ok,for me it's the same,the next ones are now 7 days old.

However,in my opinion you should do many more,one a day is too little.

at least you're selling something,a very bad week for me so far! 

hahaha! 

You are probably more skilled and fast with images.

I just hope that all the work I'm doing will make some difference in near future.

I'm going all in on this one.

Because so many designers are there and have an Adobe subscription, they probably have a few million. But that does not mean they are all actively uploading.

I think SS used to say they have 300k creators, istock something similar.

And if you combine that with the size of various forums and groups, I would think there is maybe 100k worldwide really doing stock seriously, with the top 10 000 probably producing the majority of the sellable content.

Now with ai Adobe might have gotten a large fresh influx, but since a lot of their production is automated, their upload volume is much higher than the number of creators.

Eyeem also claimed they had 30 million producers, but that is probably just the number of people using their app.

Although stockagencies are easy to sign up to, most people give up very, very quickly because they underestimate how much work it is and how many years it takes to get a reliable income.

eta

also you are only competing with the creators who produce for your very specific niche. For vietnamese street food, perhaps there are less than 100 creators filling that subject on a regular basis.

same for children in bed with an illness, old people needing a sleep mask...etc...once you drill down into a theme, there is much less competition than you think.

the large file numbers hide that actual detailed new content is only uploaded very little, the majority are duplicates of duplicates.

So how is the start of everyone's week looking right now?

Slow here as well on Adobe.

Adobe is pretty dead for me, especially the US time zone.

And since it is very difficult to get content in, my sales and rank will keep falling.

I also think the creator community is starting to switch agencies already. Why buy from a stock site that treats the creator community badly?

Focus on video then rank becomes less important 

I am switching to mostly video for Adobe. But videos can take over a year to take off.

All my plans for the year are broken. I was on track for a very good increase this year.

My files all reinforce each other, I don�t upload disconnected stuff.

I have a plan for video, but it cannot bring immediate sales.

The Adobe mess will cost me thousands of dollars this year.

Not funny at all.

Now I have to pray for an istock revival.

The merger of istock/Shutterstock has a lot of potential with all the agencies they own.

They now basically control the editorial market. A market that Adobe is not really interested in because they mostly want graphic design elements for photoshop integration.

Adobe has a really good and very large ai collection, that is something getty does not have.

Which is actually good, because the two platforms have separated themselves quite nicely.

For creators the question is should we still upload to all agencies, or is it enough to just supply one entry point and then our content gets moved around allover?

We will see, but this is an interesting year.

I hope Adobe eventually comes around, I see no financial advantage in annoying the creator community with a random roulette algo.

A switch to other platforms, dropping Adobe software subscriptions is something that will happen very gradually, like it did with Shutterstock.

But if the creator community is being gaslit and ghosted, they will spend their money elsewhere.

If Dreamstime could secure some financial backing i am sure they would attract a lot of loyal creators and buyers.

Or maybe there is a new video platform coming up. Lots of very annoyed video creators that want to be able to set their own prices.

Interesting times.

My rank is dropping, I hope eventually adding the videos will help. It is just all my plans for summer/winter have been crashed by the roulette algo that prevents me from uploading my "plan".

The power of video. Well done!