Author Topic: Adobestock review-How many files do you have currently waiting? (Read 8227 times)

waitingonthestuff · « **on:** February 20, 2024, 08:04 »

I have 243 currently waiting. Is that too many? Should I stop uploading until that goes down? I'm currently getting about 2 files a day reviewed.

Thanks

Yakystockero · « **Reply #1 on:** February 20, 2024, 08:41 »

yeah, it's been much slower these last few weeks. I continue uploading as I usually do, they just accumulate. I see that images uploaded two days ago are approved, but those uploaded a week ago are still in the queue.

waitingonthestuff · « **Reply #2 on:** February 20, 2024, 09:10 »

Thanks. That's reassuring. Appreciate the prompt reply.

cobalt · « **Reply #3 on:** February 20, 2024, 12:20 »

88 files waiting.

ai illustrations go through quite quickly, but ai photos now around 2 weeks. Which is a great improvement to before.

blvdone · « **Reply #4 on:** February 20, 2024, 12:37 »

Over 500. Oldest are from 12 days ago.

Her Ugliness · « **Reply #5 on:** February 21, 2024, 02:20 »

Quote from: cobalt on February 20, 2024, 12:20

ai illustrations go through quite quickly, but ai photos now around 2 weeks.

Just gotta love how Adobe treats all their contributors differently. For me AI illustrations have been waiting to be reviewed for over 2 months now.

bpawesome · « **Reply #6 on:** February 21, 2024, 03:51 »

Recently the reviews are very fast for me,
submitted 10 AI images last night and they were approved the next morning (around 10 hours)

cobalt · « **Reply #7 on:** February 21, 2024, 04:35 »

Quote from: Her Ugliness on February 21, 2024, 02:20

Quote from: cobalt on February 20, 2024, 12:20
ai illustrations go through quite quickly, but ai photos now around 2 weeks.

Just gotta love how Adobe treats all their contributors differently. For me AI illustrations have been waiting to be reviewed for over 2 months now.

Is that also for newly uploaded content? Because I keep reading that new files breeze through while older once are still waiting for review?

Might also be spring easter related, that some files get pushed faster.

Her Ugliness · « **Reply #8 on:** February 21, 2024, 05:32 »

Quote from: cobalt on February 21, 2024, 04:35

Quote from: Her Ugliness on February 21, 2024, 02:20
Quote from: cobalt on February 20, 2024, 12:20
ai illustrations go through quite quickly, but ai photos now around 2 weeks.

Just gotta love how Adobe treats all their contributors differently. For me AI illustrations have been waiting to be reviewed for over 2 months now.

Is that also for newly uploaded content? Because I keep reading that new files breeze through while older once are still waiting for review?

Might also be spring easter related, that some files get pushed faster.

It's older content, I haven't submitted any AI illustrations in weeks.

cobalt · « **Reply #9 on:** February 21, 2024, 09:32 »

Might be worth trying, many people reporting illustrations being accepted within hours.

Uncle Pete · « **Reply #10 on:** February 21, 2024, 12:06 »

Quote from: cobalt on February 21, 2024, 09:32

Might be worth trying, many people reporting illustrations being accepted within hours.

My last Illustrative Editorial were reviewed overnight. I think they have done what so many have asked for. Send the AI along it's own track and get the other images, reviewed faster.

Her Ugliness · « **Reply #11 on:** February 22, 2024, 01:32 »

Quote from: cobalt on February 21, 2024, 09:32

Might be worth trying, many people reporting illustrations being accepted within hours.

I tried it yesterday. At least 24 hours later it's still not reviewed.

cobalt · « **Reply #12 on:** February 22, 2024, 02:00 »

I am sorry. I just keep seeing very happy illustration people in my groups.

Shuttershock · « **Reply #13 on:** February 22, 2024, 07:28 »

zero photo files waiting, review time i find for batch of 25 is 2 days.....(was 4 weeks plus end of last year)

wds · « **Reply #14 on:** February 22, 2024, 09:46 »

I am still on a 20 day queue for photos.

Mifornia · « **Reply #15 on:** February 22, 2024, 22:27 »

illustrations are accepted in 4 days.
Photo is about 2-4 weeks

I have max 40 images waiting. I upload 5-15 images per day, depending if they are hand painted on iPad or AI

Her Ugliness · « **Reply #16 on:** February 25, 2024, 02:16 »

Quote from: Mifornia on February 22, 2024, 22:27

My illustrations are accepted at times overnight, other times in 4 days.

