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« on: March 16, 2024, 16:47 »
1 good day and 4 slow days somehow kept me at good ranking this week.
My advice to newbies is to listen to people who are doing well and at least much better than you.
Also look at contributors on Top Seller list and figure out why they are doing well.
https://contributor.stock.adobe.com/en/insights/best/contributors
Just copying their bestsellers may not bring you $$ because everybody may be doing the same and the market is saturated with similar images already. It can be hit or miss and big disappointment in my own experience. So, find your niche also and come up with your original idea. Don't listen to those who never post their ranking here but keep talking crap here. They may be doing only 1/10 as good as you are. There's no point in taking any advice from them.
Wow very impressed. How many files you have?
About 2 million photos.
I produce about 1,000 AI photos everyday.
I automate the production with prompt producing AI. So, I just upload and tag. I sleep like 2hrs/day.
How many AI images can you send to Adobe per day for review?And what is your acceptance rate?
You know I was just kidding with those numbers, right? I've already gave my port size number a few times on previous posts.
yes of course,that's why I asked! 
Do you have an approval rate on reviewed content?mine is about 85%,of content accepted out of the total reviewed,but I dedicate time to every single piece of AI content.
ok when I have time I will try to read everything... I never have time for anything,I'm always making content,my girlfriend is pissed off like a beast!
Lol, I've got a 2 year old ill daughter, who is pissed of like a beast all the time and I find time to generate and other stuff. Just take your mobile phone, take some notes of content, which you want to generate and hit then every time when you got 2 minutes of free mode (making coffee, shi*ting in the bathroom, cooking, cleaning the house, etc.. ) just hit the generate button. You commute 30 minutes or 1 hour to work? Wonderful, just hit the button. Also there is night time, which is for example part of my "me time".
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« on: March 16, 2024, 10:33 »
1 good day and 4 slow days somehow kept me at good ranking this week.
My advice to newbies is to listen to people who are doing well and at least much better than you.
Also look at contributors on Top Seller list and figure out why they are doing well.
https://contributor.stock.adobe.com/en/insights/best/contributors
Just copying their bestsellers may not bring you $$ because everybody may be doing the same and the market is saturated with similar images already. It can be hit or miss and big disappointment in my own experience. So, find your niche also and come up with your original idea. Don't listen to those who never post their ranking here but keep talking crap here. They may be doing only 1/10 as good as you are. There's no point in taking any advice from them.
Wow very impressed. How many files you have?
About 2 million photos.
I produce about 1,000 AI photos everyday.
I automate the production with prompt producing AI. So, I just upload and tag. I sleep like 2hrs/day.
Dam*, sounds like you've sold your soul. #MicrostockLife #GetRichOrDieCryin'
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« on: March 15, 2024, 18:11 »
A STANDARD IMAGE LICENSE grants you the right to use Images:
Printed in physical form as part of product packaging and labeling, letterhead and business cards, point of sale advertising, CD and DVD cover art, or in the advertising and copy of tangible media, including magazines, newspapers, and books provided no Image is reproduced more than 500,000 times in the aggregate
https://www.shutterstock.com/license
Brutal and I wondered why the heck no one is buying extended licenses for like 80 bucks anymore like in 2012 -2014. 10 cent for half a million prints.
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« on: March 15, 2024, 15:22 »
When I will hit the 30 USD / month mark on Adobe I will switch to Pro+ Plan, since you then can install all models from civitai.
There are some finetuned models there, which could be used for even a better generating quality. But currently it would be a loss business case for me, so that I'm waiting for growing earnings.
do you mean $30 usd payment to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom or $30 usd per day from Adobe stock?
Im not familiar with Stable Diffusionat all, what are finetuned models mean? Can it generate good quality AND big sizes without upscaling to delude the original quality?
Thanks in advance
Nah I mean, when I will earn more than 30 USD / month on Adobe Stock. Currently I'm pending around 20 to 30 but I'm not AI spamming anymore and focus more on quality. Diffusion Stable has a huge fan community, which calibrate own base models and finetuned models (LoRas). https://civitai.com/models?tag=base+modelLoRas focus on very specialized content like special kind of buildings, for example offices or shopping malls: https://civitai.com/models/229533/jjs-architecture-office-buildinghttps://civitai.com/models/262849/jjs-interior-space-shopping-malland many more. It's kinda very cool because the community offers endless possibilities for free. Some offer really good quality with very few generation errors. It will take just a matter of time when all agency's will integrate similar finetuned models in their own AI image generators. I believe the generated resolution is limited in Stable Diffusion to max. 2mpx. The problem is the calibration of such models since you would need an extrem huge amount of Nivida GPUs for bigger resolutions, which is extremely expensive. So you have to upscale on your own afterwards.
