In the meantime, the next hurricane is building up and heading for Florida - wind speeds are currently 280 km/h.
This is not really a topic to get into "politically" or with conspiracy theories. "Milton" could lead to the next catastrophe. Depending on how the hurricane moves, this could also be the case for North Carolina.
To feign sympathy for those affected in one sentence – cleverly packaged as a question – and then go on to express conspiracy theories in many sentences is, in fact, completely out of order. That's why I reacted so cynically. It made me angry!

Incidentally, as a European, I don't find Wck.org ideal because a donation via paypal takes up to 45 days to arrive where it is needed.

Quote from: SuperPhoto on October 04, 2024, 02:28
Hi,

First, hope you are okay. Second... Wondering if you can comment on the following jjnfeff...

From what I heard - the "floods" (& the reason there is deliberately "no govt help" and in fact trying to "stop" ppl from helping others) is because...

Apparently there is a company trying to "buy" the "mining" rights for both lithium & quartz (extremely profitable for the "ai" stuff/computer chips/electronic vehicles, literally worth 'billions' of dollars), and the residents were refusing to sell - so the company hired a bunch of planes to do cloud seeding to deliberatley 'flood' the mountains (which is virtually unheard of)... and they don't want other people helping them (literally trying to bankrupt the residents - "force" them out of their homes), hence no support/guard/etc - and in fact people trying to help are being 'prevented' by the national guard/fema/etc... does that sound accurate/is that correct from what you see?

Did you know that Blackrock, Bill Gates and the Rothschilds have managed to dislodge some asteroids from their previous orbits somewhere in the universe and steer them towards Earth? The particles that the asteroids contain have also been sprayed with toxins on their way to Earth in order to reduce humanity. In addition to the toxins, they have been sprayed with artificially created viruses from secret biolabs operated by the USA in Ukraine. The Bill Gates Foundation and the WHO are already producing billions of vaccines against these viruses and are expecting exorbitant global sales. The asteroids are to be steered in one of the large low-pressure vortices over the Atlantic so that the toxins and viruses are distributed throughout the air – and, after impact, also globally by the Gulf Stream. After the impact on the Atlantic seabed – this is the plan of this (absolutely "secret") world elite – the released rare earths can be transported away by special ships. The expected profits in combination with the monopoly position are expected to bring trillions to this elite.

I have read all this on reputable sources on the Internet.

Thank you very much for your help in all those past years, Mat! All the best for you!

Quote from: cobalt on September 23, 2024, 20:21
Found a copy cat who tried to recreate my image with a German word. Except the word came out wrong

https://stock.adobe.com/de/images/empty-beach-with-the-word-urlaub-written-in-the-sand-under-blue-sky/960915438?prev_url=detail

here is my original

https://stock.adobe.com/de/images/beautiful-beach-with-the-german-word-for-vacation-urlaub/842886276?prev_url=detail

there is quite a lot in that port that was "inspired" by my files.

It is that first time I see that so clearly.

The other images are probably inspired from other producers.

Obviously I have no rights to a German word in the sand, but it is an interesting duplicate case.

I will be watching this port.

In the AI copy I read "Urlslaub" or "Urislaub". I don't see much danger of anyone buying the copy. 

Quote from: HalfFull on September 23, 2024, 10:29

Quote from: Injustice for all on September 22, 2024, 11:13

Quote from: SuperPhoto on September 21, 2024, 15:56
I'm surprised this seems rather confusing for a lot of people? I believe I even read where it stated what the weekly sales rank is?

It's simply your rank, in terms of downloads - relatively to ALL the other contributors - for that week. Lifetime rank is simply for all contributors over the LIFETIME.

So, if you get more downloads than more people - your rank goes up. If other people get more downloads than you, your rank goes down.
So you 'could' be ranked #1, if for example you had '3' downloads, and 'everyone else' had 1. Or, you could be ranked #10000 if you had say 1000 downloads, but 'everyone else' had 1001+...

Really quite simple. Your weekly ranking is just simply how many downloads you've had relative to everyone else in the system.

of course,but why is there anyone who thinks the opposite? 

I think we all bounce between 2 values ​​in the rankings.

if your ranking value is an average of 30,000 you can probably bounce between 40,000 and 20,000

if your average value is 20,000 you probably bounce between 15,000 and 25,000

if your average value is 1000 you probably bounce between 800 and 1200

the higher you go,the less variation you have in the rankings,simply because there are fewer contributors at the top.

I don't know whether the ranking follows sales or money,I have some doubts about it,it probably follows both the number of sales and money.

Weekly rankings will vary based on what seasonal content you have. Like the movement of the tide and over time, you see the patterns in the data.

Lifetime rank for a change.

Great numbers!Congrats!

When did you start? And how many files do you have?
Sorry, maybe you've already written that and I've forgotten.

Quote from: SuperPhoto on September 21, 2024, 15:56
I'm surprised this seems rather confusing for a lot of people? I believe I even read where it stated what the weekly sales rank is?