It's 4 days now for my re-submited illustrations, still no review, and also still no review for the illustrations that have been waiting for over 2 months,
I guess Adobe just hates me.

DanStock · « **Reply #17 on:** March 01, 2024, 11:13 »

I submit AI photos. I always submit 3000 images at once, and they usually get reviewed in 4 weeks

waitingonthestuff · « **Reply #18 on:** March 05, 2024, 06:54 »

3000??? How do you write a description and keyword that many if you don't mind me asking?

ADH · « **Reply #19 on:** March 05, 2024, 07:55 »

Quote from: waitingonthestuff on March 05, 2024, 06:54

3000??? How do you write a description and keyword that many if you don't mind me asking?

Some people employ other people to help them to edit and write keywords to the AI images they upload. For example I know a man in India who employs teenagers to do the job in exchange of candies, sodas and cigarettes and he is doing very well. He told me he now uploads more than 2000 AI images a day using different accounts under several family member names.

cobalt · « **Reply #20 on:** March 10, 2024, 04:07 »

Review times for ai photos are painfully slow again. Starting to upload things for autumn and winter. Still uploading for summer, but for spring it will all arrive much too late. A lot of easter content will arrive after easter.

Ai illustrations are really quick, so I am trying to do a lot more of those.

stoker2014 · « **Reply #21 on:** March 10, 2024, 05:12 »

The video is being reviewed for several days.

synthetick · « **Reply #22 on:** March 10, 2024, 05:32 »

Quote from: ADH on March 05, 2024, 07:55

Quote from: waitingonthestuff on March 05, 2024, 06:54
3000??? How do you write a description and keyword that many if you don't mind me asking?

Some people employ other people to help them to edit and write keywords to the AI images they upload. For example I know a man in India who employs teenagers to do the job in exchange of candies, sodas and cigarettes and he is doing very well. He told me he now uploads more than 2000 AI images a day using different accounts under several family member names.

Wow! How did you come in contact with him? I'm very dubious about the quality of both images and keywords if outsourced to 12-year-olds!

cobalt · « **Reply #23 on:** March 11, 2024, 11:35 »

I just had a bunch of files accepted with a lot of spring/easter content..and…had sales immediately!

I was so scared it would be approved after spring.

The longer inspections take, the more difficult it is to time it.

yuriy · « **Reply #24 on:** March 11, 2024, 12:48 »

Quote from: cobalt on March 11, 2024, 11:35

I just had a bunch of files accepted with a lot of spring/easter content..and…had sales immediately!

I was so scared it would be approved after spring.

The longer inspections take, the more difficult it is to time it.

my queue is empty except for 9 images that have been stuck for months (reported in a separate thread). it seems review times are finally back to reasonable 1-3 day levels (at least for photo/video, no idea about ai stuff).

Injustice for all · « **Reply #25 on:** March 12, 2024, 09:20 »

Hi everyone,I hope you are all well!

please approve my Easter content too!

I had already sent them and they had been waiting for 20 days,then I deleted them from the queue,
because I wanted to improve them,and now I've been waiting again for about 20 days.

not that it makes much difference I think,because my account is set up to make 40/50% more every month compared to last year,I don't think that if I have 3000 AI contents for sale it will make much difference,because I have to sell what i have to sell, no more,no less.(I just hope I'm wrong)

only last year in September I reached position 3210 for a short period,then this thing never happened again.

this reminds me of a livestream from Mat from a couple of years ago in which Mat,talking about the importance of having copy space for text in content,showed a photo he had taken of a plant against a wall and which he had sold many times,what I thought at the time and what I still think,is that if I had taken the exact same photo I probably would never have sold it,or maybe once or twice,because unfortunately this is the case,I am Injustice for all,and he is Mat,a well-known contributor who obviously sells more easily anything he does,I think it's normal.

some accounts are favored by the sales system for reasons such as how long you have been a contributor or decisions made by the Adobe Stock team,I don't know,obviously I don't know just as no one knows.

Don't take me the wrong way,I'm still making 40-50% more every month compared to the same month last year,which isn't bad,at least I see an improvement,but 50% of little money is still little money,and having to wait at least another 2-3 years before having a more solid income from Adobe is becoming difficult.

I hope this AI content makes some difference,when I have at least 1000 AI contentent for sale I will evaluate the results.

for the moment I have generated 15,000 between Firefly and Midjourney,and then I had to find a way to improve them, because unfortunately I work with hardware at the limits of what is possible,now I've found the way and much more AI content will follow soon.

