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« on: June 22, 2024, 07:13 »
Yesterday, I only made 10 cents on a Friday. Wow. This never happened on a weekday. I want to be making $300/hr of work like some guys do on Shutterstock. I think many Shutterstock subscribers left and joined Adobe Stock subscription for much larger collection of AI generated photos.
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« on: June 22, 2024, 07:08 »
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)
If you can post a link to your portfolio, we may have better idea why your sales tanked. My portfolio is https://stock.adobe.com/search?creator_id=203855208
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« on: June 22, 2024, 07:00 »
That week I had about $200 in sales. Around 12,000 images in portfolio. Only $1/wk for 4,000 assets is pretty bad honestly. If you can post your portfolio, I can give you an advice. My portfolio is below. https://stock.adobe.com/search?creator_id=203855208
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« on: June 21, 2024, 18:07 »
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
$250/week with just 2,000 images is awesome. I can't understand why you fell like that extreme way. Very unusual.
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« on: June 21, 2024, 18:03 »
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
Wow, that's strange. My sales are consistent. Maybe you were scammed for some reason, but I'm not scammed.
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« on: June 21, 2024, 10:55 »
Must be a slow week for everybody. Average downloads, lower revenue, but higher ranking. I'm happy about the ranking at least.
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« on: June 21, 2024, 10:48 »
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.
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« on: June 20, 2024, 10:10 »
Interesting. This month is on its way to the lowest download this year, but the highest revenue due to several higher price sales. Maybe SS realized el cheapo isn't the way to go to maximize corporate profit. RPD is higher on SS than Adobe Stock this month so far. Adobe Stock RPD is $0.80.
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« on: June 20, 2024, 10:03 »
There can only be one copyright owner of a photo. Multiple people can't resell if they are not copyright owners.
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« on: June 17, 2024, 08:59 »
Yes, you can. Just don't upload to anywhere else. You still get the same % as everybody else. They will not penalize you for not uploading to anywhere else.
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« on: June 16, 2024, 12:53 »
Turned out to be a solid week. Nobody really believe you till you post the screenshot of your stats. 
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« on: May 31, 2024, 15:33 »
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« on: May 31, 2024, 07:59 »
I totally agree, this is a scam
So, I made it to $100 and cashed out for good. Now I want to close my account, but Dreamstime won't close account unless you delete your photos/videos one by one by yourself. They know exactly what they're doing. They want to keep whatever less than $100 sales left in your account multiplied by thousands of contributors. I'm deleting my bestselling photos first, but it takes ridiculous amount of time to delete hundreds of files one by one. Dreamstime is disgusting. Shame on them. I call it Nightmaretime now. 
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« on: May 23, 2024, 09:49 »
Just cracked the 1,000th!! Crack isn''t Wack!!
I used to be at around 1,600th before I started adding AI images last September. So, since then, my ranking is up about 400-600 and my revenue is up about 80%.
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« on: May 22, 2024, 21:21 »
Just opted in all 1,000 photos they chose. I hope it'll be a $5,000 payday soon.
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« on: May 22, 2024, 21:16 »
SS is going stronger than ever. I make $300/hr on SS. Just kidding. I only sell photos on SS just like on Adobe Stock btw. No video sub for me.
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« on: May 22, 2024, 21:12 »
"If you're the owner of this website:
It appears that the SSL configuration used is not compatible with Cloudflare. This could happen for a several reasons, including no shared cipher suites."
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« on: May 22, 2024, 06:08 »
My guess is this site changed to cheap web hosting server to save money. Cheap servers often have this problem.
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« on: May 21, 2024, 08:39 »
Woke up and found myself right at 1,000th this morning. Nice!! Didn't have a good sales day yesterday, but maybe everybody had a slow day yesterday thus higher ranking than usual.
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« on: May 21, 2024, 08:37 »
don't worry about my job,think about yours!
Yes, I'll do so. Thank you!!
I'm sorry if I seemed a little aggressive to you,but you too were not very nice!
You see I don't waste time with conspiracy theories,I know what it is for me and how things work for me.
for others like you it is different,and this depends on many factors,and so you can't understand my point of view for some things,it's normal.
However,nothing serious happened! 
Sorry, but I was trying to steer you toward more winning formula/attitude/approach. Didn't mean to offend you. But your sales are consistent. So, that's great for you!!
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« on: May 20, 2024, 17:32 »
don't worry about my job,think about yours!
