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« on: December 07, 2024, 11:28 »
For the love of god, make the blue bar go away!
Aaargh! How long will we have to look at it blocking our balance?
They don't care. When Mat was here at least there was a chance he'd communicate to development, now nada.
For me even more annoying is "Select Period" in insights that constantly resets itself to last 3 months. I typically want to see since 1st of current month & constantly have to modify field. Remembering user preference would be super easy to support, but again they simply don't care.
You're correct, it always resets to the last three months. It does remember to show Activity, or whatever someone checked last. I'm pretty sure the answer from Mat, most often, was, I've mentioned that to them, there are other projects being worked on first. I'd like to have better historical stats. I don't think Adobe considers that important. It's all there, we can see it, in batches, by time, we just can't all of it, at once.
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« on: December 07, 2024, 11:17 »
Yes production is very easy. Hundreds company is offering this service for monthly or yearly payment.
I'll never be going into that. Thanks for the interesting story and how it's done.
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« on: December 06, 2024, 13:34 »
Nice stats! I would suppose your christmas and winter content is currently selling like hotdogs?
Is that similar to selling like hotcakes, or best thing since sliced bread? (what was the best thing, before sliced bread?)  Flying off the shelf, and the next big thing. LOL But here's hot dogs, and I think that's better than what I do. "50 customers per day * $8 per dog = $400 per day" 33% cost, would be 66% profit. $264 a day. I'd like to make that with Microstock? I doubt that any hot dog cart actually makes 50% but OK $200 a day? Not Bad? Oh yes, When I say Holiday images, mine are Thanksgiving which is localized, but then Christmas and some small New Years downloads. Next is Easter and Mardi Gras. Neither of the last two are worth mention, but they are Holiday images. I've tried Valentines, St. Patrick's Day and the 4th of July. Still nothing beats Christmas.
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« on: December 06, 2024, 13:21 »
Once you really start to look for niches and gaps you realize how empty the agencies really are.
I think there are some of us who have been saying that for about ten years. Find subjects, shots that are missing or have low counts, maybe older or not so great images, and make the best one possible, new, fresh, modern, or at least better than anything else that's on the sites. You're right, there's room for niche subjects, and a need. The other thing that's easy is, find location specific images, locally. There never seems to be an end to the need for those, and everyone can't go there to compete. Along the same lines, if anyone can get access to something that most others cannot, that's also a good possibility.
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« on: December 06, 2024, 13:09 »
There was a thread about lowest custom rate on Adobe, but I can't find it right now, so I'll post here.
Today I had lowest yet - 30 cents. Until today lowest was 0.31
Image used for AI resources are at Custom. But we don't know when that is happening or if it has. However, Custom can be anything licensed from a contract for a bulk/custom rate. Without all kinds of details, we still get our standard percentage for what the customer paid. We haven't had a pay cut. Adobe is just selling the product for less.
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« on: December 06, 2024, 12:55 »
You made the entire 2:27 video from AI short clips? Amazing! That must have taken a great amount of planning and prompting.  I've never done any voice over, which I assume is text to voice, and the closed caption works well. 👍 One thing,I believe it would be how Vikings Built ships, in the past tense? Unless you did mean, they are building ships now? 
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« on: December 04, 2024, 12:23 »
Over 50% of all cryptocurrencies have died. Of the over 24,000 cryptocurrencies listed on CoinGecko since 2014, 14,039 have died. The number of cryptocurrency failures by year of launch are: Year of Launch Number of Dead Coins 2014 37 2015 27 2016 32 2017 346 2018 1,104 2019 1,154 2020 1,806 2021 5,724 2022 3,520 2023 289 "Unbank Yourself" is more like, empty your bank account and net worth? To go back to the OP and DOGE, highest every was May 2021 @ .55, anyone who sold then, is a genius. Then the slump back to under 10c, and magic, which made me look at this, up to 20c this year, hovering between 10 and 20 cents, and right now, DOGECOIN has surpassed 40 For anyone here who bought at 10c or 5c, I suggest, sell now, before the bubble pops.