I was rather disappointed by Midjourney,for what it costs it still has many,too many generation errors,very soon Firefly will be the best AI,I have no doubt about it,it is already better in many aspects.

so I don't have much AI content for sale at the moment and I have 85 in review.

I really hope that with this AI content I can speed up my earnings on Adobe,because time is passing and I'm not getting any younger!

Andrej.S. · « **Reply #26 on:** March 12, 2024, 09:54 »

Quote from: Injustice for all on March 12, 2024, 09:20

Hi everyone,I hope you are all well!

please approve my Easter content too!

I had already sent them and they had been waiting for 20 days,then I deleted them from the queue,
because I wanted to improve them,and now I've been waiting again for about 20 days.

not that it makes much difference I think,because my account is set up to make 40/50% more every month compared to last year,I don't think that if I have 3000 AI contents for sale it will make much difference,because I have to sell what i have to sell, no more,no less.(I just hope I'm wrong)

only last year in September I reached position 3210 for a short period,then this thing never happened again.

this reminds me of a livestream from Mat from a couple of years ago in which Mat,talking about the importance of having copy space for text in content,showed a photo he had taken of a plant against a wall and which he had sold many times,what I thought at the time and what I still think,is that if I had taken the exact same photo I probably would never have sold it,or maybe once or twice,because unfortunately this is the case,I am Injustice for all,and he is Mat,a well-known contributor who obviously sells more easily anything he does,I think it's normal.

some accounts are favored by the sales system for reasons such as how long you have been a contributor or decisions made by the Adobe Stock team,I don't know,obviously I don't know just as no one knows.

Don't take me the wrong way,I'm still making 40-50% more every month compared to the same month last year,which isn't bad,at least I see an improvement,but 50% of little money is still little money,and having to wait at least another 2-3 years before having a more solid income from Adobe is becoming difficult.

I hope this AI content makes some difference,when I have at least 1000 AI contentent for sale I will evaluate the results.

for the moment I have generated 15,000 between Firefly and Midjourney,and then I had to find a way to improve them, because unfortunately I work with hardware at the limits of what is possible,now I've found the way and much more AI content will follow soon.

I was rather disappointed by Midjourney,for what it costs it still has many,too many generation errors,very soon Firefly will be the best AI,I have no doubt about it,it is already better in many aspects.

so I don't have much AI content for sale at the moment and I have 85 in review.

I really hope that with this AI content I can speed up my earnings on Adobe,because time is passing and I'm not getting any younger!

Yes, that's exactly what some people here already suspect. That Adobe favors some users in terms of review time and image rankings.
I don't think it's because of the keywords, image quality or other aspects. It's not the whole story.

Maybe it's just a randomized system to hold a carrot out to contributors to chase in the hopes of increasing revenue.
I mean, even featuring the bestselling contributors only serves to increase competition within the contributors. It would be more useful just to show design trends instead of featuring bestselling ports but it would not create the same feeling among contributors.

@ Back to topic:
I currently wait over a month for the last batch.

cobalt · « **Reply #27 on:** March 12, 2024, 11:21 »

My batch was accepted after 22 days. But thanks for the conspiracy theories

I was worried it would take even longer and arrive after easter, because when I uploaded the files review times were arounds 10 days.

As for being favored in sales...I sure would appreciate whoever put me into a rank 250 kept me there and I would not have manually dropped down to 4300 in 14 days...

The system is very, very dynamic. And my port is still very small.

I wish I had 10000 people files. That seems to bring more balance than easter eggs.

Injustice for all · « **Reply #28 on:** March 12, 2024, 11:57 »

it is clear that the system works in a certain way and must work that way,there are reasons behind it,because the sales system must somehow favor active contributors,and obviously those who have been contributors for longer,I think it's normal.

Cobalt,how long have you been an Adobe stock contributor?Or rather, Fotolia contributor?12 years?Yes,then you stopped for many years,but your port remained online,and then when you went back to upload your portfolio it started selling a lot more and now perhaps sales are stabilizing.

but the point is that in my opinion,this sudden surge in sales of yours happened because you have been a contributor for a long time first of all,and then there may be other factors.

yes you have 4000 contents,less than me,but you have 2000 content for much longer than me,this is the point.

and I think it's also right,I'm not saying it's wrong,it's right that those who have been contributors for the longest earn more.

