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Messages - bpawesome
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« on: July 17, 2024, 01:32 »
Tested the last upload theory by uploading a batch and stopping again, with instant results:
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« on: June 22, 2024, 04:07 »
1000 dollars a month with 2000 files from just one agency is amazing.
Have your niches perhaps gotten a huge amount of fresh competition, perhaps from ai mass content?
My sales keep going up, inspite of seasonal slowdowns. And I only started again in sept 22 after a 10 year break.
I sincerly doubt Adobe is out to get you personally.
Something has changed, you will need to analyse what the customers prefer to buy now.
Could also be related to a certain style, that is not as popular now.
I never said it was personal.. Style and themes are very generic, a lot of transport and industry related content, nothing special or too stylish I'm sure my content is good, it was very popular and sold well, it just stopped showing up in searches (not just adobe) What I mean by "scammed" is getting me to produce more content with lots of sales as incentive, and just drop my portfolio out of sight after a while I don't just make assumptions, I'm an experienced developer (20+ years) and had clients (diff industries) requesting this type of process on user generated content sites As you can see on my stats, sales went x2 down, hold steady (like you say yours portfolio is) for 6 months, and drop x2 more
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« on: June 21, 2024, 23:23 »
I'm glad you don't have the same issue (yet)
But, I won't be the only one, and here are some facts:
This is within 1 year (while adding new images daily)
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« on: June 21, 2024, 11:54 »
Downfall must be due to video sales falling because they started the cheap video subs. I don't see such a fall in photo sales. I'm making more money from photos ever on Adobe Stock due to adding thousands of AI generated photos. So, thanks Adobe Stock for accepting AI photos.
No, 95% of portfolio is images, 80% are AI, my downloads are down from 250+ to ~70 within few months
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« on: June 21, 2024, 02:59 »
Adobe Stock on the other hand is pretty much stable for me no matter if I upload or not.
It was the same for me, It's only a matter of time, unfortunately
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« on: June 21, 2024, 01:50 »
I have over 4k images on sale (3D + AI + some videos)
Adobe used to make $250 a week at ~2k images, I'm down to $40 a week now, with 4k+ images
I have to feed the beast daily because I'm sure that last upload date is part of the search algorithm, but even that doesn't help anymore...
It's not just adobe, sales down x5 on all sites I contribute to, this is a horrible waste of time
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« on: May 10, 2024, 02:32 »
Around 20k including a few thousand AI generated added last year. A one-man business.
I am seeing a lot of people copying my image titles and generating AI images that are very similar to mine. They don't even bother to change even one characted in the title.
Impressive, how long are you doing this? are you still uploading new content?
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« on: May 09, 2024, 12:10 »
I confirm, something strange is happening with Adobe this week. Sales are even worse than Easter week. Normally I have well over 200 downloads a day, today barely 100
Did you notice a sales drop from last year? I see a huge difference, and the last few weeks there is another ~20% drop in revenue...
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« on: May 02, 2024, 09:36 »
this is horrible to watch
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« on: May 01, 2024, 04:19 »
the countdown to extinction continues! 
so it would be a custom royalty of $0.31 but because of your tax deduction is $0,27.
My tax is 10%, so I don't know what it suppose to be anymore
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« on: April 30, 2024, 20:35 »
It's $0.27 now...
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« on: April 30, 2024, 10:51 »
Weekly and Lifetime positions are simply cached and are updated every hour
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« on: April 30, 2024, 02:48 »
In the last few days, half of my sales are at $0.28, something bad is going on
And it's not summer or winter or holidays like I see users say all the time, there is a real issue that is starting all over, not just Adobe
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« on: April 26, 2024, 12:35 »
It keeps going down, $0.28 now...
So it was a $0.32 sell - tax withholding = $0.28
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« on: April 26, 2024, 11:32 »
@bpawesome What is the image number? I'm not aware of any .28 royalties at this time.
-Mat Hayward
sent you in PM
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« on: April 26, 2024, 08:32 »
That's not good; I am puzzled that I've seen lots more of the $0.32 custom royalties, but nothing lower. I did note that today's royalty rate on the higher end custom royalties was up to $1.06 (from $1.05 for the last few days). Not back to the $1.37 from January, but still nice to see something going up instead of down 
Do you see any of the $1.06 custom royalties?
Mat Hayward had written that the royalty rates for the unlimited subscriptions were calculated daily based on total purchase volume - which I would have expected to be the same worldwide, but perhaps that's not the case. I'm in the US; are. you? (I know people had said this isn't a tax withholding issue).
Yes, I'm not in US, so it's still puzzling for me, because the last 2 days I'm getting custom $1.06 too...
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« on: April 26, 2024, 07:33 »
Are you doing some kind of countdown to extinction?
Just to show how fast royalties are dropping
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« on: April 25, 2024, 23:24 »
It keeps going down, $0.28 now...
