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Messages - alijaber
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« on: January 28, 2024, 18:22 »
Many users complained in the past that the search results are completely different depending on the region you use to access the AS site...
Are these the same people who complain about the rejection of their artificial automatic "creations"?
Why not be satisfied, since it might make sense here, that previously unseen images can finally sell. That algorithms are not inclined to always return the eternal best sellers may be good news. And I know what I'm talking about because I have many images that stand out at the top of hundreds of thousands on different themes, for many years. But my best images are recent, and have difficulties emerging from the millions of dung that make them invisible.
No, these are people who see much fewer results of certain topic if they access AS site form a certain region. Anyway, it's been a long time (maybe a year?) since the last complaint here. If I remember right, a contributor from Egypt or Saudi Arabia couldn't see his images that were about Egypt or Saudi Arabia if he accesses AS using his region(!), but could see his images if he uses US as a region, this definitely may impact his sales badly. By the way, I tried that myself in the past, and the difference was huge in the number of results for the same topic if I access the site using 2 different regions.
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« on: January 28, 2024, 00:30 »
Many users complained in the past that the search results are completely different depending on the region you use to access the AS site...
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« on: January 25, 2024, 15:45 »
These days, most Ai images are reviewed within a week only (some within one day).
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« on: January 21, 2024, 13:40 »
I confirm, they do that.
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« on: January 17, 2024, 13:23 »
I rarely have under 1$ video sales on SS, this year I have 18 sales, 11 of them are between 1$ and 2$.
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« on: January 04, 2024, 08:17 »
I still end my Adobestock title and keywords with "Generative AI." Given that every image is now listed with an AI warning and we tick an AI box, is it still neccesary to end the title and Keywords with the words Generative AI in Adobestock??
You don't' have to do that anymore, Mat stated that here in a separate post.
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« on: December 28, 2023, 00:02 »
So far for video $152.00 without December
So far 470$ from 349 videos: not bad...
If you dont mind me asking, how long have you had your portfolio earning on istock for?
1 Year only, I just uploaded these videos and hadn't time to upload more, it was a very busy year for me. 6 years ago, I had an exclusive account at Getty, it didn't last long as I've canceled it as soon as I started getting these very low video sales.
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« on: December 27, 2023, 19:25 »
So far for video $152.00 without December
So far 470$ from 349 videos: not bad...
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« on: December 26, 2023, 23:48 »
A new low for Adobe with two videos selling for a commission of $2.66 each. Never had lower than $2.80 before.
When a $2.80 video is sold to a US customer, 5% withholding tax is deducted, making it $2.66.
In my case, I have 1.96 video sales at AS (2.8 - 30% withholding tax  )
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« on: December 26, 2023, 12:09 »
6 sales (4 exclusive): 200$ this month, not bad.
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« on: November 11, 2023, 16:45 »
So, upload videos to Videvo? 
Hehe, actually I'll most likely subscribe to the site, I produce a lot of documentaries and I need a lot of such editorial clips, as there is no editorials at envato elements, while Storyblocks doesn't have the mentioned editorial collections.
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« on: November 11, 2023, 00:57 »
if you click on the clip it brings you to istock site.....so those are clips that istock sells through videvo....
No, in my case it leads to Vivedo's subscription page, as it is a "Premium" download, just like Freepik, their owner.
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« on: November 05, 2023, 03:30 »
Adobe is doing something to the search algorithm
I recently had a best-seller that sold 6-7 times per day. All of a sudden - 3 sales in a whole month. Lol.
I guess they're shuffling content in search rankings and trying to give everyone a shot, but it's frustrating when you bestsellers just disappear of the map. That happened to me with several images over the last few months. It almost feels as if my new uploads "bump down" my bestsellers in search rankings - maybe best not to upload if you have good results. I don't know. But whatever it is, it's meh.
I have the same experience.
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« on: October 20, 2023, 11:55 »
September 71 sales, 43 dollars.
positive: one video sale for 11 dollars for a really old and really boring file.
Didnt upload anything, I hope I get a nice batch up this month.
We have very similar stats. I had 74 sales, but only 35.75 USD. Lack of big sales in September resulting in being around 25% down compared to August.
