Quote from: Asthebelltolls on November 01, 2024, 15:57

Quote from: yuriy on November 01, 2024, 14:47

Quote from: zeljkok on November 01, 2024, 00:58
For me SS has outperformed AS several months this year, incl. October  despite FireFly bonus and Extended License on AS.

Dismissing SS is premature IMHO.  But to each their own.

i'm seeing this too.  for months (maybe a year) adobe was about 5x shutterstock but starting around may ss starting catching up.  oct is the first month where ss beat as (by about 50%).  i, like many others, was prepared to dismiss them after months of minuscule sales but now that they are competitive i think you're right.

10 years ago the SS paid a minimum $35us per HD sale. I guess today's generation of contributors are far more happy with sales versus income.

having trouble understanding your point but i am happy that SS is paying me more this month than all the months that came before.  i haven't found a way to go back to 10 years ago yet but let me know if you have a good strategy.

Quote from: zeljkok on November 01, 2024, 00:58
For me SS has outperformed AS several months this year, incl. October  despite FireFly bonus and Extended License on AS.

Dismissing SS is premature IMHO.  But to each their own.

i'm seeing this too.  for months (maybe a year) adobe was about 5x shutterstock but starting around may ss starting catching up.  oct is the first month where ss beat as (by about 50%).  i, like many others, was prepared to dismiss them after months of minuscule sales but now that they are competitive i think you're right.

this is my first month ever where shutterstock outperformed adobe.  and by a lot.  i also had a large flurry of downloads in istock which we'll know more about in 3 weeks (prob $.02 sales which would still be better than the $1.80 sales that all get refunded 2 months later).

thanks for the responses.  it makes sense that the quality of the shot and subject matter are more important.  i may conduct a small test by shooting similar shots in different frame rates just to see if there's a difference at some point.

Do customers who are creating 24fps videos (for example) only want 24 fps clips?  Would they use a 30fps clip and accept the dropped frames?  I tend to shoot in 30 or 60 but wondering if I should also include some 24 fps clips.

Quote from: wds on October 28, 2024, 20:59

Quote from: yuriy on October 28, 2024, 19:03

Quote from: wds on October 27, 2024, 02:40

Quote from: yuriy on October 27, 2024, 01:20
are you people also filling in your earnings in the forum poll?  is there any way to see how many people actually answer it?  judging by the wild swings i don't think its very many people and not every month but i've been trying to remember to do it when the istock figures arrive every month.

If you hover your cursor over entry (e.g. "Adobestock") it shows how many people responded and the rating number.

ahh, sweet, thanks, i didn't notice that.  i'm assuming the rating and votes represent just the current month?
this is all i see when i hover, not the number of votes but just the position in the graph

I meant hovering over the column at the right of this webpage

Quote from: wds on October 27, 2024, 02:40

Quote from: yuriy on October 27, 2024, 01:20
are you people also filling in your earnings in the forum poll?  is there any way to see how many people actually answer it?  judging by the wild swings i don't think its very many people and not every month but i've been trying to remember to do it when the istock figures arrive every month.

If you hover your cursor over entry (e.g. "Adobestock") it shows how many people responded and the rating number.

this is all i see when i hover, not the number of votes but just the position in the graph

are you people also filling in your earnings in the forum poll?  is there any way to see how many people actually answer it?  judging by the wild swings i don't think its very many people and not every month but i've been trying to remember to do it when the istock figures arrive every month.

yes, i was joking, it's apparently the lowest position you can have but it still takes over 1000 downloads to even get this far

i got this email too, for the 2nd time ever.  there were 2 images removed this time due to an "audit."  they only showed 1 thumbnail with a link to my rejected images for more info.  it's utterly impossible to figure out what the other image is because they're sorted by date and i have no clue when it's from.  whatever man I'm not upset, just don't block my account for totally normal submissions that you should have rejected yourself the first time.

thanks folks, been quite a journey.  really wish i started years earlier but better late than never (though i know many people here would prefer never).  let's hope i can move about 50,000th at some point.

Don't be jealous!

