I got invited to submit videos with audio.
46 assets(each 10-30 seconds) per submission.
Audio corresponding to action, and no background noise.
Directional microphone.
69 USD per submission.

I think the requirements are too high for that pay. It will be a lot of work, and I normally don't submit video.

Sales numbers have been slowly declining for years, but so has my uploads.

This month something unusually has happened: I have had two large(more than 20$) SOD's and one large EL.

Normally there is 3-4 months between one of those. Of course it's a coincidence, but still feels good.

I had such a request once.

I enabled the license, and nothing more happened.

I first got an invite to do 10 outdoor layered object sets in march at 3 USD each. I did the 10 sets, and all were accepted.

Then in april I got an invite to do 50 indoor layered object sets with 5 objects, 50 outdoor layered objects with minimum 1 object, 50 people objects and 50 animal objects. I think the pay was something like 4 USD for the indoor sets, 3 for the outdoor sets and 2 for the people and animal sets.

I figured there was too much work for the money with the indoor objects sets, with 6 images en each set, but I tried the outdoor objects again, and did 10 sets, which took about 2 hours all included. I would have done more, but ran out of time.

I haven't been invited since.

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on January 17, 2025, 00:29
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For a number of years - since 2018, and then you only needed one approved upload - contributors who sell a reasonable volume of licenses get the additional compensation of an Adobe Subscription. And the low end of the sales required is still extremely small compared to prior years.
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In the beginning the bonus was based only on numbers of approved assets, and the first time it was 300. I don't remember if it was in 2018 or 2019, but that info can probably be found by looking back in this forum.

It would have been nice to know beforehand that the requirements for new approved assets was changed to 150. I could have made it, if I had known.

The first year it was announced several months before. And at that time I think the requirement was 300 or 350 new assets.

Within the last year, my highest photo sale has been 26.40, and highest footage sale 22.40.

But sales in that price range are rare. They used to be more common.

100% of my nominated was accepted. Which was 1 

Quote from: DaLiu on November 05, 2024, 16:00
New dataset earnings today again, we had one last month as well.

Same here. And even more than last month.
Dataset earnings pay much more than regular sales.

Quote from: Micha91 on August 19, 2024, 14:54
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Does anyone else have a similar experience? It breaks my heart to see how my once-favorite stock photo site is hitting rock bottom.

Same here.
My earnings on Depositphotos is twice that of Shutterstock this month. And it's not because Depositphotos is better than normal.

Shutterstock used to be at least 10 times better than Depositphotos.

For the moment, it might be worth to wait and see what the newly annouced Windows PC's with Snapdragon X Elite processor can deliver in performance. They seem to be reasonable priced.

I have not seen any independent benchmarks about photo or video editing yet.

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Quote from: Jens G on February 19, 2024, 20:59
I have just been in contact with Adobe support about the double plans.
The solution in my case ended up with canceling my paid plan, and keeping the redemption plan, which then got some extra days added for the days I lost on the paid plan.

I have the same problem with the double plan - both are called "Foto Abo (20GB)" here in Germany
-> one has 21 items
-> other hast 29 items

Tried to reach the support via phone and chatbot (btw. the chatbot in german is not working at all)
-> on phone the automatic voice said after about 1min of talking and asking: "There is a problem with the phone lines - beep beep beep"
(Btw. could not find any support email adress on the support center page in german)

I guess I will have to use the same solution as Jens - cancel the paid plan before the next payment and use the other plan, that should work hopefully.

I had the same number of items on both, but they could of course still be diffferent.

Support in danish was also off-line, but I chose the english.
After a few initial questions and answers with the bot, I got connected to a human supporter.
And it was this supporter that did the work with canceling the paid plan and extending the redeemed plan with the lost number of days.

Don't cancel your paid plan yourself. You risk having to pay for the remaining time of the year plan.

BTW, for the new plan there is a button for entering a new code next year 

I have just been in contact with Adobe support about the double plans.

The solution in my case ended up with canceling my paid plan, and keeping the redemption plan, which then got some extra days added for the days I lost on the paid plan.

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Quote from: Luuk on February 19, 2024, 13:39
Thank you Mat,

As I got all the creative apps I have a question:

I already have a subscription for photoshop and lightroom on the same account, will this payment stop automatically or do I have to cancel this subscription?

This question has been asked in a couple of different ways here and the answer applies to all. If the subscription you currently have is EXACTLY the same as the new subscription provided with the bonus code, then you can redeem the bonus code and the expiration date will simply extend by 1 year.

If however, the subscription you have is different in any way (such as the amount of cloud storage included) then redeeming the bonus code will open a new subscription running in parallel with the old one. You need to cancel the old subscription or you will continue to pay for it.

As many of you have discovered, the codes are applied to the contributor portal for those who have qualified. Thank you to everyone for your active contribution and helping to make Adobe Stock what it is. We are truly grateful to you for your efforts and hope you enjoy the year of Creative Cloud!

As always, stay creative!

Mat Hayward

Mat,

Based on my experience, it can be tricky. I thought my current plan was the "generic photography plan". However, I did run into the parallel subscription issue. I think what may have happened is that the "generic photography plan" of a year ago is not exactly the same as the "generic photography plan" of today....so I ended up with a parallel subscription.

OK, thanks for the report. I'll look into this and share what I find out. It's possible there is a change I'm not aware of. Can anyone else confirm they redeemed a code for EXACTLY the same plan but instead of extending the expiration, a different subscription opened in addition to the existing sub?

Thanks again,

Mat

I am seeing more reports of new subscriptions being added instead of extending existing subs. Since it's a holiday in the US, many folks are off today. If you haven't already redeemed your code, and you have an active subscription. I recommened holding off until I can confirm whether there is an issue or not.