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« on: March 15, 2024, 12:59 »
At the moment I keep bouncing between 3100 and 5200. 4000 files.
Hope to move further up again soon, this is frustrating. But for a port this size it is probably ok.
I hate to ask, because someone will think the rank numbers actually matter.
But, why do you hope to move further up? Rank means nothing, except for your own personal information, how you are doing, compared to others. If you are making money, and happy with what you do and earn, it doesn't matter what some irrelevant number says.
My rank goes up during the holiday season, down in January, back up in April. My earnings, as in money that goes into the bank, is all that counts.
Rank is apparently, number of downloads, not earnings.
yes rank is number of downloads,the most important thing,not earnings.
in my opinion the most important thing is the number of sales,earnings can go up or down,but the number of downloads cannot go down,that is the most important number,then comes the money. 
by the way,my best rank ever is 3210.
Doesn't make any sense. If Adobe will lower the commissions you will get less earnings even if you have the same ranking. So earnings are the most important figure.
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« on: March 15, 2024, 09:00 »
That about the right price for this business. jpg images will be $.01 and 4k/8k vids $.10 in just a few years from now 
You could be right. If you consider wirestock's AI generator, which costs 10 bucks for 1000 images (actually 1000 prompts with 4 various images, so in total 4000 images) buyers already pay that low or lower price per image.
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« on: March 15, 2024, 07:26 »
Whoa, found today wirestock's AI image generator: https://wirestock.io/ai-generateDam*, that thing is better as I would expect. The generator is obviously using finetuned Stable Diffusion models. Their price is even not that bad. 10 bucks / month for 1000 generations. Here are some test generarions: https://ibb.co/VCX2VPrhttps://ibb.co/dtyxc1Jhttps://ibb.co/s1fK54jhttps://ibb.co/Q9VySpRThis development makes me quite nervous. It's faster than I would expect. I can currently beat the generated results by only using an AI upscaler (altough I haven't tried out wirestock's upscaler yet). As an AI prompter I think you should already now focus on learning to generate visual aesthetic and striking images to stand out of the coming storm.
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« on: March 15, 2024, 06:04 »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB07h-odLTY
Would be o.k. but not optimal. RTX Nvidia GUPUs are currently the best solution but are quite expensive. I would try mage.space for 15 bucks / month.
Might give it a try first. Are there any other cheap options for generating Ai images?
Ok, for the first step in learning prompting and getting a better understanding / feel for how prompting parameters affect your images, I would try the following online generators (currently free):
https://clipdrop.co/stable-diffusion-turbo (daily limited with watermark and 1:1 aspect ratio but very fast)
https://playground.com/ (100 images free per day)
https://sdxlturbo.ai/ (watermark)
https://civitai.com/ (probably also daily limited)
You can also use mage.space with limitation to the original SDXL model and max. 30 generation steps for free (what I would recommend to begin with).
Thanks, and after I'm confident, which paid solution you'd recommend to generate Ai, for stock purposes.
I would then still recommend the basic or pro plan on mage.space when you are more familiar and skilled with promting. https://www.mage.space/membershipI mean 8 bucks / month without generation limits, private mode and over 160 Stable Diffusion calibrated models is extremely cheap. I'm currently using the pro plan because I often need the 100 generation steps for very detailed images. Also I'm generating 4 images parallel or using the scale up fix while generating other content. When I will hit the 30 USD / month mark on Adobe I will switch to Pro+ Plan, since you then can install all models from civitai. There are some finetuned models there, which could be used for even a better generating quality. But currently it would be a loss business case for me, so that I'm waiting for growing earnings. @cobalt Nice! Keep it up!
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« on: March 14, 2024, 15:54 »
I currently have 68 files in the queue. Most of the easter files will probably arrive after easter now. But I am sure customers will collect them for their 2025 projects.
