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Messages - yuriy
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« on: July 17, 2024, 12:21 »
i had another strong month, more or less the same as last month which is much higher than average
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« on: July 13, 2024, 18:09 »
i'm starting to think the only way to increase your portfolio size is to build a time machine and travel back to the brief period between february and april when images were actually being reviewed. i'm waiting for the 'good news' that human generated content is no longer needed at adobe.
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« on: July 11, 2024, 07:45 »
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you need to specify christmas of which year
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« on: July 08, 2024, 14:45 »
the most recently reviewed commercial photo of mine was uploaded almost 2 months ago. the last 7+ weeks are all sitting there aging like a fine wine. video and editorial gets reviewed quickly though so i guess that's what i'll focus on. sales are slumping heavily as well, sigh.
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« on: July 01, 2024, 11:31 »
Second best overall month in stock photography and videography | BME on Adobe Stock | BME on iStock | Reasonably good month on Pond 5 | Mediocre month on Shutterstock
Shutterstock was the lowest of the four agencies for May 2024 though still running in 2nd place YTD earnings.
Three Charts
1) YTD earnings Jan to May - Comparison of each year from 2020 to 2024
2) YTD earnings Jan to May - Comparison by agency for 2024
3) Earnings for the month of May - Comparison of each year from 2020 to 2024
I'm not being picky but without a Y axis the graph is meaningless.
As it says $ I presumed you made $6 this year
you can easily estimate the y axis. OP said the total was about 1000. just do basic algebra to figure it out from the last one with all 4 agencies in the same month. i'm going to assume the graph is linear and starts at 0 (otherwise ignore what i just said).
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« on: June 28, 2024, 17:41 »
A nice surprise this morning at Shutterstock. My highest image sale ever.
It's an editorial photo from the 50s with 2 American celebrities.
congrats, i can tell you've been at this a long time
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« on: June 27, 2024, 10:51 »
Hi,
can you guys tell me it free collection was for Photos or Videos?
Check out the name of the topic, dude...
legitim question. illustration and png files were also included with me.
i assume that there won't be another round. except for videos
when did the video ones happen last year? was it in the fall?
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« on: June 26, 2024, 11:18 »
i also got the email saying 12 assets accepted (that is a touch above 10%). more than last year but now by a whole lot, sigh
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« on: June 26, 2024, 10:17 »
All the images that show were previously chosen ones, none of the new nominated ones show so i wonder if this is the final chosen ones.
Looks like 9 files out of 47 were chosen. I am sure the money will come soon.
i'm seeing this too. i nominated over 100 images but the only one shown now is the single one from last year. probably all the updates haven't happened yet and more than 1 was selected.
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« on: June 24, 2024, 09:13 »
such a straight line this month
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« on: June 23, 2024, 20:51 »
i feel this might have been discussed elsewhere but does anyone have a good sense of how frame rates affect sales? if someone is working on a 24 fps video will they only purchase those or do 30/60, etc. also work cause they'll just convert them. i saw some advice somewhere to shoot in the highest frame rate you can so buyers can slow footage down to whatever they need but wondering if i should also do some stuff in 24 for that market. sorry to hijack the thread.
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« on: June 21, 2024, 12:59 »
you're doing it wrong, you just need one really good image that sells for $4000 instead of 4000 images that sell for $.98
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« on: June 18, 2024, 17:51 »
i had a good month, best month ever actually.
Congrats, yuriy, on your good month. Keep it up.
I'm down over $250 from the previous month, so a little bit disappointed.
FYI, I'm really liking the new DeepMeta. It's helping me visualize the types of images doing best on istock. Makes a difference in my output. As much as I like coming up with all new stuff, I need to focus on what sells and deliver more of that.
thanks, my port is not very large so we're not talking a lot of $ here but it's nice to see progress (especially after a bunch of very stagnant months). i had 2 large image sales which drove the month, it would be pretty average without them.
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« on: June 18, 2024, 16:03 »
i had a good month, best month ever actually.
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« on: June 15, 2024, 10:55 »
not related to the (shall we say spirited) discussion at hand... what portion of your portfolio has never sold? i'm curious about some of the permanently sleeping files and if they ever wake up after years of slumber. i notice a higher % of my photos have sold than video but video takes longer to pick up (and obviously fetches more $).
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« on: June 10, 2024, 10:18 »
128 files selected (almost all). also only had one last year but only 2 eligible so hoping for a decent outcome this year.
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« on: June 02, 2024, 14:31 »
sorry to hear that. hope it's resolved quickly. keep us updated.
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« on: May 23, 2024, 07:28 »
Not going to nominate any of my selected images.
Some of them are already good sellers on Adobe and others even more so on other agencies.
Also, I value my work enough not to give any "free photos".
I respect other photographers enough not to endorse free photos.
fair enough but if you do microstock then you only value your work at $.10 and potentially $0.00 if it never sells. i think of the free collection as renting my image for $5/ year so theoretically if they get picked multiple years it could earn a lot more than 90% of my images in that same amount of time.
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« on: May 23, 2024, 07:20 »
ok in the interest of transparency i followed up yesterdays ridiculous 9 sales for less than $1 with my biggest ever image sale on SS. this is more than 4x my previous largest so i guess miracles are possible (or they heard me complain and threw me a bone).
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« on: May 22, 2024, 20:37 »
i had 9 image sales today. i didn't make $1. pathetic.
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« on: May 22, 2024, 11:46 »
just to be clear... 10% of your whole portfolio or 10% of the assets you nominated were ultimately selected?
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« on: May 22, 2024, 10:11 »
timing seems about the same as last year. what portion of people's assets nominated get accepted?
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« on: May 12, 2024, 21:59 »
seems like it's all quiet on the free image front
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« on: April 22, 2024, 15:31 »
but I have to be realistic when I see that top 1000 rank on adobe makes what I made a year ago as 2000 rank, and you can't argue with that
how do you know what top 1000 makes? i can be ranked #1 when the rankings reset on monday with maybe 40 sales and earnings of $25. if i'm number 1 on sunday night that could be in the $1000s w/ a lot more downloads. people have been posting more/less random download and rankings screenshots from throughout the week, not comprehensive weekly earnings. not sure how much data you can get from that.
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