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« Reply #400 on: February 01, 2023, 10:50 »
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I am reading in a lot of places that Adobe had an usually good January, several producers reporting best January ever on Adobe.

Maybe the gen ai collection is bringing them a lot of attention and new customers.

I am one of these people who has a very good January on Adobe, but your theory doesn't make sense to me, because in that case, wouldn't each agency that sells AI images (or even SS that basically lets you generate your own AI images), not experience the same? But for me it's just Adobe that's doing unusually well for a January. All other agencies, including the ones that allow AI generated images, are doing as poorly as was to be expected from a January.


« Reply #401 on: February 01, 2023, 11:08 »
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Well there must be a reason. Clearly the Adobe sales team is doing something right.

Perhaps they have new enticing offers unrelated to gen ai?

I only know of Dreamstime that has ready gen ai content. Shutterstock just offers the abilty to create ai content, but from the feedback I read, the quality is extremely poor. They dont have beautiful ready files to download.

Is anybody else taking ai except adobe and dreamstime??

Both istock and SS dont, they would be the largest competitors.

ETA

looks like I jinxed myself, only 4 dl today.
« Last Edit: February 01, 2023, 12:18 by cobalt »

« Reply #402 on: February 01, 2023, 11:13 »
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I am reading in a lot of places that Adobe had an usually good January, several producers reporting best January ever on Adobe.

Maybe the gen ai collection is bringing them a lot of attention and new customers.

Yes Adobe January sales was double SS sales for me  :D

« Reply #403 on: February 01, 2023, 11:42 »
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Is anybody else taking ai except adobe and dreamstime??

Both istock and SS dont, they would be the largest competitors.

Alamy, Dreamstime, PantherMedia, FineArtAmerica, Canva (They have their own AI generatior like SS), Zoonar, Depositphotos. And these are just from the 10 agencies I submit to. I don't even know how many of the  40 stock agencies that are listed on this forum's poll also accept AI content.

To me none show any increase in sales similar to Adobe. And the increase in sales on Adobe started for me already in the last quarter of last year.

I don't know the reason as well, I just don't think it is AI content, because it doesn't make sense to me that it would drive more customers to Adobe, but not other sites (And I do not sell AI content at all). I think it must be a different factor, maybe something as simple as a big advertisement campaign, maybe the acquirement of Figma.

« Reply #404 on: February 01, 2023, 11:45 »
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Well, then it must be great marketing by Adobe. They have the advantage of combining photoshop with stock, perhaps they made customers a great new offer.

Deposit rejected my gen ai.

Might try adding some to Alamy.

« Reply #405 on: February 01, 2023, 12:05 »
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Deposit rejected my gen ai.


I do not know their rules, I could not find any information, but when I do an image search for "generative AI" in their database I get thousands of results with AI generated content.
« Last Edit: February 01, 2023, 12:12 by Her Ugliness »

« Reply #406 on: February 01, 2023, 12:51 »
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i dont do month over last years since data is too noisy, so i use 4 month running average. eg, Jan was in top 4 months over last 2 years on that basis. but that just shows the problem with monthly comparisons! most of the month's bump was huge jump from Alamy distributions. take that out & jan was worst month in 3 yrs, but slightly ahead of 4 mo avg over last year.  (canva report later this month will improve that)

most due to cratering of SS in Jan, and for 1st time AS > SS even tho the AS increase was a moderate rise over avg of last 6 months

as the proverb goes, one bad month doesn't predict much of anything

IRL many other changes since last year high inflation, high gas prices, war in Ukraine,...

« Reply #407 on: February 03, 2023, 20:25 »
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Hi. I am new here. on the market for 4 months. I only send to 3 agencies. ss, adobe and gettyimage. in January a total of 50 sales and about 17 dollars. newbielink:https://www.shutterstock.com/pl/g/tastystyle [nonactive]

« Reply #408 on: February 04, 2023, 16:30 »
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As for shutterstock, it couldn't be worse!

« Reply #409 on: February 04, 2023, 17:27 »
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I am reading in a lot of places that Adobe had an usually good January, several producers reporting best January ever on Adobe.