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« on: December 04, 2024, 11:50 »
Here is another one, same AI pictures from Adobe published on SS as well.
https://www.shutterstock.com/es/g/karacacen
https://stock.adobe.com/contributor/207394829/karacacennet
I suppose if SS ever cared to check, this would be a problem. Oh look, description on Adobe "Indian Ocean, Mauritius Whales and sperm whales and vibrant coral reefs and sea Turtles. Mauritius island under waterfall, Mauritius undersea, Mauritius sea" WOW!
Again, it does raise the question as to whether Shutterstock are happy to just let this slide through, and will just deal with any customer complaints if they get them.
That is the question, isn't it?
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« on: December 04, 2024, 11:31 »
Envato just paid me one cent for a photo!
I'd like to say, you win, and other than returns, 1 is the bottom whole number. But if you have an iStock account, Connect sales are lower.  Less that a cent. Not my record low, just at random look at connect sales commission. Getty 0.00529 license x 15% = $0.00079 commission. I share in your sadness for the current situation.
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« on: December 02, 2024, 15:19 »
I only had 900 and something, so I made an effort to get to 1,000. Sort of a sideways joke, because those who recall, one of the regulars here years ago, had a personal mission to make it to 10,000 files, in a year on SS. (and he did) I don't hear from him anymore, but as he pounded the keys and made more and more photos, he also saw what sold and did more of anything like that. In the end, some very good numbers. Today 4DL, Position 17,700th and I'm doing this to point out how 4 DLs puts me near the middle, which is sad if anyone looks at the overall situation. I like Adobe, don't get me wrong, I'm just saying, if I'm in the middle, wow, there's not much going on for the next 15,000 people. The agencies rely on a lot of people chasing the dream of a decent stable income as well as hobbyists who are glad to get pennies to keep their supply of images high and the prices they have to pay to get them low. They have no real interest in discouraging people from submitting - unless they are only submitting junk, then they should be discouraged, but even a complete hack gets lucky every once in a while and can producer a modest seller.
If you have drive and talent there are definitely better ways to make money. If you don't have drive and talent there are also better ways to make money.
I don't blame the agencies for taking money and they don't really say how much you can make. OK I need to qualify that, the top and the honest agencies, don't make those promises. The biggest push for "make money on Microstock" was people selling referrals and their book or their courses. There was more money in that, until the agencies had enough people and didn't need the social marketing. Just like levels and pay for us, they took away, referral bonuses, except for people who bring in new buyers. I'm a hobbyist and no I'm not happy making pennies. But that's all that's out there, unless someone is dedicated, smart and hard working. If there was any easy money, that's over and gone. The most surprising thing I see is, new people come here and read and ask questions and they try to find some secret, how to make money. Most of the forum is honest and says,"You're too late" but the new people keep trying new agencies, new schemes, new programs with empty promises, and they just don't get past entry levels, because, that's all that's left. Free sites, who would ever believe the numbers they claim for giving away your work? Next new person who reads this... join the top five agencies, work hard and upload, don't bother with the "next big thing".
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« on: November 30, 2024, 12:31 »
No one has tried or uses this one? https://www.cmsaccount.com/ CMSaccount
i use it, the russian guy is ok, helps when needed.
Thanks, how much trouble was it, to get a working version, that actually took payments and allowed people to download images?
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« on: November 29, 2024, 12:21 »
I can't find the terms of use anymore but I remember a period of 3 months when you were not allowed to delete a huge amount of your content. Probably they changed it in the meantime. But I personally would not face the risk, especially when you have a good selling account since It's very hard to start with a new one nowdays.
You can read your contributor agreement here: https://wwwimages2.adobe.com/content/dam/cc/en/legal/servicetou/Adobe-Stock-Contributor-Agreement-en_US-20240618.pdf
It states:
"You may remove any Work from the Website at any time, provided, however, that you do not remove more than 100 items of Work or 10% of the Work, whichever is greater, in any 90-day period without 90 days'
prior written notice to Adobe."
What would be something I'd fear, would be that I remove something and then the new version is rejected. Seeing that this year, I have more rejections than accepted images, and suddenly I don't know how to take a photo or focus the camera. I don't know that I'd want to risk, remove and upload tricks.
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« on: November 29, 2024, 12:18 »
I just love this time of the year
pos 856, files 7050
Is the position based on the number of downloads or on earnings? For example, someone might be in position 15,000 and have $300 in earningshow does that work?
