Quote from: Pacesetter on May 24, 2024, 00:09

Quote from: DaLiu on May 23, 2024, 13:38
For me SS is by far the best agency and the number of sales are constant.

Download numbers are quite good there but I see you have 10x more photos than mine and few less videos. How's the revenue-per-download going? That's where I've seen the biggest hit to earnings.

My RPD mixed (videos+images) is around 0,80$ per download for this year, actually it went up compared with last years.

AS RPD is over 1.1$ per download mixed but half the downloads of SS.

For me SS is by far the best agency and the number of sales are constant.

I'm on track for the BME on SS, SS is performing very well for me overall, AS it's lower than usual this month.

Quote from: Wilm on April 16, 2024, 22:35
Downloads slightly above average, revenue dramatically below average. In my case, the revenue is 40% compared to March 2023.

Same here, same amount of downloads as March 2023 but revenue is 40% less.

Quote from: blvdone on March 13, 2024, 17:23

Quote from: Faustvasea on March 13, 2024, 16:57

Quote from: blvdone on March 13, 2024, 15:39
Sales was slow yesterday, but still holding good ranking somehow.  I want to be above 1,000th when I finish creating/adding another 4,000 AI photos sometime this year, I hope.  I'm running out of my ideas for AI photos now to be honest.  It's not as fast pace as it was in my first few months of AI photo generation.

A bit off topic, but may I ask what soft are you using to create Ai images? Thinking of adding some to my port too,

Midjourney.  We have too many contributors uploading AI images now.  So please don't start doing it!!

With so many people doing exclusive AI images since you don't need any expertise in the field, it's a good time to switch to a real photographer and try to find a niche which AI don't cover it or can't replicate it.

For me SS still is doing double the income of AS.

The problem with all these AI tools, they don't provide the location, keywords and description about location which for me is very important, even tho the test image had the coordinates in the picture, Udream (the only one tested) didn't use any of that info to provide the location, so useless for me.

Honestly, this ranking is useless, just focus on something else.

My stats for this month:

SS downloads (mix) 2.5x more than AS
SS RPD (mix) 0.65$ (AS RDP is over 1$ per file (mix))
SS earnings 1.5x more than AS

I see a small decrease in income on SS side mostly due the video income, on images im doing better than last year, on AS I see an increase of income almost 30% in the first 2 months compared with the average of last year.

Overall both agencies are bringing more income montly than last year.

0 AI images.

This is a clear example that everything behind these tools involves stealing from other contributors, don't understand how these kind of tools are still allowed to work.

Quote from: blvdone on February 26, 2024, 16:04

Quote from: DaLiu on February 26, 2024, 15:57

Quote from: blvdone on February 26, 2024, 14:19

Quote from: DaLiu on February 26, 2024, 14:07
No idea how the weekly ranking is working, doesnt seem right

Do you also sell videos?  I think the ranking is solely based on image sales.

Yes, i sell both, but look, another update for today and the position is not moving, no idea.

You must have made a few good video sales today already.  Nice!!

No, those are images.

Quote from: blvdone on February 26, 2024, 14:19

Quote from: DaLiu on February 26, 2024, 14:07
No idea how the weekly ranking is working, doesnt seem right

Do you also sell videos?  I think the ranking is solely based on image sales.

Yes, i sell both, but look, another update for today and the position is not moving, no idea.

No idea how the weekly ranking is working, doesnt seem right

Level 5 on images and Level 3 on videos but for this month I see a decrease in high earnings but records number of downloads.

Marques Brownlee - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXpdyAWLDas

Read the comments

Bro, we got it, stop replying to yourself.

For me SS is providing 4 digits income and in the same time i see a 25-30% increase in reveneu from Adobe, 0 AI prompts in my portfolio.

Quote from: wds on January 27, 2024, 03:43

Quote from: DaLiu on January 27, 2024, 00:12
My last 12 months on SS

Are you U.S. based?

No, Europe

My last 12 months on SS

My SS downloads are going greater and greater, strange thing is in the last year i see more and more SO sales and almost dissapeared the On Demand ones.

Today sales:

Quote from: blvdone on January 17, 2024, 13:29

Quote from: DaLiu on January 17, 2024, 12:11
If you different portfolios how you can even compare them, I have exactly the same portfolios on AS and SS, for me SS is 3x the number of downloads of AS.

Do you make 3x on SS as well?

Usually more than double.

Quote from: DiscreetDuck on January 17, 2024, 10:52
100% acceptance for my last batch at Adobe, I must clarify that I do not use and will never use AI to replace my photographic work. I know and I'm waiting for Adobe to clean up its contributors, that will come. It's inevitable, simple law of supply and demand. And the complaints will rain...

Exactly the same, I don't do AI, not because I can't, just a matter of principles, I upload only normal images and videos and my acceptance rate is always like over 98% for both video and images.

If you different portfolios how you can even compare them, I have exactly the same portfolios on AS and SS, for me SS is 3x the number of downloads of AS.

Quote from: blvdone on January 13, 2024, 23:14

Quote from: SuperPhoto on January 13, 2024, 21:34
"waaay more" is relative. for some people, doubling their investment is "waay more". for others, getting like $1k is "waaay more".
if you are in a poor country, maybe making $50 is "waaay more".

that's why I am asking. what do you define as "waaay more"?

Quote from: blvdone on January 13, 2024, 17:12

Quote from: SuperPhoto on January 13, 2024, 16:43

Quote from: blvdone on January 13, 2024, 14:28
So, it took 10 years to get 6,500 photos on Adobe Stock, but took only 3 months to add 3,000 AI generated photos on Adobe Stock.  $120 x 3 months Midjourney cost is very well spent.  I'll make way more than $120 in AI photo sales this month.  Also, I'm lucky I got 3,000 AI photos accepted before the mass rejection trend started.

What is that "profit" wise though? Without a reference, it is difficult to make a decision, i.e., a bar chart of $2 is much different from a bar chart of $200 or $2000...

Did you read "I'll make way more than $120 in AI photo sales this month. "?

I do not disclose my exact revenue.  lol

Wondering if somebody will steal "your" AI images, how do you prove are yours, showing the tags you use to generate them? I honestly don't understand why a customer will pay for something that can be generated by anybody, not much skills is needed, just the right tool to do it for you.

Im doing 90% landscape and travel photos, i have ~18k images in my portofolio and I can't complain, i'm doing pretty good sales, I could quit my day job and living from it on a decent level, so it can happen and I only started in 2015 with the microstock and photography in general, many will say its way too late.