I like how Adobe's sales system works,because it is a system on which you can build a business,unlike Shutterstock which is now just a lottery, and I have no longer contributed to SS since September.

regarding AI reviews I believe Adobe needs to do something to reduce AI spam.

because there are contributors who send more than 1000 contents per month, and doing something like this means sending contents without even looking at them,therefore contents full of generative errors,only creating excessive spam and colossal review times.

I can get to the point of sending 500 or fewer AI content per month for review,and to do that I probably have to be Superman (or Flash) because all generated AI contents have errors,90% of them,and all AI content need photo editing,generative fill,generative expand,resolution enhancement,filters....and after even index them,so it is impossible to send more than 500 AI contents per month,those who do it don't care about all these details and just spam.

cobalt · « **Reply #29 on:** March 12, 2024, 12:32 »

i uploaded a select 1300 files when I left istock in 2013. They were all reliable bestsellers that also sold well on Adobe when I was uploading regularly.

And then I took a 10 year break and started uploading seriously again in Aug/Sept 22. Then by Jan 23 I started uploading ai content.

My sales started picking up very quickly with regular uploads, but it was all the old files that were getting the sales. New content and ai only started to really sell towards the end of the year. But also because most of my sales come from seasonal content. So everything is wonderful for a few weeks and then it all drops dow again.

I don't have enough content for balance.

And over 1000 new files are ai illustrations. They don't (yet) sell as well as photos. However, they are improving. A lot of content that didn't sell last year is now getting their first sales and now even more regular downloads.

If I wanted to go for the optimal money, I think I should focus on normal photos and videos. Much faster for me to generate sales with normal photos.

But I want to learn ai and I want to expand my range with illustrations. I am sure it will pay off down the road.

Everybody knows that high quality people content is what sells best, so for photo ai I will try to do more with people.

However thsi year I also want to process all the video and photo content from the last 3 years that is just sitting there. Really need to upload and "activate" other agencies as well.

eta

I wish I could upload 500 files a month of anything. But I can't. I tried, for me it doesn't work. Ai needs postprocessing but it is also difficult to get the files I want to have anyway.

50 files a week, yes, that is fine, Trying very hard to maybe get it to be 70.

Injustice for all · « **Reply #30 on:** March 12, 2024, 15:54 »

thanks Cobalt for your reply.
regarding AI:

yes,I know that you try to do things well,and you waste time on the contents you create,because you know that in the end,even if it takes more time,the curated contents will rise,and the storm of content generated compulsively without any waste of time,with perhaps a few exceptions,will sink to the bottom.

quality is better than quantity,the problem is that quality faces a storm and is slowed down,and everything goes very slowly for those trying to produce at least decent content without generation errors.

Unfortunately apparently there is no underlying filtering system,for Adobe it is perhaps impossible to separate those who send thousands of contents per month as individual contributors.

regarding other agencies:

I only upload to Adobe,I think it's the best decision(at least for images)for the moment,I've left the ports active in the other agencies too,but I simply don't think that today it's worth wasting time with the other agencies anymore.

apart from some exclusive agencies,like Stocksy or Arcangel perhaps,I don't think it's more convenient to waste time with other agencies.

I then believe that supporting Adobe is better,imagine for a second if all the contents of all the contributors would only be in the hands of Adobe,having no competition,Adobe Stock would be able to raise content prices and increase our royalties,unfortunately,this cannot be done because they must remain competitive on the market and maintain competitive prices.

The fault of the low royalties is ours,not Adobe's,as long as we continue to support agencies that exploit us like Istock or Shutterstock.

if all of us contributed only to Adobe,we could earn much more,but unfortunately I believe that most contributors are more interested in short-term profit,and take everything they can from any agency,but then better we don't complain if we see 0.35 cent sales in Adobe,because if this happens,it's our fault too.

I think this,which is why in my opinion it is also important to contribute only on Adobe Stock.

about real contents:

I agree with you,a lot of real content cannot be replaced by AI,and certainly creating real content is important,I do everything,AI,video,vector,illustrations,editorials...everything I can and that is within my possibilities.

lately i am little tired,because earnings increase too slowly,but I guess it could be worse!

cobalt · « **Reply #31 on:** March 12, 2024, 21:54 »

at least you have earnings!! and experience.

i am not worried about the mass ai uploaders, like i am not worried about the endless flood of cats, sunsets, bad food images, flowers...i think the algos on all agencies that take high volume sort that pretty quickly through customer interactions.

and ai content often looks much better than the amateur content uploaded, so if the people who don't know how to take proper pictures upload with ai, their content looks better.

there is a lot of content missing on all agencies and the majority of uploaders never bother to do research.

just focus on what is missing in the collections, don't panic about ai and keep making money.

as a genre, video is completely open. there are only 70 million?? files over all agencies? including editorial?

and adobe video sales are picking up, today I sold a clip for 8,40 and yesterday for 41 dollars. I only have 300 clips on Adobe, so I need to increase that drastically.