As @cobalt wrote, supposedly DL only. That's what we have been told by Adobe via their advocate. About Thanksgiving, assuming that Position is relative to everyone else, then pretty much everyone should have the same lower numbers, which means, everyone should have about the same position, as any other week. Maybe that doesn't happen, but logically, that's what would be expected. The exception is, if someone has better preforming images during the holiday season. If the highest number is 32,500 which someone said they had, when they were not -0- anymore, then 900, or "under 1,000" is the top 3% of all people who are reported. It could only be better than the top 3%, if people with one DL fall below the top 32,500, for example. We don't know. You want scary? My numbers right now: Downloads 25, Position 15,550 (in the middle), 1,031 Images. I admit that I'm terrible, don't try hard and don't have many images. So if I'm in the middle, just imagine how bad things are for people doing worse than 15,550?
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« on: November 28, 2024, 14:53 »
LAION owns the metadata and release as CC-BY-4.0
"We do not own the copyright of the images or text."
LAION 5B was completed in 2022 before AI had invaded most sites.
LAION 5B and the previous collections are Open Source
Any future training should exclude AI images. I'm not saying it will, but it should. Part of the problem of scraping for AI is more complicated when it comes to text and undisclosed writings that are created by AI. But here, I think we're concerned with images.
"AI has generated 150 years worth of images in less than 12 months, study shows" https://www.designboom.com/technology/ai-has-generated-150-years-worth-of-photographs-in-less-than-12-months-study-shows-08-21-2023/
Just for interest: LAION-5B contains 2.3 billion English samples, 2.2 billion multilingual samples, and 1.2 billion unknown language samples. Depending on bandwidth, its feasible to download the entire LAION-5B dataset in 7 days using 10 nodes.
I hope that answers some questions about the size and access. I think from what I've found, the dataset is free, and no one was charged or paid for the content. Non-profit funding was used for the gathering of the data.
I don't know if anyone has taken a closer look at the LAION-5B dataset.
I don't remember any high-resolution images in there, just some thumbnails with watermarks.
I mean, if someone had painted the pictures, scanned them and then used them as training material, would anyone have complained?
For me, Robert is the epitome of hypocrisy.
He complains about the LAION-5B dataset, but generates his own AI images with Midjourney & Co.
Clown world.
I can't comment on anyone else, or hypocrisy, I don't know. I'm interested in the questions of law, AI and the output. The way I understand things and I know there are people who disagree, the images are used for training, not for creation of new images. So the machine it trained to make a banana after looking at thousands of pictures of bananas, and learning the shape, color and bits of information of "what is a banana". Then when a new image is made, none of the original images are directly used, as the machine creates from what it has learned. Also I see many posts and if I read things right, LAION 5B and the previous projects are licensed Creative Commons and they are Open Source, which I interpret to mean, they are FREE not licensed for a fee. Since those datasets are older and not continuous, completed in 2022, anything new that some AI software wants to add, to make the machine better, has to be paid for, from some other source.
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« on: November 28, 2024, 14:24 »
Sorry I was distracted by cheap unrealistic mugs. Nice link, I didn't know I could do that https://pete-klinger.pixels.com/shop/coffee+mugs
Seems that review times are still random and not systematic. Someone else wrote me that their videos, some are reviewed, some have been weeks, and something new, got reviewed in days, while the old ones are sitting.
I don't have any theory or answer, except it's random, but the fact is, they are varied and unpredictable.
You have your own private stalker who follows your accounts. They started here for one message and didn't post anything again for 7 years. Now you're getting reviews, advice on what you should write here and they monitor your microstock. I think you should avoid and ignore anyone who is following you, don't answer or reply to taunts or unwanted attention. That's my advice.
Review times are better now, I'm seeing faster reviews lately.
Correct, done. 👍
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« on: November 27, 2024, 15:12 »
I have had numerous instances of image sales on Alamy that are refunded and rebought. Usually the new sale is for a small bit less $ - often just cents. The most frustrating was when they cut our take 20% from 50 to 40% and a big sale from before the slash was refunded and repurchased after the slash (months later) for maybe a dollar less, but I got a lot less because of the percentage cut.