Thanks for your patience,

Mat Hayward

I wish I had seen this post before I redeemed the code.
Hopefully it will soon be sortet out, also for those of us who now have two subscriptions.

But apart from that, it's great to get the bonus again 

Quote from: Injustice for all on September 29, 2023, 19:41
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Mat,I'm interested in knowing,if possible,if every real environment can be considered a topic,for example bananas in a basket in the middle of the grass,or bananas hanging on a wall are okay?
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Just be careful with the banana on a wall, since this has already been made as expensive art 
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/08/arts/design/banana-removed-art-basel.html

If your GPU is very old, it might not be compatible with PS.

I had that problem with my laptop, but I found a way to force PS to use it anyway.

You can try to making a .txt file called PSUserConfig.txt, containing the following:

# Force GPU On
GPUForce 1

And save it in [Installation Drive]:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\[Photoshop_version]\[Photoshop_version]Settings\

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/enable-optional-extensions-photoshop-cc.html

Quote from: blvdone on August 26, 2023, 14:14
As I was looking through all those AI generated stock photos, I realized 70-80% of stock photos as we know can be generated by AI.  So, why bother to shoot stock photos anymore unless it's editorial news photos, I thought.  It's over for real camera shooters.  AI generators don't have to hire models, travel to locations and setup lightings.  Can't compete against those.

And further, why would anyone buy an AI generated stock image, when they could just as well have their own unique image AI generated?

Quote from: blvdone on August 26, 2023, 13:34
Found another Apple logo.

https://stock.adobe.com/images/a-young-dark-skinned-man-wearing-on-ear-headphones-and-watching-or-reading-some-content-on-a-laptop-indoors-modern-sleek-interior/631181138?prev_url=detail

https://stock.adobe.com/contributor/208063215/romana?load_type=author&prev_url=detail

Adobe should pay me doing their job.  lol

I looked at the contributor portfolio, and wonder what the logo in lower right corner of this image is?
https://stock.adobe.com/images/a-mature-grown-up-male-adult-with-silver-hair-and-beard-wearing-on-ear-headphones-and-watching-or-reading-some-content-on-a-laptop-indoors-modern-sleek-interior/631181404?prev_url=detail

I just noticed that I have not had any OD sales since the middle of May. About 5% of my sales used to be OD's, but now there are none.

Have others noticed the same trend?

Quote from: Unamas on July 14, 2023, 22:35
The Microstock Agencies could start pruning the unused content: If you photo was not sold during last year, it will be deleted.

I recently had a first time sale at SS of a file that was uploaded in 2018.
It brought me $52, which I wouldn't have had, if the file had been deleted.

I have more downloads now on AS than SS, but since I never have big EL's or SOD's on AS, SS still wins on earnings most months.

I got tired of seing regular sales disappear, and replaced by 0.03$ sales, so I deleted all my files.
Then I wrote 123RF:

"Dear 123RF. I have had it with the Download Pack earnings, so please close my contributor account. I have already deleted all my files."

The next day I got this answer:

QuoteHi there,
Thank you for your email.

As part of our Termination procedure, kindly send us an email clearly stating the following information:

Your Full Name.
Your 123RF Username.
Reason for account termination.
And that you request and authorize us to remove your profile from 123rf.com and delete all your content with us.
​That you wish to terminate the 123RF Contributor Agreement and agree to the Terms and Conditions as set in the Contributor Agreement for the termination process.
​Do include all the above five points in your reply.
Please also note that your balance earnings will be forfeited based on our agreement policy which you have accepted during the account registration.  AGREEMENT

We thank you for your time with us and we wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors.

I replied with all the information they requested, and got a confirmation back the same day, that my account was terminated.

So for me it took two days to close the account. May 28 - 29.

Almost a year after I asked Wirestock to terminate my account, and six months after they had confirmed that all files had been removed, I started uploading the files I had there to my own SS account.

But then I got a couple of rejects, because the content had priviously been submitted, and I found that they were still present as Wirestock files.

According to Wirestock, all my files had been removed long ago, so it appears that their system doesn't keep a 100% track of the files. I sent them links to the two files, and they removed them immediately.

Hopefully I don't get more rejects for previously submitted content.

Quote from: cascoly on February 25, 2023, 18:56

Quote from: Jens G on February 24, 2023, 12:57
Yesterday I decided to apply for a Payoneer account, and was quickly approved.

But I managed to get it blocked at first log in.

The code, that was supposed to come at my phone, didn't arrive.
I tried resend a couple of times, and when it finally came, I got a message that it had taken too long, when I entered it(it was only a few seconds after it arrived). On next attempt, I got a message that I had entered a wrong code too many times(I had only entered a code once), and that my account was blocked.

I have not been able to find a way to contact Payoneer about the blocked account, so I guess that's it for me with Payoneer.

have you tried using a different email?

It would of course be an option to close the account I just made, and make a new with a different email address. But getting blocked because their system didn't work right, and not being able to contact them about it as a first impression, tells me that Payoneer is not for me. I would be afraid that it could happen again.

Yesterday I decided to apply for a Payoneer account, and was quickly approved.

But I managed to get it blocked at first log in.

The code, that was supposed to come at my phone, didn't arrive.
I tried resend a couple of times, and when it finally came, I got a message that it had taken too long, when I entered it(it was only a few seconds after it arrived). On next attempt, I got a message that I had entered a wrong code too many times(I had only entered a code once), and that my account was blocked.

I have not been able to find a way to contact Payoneer about the blocked account, so I guess that's it for me with Payoneer.