I really, really worry about pond5. I hope SS doesn't kill them, it is not good if we have less agencies to work with.

I like Adobe a lot, but a multi polar world is better for us producers.

Faustvasea · « **Reply #32 on:** March 13, 2024, 07:43 »

Weird enough. I have uploaded around 340 images last night and they have reviewed it everything this morning. Sadly a lot of files have been rejected due of property copyright.

Injustice for all · « **Reply #33 on:** March 13, 2024, 10:10 »

yes Cobalt,multipolar world is better for us producers,but the problem is that multipolar world is over.
all these agencies offer no real guarantee of an investment of time.

Shutterstock is sinking,Istock cannot be trusted,I know you are thinking of reactivating your port in Istock,but I warn you that you cannot trust Istock,they deleted 4000 of my contents in one click,years of work,nights without sleeping,and then suddenly from one day to another they sent me an email,in which they had already made their decision regarding an issue,which in reality did not exist,and they didn't even ask me if I had anything to say about it and I lost years of work,and a good part of my earnings from one day to another.

I don't trust anyone anymore,but at least Adobe has already shown us that they seriously intend to continue this business with Adobe Stock,they give us the software for free,they give us various bonuses,better royalties,an active participation here in microstockgroup too,a completely different way to interact with contributors.

That's why I prefer to work only with Adobe,I know that I can have a solid income with Adobe over time,and I prefer this rather than giving my work and my time to who? Dreamstime? who don't even deign to bring the minimum payout at 50,or who?Alamy or Shutterstock that you have to hope that maybe one day you win the lottery?

with Adobe this year in January 2024 I sold 40% more than in January 2023,in February 50% more,March up to now is more or less always going between that 40/50% more.

so there is a concrete trend,an increase in real and concrete time with Adobe,which is not the case with any other agency apart from a few exclusive agencies,but even with Arcangel for example there is no trend,there are no guarantees,yes if you sell it's generally good money,but with Adobe there isn't any IF.

I don't want anymore IF in my life,I need concrete things,and after these experiences,also with Istock,which thanks to my work has earned tens of thousands of dollars if not more,thanks in particular to some mock-ups that I created by hand,I drew them by hand,and which sold up to 30 times a day for the first years,and what was the thanks?At the first problem they didn't even bother to ask me if I had anything to say about it,and they did it right at the time I had invested in better hardware and the Adobe plan for all apps,and I found myself in difficulty because I lost part of my earnings just when I invested in the microstock.

Adobe Stock is the only serious agency, apart from Stocksy and perhaps others that I don't know,of course AS is not perfect,but at least they do their best to be so,they have already demonstrated this often.

I've already written a book

and I'm drifting away from the main topic,so back on topic:

I currently have 87 AI contents waiting,some for over 20 days,then due to the bug many show a month,so I don't even know exactly how long they've been there anymore.

please Adobe review my Easter contents they are nice!

I never have quick reviews for AI content,but I send a few a day,I'm also busy with real content.

and please RaiNews,stop downloading content from Istock,Getty or Pixabay!Buy them on Adobe Stock!Support working Italians!

wordplanet · « **Reply #34 on:** March 13, 2024, 12:03 »

My photos have been going through fast and so were AI until January when I had uploaded two Easter images, one was accepted right away and the other sat there for nearly two full months until it was accepted today. I haven't uploaded any AI since January, but as late as last week, photos were accepted within a day or two.

cobalt · « **Reply #35 on:** March 13, 2024, 12:26 »

@injustice

very sorry to read this about istock. sadly they sometimes shoot first and ask questions later. i was deleted from ss without a warning. very painful experience. a reason to also keep supplying distribution partners, so if somebody hates what you say on the internet, they cannot hit an individual port delete.

i do still have hopes for istock, also because so many of my friendsd are still doing well there.

on topic - my ai illustrations are being accepted in hours. ai photos around 22 days.