Yes, I'll do so. Thank you!!
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« on: May 19, 2024, 21:52 »
Obviously I don't know how the Adobe algorithm works, but I sincerely doubt there is a particularly large effect (or any) on how long you have been a contributor. I also don't think that there is some sort of set limit to how much you will sell - although that has been alleged for various agencies by a number of people over the years.
Produce content that is needed without a lot of competition and you will do well. Until it is copied or they switch the algorithm to push other content (newer, bigger images, AI, local, whatever) and then you won't do as well. Also as the price per image drops - either through price cuts or various custom deals or subs plans you will make less per sale. That is the true effect of time on microstock, not some magical constant certainty over time.
Yes, you can still make decent money with good smart work, but you could probably make more with that same good smart work in some other fashion.
This week my sales, $, and position are all below what they have been recently although I did have a few sales of recently uploaded images, which is nice.
Of course we're here to chat and try to understand something more together,I'm not an expert on how Adobe's sales system works.
But,how do you explain that I just need to look at how many sales I made last year and I already know how many sales I'll make?
on April 1st I already knew exactly the number of sales I would have on April 30th,how do you explain it?Am I a magician?
no,it's more likely that I simply sold the number I had to sell.
therefore there is an established limit within which I can stay within this period of time,and at a certain point,in a month,perhaps two,I will be able to take that extra step and my "range of action" begins to oscillate between values taller.
another example?
you could sell much more if tomorrow Adobe's contributors suddenly become only 1000,do you agree with me?
If Yes,you agree with me,it means that is because Adobe's sales system will be able to give you a wider "range of action" because there are few contributors to manage,and your content is shown with virtually every request,if you have in your portfolio.
If No,you dont agree then it means that our opinions differ on this point.
What matters in my opinion is what you have to sell,how much you have to sell,and how LONG you have had it for sale.
now,why is the time you have been a contributor important?because you have more content on sale for longer,and it gives you more visibility in general.
you gain visibility over time,over time ours contents are shown more,and therefore time is a fundamental factor in microstock.
then aside from these obvious reasons,I believe there is also a "step" in the Adobe sales system algorithm,specific to the time an account was opened and/or the number of sales made,but this last part is just my personal opinion.
I think you're just wasting your time believing in some unsubstantiated conspiracy theory. Instead, I would just keep making images/videos.
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« on: May 18, 2024, 06:55 »
Good week so far after a bad week.
Impressive ! And your graph is so steady! (Mine is totally up and down)
With those downloads, its not a surprise that you are in 1000 weekly. Congratulations!
Thank you!! My production of AI images have slowed down for the last 2 months. So, I got stuck at the same level. I got to diversify my AI portfolio to go above 1,000th. That's my goal this year.
How do you come up with saleable concepts?
My advice based on my experience is, if you just try to imitate what's selling on Adobe Stock, you probably end up not selling and waste your time because hundreds of other contributors are doing the same making similar images flooding the market. Your images won't show up on keyword search on first or second page. You have to make different variation of bestsellers or come up with totally original concept without much competition to monopolize that specific genre/concept of images. With AI generation, you can create images that never existed before. I see some on the top sellers list are doing just that. I think that's what Adobe wants us to do by allowing us to submit AI generated images. They want to expand boundary of conventional stock images to gain advantage over Shutterstock, iStock and other competitors. That'll give AdobeStock more subscribers and give us more revenues. It's a win-win at least for now.
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« on: May 18, 2024, 06:47 »
Had a good day yesterday and my ranking went up further. I think I have to make over $300/week to go above 1,000th in weekly ranking.
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« on: May 18, 2024, 06:44 »
Good week so far after a bad week.
exactly,that's where I need to get to,250 usd a week from Adobe Stock and everything will be better
unfortunately I started already late in 2018,if only I had started a couple of years earlier I had much more economic possibilities,let's say I started microstock in the worst possible conditions,and now in these times every investment takes a long time,even traveling 100 km by car has become a problem these days.
I just hope I don't get too old before I get to $250 a week,I'd like to be able to enjoy it for a few more years while I'm still young enough,I hope it will be possible!
About 40% of my Adobe Stock revenue is generated from AI photos I started uploading in last September less than 1 year ago. So, you can do it too if you meditate and levitate sometimes. If you think about "Why I can't", that's where you'll get stuck. Start thinking about "Why I can too".
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