Quote from: cobalt on October 14, 2024, 14:54
Fantastic result, congrats!

My goal was to reach around 200 files a week by mid October. Didn't quite make it, last week was 167 downloads.

Sunday was unusual with 12 downloads.

Moved up a bit again.

pos 2920, 6470 files

By end of October I hope to reach 230-250 downloads a week. Let's see if that works. Overall I hope to again double of what I earned last year this month. However at the moment I am on track to earn around 50% more. So there needs to be quite an uptake in the next 2 weeks.

nice, cobalt!

more files, more profit!

some ppl say it is not true, but it think "hey, if i never uploaded it, i'd never sold it"

Quote from: pires128 on October 14, 2024, 14:03
took 3 days off to travel from friday to sunday. this monday morning when i came back and checked last week results, i saw my portfolio on my best weekly rank ever! super happy.

(screenshot from monday 9am)

edit:
last week data
$ 138,71 | DL 219

Congrats!!  I'm happy when my fellow contributors are happy!!

I don't understand what is going on...

18.850...

Quote from: Sebastian Radu on October 15, 2024, 07:24
I don't understand what is going on...

18.850...

The number is relative to how many downloads anyone else gets. It means that 18,849 people had more DLs than you did. Just for the absurd, if you had 100 and 18,849 have 101, that's where you are. Of course it's not that close, but still, it's downloads, not income. At least that's what we have been told. No one seems to say anything except, "my rank is..." no one says where that position number actually comes from or how?

I just dropped 2,000 places since yesterday. If I cared and watched closer, I could get 3 DLs at the start of the week, and jump up, 10,000 places.

Best to you and I hope your earnings make a comeback.

I am getting there, already 70 downloads for the week. much better.

pos 2710, files 6500

I seriously think something weird is going on..

That is a normal fluctuation. To get a really stable rank you need a much larger port with very varied content and a much higher base download level.

Quote from: cobalt on October 17, 2024, 09:10
That is a normal fluctuation. To get a really stable rank you need a much larger port with very varied content and a much higher base download level.

Hi Cobalt,

I have never had such fluctuations.

Really???

Did you change something in your uploads? more, less? different content? Is there suddenly new and maybe better competition?

I have always had strong fluctuations.

But I also have very seasonal content, so it can rise very, very abruptly and then crashes right back down after the holiday.

Having low fluctuations is a personal dream.

Yesterday I had an unusually good day with 61 dl on Adobe. That is more than double  my usual sales on a workday. Today I am back down to 25.

Maybe it was a "use your credits or lose them day" or something like that. Thankfully a wide variety of buyers, not one large download, so I am not scared.

It was a lot of fun.

It also pushed my rank up a lot, but it will drop again tomorrow.

Quote from: Sebastian Radu on October 13, 2024, 11:18
Very disappointed...

13.10.2023 - 9.697 files (this week position) 2.890 / (life time position) 11.500
13.10.2024 - 11.817 files (this week position) 16.350 / (life time position) 10.200


And sales have also fallen continuously.

Is it possible that you had several bestsellers that were featured somewhere and then taken down, to be replaced with newer content?

That's what happened to me (I think) when I went from 800 to 7,000

Quote from: Sebastian Radu on October 13, 2024, 11:18
Very disappointed...

13.10.2023 - 9.697 files (this week position) 2.890 / (life time position) 11.500
13.10.2024 - 11.817 files (this week position) 16.350 / (life time position) 10.200


And sales have also fallen continuously.

sorry to see that it's happening to you.
Is it possible that you had several bestsellers that were featured somewhere and then taken down, to be replaced with newer content?

Yes, his case is really weird. He continued uploading so that his bestsellers got killed off seems like the only explanation.

Or maybe a lot of duplicates of his best files have been upoaded?

There must be a reason, it is not normal to see something like this.

I am perhaps lucky that I don't have that many individual bestsellers, my port seems to be diversifiying. Lots of files that sell maybe 20 times a year instead of a few files that sell 200 times.

I hope that trend continues. It would ring so much more stability to my port.

Winter is coming, no complaints

What is very good is that I am seeing a huge variety of images selling a few times, instead of 99% nothing and a few bestsellers that carry all the weight.

I hope it stays like this. My ideal port would be maybe 20k files, with 2000 files getting 10-20 downloads a year and the rest is the add on or maybe seasonal stuff. Or they become active during a file rotation when the algos change.

