(a) How did you discover your image on a "hat"? I know there are certain tools to look for similar images - but how did you manage to find "that"?
(b) If you didn't give it away for free - then you can probably contact the temu website.

Seems you are doing quite well, congratulations! Wish I was seeing those types of results.

What types of video assets do you have? (I do video as well, but not the same types of numbers).

Thanks!

About this time last year (May 2023) there were about 5 million "gen ai" images.

As of today (June 2024), there are about 88 MILLION "gen ai" images.

About 17x as much competition, educated guess primarily from east indian "artists" (content mills/spammers with multiple accounts to circumvent things/etc), as well as malaysian/phillipines/etc.

Could be part of the reason...

Thanks for the reply Yes it�s my image of course is just I ve heard that Adobe looks at some images As ai generated even when you edit them that�s why I was Asking I m not sure if these web sites use ai to remove the image background

No, that's fine. I've done that with my own PNG's.

ALso "ai" is such an overused & misused term (current "ai" is simply sophisticated theft - the "problem" they have is removing watermarks, i.e., "copyright" notices from stolen images, stolen videos, and deception/trickery to try and "compensate" users for stealing their works). The type of "AI" you are describing technically existed in the 1990's with applications such as Corel Draw (a very good application that I actually still use). It has a "magic" brush which can get rid of backgrounds (the same type of thing online tools do) - and then you have an isolated object.

There is a big disadvantage, after import the categories are not populated automatically and you have to do it manually by clicking on each image one by one.

How do you get categories populated auomatically? I've always needed to 'manually' set them... Thanks!

Never heard of those sorts of licenses ....?

Internet Marketer's ("IM'ers")...

Basically - they try and make anything and everything resellable with the promise of 'big riches' if you purchase their wares and resell it... Maybe for some items it works... but internet marketing is an entirely different thing.

a) Lol - the headline is very clickbaity. No "bad" to "worse", lol.
b) Looking @ the bigger picture - many times (not saying it is necessarily the case here, I don't know the full specifics) - but organizations like the FTCare weaponized against certain companies. So look @ the companies who are 'attacking' adobe - those are the real culprits.
c) Don't know the specifics of whether cancellation is/was difficult - I do know (smaller) companies to resort to tactics like that - not sure about Adobe's case. It would seem unusual simply because bigger/larger companies tend to be under more scrutiny. If they did - then yes, they should make it easier. If it was isolated incidents - then rectify those.
d) Not "all" the fault is of the company if indeed certain things were buried in the fine print. People actually SHOULD read license agreements - but most don't. And then those that do - many don't challenge it - just 'giving up'. So part of the onus is on the individuals who didn't actually read the fine print if it actually says that.

Anyways, sounds like something the company will need to deal with/handle. That's (unfortunately) part of business.

As an FYI - I don't particularly care for the 'subscription' model - but - it is more profitable model on many different counts - so I understand why Adobe, as well as other companies like Amazon, Bloomberg, Midjourney, all do the same...

I crunched some numbers a few times a while back, and this is what I found...

a) If you have an option to 'upsell' from HD to 4k (i.e., two different prices), then yes, many times customers will choose the 4k option meaning more $$$
b) If there are two nearly identical clips from different producers, but one has 4K, then yes, it seems more often customers will choose the 4K option

That being said...
a) If you sell a lot via Adobe, Adobe changed video licensing so 4K is the SAME revenue as HD. I believe this is a bit short sighted - because it is a bit of a 'race to the bottom' mentality - however, that's what they did. So you don't make any extra $$ for 4K than you would for HD, other than if you have a nearly identical HD clip to say a competitor that has a 4K clip, and the client is presented with both, a % will probably choose the 4K option (meaning the competitor gets that revenue)
b) Unlimited download sites don't differentiate (i.e., storyblocks, motionarray, etc, etc). So no real incentive here either, other than from time to time some clients will want a 4K version if the clip is nearly identical (meaning a competitor gets the 'sale').
c) Only sites where you can have different pricing in individual clip sales would I say there is any real addtional bonus value (in terms of revenue to the producer).

So right now...

While by default I record (with a camera/etc) in 4K (no big deal to push a button between 4K/HD)... If I am manually producing a clip (i.e., CGI), then I opt for the HD version, because there is no real (easily measurable) major benefit to have my computer system work 4x as hard to do 4K CGI/3D/etc... because those computer generated/processed/etc videos are unique, so if the client wants it, the client wants it.

In terms of 'working' with 4K clips - I agree with you - HD is much easier to work with, and personally I've never really found too much benefit to 4K unless I needed some extra high quality/zooming/cropping/etc abilities. Also - for some sites (i.e., motionarray) - I found the clip sizes WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY to big (ridiculously big in some cases) - where a 15 second clip was like 1 GIGABYTE - making it almost useless. (Because I would have to downsample the clip to be able to work with it effectively). I definitely preferred storyblocks where I could get 2-10MB HD clips to edit with.