Hmm, probably I should already start uploading Christmas stuff as I also will miss Easter: Easter: https://ibb.co/856yvLsChristmas: https://ibb.co/x3ZkPZt
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« on: March 14, 2024, 09:03 »
My camera can take 100 megapixel photos! 
Hasselblad for selling 36 cents via Adobe or 10 cents via SS. Which lenses do you use? 30, 50 and 90mm with 2.5 to 3.5 apertures? Sounds like a good business model.
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« on: March 14, 2024, 08:37 »
No. I hired someone to make me an original character design...
Were they cheap?
No. I am seriously considering just dropping this stock industry crap and start drawing... I could boost sales of my artwork through my filming knowledge and make better money. Just thinking about making investments FOR making stock footage and then getting rejected makes me sick to my stomach. Meanwhile I had 95% approval rate with all AI generated images and had many sales already. Makes you think twice about what should be the logical course of action. There is a good saying: "The only way of making money in photography is by selling all your gear."
But there are people who photograph weddings and make more money than in stock photography. You could venture into that business, but that requires assistants, specialization and equipment.
If you are very skilled and want some real earning and not just some bucks for your hobby I would try wedding photography in your local regions. The prices are quite high for some hours of work. I imagine already now how these guys then all will use AI to enhance their photos *lol*.
In an age where anyone with a cheap camera or even a smartphone can shoot a wedding you just can't compete. I don't know where are you from, but already a decade ago whatever your pricing for a wedding shoot was, there will be always someone who will do it for peanuts. Its a waste of time in my opinion and I've never looked again in this B2C industry. That's why I also work in commercial B2B industry, where you have to know your craft of lighting, camera and composition to make high quality products. And it is also a lot more creative. I do stock mostly for training my style and stuff that I'm really passioned about.
Yeah it's still a very competitve market among wedding photographers. Many do it also as a part time job. I actually hired a professional photographer with an on-site studio for my own wedding (4 hours for 800 EUR), but was somehow a little disappointed. The people shots were just snapshots but the shots of my wife and me were quite professional. I have then purchased own prints on professional paper ( https://www.saal-digital.de/fotobuch/) since it was extremely overpriced for prints 10 EUR for one 10 x 15 photo (!!). But there are also some pros who will demand 4k to 5k EUR for a 12h shooting in main cities in Germany. But you can't never say if you will get the same quality as they are showing in their handpicked portfolios. I mean if he has a bad day and does not feel comfortable with the location you are screwed, so I can understand why many are outsourcing this to their friends.
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« on: March 14, 2024, 08:28 »
Interesting question. On the one hand one is limited due to image quality but on the other hand buyers probably search larger resolutions for some special content.
I currently go for 4092 x 2340 pixels. I also have some images with 5376 x 3072 px. This is equal to 2 or 3 x upscale.
I don't think it makes much sense to go further if you sell content which is mostly buyed for mobile usage with smaller image resolutions. I mean even for website banners you would buy smaller sizes.
You need really huge resolutions only for printing.
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« on: March 14, 2024, 08:02 »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB07h-odLTY
Would be o.k. but not optimal. RTX Nvidia GUPUs are currently the best solution but are quite expensive. I would try mage.space for 15 bucks / month.
Might give it a try first. Are there any other cheap options for generating Ai images?
Ok, for the first step in learning prompting and getting a better understanding / feel for how prompting parameters affect your images, I would try the following online generators (currently free): https://clipdrop.co/stable-diffusion-turbo (daily limited with watermark and 1:1 aspect ratio but very fast) https://playground.com/ (100 images free per day) https://sdxlturbo.ai/ (watermark) https://civitai.com/ (probably also daily limited) You can also use mage.space with limitation to the original SDXL model and max. 30 generation steps for free (what I would recommend to begin with).
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« on: March 14, 2024, 07:43 »
No. I hired someone to make me an original character design...
Were they cheap?
No. I am seriously considering just dropping this stock industry crap and start drawing... I could boost sales of my artwork through my filming knowledge and make better money. Just thinking about making investments FOR making stock footage and then getting rejected makes me sick to my stomach. Meanwhile I had 95% approval rate with all AI generated images and had many sales already. Makes you think twice about what should be the logical course of action. There is a good saying: "The only way of making money in photography is by selling all your gear."
