Dont know if you know? but a lot of high ranked contributors quit Fotolia with their dollar sales thing and according to their own forum things are not all that rosy. Many Emeralds complaining actually.

Haha^^ yes I remember it well and IS was king never to be toppled. Funny thought isnt it if Bruce had stayed with IS and not sold out to Getty? what would the situation be like today?

Almost every old contributor  I privately know is down almost the same percentage 40-50% and its been going on so long now that it cant be the search. It seems that its a cut-off thing either to give new people a fair crack or its geographical it goes to certain countries?

I really dont know and have stopped caring about it since I stopped uploading mainly because I find HCV files with MRs and PRs just dissapearing.

I lay my efforts with a couple of macro agencies and thats that.

Well in order to stay on top yes I would probably say once a week the least! thats why I quit uploading three months back dont have the time for it nor the patience.

What happens is that the few that sell immediately from an upload are pushed forward and the ones that dont sell are gone. I personally have never noticed a drop in earnings from not uploading but many say they have.

There doesn't seem to be any point on uploading new work ... I'm saving mine until something happens or I'll try a Macro agency. Things are definitely changing.

Well SS was too good to be true for some and many of us so I was pretty sure some years back that this day would come. I have a very large portfolio with two macro agencies about twice the size then in micro-stock and it really pays off. No desperate sort-order changes but soft ones not slaughtering many ports.

Big drop att SS some 40-50% Adobe down 30% but compensated by a couple of other agencies who seems to have gotten that business. A couple of the more traditional agencies show at least a 40% growth and these are the agencies where I lay almost all my concentration on nowadays.

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Quote from: jacoblund on April 24, 2017, 15:49

Ever since I've signed up here and probably going forward over the next many years this topic has been an ongoing thing. People complaining about a lack of sales.

When in comes to stock photography or photography in general, or even life in general there's a pretty simple rule: Great work usually gives you great returns. It's really not that complicated.

yes, clever umbrella statement forgetting that the drop people see is sudden and that they did have a steady income, why is my work overnight not so great anymore?

It's a numbers game and it's controlled by supply and demand. And like any other business in this world you have to stay on top of the game to be relevant. Car companies can't just design a car, put it on the market, lean back and relax till the end of days. Do you think stock photographers can do that?

You have a great port mate! happy people always sell but your execution and processing is spot on!!

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I agree I havent been uploading for some time and it doesnt have any effect on sales. its a fallacy. of course agencies want to make out that uploading all the time and sales comes in but its a fallacy
 the search still remains the same.

So you are saying that Mat from Adobe is lying to us this week when he wrote we should upload for better placement?

Quote from: MatHayward on April 23, 2017, 19:00

Are you consistently uploading new content? That is the best way to ensure your portfolio stays near the top of the search results I have found. Adobe is working very hard to market Adobe Stock and as far as I can tell, we are increasing in volume at a rapid pace. There is strong potential to earn good revenue...it's entirely up to you to produce the content to take advantage of the opportunity.

Good luck!

Mat

Or maybe some places it matters and some it doesn't count as much? SS has written that upload full size for better sales, I find that minimum size sells just as well except a very seldom XL or XXL someplace.

Quote from: flywing on April 27, 2017, 10:00

At SS, my old good sellers are still on front pages. New files get a bit of boost. Old files with not so good sales get buried  . Sometime I stopped uploading for a few months (creative block) but it did not affect the sales there at all.

I find the same. Old good sellers that haven't been replaced by better of the similar, are still on first page. Common old shots have gone back pages. Some best seller similar to others of mine, get sold over and over, I mean one set of 18 almost identical. There's something that pushes sold files to buyers over similar from same artist. Result is a good files makes many more sales than it's brothers and sisters.

No at SS I find that full size uploads sell better and sometimes much better in fact. At FT in my case it doesnt matter the slightest BUT thats in my case I cant speak for others.

Lets put it this way if an agency house 100 million files do you really believe another lets say 500 uploads is going to make any difference any dent at all.

I get the point. No matter what someone says here, you will say the opposite. Now I know your game and I can ignore you.

opposite??  well sorry but it works in my case is there anything wrong with that?  it might also be a reason why SS in particular asks for full size uploads yes? your experience might be somewhat different I wouldnt know. End of story I recon.

I agree I havent been uploading for some time and it doesnt have any effect on sales. its a fallacy. of course agencies want to make out that uploading all the time and sales comes in but its a fallacy
 the search still remains the same.

But they are not wise!   Adobe/ft will mimmic everything SS do but about a month later and then that boat is gone!

Btw are you uploading to both these?

Got the Canon EF  11-24 and wow!  some lens! haha!

Quote from: derek on April 26, 2017, 01:00

Oh dear!  well I presume? or am I being silly but when people have thousands of files in portfolios and reaching four to five figure payments every month and its their full-time job and been doing it for years and years, LONG before micro-stock. YES I do presume they know what they are doing, haha !  dont you?

My "they" refer to people who complain and do nothing, I have seen many users in this forum doing lot complain and crying hard but when I go though their portfolio, its nothing. Yes there is competition, which will always be but one should not stop or slow the working.

Yes I go along with that!  there are still people after all these years that think micro-stock equals free lunches and getting rich over night and with mediocre portfolios thats true.
As far as established contributors for us the supply we been feeding is far greater then the actual demand. For many years now we have been listening to agencies urging us to upload and upload and that we have done so much so we have killed off the golden goose and basically painted ourselves into a corner.
Of course for the agencies our pictures are assets and an agencies worth equals its assets. Simple as that really.

What we didnt count with was the fact that thanks to the internet agencies could manipulate and tamper with our earnings in the form of sort-orders and algorithms desperately searching for the ultimate profit search. Oh well haha! I dont think they will ever find that one.

Ultimately and no matter what agency small or large. The killer for us are the search changes which are done in hope of more profits and if it fails youre stuck with that search.