Thanks for giving me a little hope about illustrative editorial.

Congratulations!!

Are your acceptance rates normal?

Or are you subjected to the russian roulette declines as well?

I hope they make an exception for those higher up in rank.

Sounds like a good strategy.

I took some time off and started my blog project for something outside of stock.

This week I will finally process videos and every day I will also upload a tiny amount of images, camera and ai to adobe to test the waters.

My biggest concern is the holiday season, especially xmas.

I must upload now to get good returns, but I am worried that it all gets declined because the images always have a lot of copy space.

I feel like I am being punished for having experience.

Adobe is my favorite agency and I could have certainly had a much better season if I had been allowed to work normally.

In quiet times you can move up

pos 1180

"Simple fix, completely separate real images from AI. Different website, different search engine, different review stream. This is better for contributors and customers.
"

This is not better for buyers, I don't want to waste time checking two websites.

In a combined search I can easily pick the best from all media.

If I don't want ai, i just exclude it with one click.


If Adobe had normal upload limits, 1200-2000 a month, they can always offer exceptions to talented producers. And someone wanting to upload 20k files could just write to support for an exception.

However uploading 20k at once, will usually lead to low sales results.

We have practical proof when people left istock exclusivity in 2013.

Those that uploaded gradually and mixed old and new files and created an upload stream made more and more reliable money than those who dropped 20k files in one go.

The success of our ports comes from gradually being discovered and followed by buyers.

Dumping it all at once with little follow up is useless.

They have 5000 images and 800 videos...why should anyone buy there?

"The Vault Content Hub.
A library full of 5000+ stock images, 800+ Videos & Creative Assets including IG posts, reels, stationery, email templates and more. We�ve even included Lightroom Presets inside The Vault Stock so that you can bring The Vault Stock feel to your own branded imagery.

All of the templates are editable in Canva, giving you the power to personalise and make it your own.

With The Vault Stock, you can create content that truly reflects your unique style and brand identity."

made it pos 1430, this is probably my easter high for 2025

I really wish adobe had allowed to keep uploading. It could have been so much better.

good point!

is this a new partner?

might explain a small uptick in more asia centric content from my port.

probably should do more for china, you are right.

Yesterday was my best day of the month with 68 dl. But I am still on track to earn less this easter than last year, because the critical last 4 weeks I could not upload my best files

rank also improved, that will be it for this month

pos 1660, 8100 files

The disrespect is hurting the most. The ghosting silence.

They have unleashed a completely untrained algo on producers and nobody is babysitting it.

It seems to inspect only on visual similarity and colors. It cannot distinguish between subject matters. I had a wedding cake declined that  I was sure was unique because I used the adobe similar tool to see what else was out there.

No similar cakes in sight. But...lots of images with butter, aromatheraphy oils, towels and spa with similar flowers, composition and colors. Got my file declined for similarity.

But other cakes were accepted, that have much less sales value because they lack copy space.

I had other experiences like this, images with lots of copy space declined the one without space accepted.

I make greeting cards. Basically elaborate frames.

Full frame images sell very little, they are the add on the client might download 1-5 times a year.

But a good greeting card can have 20-100 dl a year.

So I have stopped uploading, which is very damaging to my business.

The current system is rewarding the spammers, wether ai or camera, that upload gigantic quantities a day.

Whereas the creators who edit very strongly and upload 5-20 files a day are severly punished and basically cannot grow their ports.


The easiest thing to do if Adobe really felt too many similars where entering the system: Upload limits.

Then adjust that dynamically to match  review capacity.


Adobe is one of the largest software companies on the planet.

The way they look down. on the puny ant creators is eye opening.

looks like things are improving...for a few days...

Thank you for the encouragement and connecting on insta.

I never had a beautiful insta page, so I am late to the party and still trying to understand it.

My first "contacts" where sexbots, creepy men and then people looking for partners for their affiliate marketing program.

A few friends, but otherwise no organic engagement with people trying to lose weight. So far.

Usually, I don't like to cook and don't follow recipes, but maybe for by ebook project I will try to do better.

Went to the farmers market this morning...and realized I am not rich enough to do all my shopping there

Never heard of non-diabetic Reactive Hypoglycemia, looked it up. Glad it is under control. Lear something new every day.

Personally I don't think the low carb diets are that healthy, especially keto.

The "Mastering Diabetes" people are highly critical of the longterm effects.

https://www.masteringdiabetes.org

They recommend eating lots of healthy carbs, loads of fresh fruits, fresh potato, brown rice.

You can train your metabolism to burn carbs better, apparently that even works for diabetes type1. They have some really impressive results, one of the authors is a type 1 diabetic and was able to drastically cut how much insulin he needs.

Their community is filled with people losing weight while eating gigantic fruit and food platters.

It takes a few months for the body to improve the carb metabolism but it really does work. I got a strong boost in weight loss and really enjoy eating bananas, mango, cherries or grapes that I had avoided for years. It got me reliable below 100kg and now stable at 92kg.

I hope to write enough articles on the medium blog that it can be converted and expanded later for the little book.

But first I have to lose more weight. Now in public