Author Topic: What's your weekly ranking and how many images? (Read 135481 times)

cobalt · « **Reply #1725 on:** April 08, 2025, 10:21 »

I think the current reviews are a form of evil roulette with lots of good content being declined without logic.

Had 6 more files accepted with 4mp size and always doing single uploads, will stick to this for a while.

Also starting to process camera videos, i hope they get accepted.

eta

tiny improvement

Injustice for all · « **Reply #1726 on:** April 08, 2025, 13:53 »

Quote from: Yola on April 08, 2025, 10:21

Quote from: Andrej.S. on April 08, 2025, 06:43
Adobe's rejections are 90% because of quality aspects. I guess that there are a lot of contributors who provide very good quality since the flux model is now very common.
So your competition might become a lot harder now.

Some two weeks ago I submitted 3 photos (camera ones), they were all rejected for quality reasons within 24 hours. Few days later I resubmitted 1 of them (unrelated to the other 2) and it was accepted, again within 24 hours. I have not done any changes, no downsizing, nothing. I do not know how to explain it, but there seems to be some automated pre-selection system whose criteria probably got modified between my two submissions.

I think this can happen.

Your content probably met all the requirements for approval,but this criterion is also applied based on who does the review, someone previously deemed it unacceptable and rejected it,while someone else later accepted it.

I agree,however,that the tendency is to try to approve less AI,because the amount uploaded is excessive.

that's why in my opinion the key is in uniqueness,in fact I will soon,in 30-40 min from now,start a selection of contents that I want to modify in order to make this content unique with a better quality.

I have to see if I can bring to reality what is in my mind!

I'll have to find time tomorrow to also follow a tutorial of more than an hour on an interesting topic.

lately,I'm trying to find new ways to make my production more interesting,I hope I can do it.

Andrej.S. · « **Reply #1727 on:** April 08, 2025, 17:13 »

crappy week (position is still time lagged from last week).

Gonna do more seasonal content to catch up (worldwide national holidays) aswell probably more woke and lifestyle (skin / facial care, etc.) stuff.
Classic business people / food / animals / landscapes seem to be dead on Adobe Stock.

danielvisuals · « **Reply #1728 on:** April 08, 2025, 17:48 »

I’m having an entirely different experience with 100% acceptance rate of both photos and videos.

No ai. And most of my assets have model releases.

danielvisuals · « **Reply #1729 on:** April 09, 2025, 04:07 »

I am still observing few to no sales from the US on SS.

Injustice for all · « **Reply #1730 on:** April 09, 2025, 05:09 »

Quote from: Andrej.S. on April 08, 2025, 17:13

crappy week (position is still time lagged from last week).

Gonna do more seasonal content to catch up (worldwide national holidays) aswell probably more woke and lifestyle (skin / facial care, etc.) stuff.
Classic business people / food / animals / landscapes seem to be dead on Adobe Stock.

if it's a "crappy" week for you I don't know how I should define mine so far!

I repeat,I don't know how it's possible that with a portfolio of about 7000 contents,with 75% real contents and 25% AI i can't even make 20-40 sales a week!

you say that you want to make more skin care concepts,I have 14 in total of skin/facial care concepts generated with MJ for sale for a year,I haven't sold even one so far,I probably would have to have at least 100 of this concepts to sell any,I don't know.

however it is unacceptable to sell so little with my port of 7000 contents,after all there are a lot of different contents,I just don't see how it's possible not to make at least 20 sales a week minimum!

it's too little,this quantity does not reflect what should be at least the minimum for my port per week.

Andrej.S. · « **Reply #1731 on:** April 09, 2025, 05:22 »

Quote from: Injustice for all on April 09, 2025, 05:09

Quote from: Andrej.S. on April 08, 2025, 17:13
crappy week (position is still time lagged from last week).

Gonna do more seasonal content to catch up (worldwide national holidays) aswell probably more woke and lifestyle (skin / facial care, etc.) stuff.
Classic business people / food / animals / landscapes seem to be dead on Adobe Stock.

if it's a "crappy" week for you I don't know how I should define mine so far!

I repeat,I don't know how it's possible that with a portfolio of about 7000 contents,with 75% real contents and 25% AI i can't even make 20-40 sales a week!

you say that you want to make more skin care concepts,I have 14 in total of skin/facial care concepts generated with MJ for sale for a year,I haven't sold even one so far,I probably would have to have at least 100 of this concepts to sell any,I don't know.

however it is unacceptable to sell so little with my port of 7000 contents,after all there are a lot of different contents,I just don't see how it's possible not to make at least 20 sales a week minimum!

it's too little,this quantity does not reflect what should be at least the minimum for my port per week.