Do you have any theory / explanation as to why refund / repurchase, for slightly lower amount, happens? I presume this has nothing to do with Alamy accounting, but end customer?
I always assumed it was mostly from the customer - maybe they realized they needed a slightly different usage or time frame and then contacted Alamy who said refund and purchase this slightly different deal. I don't actually know though.
I've had the same and the following sale is always lower. $77.24 became $69.51. Another funny one was someone licensed the same image, small and large, same day, $40 and $40? Unless there was something in the news and I magically had two sales of the same image of a scenic view? Surprised that this ever sold at all, anywhere. Hazy morning, I climbed up a day after it rained, no choice. Take it or leave it. 2 miles roundtrip, 350 feet elevation gain.  But I've never had an image refunded, that wasn't licensed right after, again. Yet.
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« on: November 27, 2024, 14:57 »
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« on: November 27, 2024, 14:34 »
Made it into the inner 1k. Happy day
Nice Numbers!
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« on: November 27, 2024, 14:31 »
LAION owns the metadata and release as CC-BY-4.0 "We do not own the copyright of the images or text." LAION 5B was completed in 2022 before AI had invaded most sites. LAION 5B and the previous collections are Open Source Any future training should exclude AI images. I'm not saying it will, but it should. Part of the problem of scraping for AI is more complicated when it comes to text and undisclosed writings that are created by AI. But here, I think we're concerned with images. "AI has generated 150 years worth of images in less than 12 months, study shows" https://www.designboom.com/technology/ai-has-generated-150-years-worth-of-photographs-in-less-than-12-months-study-shows-08-21-2023/Just for interest: LAION-5B contains 2.3 billion English samples, 2.2 billion multilingual samples, and 1.2 billion unknown language samples. Depending on bandwidth, its feasible to download the entire LAION-5B dataset in 7 days using 10 nodes. I hope that answers some questions about the size and access. I think from what I've found, the dataset is free, and no one was charged or paid for the content. Non-profit funding was used for the gathering of the data.
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« on: November 26, 2024, 16:05 »
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« on: November 25, 2024, 12:13 »
Compared to last year I have now improved a little bit selling around 5 images more than last year per day. But still on track to around 1200 dollars which would be zero growth yoy.
The rank looks nice, but I have a lot more and much better files now.
pos 1100, 7000 files.
I do have very widely distributed sales which is good. Just the volume I expected for the season is missing. But to not be dependent on individual bestsellers is an improvement, also better protection from copy cats. Even if they copy my files they will get just 0-5 sales a year and quickly move on to a place with more regular bestsellers. But for me a long tail port is now a more healthy strategy.
I will probably also not land on the bestseller lists this way.
Good work and smart thinking. I'd say one thing that you are looking at that you should be happy, not unhappy about. You don't want or need to be on the best sellers list and for the copy cats, that's where they will look for ideas. There seems to be nothing about making that list that means anything for personally improved sales. People on Adobe and other sites have said the boost in being popular, doesn't seem to make any difference. Just like being a featured artist on some other sites. Sure, you can feel good and have some bragging rights, but it won't buy lunch.
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« on: November 24, 2024, 14:08 »
Deletion of uploaded files is treated same as file rejection and effects on your stats and sales.
If that is the case with deleting stuck files, then the effect would be negated when re-uploading them back into the queue?
Of course NOT.
if you upload 1000 images your upload counter will state that you have 1000 uploads.
And if you delete 100 and then upload those 100 again, your counter will state that you have 1100 uploads and 100 deleted / rejected images.
It is a basic math.
Where do I see the stats and sales you are talking about, that shows how deleting a file becomes a rejection? What difference do stats make?
Upload counter? Stats and Sales? Where are these on Adobe? I can't find them.
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« on: November 23, 2024, 12:57 »
When I started and the Alamy forum was fun and friendly the "What's your BHZ" came up. For anyone who tests, just keep in mind that some people have placed the BHZ in the wrong place or more than once. They will be ahead of anyone doing it right. Keyword Only
I don't understand if it works by Pseudo or my account.
Multiple Pseudos are too complicated for my taste. Just describe the asset best you can. Measures tool is very valuable as you can see what real customer is searching for. Phrases in particular. I frequently modify metadata after I see some search term I haven't been thinking about.