My bestsellers from last winter season are starting to sell, but it is too early to see if it is less than last year.

pos 1960, files 6530

week ended for me like this

Very impressive, well done!

eta

looks like there has been a great algo shake up, all my test searches look very different.

I'm sliding deeper in to nowhere.

You are right, bestsellers don't sell as well as before, and various images get just a dribble of sales.
That scenario is not for me, since I put too much work in each image and have a small port. What I sell is ideas that do take time to develop. It's unfortunate, I can't do speed and numbers.

Very sorry to read that.

I dropped a little but have a similar rank.

There seems to a big push for unsold files, yesterday 12 files had their first ever sale. And a wild mix of genres, lots of non seasonal people, food, isolated objects or people and even illustration. A few seasonal files as well.

If my portfolio becomes less reliant on bestsellers but has a much wider mix of sales, for me this would be very good.

But it must be very hard if you spend several days on just one file and that file dies abruptly during an algo rotation.

Have you considered adding some other content alongside the very high quality one?

For me objects or people on white or as a png always seem to sell. Doesn't seem to matter what it is, flowers, leaves, food, nails, people, post it notes, although a lot of material already exists, there is always a chance somebody likes your particular file.

Or maybe add more video?

There is very little competition in video, only 60 million files.

If what you are doing now is not really working, please consider a new or more diverse approach.

Adobe is a growing business, they keep adding new clients every year. So this means we have a good chance of selling for many years to come.


Can your conceptual vision be translated into videos or photos that might be quicker to produce? Or ai?

Quote from: Mifornia on October 17, 2024, 20:52

Quote from: Sebastian Radu on October 13, 2024, 11:18
Very disappointed...

13.10.2023 - 9.697 files (this week position) 2.890 / (life time position) 11.500
13.10.2024 - 11.817 files (this week position) 16.350 / (life time position) 10.200


And sales have also fallen continuously.

sorry to see that it's happening to you.
Is it possible that you had several bestsellers that were featured somewhere and then taken down, to be replaced with newer content?

I have no idea what is happening 
But I can definitely say that sales have dropped drastically. 

There must be a reason. You have a very large port and you where uploading.

I wonder is your port only real photography, no ai?

Could it be that real images are being punished while ai is preferred?

Maybe even by customers who prefer to search within ai only?

Or have you considered adding a few thousands isolated objects/people?

For me these files give good stabilty because something always sells.

Assessing the visual appeal of real/AI-generated food images.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095032932400051X

The article seems to compare food snapshots with ai, not high quality food photography from a specialist.

Most commercial marketing images are highly processed with photoshop, nothing is "real".

Same for people, landscape nature, real estate etc...anything commercial for advertising is basically often just as fake as ai.

Moving up again, slight improvement to pos 1820, 6600 files

Yesterday again I had several first time sales. I hope these files now become regular sellers or t least 5 times a year.

Again a very wide style of genres selling including summer  files. I have to do more for the early buyers and really upload more around 9 months before the event.

Bestsellers from last year this time also selling but in lower volume. But if the algos can distribute my sales more widely I will be grateful.

It will lower the copy cat risk drastically if I mostly have files that sell a few times a year and also maybe need 18 months to start selling. It will not be so easy to steal concepts and ideas if it is all spread out.

I hope this week is better for those that were dropping. October November are usually good months.

Quote from: cobalt on October 23, 2024, 11:07
Moving up again, slight improvement to pos 1820, 6600 files

nice to see you moving up, cobalt!

meanwhile i'm 'moving down', just a bit (was 1270 last week)

fun fact is: i'm in a higher rank than you, but i have less downloads than you, lol.

this only makes me thing that is true that the weekly rank in based in the last 7 days (when i was having an average 60-70 daily downloads last week, and now i'm back to 'normal' download average of 40-50 in this week)

Quote from: pires128 on October 23, 2024, 11:54

Quote from: cobalt on October 23, 2024, 11:07
Moving up again, slight improvement to pos 1820, 6600 files

nice to see you moving up, cobalt!

meanwhile i'm 'moving down', just a bit (was 1270 last week)

fun fact is: i'm in a higher rank than you, but i have less downloads than you, lol.

this only makes me thing that is true that the weekly rank in based in the last 7 days (when i was having an average 60-70 daily downloads last week, and now i'm back to 'normal' download average of 40-50 in this week)

forgot to attach the screenshot in last post..