Maybe the gen ai collection is bringing them a lot of attention and new customers.
Yep, same here. I had over 3 times as many DLs on SS than adobe but earnings on both were nearly the same. Best ever month on adobe. (with less than half the no. of photos in my port than SS)
« Last Edit: February 05, 2023, 02:09 by TonyD »

« Reply #410 on: February 06, 2023, 12:11 »
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I am reading in a lot of places that Adobe had an usually good January, several producers reporting best January ever on Adobe.

Maybe the gen ai collection is bringing them a lot of attention and new customers.

My January at AS was up 35% on the previous Jan. Nice start to the year.

Overall, 2022 was an extremely good year at AS. I hit 100k lifetime dls mid way through the year and ended up with near on 30k for the year which was a good step up from 2021. I have zero AI imagery...for now anyway.

I prefer quality over quantity these days but I do need to pull my finger out a bit more and increase the 19k port size a bit more than I did last year.

« Reply #411 on: February 06, 2023, 14:52 »
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I am reading in a lot of places that Adobe had an usually good January, several producers reporting best January ever on Adobe.

Maybe the gen ai collection is bringing them a lot of attention and new customers.

My January at AS was up 35% on the previous Jan. Nice start to the year.

Overall, 2022 was an extremely good year at AS. I hit 100k lifetime dls mid way through the year and ended up with near on 30k for the year which was a good step up from 2021. I have zero AI imagery...for now anyway.

I prefer quality over quantity these days but I do need to pull my finger out a bit more and increase the 19k port size a bit more than I did last year.


Congrats! Impressing stats!

« Reply #412 on: February 06, 2023, 14:58 »
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Very impressive results indeed. Just goes to show there's still plenty of money to be made in this provided got the right content and enough of it.

« Reply #413 on: February 09, 2023, 20:08 »
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How cool is Pond. How well, he sells:

« Reply #414 on: March 01, 2023, 01:47 »
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Two charts...


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« Reply #415 on: March 01, 2023, 09:23 »
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wds

« Reply #416 on: March 01, 2023, 12:16 »
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Two charts...

Is your port primarily video? Only curious because for stills I am seeing Adobe #1 iStock #2 and SS a close #3.


« Reply #417 on: March 01, 2023, 13:42 »
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Two charts...

Is your port primarily video? Only curious because for stills I am seeing Adobe #1 iStock #2 and SS a close #3.

Yes, the results for agencies would probably be in reverse if just still images

« Reply #418 on: March 02, 2023, 01:31 »
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Here's a link to my February earnings report:

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2023/03/01/february-2023-brutally-honest-earnings-report/

I've pretty well given up on the whole blue pill red pill sh-it from the so-called stock agencies.

I'm getting interviews for non teaching roles in schools where the pay is a lot better.

This microstock business is run by shysters for their own benefit.

« Reply #419 on: March 03, 2023, 19:34 »
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Good February for me.


« Reply #420 on: March 31, 2023, 22:14 »
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March 2023 was a very slow start for mine. Still, I ended up +18% over January though down -21% from February. As at end March 2023, my total earnings are 205% over the same three-month period for 2022 - due to a lot more uploading of video in the past 16 months. Two charts attached...     

« Reply #421 on: April 01, 2023, 13:19 »
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Average March for me:

« Reply #422 on: April 02, 2023, 16:34 »
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Wow.  March was the worst month on Shutterstock since the very first month I started, Jan 2014.

« Reply #423 on: April 03, 2023, 10:19 »
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Wow.  March was the worst month on Shutterstock since the very first month I started, Jan 2014.

So I dont have to feel bad they kicked me out

They are dropping for many people. Perhaps keeping a forum, positively interacting with producers and sensible royalties would have been better for their business.

Which producer is going to recommend clients to them?

But I am sure somebody brilliant will have the perfect solutioncut the royalties even more. 5 cents instead of 10 cents. Or 1 cent??

« Reply #424 on: April 03, 2023, 10:55 »
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Wow.  March was the worst month on Shutterstock since the very first month I started, Jan 2014.

So I dont have to feel bad they kicked me out

They are dropping for many people. Perhaps keeping a forum, positively interacting with producers and sensible royalties would have been better for their business.

Which producer is going to recommend clients to them?

But I am sure somebody brilliant will have the perfect solutioncut the royalties even more. 5 cents instead of 10 cents. Or 1 cent??

I suspect the next exciting news will be some sort of less than transparent revenue share scheme where SS gets more and we get less.


 

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