Injustice for all · « **Reply #36 on:** March 13, 2024, 16:00 »

Quote from: cobalt on March 13, 2024, 12:26

@injustice

very sorry to read this about istock. sadly they sometimes shoot first and ask questions later. i was deleted from ss without a warning. very painful experience. a reason to also keep supplying distribution partners, so if somebody hates what you say on the internet, they cannot hit an individual port delete.

i do still have hopes for istock, also because so many of my friendsd are still doing well there.

on topic - my ai illustrations are being accepted in hours. ai photos around 22 days.

thank you,I'm sorry for you too regarding SS,then you know what I mean,think it's been years,I'm still angry,as you can see I'm still talking about it,you can imagine my shock when it happened,I haven't slept well for weeks.

From what they wrote to me the first time I immediately understood that whoever made this decision didn't know much about creative software,and then they responded to my email after a month,an email in which I explained to them how I had created that content,as soon as they realized they were wrong,they changed the version of events and started accusing me of other things on other contents,why? because so they didn't have to say "sorry we were wrong!"

Anyway,enough,it was difficult at first,but now my earnings on AS are improving and things are a little better,the worst is over,and I've learned my lesson.

remember however that if you decide to contribute on Istock your entire portfolio is distributed for a few dollars of which you receive a collective payment per year,in short,you are giving all your work away for a few pennies,and 15% royalty for standard sales,i think you know already,not even vectors are all paid 20%,only some sales,at least this is my experience.

I tell you instead,let's give our work to those who deserve it,to those who have improved and can still improve the microstock,those who value our work like Adobe Stock and maybe a few others.

back on topic:you're lucky

,none of my AI illustrations are reviewed in a few hours.

my real contents are always accepted much faster,even videos.

cobalt · « **Reply #37 on:** March 13, 2024, 16:42 »

i now have a very good acceptace rate with ai illustrations. when i had a lot of declines i asked for feedback from the discord community and they helped me immensly to understand the issues.

now i hope my customers like my files or through sales can guide me to what they need.

adobe is a fantastio place but the way they close ports while „investigating“ for months absolutely terrifies me. if your main income is adobe…what do you do???

so to feel safer i must diversify.

for istock i will be working again with people that are photo exclusive. which means my photos from the same shoot must be exclusive as well. but they are indie with video, so that will be my main focus.

i also do normal photos again that will go everywhere, including istock.

my overall rpi for adobe is double that of istock on average, but they have reliable sales and sometimes larger sales.

the bigger hurdle is their horrible upload process. otherwise i would have sent them a lot more content by now.

istock also takes a much bigger diversity of content, including real editorial photos and these sell quite reliably.

so…i want to work again with my friends and i do hope i can build up istock to a reliable second income after adobe.

i think for editorial alone it will be worth it.

adobe also doesn‘t like „ugly real world content“ in the style of eyeem. istock takes it and sells it.

the ports will differ quite drastically between editiorial and ugly realism and high contrast ultra saturated photos/ai and ai illustrations.

I think it will be good to have both and the contents are for different markets.

these days i regret giving up the getty house contract. that would have allowed me to work more with my friends and get decent returns on the same photo shootings.

but focussing on video, with very little photos, will be a good compromise.

again, i am very, very sorry you lost your istock port. we had fantastic times there. i never found another community as vibrant (and dramatic) as istock.

i also miss the old ss, but the way producers are reporting a drastic drop in sales i am probably not missing out on much.

Injustice for all · « **Reply #38 on:** March 14, 2024, 07:53 »

yes, exactly,Adobe investigates and then reopens the accounts,unless something serious really happened.

Istock on the other hand completely destroys your years of work based on pure assumptions,I have been accused of stealing content from free sites by Istock,
maybe because someone actually stole content from me and then put it on free sites,I don't know,what I know is I am not capable of stealing even a piece of candy from a child!

actually no,in 1996 in Ibiza I stole a jar of mushrooms in oil from a supermarket together with 2 other friends of mine,the holiday was over and we only had money to go back to the airport,we were hungry and the only thing I managed to steal was a jar of mushrooms in oil!

so they destroyed 4 years and 6 months of work based on pure assumptions,without first asking me if I had anything to declare.

You only understand certain things if they happen to you,and you learn to trust only those who deserve it.

with Adobe this would never have happened,if they had any doubts in any way,they would have perhaps blocked my account,investigated and then restored my account.

I wish you the best from Istock and to make a lot of money,but in my opinion it is a declining agency like Shutterstock,and continuing to support those who pay you 15% is not a good idea in my opinion.

as you know,the minimum requirements for better percentage for exclusives also increase every year,and when you look at the sales in detail,you find a lot of 0.02 cents and really ridiculous sales.

they sell in quantity,that's why you can earn something,but that's why we're doing badly,because we ourselves ruin the microstock by giving our contents to these people who give us almost nothing in return.

