And these bugs aren't new. I think when tailoring search results to promote "local" content was introduced a while back people started reporting problems with content not showing up (versus just different sort order preferences).

Adobe is a huge company and Adobe Stock is a very small cog in a very large system. Sometimes it doesn't get attention quickly/at all.

and these reports were never answered?probably not because it is confidential information.

we need to see if the images resulting from the search are always the same,or if they change.
for example if there are 200,000 "Tuscany" and in Cocos Islands the search shows only 100,000. Are these 100,000 images always the same?or do they change,so maybe it's intentional,for various reasons,that only 100,000 are shown instead of 200,000?
maybe this way you can define it as a bug or not.

However,all the images generated by AI are now 21,478,706 by doing the search from Italy,so I think they are in line with your search.

Quote from: Injustice for all on October 26, 2023, 14:19

I don't know Wilm,see what Mat tells you,but I don't see particular discrimination or particular problems in different searches results from different countries.

maybe there will be reasons,related to legal issues,marketing issues,or any other reasons.

What I know and what I see is that Adobe's sales system seems the fairest for everyone,if I compare this to other agencies.

Well, i think the translation problem is also detrimental to the agency AS.

If all customers know that they have to search in English, it is not a general problem. Then it is only a problem for the contributors who have been keywording in their native language for years.

But I think that many customers don't know that. Because it doesn't make sense that there is a language selection and a region selection if these potential buyers get less than 10% of the results displayed that are actually in the database.

This is comparable to a customer coming into a supermarket where less than 10% of the goods are visible relative to the goods actually present in the stockroom. There is a risk that these customers will go to the competition because there the shelves are bulging.

look,I've seen that the translations from English to Italian are very well done,and I say this because in comparison to other smaller agencies,there is a notable difference with Adobe,which has better translations from what I've seen,there may be some errors but almost none from what I've seen.

for the rest it also seems obvious to me that there are differences if you search for different languages ​​in different countries.

I have traveled quite a bit in the past,now I haven't traveled since 5 years,it's become too expensive,i traveled between various continents and countries,and it seems clear to me that when I order a plate of spaghetti Carbonara,or pizza Diavola,depending on where I am in the world I find myself faced with a completely different dish!

And there are no better or worse places in the world,just as there are no better or worse people in one country compared to another,every world is a country.

You may be right about some things,i can't say for sure,but you certainly can't talk about discrimination from a company like Adobe,believe me I know,look at the big picture,you'll see that it's like that.

There are certainly reasons,to maximize sales,reasons to make sales work for all contributors,or legal problems for example,and then also errors of course you can add these too if you want,I'm sure they'll make mistakes too,but it is not a company that discriminates,in fact I would say the opposite!

However,in my opinion you are right to raise this problem,then I don't know if you can get some answers on how the search and sales system on Adobe Stock works.

Changing regions produces completely insane results

even the search from Italy for AI contents is different from yours.

"AI" search show 13.199.418 AI images and 128479 AI videos.

"IA"(intelligenza artificiale,Italian language) show 13.248.660 images.

This is one way the Adobe Stock sales system is perhaps supposed to work?Maybe there is a reason why the searches are different?Maybe not?

242.005 results for "Toscana" near home 

sorry,I tripled myself...it wouldn't be bad,they would be useful to me a couple of clones!

I have more than 15k video on portfolio, unfortunatly on shutterstock is complicated to have the detail of the resolution but on pond5 it's possible so

here my resolution sells in 2022:

4096x2160 : 28.6%
3840x2160 : 5.3%
2048x1080 : 50.61%
1920x1080: 15.1%
1280x720: 0.81%

and for 2023 (not finish):

4096x2160 : 19.2%
3840x2160 : 4.5%
2048x1080 : 46.7%
1920x1080: 27.9%
1280x720: 1.5%

so it looks like we sell more HD now 

very interesting,thanks!

Quote from: Injustice for all on October 23, 2023, 06:12

personally I'm taking it as calmly as possible,3 billion images have been generated since Firefly went online,so if we add up all the other AI we arrive at astronomical figures,and we are only at the beginning.
...

where do we find those stats? how many are submitted to agencies - obviously not all to AS

there are plenty of articles online about it,search for "3 billions of images generated with firefly" This news seems to be from October 10th

obviously this is the number of images generated,not the number of images accepted for sale by Adobe Stock or other agencies.