It's simply your rank, in terms of downloads - relatively to ALL the other contributors - for that week. Lifetime rank is simply for all contributors over the LIFETIME.

So, if you get more downloads than more people - your rank goes up. If other people get more downloads than you, your rank goes down.
So you 'could' be ranked #1, if for example you had '3' downloads, and 'everyone else' had 1. Or, you could be ranked #10000 if you had say 1000 downloads, but 'everyone else' had 1001+...

Really quite simple. Your weekly ranking is just simply how many downloads you've had relative to everyone else in the system.

Correct!

Quote from: JustAnImage on September 18, 2024, 23:35

Quote from: yuriy on September 18, 2024, 23:26
slightly off topic but just curious... how many downloads do you need to get a lifetime rank?

Unfortunately, I can only help with 2 numbers here (my account and my wife's account), but maybe we can narrow it down:
-> 811 downloads do not give a lifetime rank, shows "---"
-> 10.776 downloads shows the lifetime rank "10.950"

As you know I had my 44.444 th download in September - lifetime rank 2.880
And you've read about another contributor: 65.200 downloads - lifetime rank 1.820

Slightly below average for me.

Quote from: SuperPhoto on September 12, 2024, 22:50

Quote from: cobalt on September 12, 2024, 22:29

Quote from: Faustvasea on September 12, 2024, 14:59


Thanks, would you say focusing on real photos is a waste of time ? Or doing Ai at the moment is the best option?

This is like asking which camera should I use to get more sales.

You should focus on content and genre, you can have great sales with real photos and ai. Most agencies don't even take ai and still people have sales.

The majority of sales in the industry are real images, not ai. ai is a niche.

Why don't you follow the various newslettersd and blogposts of agencies what they recommend to shoot?

They put a lot of effort and research into these newsletters.

Sadly, most producers never read them. They just sort by downloads where that is possible then try to copy the exact image.

Then complain they are not getting sales.

Look at subjects you understand really well, try to find what is missing. Then shoot that.

And get inspiration from the newsletters. The agencies want to make money, they recommend what people like to buy. They give great tips for styling and current trends too.

... the larger agencies (tend to be) pushing the "d.i.e." crap ("diversity, inclusion, equity") - which actually really has absolutely nothing to do with "equity", etc - but rather the people behind blackrock/vanguard attacking the christian/caucasian family unit (trying to 'encourage' boys/girls to cut off their body parts to become 'trans', or samesex, i.e., depopulation)... you don't really see them pushing "gay east indians" or "trans arabic women with hijab" people, it is primarily targeted at white people.

Are you serious?

Quote from: Mifornia on September 10, 2024, 17:39

Quote from: cobalt on September 07, 2024, 20:58
You are boosting the theory that anyone who started uploading 20 years ago has a forever advantage in the algos.

I have a doubt in this theory as well. Since I was in 800 position after only 4 months of uploading very few files. However, I do have a question, what does the lifetime position mean? I'm 12,000 something now. What's yours? May be it does point to the length of being a contributor and adds to the formula somehow?

Your lifetime position indicates that a good 12,000 contributors have achieved more downloads and/or revenue* in total than you since they started selling images on Adobe Stock / fotolia.

*In my opinion, it could be a mixture of both, as otherwise contributors with a pure video portfolio could not be compared with contributors with a pure image portfolio if this rank is based on downloads only.
But it could also be that one video download is equated e.g. with 10 image downloads so that the statistics are comparable.

My best lifetime position I ever had was 1,120 years ago and since then I've dropped to 2,880, losing 10 places every two or three weeks.

Quote from: cobalt on July 30, 2024, 08:23

Quote from: Big Money on July 30, 2024, 02:34
makes sense now. Here is my history to see if this helps you on your goal. I started in 2011 with $654 for that year. My 2nd year I made 247% more and as you can see my gains continued for awhile and then the wall hit me. Now I am losing each year. It was fun while it lasted.

Year            Income   %
2011    $654    
2012    $2,268    247%
2013    $7,778    243%
2014    $15,778    103%
2015    $26,433    68%
2016    $33,937    28%
2017    $35,238    4%
2018    $33,370    -5%
2019    $25,804    -23%
2020    $22,790    -12%
2021    $22,504    -1%
2022    $18,532    -18%
2023    $15,582    -16%

are those numbers only for adobe, or all stock combined?

is the large loss in the last two years mostly from shutterstock? (not your fault)

how much did you upload and how many new concepts or genres did you expand into?

how are your videos doing?

Thank you for sharing real numbers. It is extremely valuable even if our ports are all so different.

I'm sure that this is Adobe/fotolia only.

Quote from: cascoly on July 28, 2024, 20:12

Quote from: Wilm on July 14, 2024, 19:42
If we soon discover cave paintings from the stone age as brand new images in the database, we know that the review is taking too long. I have uploaded a few new images when Ramses II was still going about his government business - they are still waiting for the review.

but those were the glory days of papyro-stock - when we were paid 1 loaf of bread and a pint of beer for each papyrus sold

Ja, that's true!

