...it is becoming annoying, so often the contributor's site is down, while the sell's site is running smoothly... from a distance one can say - contributors are less important for SS now than buyers...

...same by me...
if it is not a bug, then it might be only digital data licenses for AI generated content, - reference images...

...if you look at the SS stock price, it lost almost 50% over this summer, it may explain current situation, no payments for August yet, the contributor's site is down... SS might have problem to pay its debts... I hope not!!! Its performance over summer was not so bad...

Quote from: cascoly on June 09, 2023, 19:00

Quote from: hiker on June 09, 2023, 11:00
...I just wonder is micro-Stock Industry going to adjust its business to the current inflation rate, sharp rise of almost all prices, content production costs, costs of living their contributors and everyone else? -... I think the time has come now to rise prices for digital content for end-customers in the whole market, be that subscription-based or direct single purchases... in order to survive the industry as it is... Everything else on this planet is getting pricier and pricier every day, - only digital content is on its way to become cheaper and cheaper, heading towards an almost-free-of-costs product...

not true for many industries - costs for solar &H wind prices have declined so quickly that they are now often cheaper than fossil fuels. electric cars prices have not matched inflation and have even come down in some cases

phone costs & internet costs are much cheaper than 10 yrs go and same for many other internet related industries where competition moves prices down.  ms stock prices are < 1% of what they were with film stock and have dropped as competition AND volume have increased. it's always better to be a mimddle man than the low level producer (ask any farmer) not great for contributors but a fact of life in a capitalist world that has always undervalued intellectual endeavors

...internet/phone costs (2010) ~60-70 euro, now ~40-50 euro.. common, it is not serious!!!
More important and bolder are living costs, travel costs, insurances, equipment costs, rent costs... etc + who work with models, models costs too...

Quote from: Uncle Pete on June 09, 2023, 18:13
1 Euro = 1.07 US Dollar

Waiting for the Euro to go below $1 and ask the people who complained about their losses in the one payment currency for all system. What currency do you like now?

LOL 

The pound looks pretty good! I remember when it was even better.

...€/$ now isnt so bad (1.07), in 2008 was ~1.5, for every 1$ I earned in stocks, I had got only 0.5 euro... and just last Fall, it was 1:1...
...the more dramatic effect is steady state increase in all bills beginning from pandemic year 2020... LOL

Quote from: eliaspraciano on June 09, 2023, 11:30
Wouldn't microstock be wiped out by AI?

...AI can not fake all photography topics! - editorial, travel, landscape, nature photography are pretty safe, I am sure!!!

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...I just wonder is micro-Stock Industry going to adjust its business to the current inflation rate, sharp rise of almost all prices, content production costs, costs of living their contributors and everyone else? - I think if they continue de-value contributors' work at such pace and in such economical situation, the industry may end up badly pretty soon... I think the time has come now to rise prices for digital content for end-customers in the whole market, be that subscription-based or direct single purchases... in order to survive the industry as it is... Everything else on this planet is getting pricier and pricier every day, - only digital content is on its way to become cheaper and cheaper, heading towards an almost-free-of-costs product...

...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...

OK, now I understood the problem! The window for free-collection selection is already closed, it was very short, ~2 weeks...
I did not do any actions, because I did not know about it, was no any announcements, no emails...
There is an option "eligible" available in my dashboard, I have now no idea whether my eligible files were/are considered for Adobe's review or not...
In any case, I am fine... if now no files are in the free collection, they will generate over the year I am sure at least the same amount if not more in revenue... But in general, I am confused, last year was everything more clear done...

Quote from: spike on July 10, 2022, 00:36

Quote from: hiker on July 09, 2022, 21:09
...sorry, but authors do not nominate the files by themselves, Adobe does... we just approve or disapprove... My problem is I can't remove any files from this eligible free collection... Last year it was possible, now not!!!

They tell us which files are eligible for us to nominate them. We nominate from that selection and then they approve our nominated files or not.


"Eligible for free" only means that you may (or may not) nominate those files. If you don't nominate them, they remain "eligible", but they are not considered by Adobe.

...no, last year was done differently, - Adobe first picks up eligible files and marks them eligible, then the contributor has to remove if he/she wants certain files out from this selection (there was only one action available for contributor to remove a file if any, I removed just a couple), then Adobe reviews the eligible collection and selects only a few, the best ones... In my case, last year, Adobe picked up only about 100 files from a few thousands, a ratio was 1:20 I guess... So, now, my problem is that I can not anymore remove any files from the eligible collection, there is no such action available... I think it is a bug... and that was and still is my question to Mat!

Quote from: spike on July 09, 2022, 18:53

Quote from: hiker on July 04, 2022, 10:49
Hi Mat!!!

Just a few comments:

1) I still haven't received a confirmation email for free collection nominees, although, in my portfolio, I see a huge number of files eligible for the free collection;

Same.

With the addition that I nominated the files, but so far none seem to be selected, in stark difference to the year before. Also no confirmation email. Hm.

...sorry, but authors do not nominate the files by themselves, Adobe does... we just approve or disapprove... My problem is I can't remove any files from this eligible free collection... Last year it was possible, now not!!!

Hi Mat!!!

Just a few comments:

1) I still haven't received a confirmation email for free collection nominees, although, in my portfolio, I see a huge number of files eligible for the free collection;

2) There is no way I can remove a file from selected eligible collection nominees at my Dashboard, - is this a bug?

Many thanks!

...if I were a CEO of Adobe Inc, I would do the following: 1) if Adobe's sell department reports me an unreasonable but sensitive sell drop in stock content, I would call off the program "free-content"... 2) if the program "free-content" does not increase new subscribers above what Adobe usually has, I would call off the program...