We can now request payout at $25.

yes and they no longer accept new content.

Quote from: Injustice for all on October 22, 2023, 13:43

Mat,I almost forgot,I saw that you are Metallica addicted,you probably already understood this,but my nickname here on microstockgroup is inspired by Metallica's epic album �and justice for all� and my avatar is the Rage Against The Machine t-shirt,the statue of liberty with a Molotov cocktail instead of the torch!

you miss the 80/90s too I see!come on..we're still going strong!

I saw them live during the "And justice for all tour." Had quite a story come out of that one actually. Probably best left out of the internet

-Mat

 

I was in London at that time,I still remember the early morning queues along the music stores,to buy Pearl Jam new CD album,these things are no longer seen!

Quote from: Injustice for all on October 23, 2023, 16:11

putting AI aside,Microstock is not dead but it is simply no longer for amateurs who want to make easy money,if you want to make money in this game you have to put money into it,travel,buy expensive equipment,models etc.....

what's really happening is the tougher chance to do stock full time. and putting money into travel is hardly the best approach to full time as it's already saturated.

i've been retired for awhile & i do  manage to pay for 2 intl trips each year from stock income, but i wouldnt try to raise a family on it

of my travel pix the best sellers are generic people eating and casinos on cruise ships, not the destinations themselves

I agree,traveling is definitely no longer so much about the locations themselves,but more because you still have the opportunity to photograph different subjects,but then it depends on the locations,the little-known ones are better as you know,I have photos of rural towns unknown to 99.9% of the world's population that they sell!

mine was a general discussion,because the money to make a good real microstock is definitely needed,don't tell me,my video camera does a max of 3840�2160 and another one that I have is HD max! 

Depositphotos is easy and fast,and it is also a cloud storage,you can download all your contents,if you need them in the future.

the problem is that I don't like having content on which I have spent hours of work,on agencies that earn little profit,because of thieves.

i think who want to steal content take it from these small agencies to resell it on better agencies.

this is why I prefer to delete my contents in agencies where I sell little or nothing,if it's AI content (which DP doesn't accept) I don't care,but I don't leave my work on display for thieves in agencies that don't make much.

sales are poor,especially videos,from what I understand,because I have few videos anyway.

I'm considering joining DepositPhotos for a little extra cash. So far, Ive mainly contributed to the big agencies like SS, IS and AS. I'm not expecting huge sales from DP (seeing as they're a small agency) but a few extra dollars would be nice.

Out curiosity, is it straight forward to remove or disable individual photos from your port at any time? And would those same images then be removed from the partner sites?

Also, is editing metadata after submission straight forward as well?

uploading photos and adding metadata to DP is very simple,one of the faster agencies for uploading content if not the faster ever.

I deleted a lot of content on DP in the past so it can be done,I don't remember how a couple of years,maybe 3 years went by.

this year I decided to try again and after uploading a couple of thousand contents I started selling a lot.
now again I haven't sold anything for a month,but I haven't been uploading for a couple of months I think.

so I believe that if you upload a lot of content regularly,you continue to sell otherwise you don't sell anything.

Now I'll see how it goes,I'll wait a bit,but if I continue to sell absolutely nothing without new uploads,I'll quit again.

the problem isnt just the long review times - it's random chance of review - many here reporting reviews of a week while others have images stewing for months.

i recently had a handful of images rejected (for the usual vague 'quality' reasons) that were submitted about a week ago, while many others (including AIM) have been there for 2 months

maybe it depends on the quantity you send,I never have such long times,a couple of weeks max,because I send about a thousand contents in a year.

I also have several rejections,and I have noticed a trend,perhaps a coincidence, at the beginning of each year I never have rejections,as the year progresses the percentage of rejections increases.

but who knows for sure?maybe it just happened that way for other reasons.

however,nothing can be ruled out,because Adobe's sales system seems like clockwork to me,apart from last month when I had an amazing surge in sales, the fluctuations in the number of sales have always been minimal with a slow increase upwards in time.