Their Forum was once ok, you could find valuable info. "wiskerke", think guy is Dutch, would often post very intelligent stuff. But it became full of snitches and I don't go there anymore either.
As for Tags/Supertags etc. it is also likely they periodically tune algorithms just like everyone else. My observation are less "scientific" than yours, I just notice very often in Measures my asset was returned and/or clicked for search term that was in the Caption. IMHO using these 150 characters in Caption field in optimal way is most important thing.
I don't really disagree, well, except the forum can be fun, now and then, but it's not what it used to be. I did pseudonyms, back in the start, because people had all kinds of theories about placement and if you put your best images into a "good" pseudo, then you would rank higher and get more views, and maybe people would look at your other images. Or something along those lines. Also that the pseudo with the higher rank would be ahead on the search pages. I just don't know. One is Motorsports, another illustrations, another is nature or wildlife, and the other is the Crapstock... I mean Microstock snapshots. I do know that Alamy has a diversity algorithm, so they won't have a whole page at the start of the most popular images, on one search, because someone does that subject the most. Say someone who specializes in birds, and then a search for a specific bird, would be a flock of their pictures, before everyone else. To our benefit, diversity is supposed to mix the results. Yes to captions which are also used for ALT text by agencies. Many assistive technologies stop reading alt text at 125 characters. Search engines may never see any words after the first 125 characters. This could matter for SEO. Best and most important words first. Scientific, maybe, but barely. (or someone might argue hardly?) I tagged five images with the nonsense word keyword and a real word that was the variable, and waited overnight. Just because I did one test and saw the order, doesn't mean, the same results will always occur in the same way. It would need to be tested on different images, selected at random, and then notes made again. I'd say another ten times, might show a pattern, and if they aren't always the same results, in the same order, then the whole conclusion is unsupported. So when it snows and I'm bored, I'll go look again. Here's some fun? For a single keyword, where there are only four pages of results, I have ten images on the first page. When it was only one page, I had all ten on the first page. Since then someone has uploaded a bunch of some event, and they have the entire 4th page and many on the 3rd page. Someone else used that word for their series of images on a different subject and the fill out page 3 and much of page 2. Nice if someone searching uses that word, I'm well placed. What if they don't use that word, and instead us a more common term? My best selling image is #4 and I don't appear again in the 42 pages, until page nine. Add the word "Illustration" and I'm back to page one, some images that are illustrations are missing. Thanks for asking, I need to go edit...
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« on: November 23, 2024, 12:22 »
That image by Herr Mustafa is brutal
Scary almost. 
I really don't get how these get accepted. I have given up submitting pngs to Adobe, because they got rejected so often, even though I could not see anything wrong with them. I even clean them up precisely with a graphic tablet. And then I see something like this gets accepted?
I haven't quite given up yet, but I agree with you, some things I see accepted are terrible, and some rejections, don't make sense. The distorted and bizarre AI that sneaks is, is another part that's unexplained. There is something wrong with the bestseller lists, I think it is being manipulated.
It has a lot of weird ports.
Here is someone with extremely bad isolations/pngs
English US version:
https://stock.adobe.com/contributor/208564524/mustafa?load_type=author&prev_url=detail
100 pages of 100% AI, which looks like it's from an image factory. Reminder: Recent top sellers are determined each week using the following process:
For each asset type we generate a list of 200 contributors who made the most sales in the previous week, only considering their uploads from the past six months. Then, we order the list based on each contributors uploads/sales ratio, and the top 10 contributors on this list are featured as Recent top sellers.
Contributors are eligible to be featured at most once every five weeks. This selection process is subject to change in the future.Recent top sellers = most sales in the previous week, only considering their uploads from the past six months
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« on: November 23, 2024, 12:01 »
Sorry I was distracted by cheap unrealistic mugs. Nice link, I didn't know I could do that https://pete-klinger.pixels.com/shop/coffee+mugsSeems that review times are still random and not systematic. Someone else wrote me that their videos, some are reviewed, some have been weeks, and something new, got reviewed in days, while the old ones are sitting. I don't have any theory or answer, except it's random, but the fact is, they are varied and unpredictable.
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