025, 04:18 »

Quote from: cobalt on April 03, 2025, 06:04

Congratulations, well deserved.

How large is your portfolio now?

And are you getting good acceptance with new uploads?

I am very frustrated by the upload lottery. I will earn a lot less for easter because I am terrified of the random declines.

So i upload what feels "totally safe" but that is usually a slow selling file with more niche content.

Thank you.

Currently my portfolio size is 7.264 and 220 images are pending in review.
My acceptance ratio is currently 100%.

The review time is all in all very fast (approx 1 to 2 weeks).
Easter images are accepted within 5 minutes to 3 days, so that these are in time.
But 17 images are pending since 3 to 6 months (there is obviously something broken in the review line).

It seems that my portfolio ranking climbed a lot, so that things got this week more easy.

Andrej.S. · « **Reply #1688 on:** April 04, 2025, 04:20 »

Was definitely a surprising week. I hope the trend will continue.

cobalt · « **Reply #1689 on:** April 04, 2025, 04:22 »

Similar to my size but more sales, well done!

This morning I had 8 files accepted that I uploaded yesterday, so this is encouraging. All are photo ai, single uploads from vastly different genres.

I am now making the files smaller, sizes around 1600*2800 or 1700*3022.

Perhaps the smaller size helps.

Other files still in the queue, 18 at the moment.

Might remove that are in there longer and perhaps reprocess/downsize them.

Now I will test ai illustrations, then camera photos and videos.

Andrej.S. · « **Reply #1690 on:** April 04, 2025, 05:55 »

Quote from: cobalt on April 04, 2025, 04:22

Similar to my size but more sales, well done!

This morning I had 8 files accepted that I uploaded yesterday, so this is encouraging. All are photo ai, single uploads from vastly different genres.

I am now making the files smaller, sizes around 1600*2800 or 1700*3022.

Perhaps the smaller size helps.

Other files still in the queue, 18 at the moment.

Might remove that are in there longer and perhaps reprocess/downsize them.

Now I will test ai illustrations, then camera photos and videos.

I don't upscale to high resolutions anymore because it's too risky that you will get unwanted artifacts, which will lead to rejection.
I use 2 x AI upscaling to 2688 x 1536 or to 3072 x 1280 or max to 3168 x 1344 pixels resolution.

My AI bestseller with 139 downloads and 3 or 4 extended licenses has a 2688 x 1536 resolution, so no it's not worth investing more time in upscaling to a higher resolution.
I assume that the majority of the images will be used for digital advertising on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, etc. rather than for print purposes, and higher resolutions are not required for these platforms.

danielvisuals · « **Reply #1691 on:** April 04, 2025, 08:35 »

Quote from: cobalt on April 04, 2025, 04:22

All are

Have you tried using ChatGPT 4o to generate AI images? The new updates seem to be a significant improvement over previous models.

I have the paid version for work and have started experimenting with image generation. I'm impressed with its capabilities.

Andrej.S. · « **Reply #1692 on:** April 04, 2025, 09:20 »

Quote from: danielvisuals on April 04, 2025, 08:35

Quote from: cobalt on April 04, 2025, 04:22
All are

Have you tried using ChatGPT 4o to generate AI images? The new updates seem to be a significant improvement over previous models.

I have the paid version for work and have started experimenting with image generation. I'm impressed with its capabilities.

The free version takes almost forever to generate one single image. But the quality is o.k. Seems to be near Grok / Flux Dev.
But inpaint / image editing function seems to be good (but haven't tried it out by myself because it's just to slow in the free version).

alan b traehern · « **Reply #1693 on:** April 04, 2025, 16:17 »

Quote from: Injustice for all on April 01, 2025, 05:35

Quote from: synthetick on March 31, 2025, 16:06
For anyone deleting files from Adobe, note the following clause in your contributor agreement:

"6.2 Managing the Work. You may remove any Work from the Website at any time, provided, however, that you do not remove more than 100 items of Work or 10% of the Work, whichever is greater, in any 90-day period without 90 days' prior written notice to Adobe."

https://wwwimages2.adobe.com/content/dam/cc/en/legal/servicetou/Adobe_Stock_Contributor_Agreement_Addl_Terms_en_US_20240216.pdf

ok,I missed this one.

anyway I was planning on deleting 500 images,which is less than 10% of my port,if I decide to do so.

thanks!

Please explain how less images and deleting images you already have accepted, will make more money? What's the secret.

alexandersr · « **Reply #1694 on:** April 04, 2025, 16:36 »

Today I had 8 downloads, it seems that the week is getting better!

