Quote from: FHphotography on May 30, 2023, 13:08
My sales have gone down past 2 months . I feel like some of my port is like shut off. Maybe because of the buyout, they have shot off the selected pictures? I don`t know. And I keep uploading and uploading. Will see if this will change after the buyout. But truly sad, Adobe has done so well and have grown and now the drop.

Same. April and May is very strange months. It dropped a little bit, but there were some days when it looked my sales shuts down. Like one day I get 5 sales, next day 20 sales. In May I got 10proc less sales than April, and  35proc less sales than in March, but still I can't complain much, this year at Adobe is way better than previous ones.

My earnings are growing. Last year, my average monthly earnings from January - May were $138 ($97 same period in 2021). This year, $273, so double. I didn't upload much in between, maybe a few photos but I added PNG files, when they started accepting them. About 60 of them. RPD - who cares, even if it's lower (probably is), final amount is all that matters.

P.S. Go Adobe!

Edit: This month also being BME.

Very poor. Reached payout which has been allocated and they have for some reason left 0.01 cent in there 🤔 wierd. And looking through port pic positions there is the same old photo  sitting at page 1 ... position 19 I assume due to new content but it will spend ages in the No.1 spot page 1. It has done for over a year. Never sold lol. I wonder how it stays there never selling. And yet similar photos of mine have sold and aren't on page 1. Very very strange. So I'll sit and watch my 0.01 and wonder ....

Quote from: FHphotography on May 30, 2023, 13:08
My sales have gone down past 2 months . I feel like some of my port is like shut off. Maybe because of the buyout, they have shot off the selected pictures? I don`t know. And I keep uploading and uploading. Will see if this will change after the buyout. But truly sad, Adobe has done so well and have grown and now the drop.

How long are you Contributing at Adobe?

Quote from: Lowls on June 01, 2023, 09:46
...and they have for some reason left 0.01 cent in there 🤔 wierd. ....

I think this is a result of royalty amounts including fractions of a cent.

As an example, if your balance shows as $52.31 you may actually have a balance of $52.3144. You request payment, and as they can't pay you the fractions of a cent, you receive $52.31 and the remaining balance is shown as $0.01.

If there's any fraction of a cent left, your balance shows as one cent (I know rounding rules would operate differently). I've seen that in the past too.

If you want to know the real story you could write to contributor support

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on June 01, 2023, 13:36

Quote from: Lowls on June 01, 2023, 09:46
...and they have for some reason left 0.01 cent in there 🤔 wierd. ....

I think this is a result of royalty amounts including fractions of a cent.

As an example, if your balance shows as $52.31 you may actually have a balance of $52.3144. You request payment, and as they can't pay you the fractions of a cent, you receive $52.31 and the remaining balance is shown as $0.01.

If there's any fraction of a cent left, your balance shows as one cent (I know rounding rules would operate differently). I've seen that in the past too.

If you want to know the real story you could write to contributor support

I believe this explanation from @Joanne is exactly right.

-Mat

Quote from: Uncle Pete on May 30, 2023, 17:41

Quote from: Pacesetter on May 26, 2023, 23:09
Seems as if Adobe Stock is successfully gaining customers from other agencies. I cannot believe how dead Shutterstock went this past week (and Pond5 no better) and struggling for most of this month and yet Adobe Stock has been powering on. The attached from 26 May 2023 shows what you can earn in one day with a couple of decent video sales. I've also been reporting Adobe Stock was at the bottom of the four main agencies I contribute to for YTD earnings. Adobe has now passed ahead of Pond5 (YTD) and tracking to pass iStock - less iStock picks up.

What I always questioned was the SS earnings and stock reports to investors and the general consensus for the stock image market, how endless it was and how much potential for more customers and more earnings.

Yet as you suspect and I do as well, what we see is more of a shifting of the same buyers, from agency to agency. When IS was the top, there were all kinds of others, trying to gain their higher market share. SS started to get more buyers by offering different programs and ways to buy. IS dropped, SS went up. Now Adobe is growing and more interesting for people who use images and going up for us, while SS is going down.

I don't see the market as huge and open for growth as the people promoting Stock Image Sales want to have us believe. I'm not saying it's dead, but the overall growth has slowed. Now we're seeing buyers who are shopping for more than the best price and are looking for the best images and videos, for their needs.