I'm happy with Adobe,also because I've identified a nice niche for more than a year,and I'm working on it,and this niche represents my basic work on Adobe.

the future of microstock is with Adobe Stock,which unfortunately cannot increase prices to customers because there are still agencies like Istock,at least that's my opinion.

I don't agree with this sentence,in my opinion it's exactly the opposite:
"istock also takes a much bigger diversity of content,including real editorial photos and these sell quite reliably"

Adobe does not accept editorials in which recognizable people are present,and that's all,but it accepts a greater,better,variety of content and unlike Istock which if it only sees a shadow of a person the content does not pass commercially.

if the people in the editorial are not recognisable,they are accepted by Adobe,but not with Istock.

Thank you and I hope you make a lot of money with Istock!

back on topic:

5 AI photos reviewed today,4 accepted,one very nice and particular rejected,okay,patience,then I'll do it again!

no review yet for Easter content.

cobalt · « **Reply #39 on:** March 14, 2024, 09:01 »

I agree that Adobe is a fantastic agency, but so was Shutterstock. When I left istock I had the privilege of meeting some people from Shutterstock, they were absolutely delightful and VERY open to any form of suggestions and open critique. That was the main difference for me.

But it looks like all the people I met have left and they closed the forums anyway and don't seem to have people like Mat or even a discord channel to interact with producers.

I hope Adobe stays the way they are, but did you ever expect SS to have such a drastic change? Ever? They were really successful, people had 50k files only with them because they liked SS so much and felt so well treated.

Or look at eyeem - they were a great place with amazing content, but had to close down. We will see if freepik can revive the place. I hope so. We are lucky that at least it was sold not just dissolved. But many artists relied on their eyeem earnings and never diversified.

Suddenly the money is gone. And for some it was over 1000 dollars a month.

However, my friends who are photo exclusive with istock/getty still make a full time living. So Getty has consistently sent them a full time income, including all the costs needed for production. It might be less than a few years ago, but it still works well for many people I know.

So for all the aggressiveness towards Getty it is important to acknowledge that they have very regular sales and still quite a few very unusual high priced sales.

In a combined shoot with friends I will do few photos, but many videos that can go everywhere. Or probably just directly to BB and let them sort it out. They really are good with sales.

I currently have 68 files in the queue. Most of the easter files will probably arrive after easter now. But I am sure customers will collect them for their 2025 projects.

Again I am sorry how getty treated you. I don't think the old istock would have done that.

wds · « **Reply #40 on:** March 14, 2024, 10:02 »

Quote from: cobalt on March 14, 2024, 09:01

I agree that Adobe is a fantastic agency, but so was Shutterstock. When I left istock I had the privilege of meeting some people from Shutterstock, they were absolutely delightful and VERY open to any form of suggestions and open critique. That was the main difference for me.

But it looks like all the people I met have left and they closed the forums anyway and don't seem to have people like Mat or even a discord channel to interact with producers.

I hope Adobe stays the way they are, but did you ever expect SS to have such a drastic change? Ever? They were really successful, people had 50k files only with them because they liked SS so much and felt so well treated.

Or look at eyeem - they were a great place with amazing content, but had to close down. We will see if freepik can revive the place. I hope so. We are lucky that at least it was sold not just dissolved. But many artists relied on their eyeem earnings and never diversified.

Suddenly the money is gone. And for some it was over 1000 dollars a month.

However, my friends who are photo exclusive with istock/getty still make a full time living. So Getty has consistently sent them a full time income, including all the costs needed for production. It might be less than a few years ago, but it still works well for many people I know.

So for all the aggressiveness towards Getty it is important to acknowledge that they have very regular sales and still quite a few very unusual high priced sales.

In a combined shoot with friends I will do few photos, but many videos that can go everywhere. Or probably just directly to BB and let them sort it out. They really are good with sales.

I currently have 68 files in the queue. Most of the easter files will probably arrive after easter now. But I am sure customers will collect them for their 2025 projects.

Again I am sorry how getty treated you. I don't think the old istock would have done that.

Regarding iS, I do have to wonder how the members are viewing the threat from AI....do they have an "answer" for that?

