My P5 exclusive account doesn't seem to be generating more sales with a higher revenue so I am considering dropping it.

My question is, can I delete the videos in my exclusive account and immediately begin uploading them to other agencies, or is there a cool off period before I can begin doing this?

Thank you.

Awful, worst January for more than 10 years. My overall stock video performance inline with Poll, adobe outperforming all other agencies.

No idea what is going on with 123rf, I upload new videos but they never get reviewed, i write emails to support but no one ever answers, It's like a zombie stock image site.

I had my first exclusive sale on P5 the other day and my commission was much lower than expected and it wasn't a GPP sale either.

My exclusive account is for the sole purpose of selling my best CG content in return for what I was expecting a 60% commission, if this carries on I will have to reconsider uploading exclusive content to P5.

I hope they can rebalance this issue.

Quote from: stocker2011 on November 11, 2022, 13:03

Anyone know how long the review turnaround is these days at 123RF? I uploaded over 2 weeks ago and still nothing.

Usually they need months! But in the Last weeks they were very quick. A few days.

Thanks, the last batch i sent came back a few days later with a generic description/keyword error, so then I reuploaded it and changed the description on each and now its been pending for 2 weeks.

123RF support doesn't get back to me either.

Pre 2020, SS video sales used to be a year on year great earner, but I suspect that like many other contributors I have been hit with a triple whammy of reduced revenue via the (1.) level based royalty model (2.) reduced overall number of sales per month (3.) subscription model. All combined has resulted in roughly a month on month loss of over 75% in revenue.

It's been a very long time since I accessed the ESP contributor site and seems as if it's still very contributor unfriendly.

Could anyone please tell me how to find my portfolio on ESP?

Thanks.

We do not offer this option at Adobe Stock. To take your video files offline, you will need to delete them one at a time. The only option to disable in one fell swoop would be to request your entire account be deleted via the contact us link found at the bottom of the Adobe Stock contributor portal.

-Mat

Hi Matt, do you know how long it takes for the photos or videos to be removed from search ie no longer for sale after deletion?

Bad across the board for all agencies, haven't seen such bad performance for many years.

If you choose to incorporate these types of computer generated faces into stock media will you need a completely different type of model release from the agency where only the contributor signs and declares that it computer generated etc?

Hi, does anyone know about the usage of 3rd party fonts within videos or any other stock media? If possible I would like to use a 3rd party font which is free for commercial use and has an Open Font License. Or can only standard fonts such as Arial be used for such purposes, i'm pretty sure the creator of the font has no objections however seeing as agencies say that all work must be created by the uploader, this has made want some clarification.

Thanks.

I used to use Photojpeg codec in a .mov quicktime container and set quality slider to around 90% but it appears to have been discontinued, so I am needing a new workflow for exporting videos out of after effects for uploading.

I'm assuming for CGI that H264 is the next best alternative, so within media encoder which bitrate is preferable in order to keep the quality high enough for acceptance and also which should used VBR or CBR considering that the source footage is a rendered image sequence, also in Media Encoder the sliders go up to 50, is this overkill?

Are there any other settings in Media Encoder which should adjusted to maximize quality?

Thanks.

It's been a full month of since the royalties were reduced and I'm curious as to how were your sales including exclusive sales, assuming you opted to create a new account and make some of your content exclusive.

For me it was one of my worst months at P5 for over a year and a half, very disappointing.

How have your sales been?