I certainly don't want to deny that the market has slowed down,but as far as I'm concerned the only agency that seems to have pulled the handbrake is Istock which always continues to shoot in the same point,it looks like a video in a loop,SS and AS continue improve for me so far.

I would like to know something more about DT and DP,do I need to recover an old thread?I didn't find detailed threads about how it's going for you there,because I have thousands of contents to upload on DT for example and I don't know if I should waste time....is it a waste of time?

Quote from: Injustice for all on June 02, 2023, 01:43

I would like to know something more about DT and DP,do I need to recover an old thread?I didn't find detailed threads about how it's going for you there,because I have thousands of contents to upload on DT for example and I don't know if I should waste time....is it a waste of time?

I think it depends very much on your port. Both of them obviously aren't strong earners, you can tell that probably from the monthly poll.

For me Dreamstime has been performing pretty much without change since I started submitting there. I don't earn much there, but enough to add to a couple hundret $ a year and when you have embedded keywords into your files it's a nice (very) small extra money each year for pretty much no extra work.

Depositphotos on the other hand is surprising me lately. It started very slow, but now I have many sales each day (unfortunately all 0.27-0.37$). Still isn't much compared to the big agencies, but more than with DT and considering they have the easiest upload process of all agencies since they don't even have categories, so all you do is upload and hit submit, that's well worth it for me.

Of all the agencies I submit to Bigstock is really the only one that brings in so little revenue that it might not even be worth the little work it takes to submit photos there. I feel like this agency is pretty much dead. But the poll says it's doing better for most than for example DT and DP, which I find baffling, because I only make a tiny fraction of what I make in DT and DP on Bigstock.

Quote from: Firn on June 02, 2023, 06:33

Quote from: Injustice for all on June 02, 2023, 01:43

I would like to know something more about DT and DP,do I need to recover an old thread?I didn't find detailed threads about how it's going for you there,because I have thousands of contents to upload on DT for example and I don't know if I should waste time....is it a waste of time?

I think it depends very much on your port. Both of them obviously aren't strong earners, you can tell that probably from the monthly poll.

For me Dreamstime has been performing pretty much without change since I started submitting there. I don't earn much there, but enough to add to a couple hundret $ a year and when you have embedded keywords into your files it's a nice (very) small extra money each year for pretty much no extra work.

Depositphotos on the other hand is surprising me lately. It started very slow, but now I have many sales each day (unfortunately all 0.27-0.37$). Still isn't much compared to the big agencies, but more than with DT and considering they have the easiest upload process of all agencies since they don't even have categories, so all you do is upload and hit submit, that's well worth it for me.

Of all the agencies I submit to Bigstock is really the only one that brings in so little revenue that it might not even be worth the little work it takes to submit photos there. I feel like this agency is pretty much dead. But the poll says it's doing better for most than for example DT and DP, which I find baffling, because I only make a tiny fraction of what I make in DT and DP on Bigstock.

Ok i just plugged in my external hard drive and resume uploads to DT and DP,even just a couple of hundred dollars a year with the prices we have today in Europe are fine.
Yesterday I put 20 euros of fuel in my car and it still shows red in reserve,I don't know whether to laugh or cry about it!
Yes I abandoned too BS,is completely dead for me too maybe one or 2 sales per month with 2000 contents I have there.

Thank you Firn!

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on June 01, 2023, 13:36

Quote from: Lowls on June 01, 2023, 09:46
...and they have for some reason left 0.01 cent in there 🤔 wierd. ....

I think this is a result of royalty amounts including fractions of a cent.

As an example, if your balance shows as $52.31 you may actually have a balance of $52.3144. You request payment, and as they can't pay you the fractions of a cent, you receive $52.31 and the remaining balance is shown as $0.01.

If there's any fraction of a cent left, your balance shows as one cent (I know rounding rules would operate differently). I've seen that in the past too.

If you want to know the real story you could write to contributor support

Thank you for that explanation Jo makes perfect sense. Thanks also Matt for confirming.

...something had happened with AS internally - now it is clearly the number 2, although for last few years AS was strong number 1...
I have noticed a lot of "custom" downloads for as little as $0.38, and $1.0, in the past custom downloads were always higher priced, $2-3 and more... This explains the drop in revenue by about 30%... I am very sad...

My sales dropped to 30% on the month of May, it also happened last year and it came back up in a few months but not as high as I was beginning to upload, the thing is the pattern is always on the month of May,
Did someone experience it too?