yes, too many people traveling when they could stay home & work & just buy my travel pix instead

Exactly ;-)

Hi, I just got an email that my account will be unblocked.

I'm very pleased to hear that your account has been unblocked - great news!

As I've already had an account block myself... in the coming weeks your sales should recover to a normal level, for me it took about 8-10 weeks to get back to my previous level.

I agree with the others here that blocking an account because of "conspicuous sales" and then unblocking it weeks later is a very unfortunate option.
Here the contributor is condemned before it is proven that he is to blame.

I can understand that the sales may have to be deducted again if, for example, a purchase was made with an invalid credit card, but this direct "pre-judgment" of the contributor is definitely the wrong way to go.

The whole thing creates a new atmosphere of fear - I, for one, look at the screen every day with fear when I log into my AdobeStock account and hope that the account still exists.
The climate in the stock sector is definitely getting rougher and of course we are more and more at the mercy of the rules of the big stock agencies.

Have a nice day,
Michael

Have a nice holiday :-)

Today (Friday) was the slowest day at AS for me this week, about half the sales as Monday to Thursday.

Yes, the ticket system is probably the right way.

My account was also blocked for uploading because I uploaded silhouettes that were supposedly created by AI, at least that was IStock's opinion.

After a somewhat lengthy communication with the ticket system, during which I had to control myself to remain particularly friendly and of course humble, I am now allowed to upload 50 images per week again. And no, they weren't AI images that I had uploaded, but if their automatic system says �this is AI�, that's probably their reality.

In the end, this �stamping� fits in with IStock's 15% share policy.

@Cobalt:
At the moment, you're absolutely right - but I see the development here progressing rapidly (I myself come from the software development sector for image/video editing).

At the moment, topics such as fantasy, background animations with movements of water/metals/fluids, science fiction spaceships, etc. are certainly all right for video AIs.

The best available version is probably currently Runway Gen-3, but at $95 for an 'unlimited' plan it's also really expensive - and all the post-processing, scaling, etc. also takes a lot of time.

In any case, I'm curious to see what will come from the 'big' AI companies and, above all, when it will arrive.

The editorial area will remain unaffected anyway and the people, hands, anatomical accidents, etc. will certainly need a few more years before it's stable

Your sales trend looks like it is stabilizing albeit probably at a level lower than your historical trend.

I'm noticing there's a lot more volatility chasing RPD. My weekly position has been under 8500 this week which is my best position but the attached trend line shows where weekly earnings are at, less than half of most weeks...

Yes, I completely agree with you - on the one hand, downloads seem to be stabilising (even if one week is probably not enough data for this) and with RpD it seems to be a pure game of chance.

If I remember correctly you're in videos (sorry if I'm wrong) - if you have a lot of the $2.80 sales that's a big impact.

Video RpD for me (with extreme jumps in the weeks/months) - just for comparision
2022: $17,18
2023: $9,62
2024: $8,30

I hope the numbers will pick up again soon... actually at 104dl (about 50-60 less then average) pos 4.280.

Maybe next week will be better ;-)

Edit: The big blue bar three weeks ago was the free-collection payment

@Cobalt
Thank you for all the tips - let's see how I can get this into my workflow and into my "stubborn head" :-)

Fortunately, I don't copy the bestsellers - that never helps because they are already at the top of the search results. The most you would do is collect a few "crumbs" left and right.

I just hope that the trend will reverse at some point, because before that it was going very well for months and since the end of March it has been falling rapidly - the effect is definitely real.
We will know whether this is a seasonal effect (for me and many others at the moment) by next season at the latest.

Feel free to turn the dials again AS, then maybe things will get better for some ;-)

That may just explain it's totally random and normal.  I bet $1 your sales wont be zero after October for good.

I wouldn't bet against it :-)
The 0 sales in October are based on the assumption of a linear trend, which is probably not the case for stocks with many seasonal components.
With a time series analysis taking into account seasonal and annual trends, the forecast for October is around 24 weekly downloads - sorry if that was a bit too much maths ;-)

@justanimage
How much content do you have for the summer season? I usually have quite a slowdown for July/August.
Creating and uploading nearly 40 files a day is an incredible achievement!! I am trying very hard to reach a reliable 20 a day, but don't always manage to do that.

I've already asked myself the question about the seasonal component and searched my portfolio for "Summer Season":
(Sorry for the long link)
https://stock.adobe.com/de/search?creator_id=208268331&filters%5Bcontent_type%3Aphoto%5D=1&filters%5Bcontent_type%3Aillustration%5D=1&filters%5Bcontent_type%3Azip_vector%5D=1&filters%5Bcontent_type%3Avideo%5D=1&filters%5Bcontent_type%3Atemplate%5D=1&filters%5Bcontent_type%3A3d%5D=1&filters%5Bfetch_excluded_assets%5D=1&filters%5Bcontent_type%3Aimage%5D=1&order=relevance&safe_search=1&k=summer+season&limit=100&search_page=3&search_type=pagination&acp=&aco=summer+season&get_facets=0

There would actually be enough available - but I'll stay on the ball :-)
Since the collapse at the end of March, I've had around 3,700 new files accepted - the latest 700 of those have so far totalled generated exactly 1 sale.
It really seems to be the case now that new material takes forever (even after the successful review) to reach the customer.


I don't want to spread any wild theories here either, but as a mathematician I can clearly say that there are factors here that are clearly measurable and are far beyond our sphere of influence - no matter how much you upload and produce.

In my case, AdobeStock has been on a steady decline since the last week of March... and I can't say why that is.

I'm currently down to position 5,040 (from around 2,900) - downloads have now almost halved and I've been uploading more material than ever for months - an average of 38 files every day, mixed of photos 25%, videos 10%, AI images 65%.
And the quality of the material has gotten better rather than worse...

I can't explain it except that some switch has been flipped at Adobe and since that day (in the last week of March) my account suddenly seems to be dropping steadily and rapidly.
The graph below shows this more than clearly.

My portfolio is very diversified so trends shouldn't be hitting at this strength - so the question remains: what is happening here?

If this continues, my account will be at virtually zero by October'24... Let's see how this continues... official information on this would be great, but I'm not counting on it.

Worst Month since August 2023 for me - to be honest there was not a single good month in 2024 so far.

Only 8! 
I did much more, and of course not a single AI image in my port, only the true world represented.
Where is your miracle of generating AI photograshits? 

It's always a pleasure to read this small-minded ill-will from people in forums.
But somehow nobody needs it except the person themselves.

It's great that you had more sales, but why can't you write that normally? Why do you have to pick on people?

I can't get my head round it, it's very unnecessary and nobody gives a f..k

PS: Please don't answer, nobody is interested in that either ^^