This is my current best.

hey miro- i watch many of your videos and i think you are doing great work.  that said, i think the thumbnail for this one is not very good.  it's super hard to read the type against the background and in a grid of thumbnails it doesn't stand out.  try a simpler version, maybe fewer words or give the type an outline so its easier to read.  btw- youtube lets you a/b test thumbnails so it's a good idea to make a few different ones and let youtube show you which ones people are responding to.  appreciate you sharing your work with us, keep it up.

i also noticed this... almost all the good sales come from the US.  occasionally some european sales are for decent money but generally the sales outside the US amount to very little for me.

thanks for the heads up.  that said DT is an agency i've stopped uploading to.  just simply not worth the effort for the tiny sales on there. are you guys actually getting enough to make it worthwhile?

i do enjoy the ignore button but what this forum also needs is a downvote button like reddit.  "0" doesn't sufficiently describe  some of the genius comments on here.

I did OK.  Better than the last 2 months by about 15% but still not as good as the 2 months before that where I had 1 or 2 huge sales.  I had 2 decent sales around $10 this month but its so discouraging to see the pile of $0.02 and $0.03 sales.  I had 2 video sales for 3c each, makes me want to stop contributing video to istock (except there were also a few at around $3 as well).

Quote from: Noedelhap on October 13, 2024, 15:10
I only nominate assets that haven't sold once in 5 years...the duds in my portfolio. With AI coming, I consider my future in microstock non-existent anyway. 10 years from now, maybe even sooner, business models will have drastically changed, excluding most artists. Maybe AI content farms will take over the market.

strongly agree.  i have 800 "nominated" and exactly 2 of those have ever sold on adobe.  i doubt they will accept much if any of the remaining 798 but if they do it's highly probably that the $8 is $8 more than i would get if they didn't offer the free collection option.  renting unsold videos for $8/year is really not a bad deal considering one or two sales during that time @ $2.80 wouldn't match $8 anyway.  i've heard many times here and elsewhere that the best days of microstock are way in the past.  most folks seem to suggest it was around 2016 to 2019 or so.  not having a time machine i'm inclined to collect whatever change is left before we stop earning altogether.

Quote from: cobalt on October 11, 2024, 15:41
30 nominated that have either zero or just one or two sales. hope they take them all.

but they will probably take 2 or 3.

i have a huge pile of 0 sale videos "nominated."  i wonder if anyone has ever been paid for these via the free collection route in the past (i didn't have anything nominated last time so i have no experience).  i'd be happy with 10% accepted like with my image nominations.

Quote from: mindoozas on October 07, 2024, 18:16
BME so far

congrats!  what agency?  is that a photo or video?

slightly off topic but just curious... how many downloads do you need to get a lifetime rank?

that's a lot of dedication!  why not just leave it and let it collect next to nothing over the years?

nice work.  i noticed you passed 1000 subscribers, is you channel monetized now?

Quote from: wds on August 22, 2024, 22:04

Quote from: Big Toe on August 22, 2024, 19:20

Quote from: cobalt on August 20, 2024, 16:13
How difficult can it be to write an algorithm with a few adjustable parameters so the queue is always at maximum two weeks or whatever their desired target range is depending on the content?

I think the problem is that they are just overwhelmed with AI content and no shuffling around of resources between different queues is going to solve this problem. They very likely would have to expand the available resources.

They may be reluctant to do this, because they do not know how long the current influx will remain at this level. Or perhaps they are working on tools that allow the help of AI with reviewing AI content (and possibly other content).

My guess is that that AI influx will increase as tools are more widely available and generate "accurate" content more quickly.

My guess is that the AI influx will decrease as the number of images increases and each "contributor" receives less and less for their contributions.  A few will keep going but if they get paid a few $ for many hours of generating, uploading and tagging most will quit.  The novelty of AI is going to wear off and there will be a small steady need for these images, not a huge glut of downloads.  Also it's pretty easy to pay for a midjourney sub and ask your creative team to generate 10 images of a duck with sunglasses on, I'm not certain people will keep paying for stock images they can easily generate themselves.  It's much harder and more expensive to create photos so those I think will keep selling to a certain extent.