But there are people who photograph weddings and make more money than in stock photography. You could venture into that business, but that requires assistants, specialization and equipment.
If you are very skilled and want some real earning and not just some bucks for your hobby I would try wedding photography in your local regions. The prices are quite high for some hours of work. I imagine already now how these guys then all will use AI to enhance their photos *lol*.
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« on: March 14, 2024, 06:19 »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB07h-odLTYWould be o.k. but not optimal. RTX Nvidia GUPUs are currently the best solution but are quite expensive. I would try mage.space for 15 bucks / month.
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« on: March 14, 2024, 05:18 »
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 dont start doing it!!
Lol? With AI there are so many possibilities to create stuff, which is not yet there. One just need more imagination than copy pastas of bestsellers.
So you wouldn't even compete in this case.
I would advise to start with Stable Diffusion XL models and the AI upscaler (ControlNet, Tile Preprocessor, UltraSharp Upscaler).
It's more flexible and if you search a little bit longer much cheaper than Midjourney.
I'm currently playing with some portraits at the ocean cliffs during sunset. The skin texture looks more realistic than the of Midjourney's waxed ones.
https://ibb.co/xSzxMjD
Thanks a lot. Is that a soft to install on my laptop to generate Ai images? Can these be uploaded on Stock sites afterwards ?
You can either install local web GUI like AUTOMATIC1111 for Stable Diffusion and run it on your own computer if you have a good graphic card or you can use online machines (runpod, mage.space, etc.). The same applies to AI upscaler. @cobalt Thank you! In my opinion, all AI images need to be edited, at times quite heavy. I use Photoshop with healing brush then Lightroom. Most of the images are too small, so youll have to upscale them with Topaz or Photoshop. For me, it takes faster to edit my photos, but I dont take enough of photos to make a difference in stock.
I pay $60 per month for MJ with stealth option, through still I cough some of my files out in search.
In my opinion, all AI images need to be edited, at times quite heavy. I use Photoshop with healing brush then Lightroom. Most of the images are too small, so youll have to upscale them with Topaz or Photoshop. For me, it takes faster to edit my photos, but I dont take enough of photos to make a difference in stock.
I pay $60 per month for MJ with stealth option, through still I cough some of my files out in search.
I already have couple of Topaz Softwares, including Ai Videos, Photos. And Upscale.
Is that worth investing $60 a month?
60 Bucks a month is not worth it if you don't generate ten thousand of images every month. It will take months to probably a year until you will earn the same amount on Adobe Stock, so it's a non profit or even loss business case. Topaz Upscale is o.k. I use it for 2 x upscale after AI 2 x upscale since using 4 x AI upscaler is very time consuming and therefore expensive.
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« on: March 13, 2024, 16:14 »
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 dont start doing it!!
Lol? With AI there are so many possibilities to create stuff, which is not yet there. One just need more imagination than copy pastas of bestsellers. So you wouldn't even compete in this case. I would advise to start with Stable Diffusion XL models and the AI upscaler (ControlNet, Tile Preprocessor, UltraSharp Upscaler). It's more flexible and if you search a little bit longer much cheaper than Midjourney. I'm currently playing with some portraits at the ocean cliffs during sunset. The skin texture looks more realistic than the of Midjourney's waxed ones. https://ibb.co/xSzxMjD
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« on: March 13, 2024, 15:44 »
Saw today that there are just approx. 55k PSD (Photoshop) templates on Adobe Stock. So the competition seems still to be low here.
I'm currently thinking about creating some product templates by generating AI objects and then create PSD collages within Photoshop, which you could then easily edit.
Since I would be spending a lot more time than just submitting AI images (which are already oversaturated), is it worth the time investment?
Has anyone tried out whether templates are sold in significant amounts?
As far as I know, template contributors are invitation-only and that's why competition is low. Incredibly unfair IMO.
Ah yes, you're absolutely right. Tried to figure out how I can submit but found then on Adobe: At the moment, were sourcing design templates from a small group of artists and agencies were not accepting submissions from individual contributors at this time. Over time, we may be expanding them to include a broader group of contributors well keep you up to date in our Contributor newsletters and notifications. Really a shame.
