This ranking system is pretty meaningless for video contributors. It's obvious to me when I see people sharing screenshots of their rank on Discord that it is solely based on number of downloads not earnings.

You're right - I've been observing this for a while now - the rank rises if you have a lot of downloads in a week, but with few but high downloads the rank still falls.

So it seems to be all about the number of downloads without average selling prices (RpD) - which is particularly meaningless for video sellers and high-priced sales.

Greetings to all, recently I received a notification on Adobe stock that my account has been deactivated, I don't know for what reason, can someone answer me. Any advice would be appreciated

Only Adobe can answer why your account was deactivated.

I also had such an account block once - the best thing to do is to contact Adobe's Contributor Support (as the page you actually see when you login should state), as far as I remember the email is contributor-support@adobe.com

In my case, the reason for the block was the use of an artist name in my search terms for some images that I must have missed, which was a violation of the submission guidelines.

What I also find a bit strange... although strange is rather normal by Shutter...

The announcement email says:
"Review our Vertical Video Content Brief and upload your clips as soon as possible to ensure your work is showcased to our global network of buyers from day one!"

And if you then submit a few videos (50+) it says here :
"You have reached your account's submission limit for videos. Please wait 24 hours to submit more content."

It can take a while to upload 1,200 videos...

For completeness:
I had the same problem yesterday with the "double" plan.
(See post somewhere above)

Today the german telephone support was available and they removed my payed plan and added the time difference to my new "code-plan" - it took a while but worked very well.

Thanks Mat for the info :-)

Nice to see that the requirements for the bonus program have only increased very slightly.

Sora is the big news of the day, but I am interested to know if its training set comes from Shutterstock's videos as part of their partnership with OpenAI, and if there will be any adequate compensation in the Contributor fund.

This question was also on my mind today... I would just guess that there will only be compensation, if at all, if someone finds out whether this was really done with Shutterstock data (and therefore with ours) and it then boils up high enough in the press.

It certainly won't come from Shutter itself and I'm also involved with about 4,000 videos there.
Let's see if something comes of it when the new system goes live.

Hello everyone,

after the Magic Creator Payments are at 0 for the second month in a row, I wonder where they have gone?

They were already ridiculously low anyway, but for 2 months now there has been nothing there - not even $0.00 but just an empty field?!

Magic Creator Payment
Sept 2023 - $2.01
Oct 2023 - $2.00
Nov 2023 - $0.24
Dec 2023 - empty field
Jan 2024 - empty field
(the monthly income is at about the same level in all 5 months with increasing applies and exports)

Is it the same for you?

I wonder if we are being treated correctly here?
Or will the income perhaps still be delivered later? (please don't take this question seriously ^^)

Yes, I know that I'm talking about Canva and the phrase "being treated correctly" is a mockery anyway, but maybe it's just me and you have regular income.

Have a sunny day,
Michael

Yes, I still had sales in January and also in February.
But it was just 7 sales in January. I had 37 sales in January 2023, just for comparison.

Thanks for the info - so it is just me not having at least 1 sale :-)
I thought that shutter maybe stopped this site already, but that is not the case.

Thank you. I guess my new plan to make millions with images distributed by pond5 is dead now

Made my day ;-)

Some may have read my numbers about rejections in the other thread https://www.microstockgroup.com/38186/38186/msg596960/#msg596960

Today (Sunday) the numbers are in my case getting worse: appoved 12, rejected 48 (2 of those rejections have been uploaded only 3 hours ago)

So the complete numbers of rejections for the last 10 weeks in my case are:
05.Nov 2023 to 12.Nov 2023 - accepted 287, rejected 13 - rejection rate: 4.3%
12.Nov 2023 to 19.Nov 2023 - accepted 223, rejected 57 - rejection rate: 19.6%
19.Nov 2023 to 26.Nov 2023 - accepted 180, rejected 32 - rejection rate: 15.1%
26.Nov 2023 to 03.Dez 2023 - accepted 245, rejected 12 - rejection rate: 4.7%
03.Dez 2023 to 10.Dez 2023 - accepted 150, rejected 28 - rejection rate: 15.7%
10.Dez 2023 to 17.Dez 2023 - accepted 175, rejected 21 - rejection rate: 10.7%
17.Dez 2023 to 24.Dez 2023 - accepted 166, rejected 126 - rejection rate: 43.2%
24.Dez 2023 to 31.Dez 2023 - accepted 217, rejected 95 - rejection rate: 29.5%
31.Dez 2023 to 07.Jan 2023 - accepted 252, rejected 249 - rejection rate: 49.7%
07.Jan 2023 to 14.Jan 2023 - accepted 261, rejected 308 - rejection rate: 54.1%

I really wish I could get more than "quality issues" as a reason (that was 99.8% of the reason for rejections)
The nature of my images hasn't changed and the greatly increased rejections since Dec 18th are for the same image sets that had images accepted right before.

I think that the internal guidelines have become a lot stricter - and maybe that's a good thing.
But something more than "quality problems" would be necessary in order to improve ourselves.

I am now also trying smaller scaling of the MidJourney results, more in the x2 range than x4 before.
This should produce fewer artifacts and therefore cleaner images.

Unfortunately, it remains a guess as to whether we were right - unfortunately, we lose a lot of images that could be online until we figured out what the "exact" rejection reason might be.

Have a sunny day,
Michael

How does this site sell videos?

My numbers for Dreamstime at videos sales:
-> 2023 - 3 sales (portfolio 3.500 videos) - revenue 0.52% of my video revenue
-> 2022 - 1 sale  (portfolio 2.000 videos) - revenue 0.16% of my video revenue

I haven't received any payment yet - I applied for everything regularly on the site.
But it's only $11 for me - let's see

Should have waited another day - today the money arrived, thanks@CanStock