Almost the same $: 35.79$ (33 downloads)
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« on: October 16, 2023, 15:41 »
Bad month for me. P5 i got snake eyes. Very unusual. DP Iusually get $50-60, I got $20. SS way down. Normal is $250 and I managed $125. IS was actually up about $50 over the same month last year.
My pond5 has had 1 sale in 7 weeks. Very unusual as well. My average is 200/month
Here we are half way through October and my P5 sales are still dead. Zip in September and zip in Oct so far. I typically have 8-9 sales in that 6-week span.
Good month here: 5 sales so far: 199,56$.
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« on: October 05, 2023, 01:03 »
Day 4 of October and already on SS I'm at of my total September sales. Hopefully that's an indication that things are picking up. Maybe because the writer's strike is over?
Day 5 of October and I'm on 3% of total September sales  . Things are random...
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« on: October 03, 2023, 00:24 »
Now that Adobe uses those images to train Firefly, I can understand the rush to create a huge Ai collection.
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« on: September 29, 2023, 08:45 »
For this month 8 sales: 315$, looks like one of them is UHD (48$), in addition I have 12.76$ as "Subscription Earnings" (?), ~80% of my portfolio is HD.
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« on: September 28, 2023, 22:33 »
Pond5 isn't bad, a bit better than last year. My monthly average income for this year is 188$ for 3400 clips.
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« on: August 13, 2023, 04:28 »
He uploaded a lot more files, didnt he? 2000? I have 630.
Plus a lot of my content is seasonal, for christmas and now starting with easter, so the sales will come later. But for a good harvest you have to upload at least 6 months in advance.
And with the Adobe delay, maybe 9 months early. Henceeaster now, not October.
Everyone who is using midjourney doesnt have my cost basis.
I am not recommending to do it my way.
But I am not planning to use midjourney and I will not upload too many files in one go.
I am building my port very slowly with intention.
But for sales it is exactly like I said. Upload needed content, you get sales.
Upload stuff just for fun, no sales.
Dont worry, I will get my money back.
eta
unless you pay for the private room everything on midjourney is public. And we have an army of aggressive copycats on our heels.
and with ai files you will not be able to file a dmca takedown complaint. copycats are free to upload the exact same image, or with subtle variation without any consequences.
Everyone has to make their own decisions how to deal with that.
I have several thousand files good enough for processing and uploading. But I never upload a complete series in one go.
Not with photos or video or ai.
I would rather have a small port that is efficient.
But that is a personal choice.
The big problem is that millions of images are added monthly to the Ai collection, so quantity may serve you better. You may create some great quality images that got lost in the huge Ai collection. So, I'm afraid that time goes against your strategy. As I said before, I always warn my son that this domain is changing so fast and he should not put big hopes on its future.
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« on: August 13, 2023, 02:36 »
Made 114.83 USD so far
But I have paid over 2000 dollars in credits for ai use
If you are spending so much more than what you are earning that makes you a bad example how not to use AI for microstock. 
I've only spent $71.40 on AI and earned back a multiple of it. If I hadn't, I would stop spending money on AI.
My son spent the same exactly (71.4$) and earned 284$ in the last 5 months.
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« on: August 12, 2023, 05:21 »
Requested 5 Aug, received today.
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« on: August 12, 2023, 04:02 »
If you look at the stats below the forum we now often have over 2000 people online reading, although often just 20 active, registered users.
It used to be a few hundred, or maybe 500.
I think this is all due to ai. Millions of people trying to learn how to make and sell ai images.
Even if you just have a smartphone, you can be a great "photographer".
Can't blame them for trying.
They will soon realise that working with stock agencies is not as simple as the youtubers make it sound.
Interesting, never noticed the numbers...
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« on: August 10, 2023, 16:10 »
Just two weeks after crossing the 13 million mark, the genAI collection is now over 14 million - 14,062,823
Amazing! What would be interesting to know is for those selling AI images as stock, how do the $$$ work out? In other words what is the net revenue selling genAI stock vs. the cost of "membership" to the genAI websites?
On Midjourney it's 10$ (minimum) vs whatever you get from Adobe Stock and Dreamstime:
https://www.microstockgroup.com/37744/37744/msg590316/#msg590316
The plan pricing is confusing things like "3 jobs, 10 jobs waiting in queue". How does that translate into things like: "For $10 month, how many images can the user generate?"
You can generate few hundreds, but many of these won't be good enough for licensing.
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