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 ^^

That's not because 123 is so good, it's because SS has become so bad?   

Hehe :-)

A bit of both - but since the AI images, 123rf had really made significant gains until February 2024, when it spontaneously plummeted.
Shutter naturally played its part in bringing the agencies closer together ;-)

In the beginning of AI images acceptance there was a very good sales score and before like 2-3 months ago it stopped sharply like for one night and it continue until now.

I had exactly the same experience - from September 23 to February 24, AI sales were really good and then stopped from one day to the next.

In my case, sales dropped from $60 a month to $10-12 from one day to the next.

I just tried the webupload and submit, it worked for me.

The much bigger problem is the complete lack of a review.
I have now had 2,600 photos and AI images (approx. 50/50) in review for 5 months and nothing is happening at all.
I've written to support twice about this, the response time to review requests was around 2 months and then I received a pre-formulated standard response.

And to make matters worse, my sales have fallen by 75% since January... I think you can save yourself the trouble now.

Hello everyone,

I logged in to YayImages again after a while and noticed that no sales have been displayed in my account since September 25, 2023 - a good 8 months ago

Until then, there were usually between 20 and 40 sales per month and 1-2 times a year there was a payout.

Maybe someone has heard something - have they gone bankrupt again and are they simply no longer reporting sales and pocketing the dollars themselves?

Thank you

is anyone else seeing $0.40 custom royalties as well as $0.30?

Today I had 3 different custom numbers:
-> 0,30 (some) - 0,40 (very few) - 1,02 (some)

Today the lost sales have reappeared, at least some of them - but they are now all listed twice and also counted twice.
(see image below)

This gives rise to the suspicion that they really don't have their bookkeeping under control any more... in this respect, the change in behavior fits since you can only upload pictures with a subscription model :-)
But maybe I am wrong and all the sales really happened twice.

Have a sunny day@all