Quote from: SimonSays on September 11, 2025, 07:19

Quote from: danielvisuals on September 11, 2025, 01:39
I take considerable time to write individual titles and keywords.

Same here. Maybe that is also the best trick not to trigger these rejections.

i always submitted sequences with the same titles & captions, mostly w/o getting rejections as simitars - of thousands submitted, fewer than 100 so rejected

Quote from: cascoly on September 11, 2025, 19:29

Quote from: SimonSays on September 11, 2025, 07:19

Quote from: danielvisuals on September 11, 2025, 01:39
I take considerable time to write individual titles and keywords.

Same here. Maybe that is also the best trick not to trigger these rejections.

i always submitted sequences with the same titles & captions, mostly w/o getting rejections as simitars - of thousands submitted, fewer than 100 so rejected

What was will be no more

Well, then the mystery remains...

It could be due to the content type.

I'm getting no rejections for the type of content I submit.

Quote from: SimonSays on September 11, 2025, 20:39

Quote from: cascoly on September 11, 2025, 19:29

Quote from: SimonSays on September 11, 2025, 07:19

Quote from: danielvisuals on September 11, 2025, 01:39
I take considerable time to write individual titles and keywords.

Same here. Maybe that is also the best trick not to trigger these rejections.

i always submitted sequences with the same titles & captions, mostly w/o getting rejections as simitars - of thousands submitted, fewer than 100 so rejected

What was will be no more

not sure what you're saying - i dont get rejections for similars now

Quote from: danielvisuals on September 11, 2025, 23:28
Well, then the mystery remains...

It could be due to the content type.

I'm getting no rejections for the type of content I submit.

my bet's on rogue reviewers or perhaps an AI which just looks at color & disregards actual image

I'm having my best ranking in the last two years... I've surpassed the 2500th position. But my earnings are the same as when I was in the 3000-3500th position. (I only sell photos, no videos, no AI images—about 6,000 images).

So I assume Adobe is selling less, or the pie is being divided into increasingly smaller slices for each contributor 

Quote from: Bauman on September 23, 2025, 11:05
I'm having my best ranking in the last two years... I've surpassed the 2500th position. But my earnings are the same as when I was in the 3000-3500th position. (I only sell photos, no videos, no AI images—about 6,000 images).

So I assume Adobe is selling less, or the pie is being divided into increasingly smaller slices for each contributor 

I'm quite sure the ranking is purely sales volume. I just checked volume of sales for between the 1st Sept - 25th Sept for the last few years compared to this year for that same 3 week or so spell. I also only sell images and some footage, no AI.

2021 - 1003
2022 - 1808
2023 - 1804
2024 - 2212
2025 - 2140 (but still half a day left)

Earnings at Adobe are quite similar as well but sadly, exchange rates are down and the cost some companies charge to convert income has gone up. I really wish Adobe would allow to set up a transfer direct to your own bank who tend to be fairer in terms of fees!

Oh... and my weekly ranking which I keep a record of is pretty much as expected... within the same range.

My sales are picking up, but less than last year. We will see how October does. I have uploaded a lot less than in 2024, so my winter season will also be lower.

My last batches, all ai, had very mixed results, less too similar declines, more quality declines which I cannot figure out why.

I am mostly trying to process camera videos for Blackbox and all coming new projects are based around camera video. Some will go directly to agencies, but I am now aiming for 70% for blackbox, also because I want to do a lot more editorial content.

The lack of communication from Adobe is very frustrating.

Weekly rank is only based on volume of sales of the last 7 days.

So the video people make a lot more money at lower ranks.

Little uptick

Had a few video sales this week

Very nice to see your videos start to get downloads :-)

I am at 103dl this week and still no recover in sight, after my sales collapsed by 40-50% about 6 weeks ago.
I have no idea what happend, but for the last 6 weeks now sales dropped in the evening hours and on mondays...

Another uptick. Winter is coming.

What is strange is that I sell nearly zero Halloween images this year, last year it was around 5 a day. Also people sales have dropped a lot.

Evergreen things on white and often my old camera images are doing well.

There might have been an algo change favoring camera content over ai.

This week had several video sales and extended larger licenses so the money is good.

I hope your sales get back to normal. A 70k port should be always outselling me with only 8200 or our superhero with 447 files and sometimes 150 dl a week.

Quote from: MPfoto71 on October 10, 2025, 14:48
Very nice to see your videos start to get downloads :-)

I am at 103dl this week and still no recover in sight, after my sales collapsed by 40-50% about 6 weeks ago.
I have no idea what happend, but for the last 6 weeks now sales dropped in the evening hours and on mondays...

Yes, sadly my sales have been down about 50-60% the last couple months, doesn't really make any sense... other than perhaps I see now Cobalt has some more!

I have around 50% less sales than last year this time.

B ut sales always pick up in winter gbecause 40% of my content is for the winter season.

I uploadec 70% less than last year, so I guess I should be grateful.

a little drop

A little uptick.

sales are sad this week 

Quote from: pires128 on October 16, 2025, 12:44
sales are sad this week 

And this week too!

Quote from: alexandersr on October 22, 2025, 02:10

Quote from: pires128 on October 16, 2025, 12:44
sales are sad this week 

And this week too!

yeah, same here.

actually the number of downloads is almost the same as before. but the .38 sales increased A LOT

Same here - decent number of sales the last 3 weeks, but the last week the RPD dropped a lot. Somehow those .32 custom sales don't add up as fast.

Quote from: pancaketom on October 27, 2025, 16:27
Same here - decent number of sales the last 3 weeks, but the last week the RPD dropped a lot. Somehow those .32 custom sales don't add up as fast.

And this week too! This look like a loop for me!

Anyone else seeing an unusually high number of sales today? Normally I'd be happy about it, but on top of that I had 17 sales, all from what seems to be the same person($0.36 each, all at the same time). So instead of enjoying the sales, I'm now worrying because of all the posts here about accounts getting blocked.

Had a few good weeks and one of my highest ranks ever.

Quote from: cobalt on October 12, 2025, 07:42
a little drop

I still don't have a rank and my Position doesn't seem to have changed, even with many sales. I'm 27,800 lifetime. Maybe next year? I keep thinking that there have to be old dormant accounts and people who quit, and some day, I'll start to pass them? Maybe not.  My this week has become - - - for this week. I don't see that very often. A few more DLs and I'll have a number again. I'm just adding a comment for some diversion and humor.

Reminder that doing some testing with a group of people, sometimes the rank is the same, when they have different numbers of DLs. Sometimes the rank is different, when they have the same number of DLs. There's a bunch of doubt in my mind that this is anything reliable to be watched or trusted, because it doesn't have stability.

I think someone once answered, that the week, isn't "this week" it's some other week. Well then, why does, this week, reset on Sunday night?  I just can't trust or rely on unreliable data and reports, for telling me anything serious. For entertainment, sure thing. I see a number, that is irrelevant, but it keeps some people entertained, watching it.

One of the best weeks on Adobe.

Finally my position went below 3k. The amount of sales is not bad, but the RPD is weak. Even seeing 0.31$ sales lately.