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« on: April 24, 2024, 12:55 »
if your sales on Adobe are going down,and continue to go down for at least 2-3 months,then there are only 2 possible things you can do in my opinion:
1-give up.
2-radically change what you are doing,if you see that what you produce doesn't sell,change,not necessarily what was selling before,can continue to sell today or tomorrow.
I don't think that my content is the problem, I have best sellers that are the first result for very good keywords, the sales I had a year ago with half the content I have now did not double, so I don't see a point wasting more time in making more different content... What was selling will sale - that's true, I earn enough now, just don't see a way for effective growth with things the way they are...
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« on: April 24, 2024, 10:47 »
Don't be surprised if you see 0.29 or 0.32 on Adobe Stock,we have a large responsibility for this,it's your fault and mine too,because I still have other active ports,even if I no longer upload to any other agency except Adobe.
the race to the bottom is our responsibility.
every time you or I submit a photo for review on Istock,we agree to only get 15% of the sale,and we also agree that the content can be sold for 0,01
every time we send a video to SS for review we accept that it can be sold for 0.25
Adobe tries to do the best it can,find the right balance,and pay fair compensation to contributors,but there are limits,it must at the same time remain competitive with other large agencies.
think about this, the next time you submit content for review to SS or Istock,think that in that moment,when you press "submit" you are encouraging the race to the bottom!
I agree, that's why I said it can only get worse, and it's time for me to do something else... I just don't understand how can it be that stock sites don't have any regulation? These are huge sites that sell a lot, and pay % to contributors, nobody is looking if there are issues in between? I had issues with few large stock sites over the last year (I won't name them here yet), For example: I caught one large site adjusting my earnings, removing half of the sum without any explanation, and when I confront them, they just stop replying... Another just removing sales, they can do anything, you won't sue them, it's not worth it... I don't have a problem with Adobe, I can see a lot of effort from them, very professional in all aspects, but sales and earnings are going down fast on Adobe as well...
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« on: April 24, 2024, 08:51 »
So when there was no "AI Images" upload type yet, 123RF accepted AI Images as photos (last year)
I had over 1000 images accepted with all needed keywords and titles, marking them as AI.
They were selling ok, but, last month sales dropped 90% and Images were just deleted, not moved to AI images, deleted.
1000+ approved images removed from site without even saying anything, I have no words.
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« on: April 23, 2024, 01:01 »
how do you know what top 1000 makes? i can be ranked #1 when the rankings reset on monday with maybe 40 sales and earnings of $25. if i'm number 1 on sunday night that could be in the $1000s w/ a lot more downloads. people have been posting more/less random download and rankings screenshots from throughout the week, not comprehensive weekly earnings. not sure how much data you can get from that.
People were sharing weekly income and rankings, also I like tracking my sales and earnings, you can see a pattern of sales and can predict how the week will go after a while, it's not that complicated, there are no huge surprises, it's only a week... if you sell 50 on Monday, you will not get $1000 by the end of a week...
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« on: April 22, 2024, 12:37 »
a year ago the min price was .25 on adobe. the min on ss is and has been for a while .10. most sales that i'm seeing are at that .10 amount. min at istock is .01 and it's not uncommon to get sales below .10. adobe is the only agency that raised the floor in recent memory. i haven't seen sales below .33 and even if there is the odd one at .29 or .32 or whatever the RPD on adobe is considerably higher (for me at least) than any other agency. make of that what you will.
Never had a $0.25 on adobe, $0.29 is lowest ever and it started today, Shutterstock $0.10 is most common - yes, but I have $10-$50 sales and over time there is a balance I have extended license sales on adobe, and I make OK monthly income on all sites, don't get me wrong... But, I have set a portfolio size target with data I had and I've reached it, but earnings result is not even close, I don't see it getting better at this point, so my time will get a better return in other fields... I'm an experienced web developer (20+ years), and a relaxed day of freelance development is the same as a week of stock sales at this point, I did stock because I always loved design and 3D (and yes, even AI which is still magic to me) and took a few years to try it out, but I have to be realistic when I see that top 1000 rank on adobe makes what I made a year ago as 2000 rank, and you can't argue with that
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« on: April 22, 2024, 12:16 »
Sales as well, it's not just the royalty share that is goin down (it will never go up again)
It's not just adobe, I'm selling on 12 stock sites, it's going down all over the place, sites are closing, sales dropping all over
I now have enough sales data to see a clear picture (at least for my portfolio), it's just not going to get better, so only worse unfortunately.
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« on: April 22, 2024, 11:26 »
I've been selling stock images for about 2 years now, the real issue for me is I can clearly see it's slowing down a lot...
Last year I had half the images I have now, and I earned twice as much (at least).
After seeing the thread with ranks and earnings (and wishful thinking of many contributors), it's obvious there is no real future in stock.
Probably will have to let it be as it is, small passive income, and use my time for other ventures,
I really enjoyed the freedom and creative aspect of selling stock images, but it's clearly a dead end.
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