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Dreamstime.com / Re: DT is a Nightmarestime
« on: January 08, 2024, 16:58 »
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

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Adobe Stock / Re: Account blocked - another story
« on: January 03, 2024, 16:14 »
@aprott:
First of all, I'm really glad to hear that your account has been unblocked by Mat - great!

As I have had a blocked account myself (the reason was a reference to "Giger") I know what it's like... I then went through my account and deleted everything that could even remotely be a reference problem from my portfolio, e.g. cars without logos (because of the shape), clown dolls (possibly alluding to a movie), etc.

I hope your account will recover quite quickly from the block - it started slowly for me and after 10-12 weeks I was back to about the download level per week from before.

All fingers are crossed :-)

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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

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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 :)

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: November Statements ready.
« on: December 19, 2023, 09:11 »
Since I uploaded very little this year I think that is fair. Next year I will  make a serious push until I reach 200 dollars a month.

Will I need to add 10k files for that?
I am at about $200 per month average with approx. 2k clips - and my clips are not at a high quality level.

For example this clip https://www.istockphoto.com/de/video/niedrige-winkelansicht-eines-fahrenden-autos-in-die-vorbeifahrenden-b%C3%A4ume-gm1330987881-414256398 had a $76 dollar sale last month, done with a smartphone sitting in a car.

I think a broad variation of topics is just as important as a usable quality - with a top quality you will certainly achieve more high sales.

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: November Statements ready.
« on: December 18, 2023, 18:04 »
No, I use Chaotica.
Thanks for the info - I will try that one for sure, looks nice :)

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Canva / Re: Almost any images get rejected instantly?!
« on: December 18, 2023, 18:00 »
The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42!
We definitely agree - there's no doubt about the 42 :-)

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: November Statements ready.
« on: December 18, 2023, 16:26 »
Someone in North Carolina spent $499 on one of my abstract fractal images. (My non-exclusive 15% was $74.85.)
Very nice one :-)
I like to do fractals too - do you use Ultra Fractal 6 too?

Michael / MPfoto71

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Canva / Re: Almost any images get rejected instantly?!
« on: December 18, 2023, 16:22 »
I for one am done with Canva - I got about 40-60 images through out of the last 2,000 or so I submitted, everything else was rejected instantly.

I get no response from support and the Magic Creator payment percentages are so absurdly low that it's not even worth talking about ($0.25 last month on 10k assets).

Then the royalty earnings are also lower every month, even if the applies and exports increase.

It just doesn't make sense if you can't get your material on the site and since obviously nobody from Canva cares either, it doesn't matter.


So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: November 2023 downloads
« on: December 16, 2023, 09:11 »
I just checked my video downloads in 2023 for the video sites - maybe this helps you a little:

- IStock - RpD $3,09 - Revenue 33.21%
- ShutterStock - RpD $14,25 - Revenue 32.05%
- AdobeStock - RpD $9,87 - Revenue 25.90%
- Pond5 - RpD $13,32 - Revenue 5,99%
- DepositPhotos - RpD $8,09 - Revenue 1,82%
- Dreamstimes - RpD 5,09 - Revenue 0,57%

So in my case IStock has the lowest RpD, but a lot of videos sales which makes it the highest revenue site.
Pond5, Deposit, Dreamstime (in my case) are just a waste of time.

But those numbers may by completely different for other people with higher quality videos then mine :-)

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Thanks for sharing the link :)

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Canva / Re: Almost any images get rejected instantly?!
« on: December 12, 2023, 15:49 »
@Cascoly
Thank you for sharing!

That's what I call a terse response with a standard answer.
But at least I now know what answer I will get, if they ever respond to my support request on this topic.

With every further attempt to place images there, I get the impression that they want to get rid of us (which I would understand in purely economic terms) - but then where are the images supposed to come from?

Because let's be honest, the AI offered by Canva doesn't even begin to replace any photos at the moment.

@DannyCanva:
In case the contributors are of any interest to you, a statement here would be really helpful :-)

Have a sunny day@all

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Canva / Re: Canva July sales are in, and it's not good
« on: December 12, 2023, 10:55 »
November numbers are in:
-> Exports +15%, Earnings -2%

And an unbelievable $0,24 for Magic Creator Payment
(see image)

If it wasn't so absurd, you'd actually have to laugh about it ;-)

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Canva / Re: Almost any images get rejected instantly?!
« on: December 12, 2023, 05:59 »
About 12 hours later the images got rejected (of course) ;-)

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Canva / Re: Almost any images get rejected instantly?!
« on: December 11, 2023, 19:20 »
After hundreds of my pictures were rejected within 2-5 seconds, I tried myself at a new discipline today and made some "different" pictures.

What we see there is Gaussian distributed image noise and different colors and sizes - or in short random numbers.
6 images submitted and none of them were immediately rejected?!
(see attached image)

Unfortunately I didn't get an answer from the support either, so I guess I'll have to find out for myself what else is accepted.

To be continued...