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« on: March 13, 2024, 08:17 »
Saw today that there are just approx. 55k PSD (Photoshop) templates on Adobe Stock. So the competition seems still to be low here.
I'm currently thinking about creating some product templates by generating AI objects and then create PSD collages within Photoshop, which you could then easily edit.
Since I would be spending a lot more time than just submitting AI images (which are already oversaturated), is it worth the time investment?
Has anyone tried out whether templates are sold in significant amounts?
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« on: March 13, 2024, 07:25 »
Adobe might have over 1 million registered producers. There is no way to offer individual personal service.
High end agencies offer that, but they just work with a few thousand people.
Just add it to the community channel, here are also Adobe admins reading there. If they find the problem interesting I am sure someone will look into it.
And you can also write to Mat, but I would try the community channel first.
I disagree with the personal service aspect, when you consider the massive revenue they generate. Of COURSE they can offer it, but they may choose not to because "investors" want more $$$ in their pockets.
You really want Adobe to hire 2000 people just to deal with all the complaints "why was my file declined"??
It will be by far the most abused system ever.
I'd rather they put that money into the sales team.
You can post your problems in the community chat and get quick and qualified feedback. And you can write to Mat if you believe it is very serious.
Adobe is a lo more responsive than other places.
I don't get why people expect the luxury treatment on a mass platform.
Sign up with a small exclusive agency and you will get all the direct communication you ever wanted.
There are always choices.
Why do you assume your job is to go around on the forum telling people off. You're literally a nobody and yet ... kinda all you do. No one asked you to no one sanctions it, you just do it because you expect you're permitted to. You haven't helped the poster or furthered knowledge. Why don't you just think about that for a little while.
For the OP I have used this email to resolve a similar issue
[email protected] not sure if it's still active but give it a go.
I don't understand why you are reacting so subliminally aggressively. She's right and even rightly referred to the Discord channel, where moderators actually look at the rejected images when they have some time. It's a mass upload agency with probably hundreds of thousands of images submitted every day so don't expect a fast individual treatment.
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« on: March 13, 2024, 05:42 »
I'm still suck on this matter.
I am making an average of 50 cents a year. At this rate it's going to take me 50 years to reach payout!
It's not worth the time to upload since the web uploader is really a mess for larger batches although they accept almost everything during 24h. Have uploaded approx. 600 AI images in january and sold just one for 35 cents. In the same time I uploaded to Adobe over 1300 AI images and currently I'm making 30 USD / month. There is also absolutely no pattern on Dreamstime which images you sell. The only pattern I notice is that I sell regularly almost the same amount every year, which leads me to conspiracy theory. As I said in another thread I believe it's a part of their business model to hold as many contributors as possible below the payout threshold. If you start to calculate a little bit you will realize there could be some dozens millions from contributors they are probably using for other investments, etc.
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« on: March 12, 2024, 09:54 »
Hi everyone,I hope you are all well!
please approve my Easter content too!
I had already sent them and they had been waiting for 20 days,then I deleted them from the queue,
because I wanted to improve them,and now I've been waiting again for about 20 days.
not that it makes much difference I think,because my account is set up to make 40/50% more every month compared to last year,I don't think that if I have 3000 AI contents for sale it will make much difference,because I have to sell what i have to sell, no more,no less.(I just hope I'm wrong)
only last year in September I reached position 3210 for a short period,then this thing never happened again.
this reminds me of a livestream from Mat from a couple of years ago in which Mat,talking about the importance of having copy space for text in content,showed a photo he had taken of a plant against a wall and which he had sold many times,what I thought at the time and what I still think,is that if I had taken the exact same photo I probably would never have sold it,or maybe once or twice,because unfortunately this is the case,I am Injustice for all,and he is Mat,a well-known contributor who obviously sells more easily anything he does,I think it's normal.
some accounts are favored by the sales system for reasons such as how long you have been a contributor or decisions made by the Adobe Stock team,I don't know,obviously I don't know just as no one knows.
Don't take me the wrong way,I'm still making 40-50% more every month compared to the same month last year,which isn't bad,at least I see an improvement,but 50% of little money is still little money,and having to wait at least another 2-3 years before having a more solid income from Adobe is becoming difficult.