 

Quote from: Pacesetter on July 29, 2024, 00:49

Quote from: Wilm on July 28, 2024, 19:54

Quote from: Pacesetter on July 28, 2024, 11:46
I uploaded a panorama photo today as editorial that could of passed for commercial but I couldn't let this one wait as it is more time sensitive.

It was reviewed and accepted in just a few hours.

Sorry, but that's not how it works!

You can't just take a photo of me and put it online without a model release and my permission! I didn't even notice that you had a camera in your hand. That's stalking!

What's more, the photo isn't even recent - it must have been several months ago! I don't look that attractive anymore! The waiting for the Review is wearing me down!

I'm terribly sorry Wilm. 

And what's worse, I failed to flag the photo as AO nudity!

You weren't wearing any clothes following your very successful weight-loss program!

Quote from: Pacesetter on July 28, 2024, 11:46
I uploaded a panorama photo today as editorial that could of passed for commercial but I couldn't let this one wait as it is more time sensitive.

It was reviewed and accepted in just a few hours.

Sorry, but that's not how it works!

You can't just take a photo of me and put it online without a model release and my permission! I didn't even notice that you had a camera in your hand. That's stalking!

What's more, the photo isn't even recent - it must have been several months ago! I don't look that attractive anymore! The waiting for the Review is wearing me down!

Miserable month for me!

Quote from: Injustice for all on July 15, 2024, 13:36
ok,this explains everything!

those files have now sold so many times in the golden years of 2012 that they will always be ahead.

the time since you are a contributor also counts on Adobe,in fact I believe that even if I stop uploading now and then come back in 5 years and start uploading again,I will earn much more than now,simply because in the meantime 5 years have passed.

I have to disagree.

I've been doing this since 2009 and have many images with more than 100 downloads. Most of them disappeared from one day to the next due to an algorithm change - this also applies to images with more than 250, 500 or 1000 downloads.

There are images where I can understand why, because the style, visual language or zeitgeist has changed. For the majority of images, however, it has nothing to do with this - they were simply sorted to the back.

If we soon discover cave paintings from the stone age as brand new images in the database, we know that the review is taking too long. I have uploaded a few new images when Ramses II was still going about his government business - they are still waiting for the review.

Quote from: mike123 on July 14, 2024, 15:35
Here are my stats this week: position 5060 with almost 700 files.
Pretty slow week, I've seen my position already dipping below 4000 in the past.

Definitely not bad, considering that you only have 700 files online. They must be good images.

Back in the days of Fotolia, there was a forum moderator who was banned for a long time because he had been caught buying his own new images via another account in order to push these images up the rankings. In this case, I think a block is fine.

But: in dubio pro reo! If someone buys a large package of images from a contributor, you can't just block the account. It can't be right that a contributor is punished for something he can't do anything about!

From my point of view, Adobe has to prove that there was fraud.

Quote from: sofijab on July 08, 2024, 18:34
Same with me.June was my worst month on Shutterstock.

Anyone get paid from Shutterstock yet?

Yes.

Quote from: Mifornia on July 07, 2024, 16:51

Quote from: Mir on July 06, 2024, 12:05
Are your vector images being reviewed. I don't submit many images but it's kind of demotivating to add more. I also have one vector sitting there for 8 months.

Something might be not right with that file. I had a png with no transparency sitting for 3 months. They didn't reject it, but let it sit there. I accidentally saved it with no transparency in Lightroom. Resubmitted it, and it was reviewed normally

Excuse me for asking, but what sense does a png make without transparency? Why did you upload the image as a png and not a jpg?

I find the humerus bone particularly interesting...

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on June 26, 2024, 14:52

Quote from: rod-09 on June 26, 2024, 09:40
update: 3 weeks+ and I am still blocked. No answer from Mat or the Agency...

Off topic, but I can't resist. Here's a doozy in the recently approved genAI content (90+ million and growing).

Anatomy redefined! Orthopaedists will be delighted!

Quote from: Mifornia on June 22, 2024, 22:19

Quote from: cobalt on June 21, 2024, 18:52

Quote from: blvdone on June 21, 2024, 16:55
Must be a slow week for everybody.  Average downloads, lower revenue, but higher ranking.  I'm happy about the ranking at least.

Congrats on your very steady port.

In my case the current rank  is actually an improvement to last week and at least I will make 100 dollars thanks to a video sale.

I am also seeing a little uptick in the people I upload. They need time to get noticed but then they are quite consistent. Still only 700 people stock, a long way to go.

Now I have 5200 files. Mostly seasonal images for winter/spring.

At least it is better than last year June, probably will be 30% more than June 23.

Cobalt, you are on the best sellers list again, even with your 5200 weekly ranking. Congratulations. (100,000 downloads and 100 pages?, unless it's a different Cobalt)

What's your lifetime rank? May be that's what we should look at as well?

I stand to be corrected, but I would argue that this is a different cobalt!

Quote from: DaLiu on June 22, 2024, 13:33
For me SS is going better and better, last month was the BME for income and downloads.

Over 4 digits income this month and still one week left to go.

Congrats! Well deserved!