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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock "Contributor Fund"
« on: December 11, 2023, 06:21 »
I wonder what they will say if you write to them for support, although I think they will say the standard phrase... we collect then well pay
I asked the support team this question about the 6-month payout for the "Contributor Fund" and so far they haven't said anything about it.
But it's only been a good week - I think they'll just ignore the question.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: What a cool SS, how well he sells
« on: December 05, 2023, 17:44 »
Nice one, grats!  8)

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Canva / Re: Almost any images get rejected instantly?!
« on: December 04, 2023, 16:48 »
Btw: The isolated png's are still in review...
Today after almost 2 month waiting time my transparent png's got 100% rejected.

It is really incomprehensible what the goal of Canva is?

Here in the forum nobody answers, in the support nobody answers and images are almost 100% immediately rejected by some automatic system.

Dear Canva team,

have you become so indifferent to us that we are no longer even worthy of a short reply?
If so, all you have to do is say so and you'll be rid of us in no time :-)

Have a sunny day,
Michael

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Canva / Re: Almost any images get rejected instantly?!
« on: November 28, 2023, 19:32 »
@DannyCanva:
Is there any information about this upload problem?
I have now tried again with about 200 files, including photos, textures, backgrounds, artwork of animals, abstracts, ...

It simply rejects almost everything - 1 of my photos made it to approved, out of the 200 or so files.

Let me ask you directly:
- Is my material too bad?
- Does Canva simply not want new material?
- Am I doing something wrong with the upload?

I don't understand it :-)

Have a sunny day@all,
Michael

Btw: The isolated png's are still in review...

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Have a sunny day@all,
Rain is very usefull
We definitely have enough rain here in northern Germany - a ray of sunshine every now and then is quite pleasant ;-)

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Well, you use "Gaza" and "Gaza strip" as keywords for an image that was AI generated, if I understand you correctly and was therefor certainly not taken in Gaza and the keywords are strongly misleading at best. I would not use them, whether it may be a loophole in the current guidelines or not. Also, what does this picture have to do with tourism?

Regarding the second picture: It does not look at all like any picture of actual climate blockades I have seen. Who could have use for such a fake image, unless someone buys it by mistake, thinking it displays an actual event ?
You're absolutely right, the picture wasn't taken in Gaza, because it wasn't taken at all.
However, certain basic elements of the generative AI (GAN network) have certainly been incorporated from images taken in Gaza - so it is not wrong and it is not right.
(But then we drift into the ideological discussion about whether AI images are really images or not.)

And this is exactly what my question above is about, whether the new rule only affects the title or also the keywords - and because I don't know, the images (as I wrote above) have already been removed.

On the subject of climate activists - well, just because you haven't seen this kind of gathering yourself doesn't mean that it hasn't happened in this form.
The picture was intended as general illustrative material on the subject.

However, on closer inspection (thanks to Ralf at this point) I have to admit to my shame that the AI picture with the climate activists is really bad - that was one of the first pictures I submitted.
There are clearly too many feet and too few hands in the picture - my bad :-)

I'll remove that picture later too...

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If you were just illustrating a concept, and clearly labelled the image(s) as "gen ai", then I don't think you should have done that. From the screenshots you posted, it appears you did clearly show it was a "concept", which should have been fine.
Thank you for your opinion, which I basically share - but after I already have an account block behind me, which was quite expensive - I have become very careful.

Fortunately, my account block was only for 8 days, which was probably only so short thanks to the help of Mat and Mr Gomez, but it still cost me all my top 25 images, which are hardly ever bought anymore and even after 3 months and 4,500 additional assets, I'm still not at the same level as before the account block.

That makes you cautious and now I'd rather wait and see what Mat has to say about the questions - I can always upload the images again if it doesn't conflict with the guidelines.

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Addendum to the previous post:
I have now checked all my images and deleted everything that even comes close to a possible interpretation of the new directive.

All in all, uploading AI images to AdobeStock now feels like doing something illegal.
The threat of an account block is constantly hovering over you and, at least for me, I feel under massive pressure here - it is not fun anymore to upload...

In the process, another question has arisen:
(Question IV) From when does the new guideline apply, as it is not yet mentioned as an item in the submission window?

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Thank you Mat for letting us know!

If you allow I would like to ask, what this part of the rules mean:
"... from submitting generative AI content with titles that imply that it is depicting an actual newsworthy event. If a contributor mistitles generative AI content, we will review and take appropriate action, including removing the content or terminating the contributor account."

A few questions immediately come to mind here, as I already have an account block behind me:

(Question I) "If a contributor mistitles..." - does this mean, only the title is checked? Or in other words, is it all about the title and the keywords don't matter?

(Question II) "... with titles that imply that it is depicting an actual newsworthy event" - does this mean, only if a title names a specific event like "35th birthday of ..."

(Question III) Can files that are already online or have been submitted before the rule change also cause an account block under the new rule? In other words, do we now have to check every single image that was previously accepted?


I have prepared two examples from my account via screenshot (see below) and wonder if these pictures describe a specific event or if the title is general enough.
One image of those has already been accepted, one image was submitted before the new rule came into force and of course some of the keywords do refer in some kind to actual events in the world, but not a specific event in the title.

Perhaps I'm being a little overcautious, but this rule extension has me worried that the next and perhaps final account block is just around the corner.

Have a sunny day@all,
Michael


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Shutterstock.com / Re: What a cool SS, how well he sells
« on: November 22, 2023, 07:30 »
Very nice - Grats!

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