I hope this AI content makes some difference,when I have at least 1000 AI contentent for sale I will evaluate the results.
for the moment I have generated 15,000 between Firefly and Midjourney,and then I had to find a way to improve them, because unfortunately I work with hardware at the limits of what is possible,now I've found the way and much more AI content will follow soon.
I was rather disappointed by Midjourney,for what it costs it still has many,too many generation errors,very soon Firefly will be the best AI,I have no doubt about it,it is already better in many aspects.
so I don't have much AI content for sale at the moment and I have 85 in review.
I really hope that with this AI content I can speed up my earnings on Adobe,because time is passing and I'm not getting any younger!
Yes, that's exactly what some people here already suspect. That Adobe favors some users in terms of review time and image rankings. I don't think it's because of the keywords, image quality or other aspects. It's not the whole story. Maybe it's just a randomized system to hold a carrot out to contributors to chase in the hopes of increasing revenue. I mean, even featuring the bestselling contributors only serves to increase competition within the contributors. It would be more useful just to show design trends instead of featuring bestselling ports but it would not create the same feeling among contributors. @ Back to topic: I currently wait over a month for the last batch.
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« on: March 12, 2024, 07:33 »
I appreciate your honesty with your experiences and agree there is an industry wide slowdown - probably not surprising with global inflation and economies slowing etc. I've had a brief look at the thread you posted on Pond5 and will have a better read later.
For clarity... it's actually massive theft of wealth through massive money printing under the guise of "saveukraine"/"convidpayments", etc... money printing (aka "inflation") is a way of "taxing" ppl without them reallly knowing it... if they make things 2x as expensive as before, they've essentially "stolen" 50% of people's wealth via money printing...
Sure it is. It was always in history. Wealth inequality can only arise through robbery, theft and exploitation. Today's financial system is completely decoupled from a productivity-influenced economy and has become nothing more than a financial casino.
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« on: March 11, 2024, 09:08 »
I can also confirm the decline. I haven't much sales that before (around 15 sells / ~ 10 USD a week) but now been fallen behind (to 5 to 7 sells / ~ 4 - 5 USD) with a port of approx 1,300 AI images. Currently I try to reset the port and deleted all portraits (approx 500 images) and starting reuploading them with much better quality (AI upscaler). Gonna also try different keywords.
What I have noticed is that AI generated food and some niche content are much better selling than people images. Gonna also try some product / poster mockups, interior shots and skin / facial care / product advertising motifs.
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« on: March 11, 2024, 07:21 »
Yes, it doesn't seem to be as easy as you might think at the first glance.
I found one "study" with analyse of the keywords and other factors of the 10,000 bestsellers on SS:
https://xpiksapp.com/blog/microstock-keywording-analysis/
There are some interesting insights, some no-brainer but aswell some patterns you would not think about.
Probably one should focus more on low-competition keywords by using more verbs and adjectives and less nouns.
Aswell one should probably try more 2-word keywords.
https://xpiksapp.com/blog/keywording-files-for-microstock/
Another interesting aspect to think about is using various image descriptions and keywords instead of the same ones for series, since then images would not compete against each other.
Aswell not using too generic keywords.
I wonder if updating the keywords to current new trends would lead to a better visibility / rankings and more sells or if the ranking is already "fixed" within the time.
You could spend less time trying to trick the search and take better pictures.
Nah, 10 to 15 years ago I would agree but today the market is so much over-saturated that I would say keywording is more important today like companies who will spent much money for SEO to get a ranking on the first page in google search results. If you won't get a place on the first three pages for a relevant keyword then it's almost over. No customer will search longer by scrolling down. He probably will try instead another keywords. You could spend less time trying to trick the search and take better pictures.
But surely even great images will fail without a mastery of keywording? I think they both need to go hand in hand.
I think that only the author's rating affects the number of views. Adobe promotes top authors, and it doesnt matter what tags these authors write.
Actually I had already the same idea but didn't want to spell it out loud. I mean Adobe even show most popular contributors so it would probably be not entirely absurd to think that Adobe also promotes them by giving a higher ranking to their portfolios aswell images. The question is then how do you get promoted? I remember @Cobalt mentioning that she had been extremely pushed and earned almost the fourfold or even more? And then been reversing back to even a lower sell frequency. I mean how can this happen if her keywords and portfolio haven't changed? Even seasonal content can't explain it at all.
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