Submission to faulty algorithms, that's what Adobe promises us. Times have truly changed. Absolute contempt for human reality.

Self inflicted and everyone saw it coming except it seems Adobe.

It was utterly obvious when they allowed AI they'd be swamped by mass market test prompt spam uploads.

They now have so much being submitted they need increasingly automated rapidly deployed and poorly tested systems to keep up with the load. There's no time for humans now.

They've quite literally bet the company's future on AI. It's all that really matters now. Data sets.

Quote from: gnirtS on April 09, 2025, 22:09

Quote from: HalfFull on July 04, 2024, 12:31

I use Payoneer and I�m based in the UK. Probably for a year or two now.

That said, I would love it if Adobe would let you set up bank details to transfer income to like Alamy does. PayPal and Payoneer etc seem to be in competition to see who can inflate their fees the most! Any chance of this happening @MatHayward?

Late to this but doesnt Alamy bank transfer only use SWIFT and therefore attract large fees?

Just checked my last payment from them. The conversion resulted in fees that were less than Paypal but probably only marginally less than Payoneer.

How much are we talking here? Some places are $30+ for swift fixed fees. I'm trying to move from PayPal due to their fees so gauge the best way to do so

This type of dumpster fire shenanigans makes me even more committed to put more of my images on Alamy as exclusive RM, especially the more premium ones.

Its a full circle for me.  I started out with most on Alamy/macrostock and RM.  Then migrated to the RF/Microstock model.

Now im seriously considering doing the same and retreating back to that.  Although to be fair, AS is still growing well for me currently.

Quote from: BigBubba on April 10, 2025, 01:07

Quote from: danielvisuals on April 09, 2025, 18:32

Are video portfolios also included in this, or only photos? Looking at who has commented so far, it seems that mostly photo contributors have been invited to this new model.

Videos are included

Why did you come to this conclusion? Is this written somewhere?

Yes. In the faq

Are video portfolios also included in this, or only photos? Looking at who has commented so far, it seems that mostly photo contributors have been invited to this new model.

The faq I linked clearly states everything. Videos, illustration and photo.

They've basically decided to offer their entire library for sale for fractions of a penny.
A last desperate move to get more subscribers who they've been losing at a rate of millions a month.

Just been looking at fees and realised how much extra is paid on top generally for non US contributors via Paypal and its pretty galling long term.

What options are people using here to minimise the really terrible exchange rates and a % fee slapped on top?

Paypal it seems charge a really terrible rate then 3% on top of that (and 5% for SWIFT). 
Payoneer maybe the same?

Revolut no longer offer a domestic US dollar account for personal users but WISE do.  BUT Paypal wont allow domestic bank transfers to any bank that isnt your own country (so a UK paypal will only send to a UK bank so must go through its conversion rate and fee).

Nobody appears to offer a Wise payment option. Alamy offer bank transfer but its SWIFT so large fees.

To me a useful system would be to get a payment provider to pay in USD to Wise which could then be transferred out at the market rate and no fee from there but i cant see any way of doing it.

Its more galling since AS switched to USD resulting in an effective 5% paycut (but still charge contributors in GBP for the products...).

So how are people doing it or realistically do we just have to stomach the bad rates and fees and accept we'll earn a percentage less than US contributors as a result?

https://shutterstock.my.site.com/contributorsupport/s/article/Unlimited-Downloads-Subscriber-Share?language=en_US

So this is all assets including video.

Given the number of contributors the amount per person downloaded is tiny. RPDs are going to be in the tenths of a cent region.

Envato (I think) did similar. RPDs dropped by a factor of 100,nobody bought other licences any more plus you could now steal a portfolio entirely at no extra cost.

The only saving grace here is this crappy company is unlikely to exist by this time next year anyway.

I'm still trying to decide whether the underwater stuff should be commercial or editorial, but I feel like editorial on Shutterstock and the same stuff on Adobe and iStock can be sold as commercial. From what I understand, the commercial stuff on Shutterstock CANNOT be used as editorial, so i'll go both ways on separate platforms.

Underwater of what?  If its just fish, reef etc then its RF (commercial).  If its got divers in without a release and/or logos on their clothing, equipment etc which you wont get a release for then  its editorial.

You get the same money for both but RF has more uses than editorial (it can be used commercially or editorially if the buyer wants).

Quote from: zeljkok on April 06, 2025, 15:20

Quote from: cascoly on April 06, 2025, 13:19

much worse is a bug that rejects groups images saying they need adjusting

but when submitted one by one just get a msg that incorrect keywords ignored but without showing the offenders & images are always accepted

in the last non-buggy version, a msg would appear BEFORE submitting and SHOW the flagged keywords, so one fix allowed the entire group to be submitted successful

I've seen this one too.  It is related to plurals.  Basically if you have "ruin" and "ruins" in keywords, it will do that without saying what is wrong.  Just remove plural (i.e. "ruins") and all is ok.

Problem is that they constantly keep modifying script behind this;  by now it is likely a monster and bugs easily creep in.

And people can add, "ING" endings that cause the same problem. Sometimes it will say, they have been removed, sometimes I have to edit, one by one, and some the word was removed, but the submit still failed. I hope they fix that soon.

...and i its some "ings" only not all.  Some flawed dictionary.

Example ski/skiing it hates.  Snowboard/Snowboarding its happy for both to co-exist.

I just paste into Gemini and ask it for all nouns to singular and all verbs to base form and spit me back the cleaned list now.  A pain.

The "similar" thing they've brought in appears massively flawed.  A lot of people are finding images flagged with no similar ones in the collection and no real theme or hint.
Suspicion is they've introduced some flawed AI thats making these random decisions based on incorrect data or training.

Alamy has support for pseudonyms.   It's still the same contributor account, but allows to sell different content under different names.  I am not using it, but it might be appealing option to someone should Adobe chose to support it.  I.e all AI content could go together.  Don't think it is supported now.

I use Pseudonyms and find them useful - i shoot a lot of different categories and the CTR and so on from them helps me see what is and isnt working.
Not sure they'd be that useful on Adobe as they dont provide us with CTR or other performance metrics at all though.

A welcome and long overdue change (with phone verification which on its own isnt great... Let's hope there's more behind the scenes cross checking such as payment methods and so on too).

The system is being mass abused by the usual regions to create new accounts once the first is banned for stolen content/non declared AI etc and also those trying to sell on accounts containing the above.
FB groups full of "I got banned so i made a new account" threads.

With todays 19.1.4 release of Resolve it now has licensed full native ProRes support.

This means no more using ffmpeg/voukoder based workarounds and comes at a good time since Voukoder is going payware.

Im assuming is Resolve Studio only not free but unsure.