Injustice for all · « **Reply #1695 on:** April 04, 2025, 16:36 »

Quote from: alan b traehern on April 04, 2025, 16:17

Quote from: Injustice for all on April 01, 2025, 05:35
Quote from: synthetick on March 31, 2025, 16:06
For anyone deleting files from Adobe, note the following clause in your contributor agreement:

"6.2 Managing the Work. You may remove any Work from the Website at any time, provided, however, that you do not remove more than 100 items of Work or 10% of the Work, whichever is greater, in any 90-day period without 90 days' prior written notice to Adobe."

https://wwwimages2.adobe.com/content/dam/cc/en/legal/servicetou/Adobe_Stock_Contributor_Agreement_Addl_Terms_en_US_20240216.pdf

ok,I missed this one.

anyway I was planning on deleting 500 images,which is less than 10% of my port,if I decide to do so.

thanks!

Please explain how less images and deleting images you already have accepted, will make more money? What's the secret.

do you really have to make me write this?

I never said that deleting 500 contents increases sales,if anything the opposite!

but maybe i want to delete 500 old contents,if i want to do it or not.

Wilm · « **Reply #1696 on:** April 04, 2025, 16:44 »

Quote from: alan b traehern on April 04, 2025, 16:17

Quote from: Injustice for all on April 01, 2025, 05:35
Quote from: synthetick on March 31, 2025, 16:06
For anyone deleting files from Adobe, note the following clause in your contributor agreement:

"6.2 Managing the Work. You may remove any Work from the Website at any time, provided, however, that you do not remove more than 100 items of Work or 10% of the Work, whichever is greater, in any 90-day period without 90 days' prior written notice to Adobe."

https://wwwimages2.adobe.com/content/dam/cc/en/legal/servicetou/Adobe_Stock_Contributor_Agreement_Addl_Terms_en_US_20240216.pdf

ok,I missed this one.

anyway I was planning on deleting 500 images,which is less than 10% of my port,if I decide to do so.

thanks!

Please explain how less images and deleting images you already have accepted, will make more money? What's the secret.

I don't think your question can be answered seriously because nobody knows the algorithm.

But: It can be assumed that there is a portfolio ranking that influences where a contributor's newly accepted images are ranked. To put it simply: Poor portfolio ranking = poor classification of new images. And vice versa. And poor ranking of new images can lead to them never being found, which will further worsen the ranking of the entire portfolio. A vicious circle.

And also quite simply put: If you have a lot of images in your portfolio that don't sell at all or have never sold, it could therefore make sense to delete these images (after self-critical analysis) in order to improve the portfolio ranking (the portfolio quality).

This is all a thesis. Nobody can tell you whether this is really the case. But: If you have 10,000 images in your portfolio, of which 9,000 images have never sold, but the remaining 1,000 images are selling very well, such a cleaning action could - theoretically - be advantageous.

Andrej.S. · « **Reply #1697 on:** April 04, 2025, 16:46 »

Quote from: alan b traehern on April 04, 2025, 16:17

Quote from: Injustice for all on April 01, 2025, 05:35
Quote from: synthetick on March 31, 2025, 16:06
For anyone deleting files from Adobe, note the following clause in your contributor agreement:

"6.2 Managing the Work. You may remove any Work from the Website at any time, provided, however, that you do not remove more than 100 items of Work or 10% of the Work, whichever is greater, in any 90-day period without 90 days' prior written notice to Adobe."

https://wwwimages2.adobe.com/content/dam/cc/en/legal/servicetou/Adobe_Stock_Contributor_Agreement_Addl_Terms_en_US_20240216.pdf

ok,I missed this one.

anyway I was planning on deleting 500 images,which is less than 10% of my port,if I decide to do so.

thanks!

Please explain how less images and deleting images you already have accepted, will make more money? What's the secret.

If you replace them by images with better quality / keywords then it absolutely makes sense.

Also it could be possible that your portfolio ranking will rise a little bit up since I believe that there is obviously an algorithm, which takes in account how many downloads each image has. The bestsellers of your portfolio are setting up the most your portfolio ranking.

My currently observation is that an increasing amount of one's bestsellers in a portfolio will lead to further downloads of your whole portfolio.

But it's just in the case of Adobe Stock and could be also just coincidence.

Injustice for all · « **Reply #1698 on:** April 04, 2025, 16:54 »

Quote from: alexandersr on April 04, 2025, 16:36

Today I had 8 downloads, it seems that the week is getting better!

In the battle of the losers,this week I win!

(at least in sales numbers)

anyway today you made 8 sales today I made 0.

It's really strange to me,that at this point in the journey,with my current port,I can't even make 20-40 sales a week,anyway, I hope at least this month to do something more than April 2024,it's still possible.

I'm currently producing some images,while still waiting to see if the new videos are acceptable or not,which is what interests me the most.

41 videos still in review,2 videos from a week ago,the rest less.

SuperPhoto · « **Reply #1699 on:** April 05, 2025, 00:13 »

MAYBE... the algorithm is simply just something like this south park episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz-PtEJEaqY

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cobalt

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