One more graph below:
In 2023, SS was only 5 out of 12 months better than AS (the big September dip is due to the FireFly compensation and, at the same time, because of an abysmal SS performance).
December looks like an outlier. The trend in favor of AS is obvious.

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2023/2022


I focused on Adobe, where I only had 1300 files and did not upload for 10 years.

I added around 2300 files and my income increased over 900% year on year. Reached a weekly rank of 253 for a brief moment, now back down to 1040.

Basically from next to nothing to months with several hundred and one month over 1800 dollars with 2-3k files.

This year I want to make a big push for video. And also try to �activate� istock with normal photos and videos.

Will still submit every day to Adobe and try to round out my port with themes that I have simply never offered.

Especially illustrations, every illustration sale is a sale I never would have had.

I really hope I can activate istock. My old port is still my largest port.

eta: now 1670...hm, need more stuff for spring

Congrats! Using cleverness and skill you deserve your success. Excellent job in 2024 !!!

Quote from: Zero Talent on January 01, 2024, 13:46

December 2023 was my best December ever, and 2023 was a good year, overall: only 2.7% worse than 2022, which is above my expectations.

What kind of FAA stock do you have?

I have about 500 photos there.

Quote from: cobalt on January 02, 2024, 03:42

Reached a weekly rank of 253 for a brief moment, now back down to 1040.

Basically from next to nothing to months with several hundred and one month over 1800 dollars with 2-3k files.

Did you really have this incredible increase in earnings or did I read it wrong? 

I had read your September and October earnings on Adobe and they were good (250-300 dollars), but a far cry from $1800 in one month!

Quote from: cobalt on October 18, 2023, 07:06

Sept 23 it was 243 dollars with around 2800 files. For October Adobe is already 219 dollars. Christmastime.

How can you increase your earnings from 250 to 1800 dollars a month in such a short time? 

I asked myself the same question.

Okay, if there was a weekly ranking of 253 at some point last year, that's quite realistic with the $1,800 in Adobe alone in one month.

But what I don't understand is that if you were at $250 to $300 in September and October, that equates to a weekly ranking of somewhere between 6,000 and 18,000 - depending on the RPD.

I've never seen such a big difference in weekly ranking without a significant change in the size of the portfolio.

What happened in that week when the weekly ranking was 253 and what happened afterwards that it is now so far away from that again?

40% of my port is seasonal content that only wakes up end of the year. I usually make more than half my income in the last 2-3 months.

What was unusual this time is that September, October only had a slow rise, then November went up a lot and I landed on the Adobe bestsellerlist. That seems to have boosted the port again and December I just kept on having sales until new year. Usually it all falls off middle of December. Also had a lot of additional sales of non seasonal content in December.

It was very unusual. Now I am down to a weekly rank of 3800.

An interesting experience, but I doubt I can replicate it.

I have read about other people that had an unusually good season on Adobe this year.  Perhaps Adobe took on a lot of new customers end on year? Or new api deals?

The total amount for the season was more than double of what I was expecting, however it was the way it was distributed over the season that I have never seen before.

eta:

This was the first time I had (ai) illustrations. Maybe that helped a lot because it brought a different customer group to my port. Adding a lot more illustrations is a big thing on my to do list this year.

40% of my port is seasonal content that only wakes up end of the year. I usually make more than half my income in the last 2-3 months.

What was unusual this time is that September, October only had a slow rise, then November went up a lot and I landed on the Adobe bestsellerlist. That seems to have boosted the port again and December I just kept on having sales until new year. Usually it all falls off middle of December. Also had a lot of additional sales of non seasonal content in December.

It was very unusual. Now I am down to a weekly rank of 3800.

An interesting experience, but I doubt I can replicate it.

I have read about other people that had an unusually good season on Adobe this year.  Perhaps Adobe took on a lot of new customers end on year? Or new api deals?

The total amount for the season was more than double of what I was expecting, however it was the way it was distributed over the season that I have never seen before.

eta:

This was the first time I had (ai) illustrations. Maybe that helped a lot because it brought a different customer group to my port. Adding a lot more illustrations is a big thing on my to do list this year.

Thanks for the explanation, cobalt. Now it is absolutely understandable how there are such huge differences in your downloads and your ranking. This is also the case with other providers who specialize in seasonal products.
But: $1,800 in one month only at AS is really strong! Congratulations!

@Wilm

Thank you

It is certainly very motivating to upload to Adobe. Longterm my goal is to have this as a steady base income over the whole year. Probably needs 30k files to be reliable.

The sales also carried me over 6000 downloads, so I should be eligible for the full creative suit, which would be fantastic.

Like I said the main focus this year will be video. I will still do ai, especially illustrations, and also take up normal photos again, but video is where I believe are the biggest gaps in all collections.


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My last year video income. I didn�t really add content, so this is the result for basically doing nothing.

.pond5 1046 clips - 246 dollars

Adobe 243 mostly really old clips - 266 dollars

Blackboxglobal 505 files - 555 dollars

A few others with 20 dollars

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Goals for 2024


I hope I can upload 1500 clips in total this year. More would be great, perhaps I can optimize my video workflow this year.

Overall the goal for 2024 is

- another 1500 ai photos/illus

 - 1000 normal photos, maybe including eyeem iphone content if they wake up again

 - 1500 videos

That would be around 4000 files accepted.

Not sure if I can actually make that.

Last year it was around 2800 files (over all content types and agencies)

But also spent a lot of time learning how to prompt.

And of course: quality over quantity.

30-40% of my time is just research, looking either for what is missing or how can I recreate generic content with a few details that makes them new. Ideallx new over all agencies.

Not always possible of course, some basic things, backgrounds flowers hearts, will be everywhere.

jps, they are ai creations

One day i would like to learn how to make my own from scratch.

But, last I knew they didn't allow ai vector uploads. Wanted to find out if that policy have changed.

Yes, that policy has changed, and AI vectors are allowed, but they need to adhere to Adobe Stock's vector guidelines.

Quote from: DaLiu on January 17, 2024, 19:28

My SS downloads are going greater and greater, strange thing is in the last year i see more and more SO sales and almost dissapeared the On Demand ones.

Today sales:

This can also be read from many other contributors. It's the same for me. There are now also more SODs than subscriptions. But they are often SODs for minimal amounts - many for $0.10. I preferred the old days when there were few SODs, but they usually brought a lot of money.

Monday 12 SOs, all of then 10� each for a whole, whopping, $1.20 

It was a surprisingly good January, despite the SS reset.
AS compensated for everything and more.

Indeed AS was great in January. Best month on AS since 2018 (not counting the AI bonus from September 2023)