Uncle Pete · « **Reply #41 on:** March 14, 2024, 11:34 »

Quote from: Injustice for all on March 13, 2024, 10:10

Shutterstock is sinking,Istock cannot be trusted,I know you are thinking of reactivating your port in Istock,but I warn you that you cannot trust Istock,they deleted 4000 of my contents in one click,years of work,nights without sleeping,and then suddenly from one day to another they sent me an email,in which they had already made their decision regarding an issue,which in reality did not exist,and they didn't even ask me if I had anything to say about it and I lost years of work,and a good part of my earnings from one day to another.

What was the issue that didn't really exist?

Mine wasn't quite as bad and I still have the account. You don't say if they closed your account or removed images?

My loss was 3,657 images that were Editorial when Getty took over and decided the iStock images were competition for the Getty photographers. So off with our heads. $:-\$ Some of those images, still show on DM in my top 25 for income and it has been years now. Similar for audio, which I had a few that did some business, until Getty decided to end that and hire a private supplier.

I'll answer the OP question, even if that's a long gone issue and it seems reviews are much better now. TWO.

stocky · « **Reply #42 on:** March 14, 2024, 13:38 »

The speed of reviews has improved lately - not taking very long.

Injustice for all · « **Reply #43 on:** March 14, 2024, 15:47 »

Quote from: Uncle Pete on March 14, 2024, 11:34

Quote from: Injustice for all on March 13, 2024, 10:10

Shutterstock is sinking,Istock cannot be trusted,I know you are thinking of reactivating your port in Istock,but I warn you that you cannot trust Istock,they deleted 4000 of my contents in one click,years of work,nights without sleeping,and then suddenly from one day to another they sent me an email,in which they had already made their decision regarding an issue,which in reality did not exist,and they didn't even ask me if I had anything to say about it and I lost years of work,and a good part of my earnings from one day to another.

What was the issue that didn't really exist?

Mine wasn't quite as bad and I still have the account. You don't say if they closed your account or removed images?

My loss was 3,657 images that were Editorial when Getty took over and decided the iStock images were competition for the Getty photographers. So off with our heads. $:-\$ Some of those images, still show on DM in my top 25 for income and it has been years now. Similar for audio, which I had a few that did some business, until Getty decided to end that and hire a private supplier.

I'll answer the OP question, even if that's a long gone issue and it seems reviews are much better now. TWO.

Hi Pete,nice to meet you again here!

I'm sorry but I can't tell you,first of all for reasons of privacy because to tell you I have to go into detail about my contents,and then to keep copycats away.

what I can tell you is that they believed that I had infringed the copyright,but when I explained to them how I had created that content they replied to me completely different things from first email,in particular that I had stolen content from free sites,this time referring to other content.

so they completely changed everything they had written in the first email,because then they verified what I said,and saw that I was right,so since they had already done the damage,they started looking for other excuses to justify what they had done.

Pete,they made a mistake,they know it,I know it,unfortunately the damage was already done.

what they did wrong was not talking to me before making any decisions.

I'm sorry for the loss of your content,you see,even with you they cut thousands of contents,they completely bypassed you,and your rights and your time and work,only for their interests,this is why it is not a serious agency.

These are things you only understand when they happen to you.

but I tell you honestly that they did me a favor,I had read a blog some time before,in which an Italian creator made good money with Istock,but then tired of the 15% royalties,she did an experiment and eliminated Istock,and she saw a sudden very strong increase in earnings on Adobe.

the point is that there is always a downside,working with many agencies has its advantages,but working with only one agency brings numerous other advantages.

back on topic:

today 10 AI reviewed photos,9 accepted,2 Easter contents accepted!

Andrej.S. · « **Reply #44 on:** March 14, 2024, 15:54 »

Quote from: cobalt on March 14, 2024, 09:01

I currently have 68 files in the queue. Most of the easter files will probably arrive after easter now. But I am sure customers will collect them for their 2025 projects.

Hmm, probably I should already start uploading Christmas stuff as I also will miss Easter:

Easter:
https://ibb.co/856yvLs

Christmas:
https://ibb.co/x3ZkPZt

cobalt · « **Reply #45 on:** March 14, 2024, 17:14 »

They are both very, very good images. If you upload the bunny it might still arrive in time for orthodox easter which is later. Or somebody might pick it up for their next year projects.

Christmas sells all year round, obviously not as much now, but I still get sales every week, sold one xmas image today.

I am still disappointed with my easter sales. The search positions, especially on some combination keywords are very good, but perhaps I am not capturing current trends well enough.

Maybe it will pick up next week.

jasonlee3071 · « **Reply #46 on:** March 17, 2024, 22:43 »

Right now 4 or 5. Only have about 431 files total on that site.
Mainly vector/illustrations.

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