Ok, can you upload some of your images that are similar to your portfolio (so that one can't link it to your portfolio) so that we can compare the quality of the content?

Aswell we can compare the keywording.

I will later provide some of my content.

Injustice for all · « **Reply #1732 on:** April 09, 2025, 06:00 »

Look,when it comes to keywording I'm I'm very thorough,since I do all the keywording by hand,I don't use software to automate the process.

otherwise,i don't see why i should compare someone else's content to mine here.

and then putting aside the AI contents,I also have thousands of real contents.

I'm more than sure that anyone would say that with a port like mine now,I think a minimum of 20 sales a week is normal,less than that is just not acceptable anymore.

I say this because I think it's right to say it,you or anyone else may not believe it,I don't care.

I remind you that I have been doing this job for 7 years,and I'm saying that a minimum of at least 20 a week would be more appropriate,I didn't say 100 per week!

Andrej.S. · « **Reply #1733 on:** April 09, 2025, 06:11 »

/edit.

Injustice for all · « **Reply #1734 on:** April 09, 2025, 06:12 »

and then how do you explain this?

If there have been weeks where I have made these numbers,it means that it is possible that I can very well make an average of 20-40 sales a week.

this year so far the best week has been 14 sales,excuse me,I'm also a little tired?

Injustice for all · « **Reply #1735 on:** April 09, 2025, 06:28 »

anyway Andrej.S. well done,nice content and nice descriptions.

but do you have real content?videos?vectors?illustrative editorials?real photos?illustrations?

I also have all this real content,yet I can't even make 20 sales a week!

Andrej.S. · « **Reply #1736 on:** April 09, 2025, 06:31 »

Quote from: Injustice for all on April 09, 2025, 06:12

and then how do you explain this?

If there have been weeks where I have made these numbers,it means that it is possible that I can very well make an average of 20-40 sales a week.

this year so far the best week has been 14 sales,excuse me,I'm also a little tired?

Adobe punished your portfolio ranking.
One can only guess what the reason was.

Have you uploaded to many similar images?
Got too much competition in best selling categories?
How good is your portfolio diversified?

I mean instead of beeing angry and upset you should either doing other things or analyze and try other content.

Andrej.S. · « **Reply #1737 on:** April 09, 2025, 06:33 »

Quote from: Injustice for all on April 09, 2025, 06:28

anyway Andrej.S. well done,nice content and nice descriptions.

but do you have real content?videos?vectors?illustrative editorials?real photos?illustrations?

I also have all this real content,yet I can't even make 20 sales a week!

10 years ago I made bestselling vector graphis, but they are not selling anymore.

I have some dozens of real photos but they are aswell poor selling.

Injustice for all · « **Reply #1738 on:** April 09, 2025, 07:35 »

Quote from: Andrej.S. on April 09, 2025, 06:31

Quote from: Injustice for all on April 09, 2025, 06:12
and then how do you explain this?

If there have been weeks where I have made these numbers,it means that it is possible that I can very well make an average of 20-40 sales a week.

this year so far the best week has been 14 sales,excuse me,I'm also a little tired?

Adobe punished your portfolio ranking.
One can only guess what the reason was.

Have you uploaded to many similar images?
Got too much competition in best selling categories?
How good is your portfolio diversified?

I mean instead of beeing angry and upset you should either doing other things or analyze and try other content.

but I'm not angry,I'm just very disappointed.

I'm already trying other ways,for example with AI videos,but are still in review since 12 days.

I'll try downloading Premiere Pro soon and processing this AI videos differently,hoping that somehow they will be accepted sooner or later,I have already used Premiere Pro or even Illustrator,a couple of years ago I had all the Adobe apps,another thing i would like to try is AI vectors too.

I'm still looking for other ways,but in any case,the number of sales I've made since the beginning of the year is really depressing.

mike123 · « **Reply #1739 on:** April 09, 2025, 08:53 »

Pos 5000 - probably the weakest week this year. I have no Easter related content, so that's part of the reason. Also a rather weak RPD of $0.73, while US dollar is dropping in value as well.
And I have a feeling the US dollar will continue devaluing, which will reduce earnings of non-US contributors even more.