So bottom line, I'd say:

a) If you can record in 4K vs HD, and it is no real extra effort to you to process the videos - go for it. I would say there is 'marginal' benefit for you in terms of sales, in that if you have a nearly identical clip to a competitor - a % will opt for the 4K version meaning some x-tra revenue for you.
b) HOWEVER... if you are doing say computer generated stuff (CGI/3D/etc), or extra post-processing to your clips - then there (right now) is no real point to spending all those xtra computing resources to produce 4K content - unless you can find a marketplace that sells 4K clips well for you.

You cannot opt-out. It's accepting it or leaving them.

You actually "can" opt-out. You don't "have" to blindly accept whatever they offer. You can refuse, re-negotiate, walk away, etc.

Yes, they are using that 'threat', which is very evil/wrong - so contact them and let them know. And be prepared to walk away if you have to, because it is a very poor "deal".

messed up irony is - what if it is a "stolen" portfolio doing a "copyright claim" against your stuff?

Are you a stock video producer yourself? If not - I'd suggest signing up for 6-7 different agencies, upload some clips yourself, to get a 'feel' for what is lacking and/or how easy/hard it is.

I'd say for most it really comes down to this:

a) Most people want to do very little, if any, work.
b) And they want to have HUGE MASSIVE PROFITS FOREVER AND EVER.

So if you can do that - cool.

While I haven't specifically taken a look at your site:

a) Make it super easy to upload & automatically categorize everything. People like EEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSY.

b) Have some basic theft deterrent things (otherwise you'll get east indians, etc stealing complete portfolios and uploading as their own). They already do that on the 'big' agencies - but the big agencies kind of don't really care. (Educated guess it is because they get money 2x over - 1st, for the (stolen) content - then 2nd - they get to keep "ALL" the profit when they 'take down' stolen content (they don't give it to the original contributor even though they should). But many producers find it extremely annoying when their portfolio is stolen. So put in some basic anti-theft stuff. Easy to do (none of the stupid "id verify" crap, that has nothing to do with safety/security - and much more to do with a small group of pyschopaths trying to control everything) - do it intelligently on the server end via programming when uploads take place. Super easy to do - and none of the 'id verify' crap (again, totally wrong, and totally unnecessary).

c) Then - of course - sales. Your MAIN "feature" should be focusing on how to drive MASSIVE MASSIVE sales. Producers/contributors really don't care too much else other than this. They don't care if you let them chose a pink or blue background, whether you let them upload an avatar, whether your font size is 12pt or 20pt. They care about MONEYYYYYYY AKA SALES. If you can make them lots and lots of MONEY, very easily without having to do a lot of work uploading/categorizing/etc - then they will be VERY VERY HAPPY.

That though, in a way, is a little bit of tricky part. It CAN be done - but requires a bit of work/focus/etc. Since you wish to act as a bit of an aggregate - much easier for you to do.

Funny thing is though - IF you start actually seeing the sales - you will actually (most likely) find you need to implement some type of moderation (which makes me suspect you aren't actually a producer, and rather a coder looking for an opportunity).

Simply because - you'll get morons that start uploading pornographic content, pure crap (like just absolute disgusting filth), spamming crap (i.e., 5000 videos of chickens), etc, etc... So you will actually need to do that, whether you do it now, or later. Unless - of course - your business plan is slightly different and you don't care about that - which - "could" work - but - it's a different business plan. So most likely you'll need to have some type of moderation. So you really shouldn't make that promise - because that is not really what contributors care about.

I'll re-iterate.

They care about:

a) SUPER EASY uploading with VERY LITTLE WORK categorizing/etc
b) Making sure easy indians + other cultures who like to steal & resell other people's works don't do that (quite simple to implement, and not with the stupid id verify thing. Just verify uploads, you are a coder, you know its simple to do).
c) And then MAKE MONEY! LOTS AND LOTS OF MONEY! Figure out an effective marketing plan. Then ppl will be very interested.

That's what you do.

123RF is dead. It's a zombie at this point. I'm earning about 1.5% of what I used to earn 4 years ago.

Since the recent Google algorithm update in September 2023, 123RF has lost 70% of their traffic.

https://x.com/lilyraynyc/status/1786459214484787509

Look at the right column and you will see it on the list. They're never going to recover, so it's time to give up on this website.

Interesting - what specific agenda is she referring to those sites having lost so much traffic? (I'm sure there probably is one - google is known to steal other people's ideas and call them "new search features")...