Injustice for all · « **Reply #1740 on:** April 10, 2025, 14:14 »

productive day for me,definitely a step forward!

@Andrej.S. those descriptions look like they were generated by a bot!

Pacesetter · « **Reply #1741 on:** April 10, 2025, 19:33 »

Bit better this week though position and sales volume a bit lower so far with still a couple of days to go. RPD and earnings have improved compared to previous several weeks...

Andrej.S. · « **Reply #1742 on:** April 11, 2025, 11:28 »

@Pacesetter

Nice RPD. Videos?

This week is significantly weaker than the last week but better than the week before. This week I had only one extended license sale instead of 4 or 5.

I hope, however, that the upward trend remains, as I continue to diversify the portfolio with new content.

cobalt · « **Reply #1743 on:** April 11, 2025, 14:31 »

today only 23 dl so far, but overall my rank improved a bit

very depressed with the latest declines. it feels like anything that will make money is kicked out and boring images with low sales value is getting in.

I have no control over my port, it is so depressing.

Pacesetter · « **Reply #1744 on:** April 11, 2025, 21:03 »

Andrej.S. yes mainly videos.

Pacesetter · « **Reply #1745 on:** April 12, 2025, 07:56 »

Quote from: cobalt on April 11, 2025, 14:31

today only 23 dl so far, but overall my rank improved a bit

very depressed with the latest declines. it feels like anything that will make money is kicked out and boring images with low sales value is getting in.

I have no control over my port, it is so depressing.

I thought your results here are quite good but is this slow for you at this time of year / compared to last year?

Pacesetter · « **Reply #1746 on:** April 13, 2025, 05:02 »

This is a better week in terms of earnings / rpd but just want to make the point that our influence to impact sales volumes and the commissions on individual downloads has limitations.

Sure the more work, effort and quality production a contributor puts in will invariably result in improved performance and sales. But its not always going to translate in direct cause and effect. If I had said this last week the typical response would be well your contents must lack quality, you haven't been uploading, you fail to produce good useful files, you don't work hard enough and clearly have no persistence blah blah blah.

So while experiencing good weeks can have some beat their hairy chest and sound the Tarzan call, there always comes a time when downloads will slow and rpd will fall and reality hits. Sorry but just had to say this.

alexandersr · « **Reply #1747 on:** April 13, 2025, 11:13 »

Here we go, always last but this time better. Never give up!

Andrej.S. · « **Reply #1748 on:** April 14, 2025, 06:18 »

Quote from: cobalt on April 11, 2025, 14:31

today only 23 dl so far, but overall my rank improved a bit

very depressed with the latest declines. it feels like anything that will make money is kicked out and boring images with low sales value is getting in.

I have no control over my port, it is so depressing.

What's your earnigs / downloads trends the last 3 months?
Upwards or decline?

Have you uploaded new categories?
I see for example in your portfolio that you have no architecture / interior or "green / environment business" topics.

You have to try to diversify your portfolio since the algos are changing every few weeks.

I would try to focus more on "super real" looking AI content and not AI illustrations or some random fancy looking fantasy stuff.

cobalt · « **Reply #1749 on:** April 14, 2025, 08:40 »

I make greeting cards and I am testing illustrations. Watercolor sells, oil paintings don't.

I agree that I need to branch out. My add on theme this year is "ai people" and camera video for everyone. But eco themes are a very good suggestion. However I first need to research and analyse a new genre before production.

"I thought your results here are quite good but is this slow for you at this time of year / compared to last year?"

Last year I made over 730 dollars with easter themes, this year it will probably be less than 500. And a big problem is that the essential flow of the last 6 weeks leading up to the holiday is missing. I couldn't get my good files in. The algo regularly declines potential good selling images, usually with a lot of copy space and accepts often vertical close up images with little sales value. It is the kind of things people might download as an add on, but it is not what makes me money.

My disappointment comes from having a hopefully good stock business plan and now being held back by the crazy adobe algo and what looks like an orange menace recession for the US time zone.

I am trying to rebuild my income to do it full time again. The last years were actually better than expected, but this spring things are really bad.

And I cannot get content approved at my favorite agency, this really ruins all plans for the year.

They apparently also decline lots of camera content.

For the size of the port, now 8100 files, it is probably a good rank, but it could be a lot better.

It should be a lot better.

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Author Topic: What's your weekly ranking and how many images? (Read 135481 times)

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