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Messages - blvdone
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« on: January 14, 2025, 09:03 »
I don't think it's just for ai images. They also rejected real photos all together, saying "Quality Issues", as they did once. All 37 photos I sent last week were rejected for the same reason.
Since I believe in the quality of the photos, I sent the same photos 10+10+10+7 at 1-day intervals. All 37 photos were accepted. And 3 of them were sold in the same week.
I think the images you prepared are of high quality. If there are similar subjects, I recommend that you send them in smaller series on different days.
That's interesting. Good advice. Thanks!!
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« on: January 14, 2025, 06:54 »
I am seeing very slightly more declines.
But I often downsize my files after processing to 3200*1800.
I had one file declined as too similar to something uploaded a few days before and they are both very useful files.
So that is pretty annying because I do not considerr having 2 files in a series to be spam.
And then I see someone with 60 near identical uploads
OK, maybe it's just me getting all the rejections these days.
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« on: January 13, 2025, 20:26 »
It seems like Adobe is rejecting most AI generated photos these days unless they are in unsaturated themes with not many similar images already. Do you see the trend of increasing rejections on AI images? I thought it may be because of upscaling issue, but I initially had my AI images with 4x upscale on Topaz Gigapixel AI, then I tried Midjourney's 2x subtle upscaling. Rejection rates seem the same either way. Now I expect most of my AI image submissions to be rejected.
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« on: January 13, 2025, 20:11 »
Ai results are back in search by default
Just confirmed it. Good to see Adobe has put AI works back in default search results. Probably their sales have gone down last week due to excluding AI works in default searches.
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« on: January 13, 2025, 06:05 »
Recent top sellers list has only 2 AI creators out of top 10. Previous week, 7 out of top 10 were AI creators. It was a bad week for AI creators since Adobe Stock made this change.
https://contributor.stock.adobe.com/en/insights/best/contributors?start_date=2025-01-06
But.the bestseller list supposed to be based on sales of files from the last 3 months?
So how could a search change implemented in the last few days affect the bestseller list in this way?
Unlessthere is something intentionally strange going on.
I always thought the bestseller list should be an editors choice.
This now looks like one.
Most recent top sellers list is based on the previous week's number of sales as far as I know.
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« on: January 12, 2025, 21:05 »
Adobe Stock should put a "Turn on AI generated contents" button above the search results. Most buyers may not use the filter panel.
No. Make it a "turn OFF" and leave it ON by default. Those that WANT it off will find it easily. Others will get the benefit of both.
Yeah, of course that's better. I'm just surprised if so many buyers missed the "Generated with AI" description on every AI generated works on Adobe Stock. How can they miss that?
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« on: January 12, 2025, 19:38 »
Adobe Stock should put a "Turn on AI generated contents" button above the search results. Most buyers may not use the filter panel.
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« on: January 11, 2025, 22:20 »
yeaaahhhhh .. you tube wont pay a dime ... we should give them our videos for free 
they say: YouTube isn't facilitating payments between third-party companies and creators or other rights holders at this time.
YouTube is owned by Google. Maybe they are training Gemini for free?
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« on: January 11, 2025, 01:17 »
removed
now having some test searches with excluded ai.
but it must be a glitch.
I hope it's a temporary glitch. If not, AI sales will go down a lot.
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« on: January 10, 2025, 20:13 »
I just noticed the keyword search on Adobe Stock excludes AI contents at default setting. Try doing a fresh search on a browser without any cookies and no log in. Do you see the same? My sales on AI contents are down this week suddenly. Maybe this is the reason. I wonder if Adobe Stock had any problem with customers buying AI contents without knowing these were AI generated.
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« on: December 07, 2024, 17:13 »
Already moving back down. Still it was fun.
pos 692, files 7200
eta
christmas has a high sales potential but you can still make money with other festivals. you just need a lot more and very diverse files. if you have 1000 christmas images, then you will probably need 5000 easter images to get a similar result.
That's pretty awesome. Congrats!!
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« on: October 14, 2024, 16:10 »
took 3 days off to travel from friday to sunday. this monday morning when i came back and checked last week results, i saw my portfolio on my best weekly rank ever! super happy.
(screenshot from monday 9am)
edit:
last week data
$ 138,71 | DL 219
Congrats!! I'm happy when my fellow contributors are happy!!
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« on: September 26, 2024, 20:06 »
So far September sales have been good and already surpassed last year's September on Pond5. It's on pace for 30-40% sales increase this September hopefully. $149/HD high price is working for me, I think. I love seeing most high quality clips from other contributors priced at $149 now instead of $25 some prominent high quality contributors used to price at. Pond5 allowing and promoting $25 clips was a horrible idea. Last year's September was unusually slow on Pond5. So, not it's back to where it should be.
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« on: September 25, 2024, 13:33 »
I think what Adobe is doing is to age our submitted works. Steakhouse does that too with their steaks to make them tastier. It's a technique.
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« on: September 25, 2024, 13:26 »
Good luck to you Matt!! I hope your new role will help us better our contributor experience with Adobe. I see some good contributors facing sudden blockages and also very slow review time.
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« on: September 25, 2024, 13:22 »
This is great!!
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« on: September 24, 2024, 17:48 »
Anyway,I've had the exact same number of sales for 4 months in a row,and this will probably be the fifth,and very similar to every month since the beginning of this year.
this year i see a little increase every month, but i'm working like 12 hours/day on my port since february(when i used to make just around 100 bucks in a month). the last 'bar' is due the contributor payout.
if the competition is working hard, i like to worker smarter xD.i'm using tools like 'metaphoto AI' to auto generate keywords to my photos to speed up the process, so i focus more time on the fun part.. shooting, editing, etc. so i more than doubled my port this year!
if everything works like i planned, next year i'm quitting boring office job (well, maybe i will have to start working 16 hours/day lol)
Wow, that's impressive!! Congrats!! You definitely are working hard and smart.
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« on: September 24, 2024, 07:48 »
I'm not concerned about so called copycats. It's a free competition out there. If somebody is just busy copying somebody else's stuff, they probably aren't doing good and eventually be exhausted, disappointed and go away. It's a waste of time "copying" stuff that are already saturated.
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« on: September 21, 2024, 05:43 »
The ability for contributors to contact Adobe is still there on the site.
Every time I contact using that form, I receive a template response as attached. Basically no one checks my case. It means this contact form is useless.
Did you fill out that form from the link?
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« on: September 21, 2024, 05:40 »
I think the weekly ranking is calculated by previous 7 days total number of downloads. I don't think it's based on the each new calendar week.
I noticed that my weekly ranking is updated once a day,when I go down in the ranking,I start selling more and it starts to go up,once I reach a certain point I rebound and start selling little again.
in short,I continue to bounce between 2 values that slowly rise over time.
I think it's like this for everyone.
I had a huge sales day about 9 days ago. After that day, I was above 1,000, but suddenly yesterday I fell down to 1,200 probably because that huge sales day was out of 7 days week range. So, definitely the weekly ranking is not about "This week", but 7 days total imo.
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« on: September 20, 2024, 10:21 »
0 sale day yesterday. Not fun having 30k clips and 0 sale on a weekday on Pond5. I started seeing 0 sale days on weekdays on Pond5 last year or so increasingly. It used to be very rare. However, thanks to a few big sales days this month, this September seems very decent so far. September and October are the best months every year. So, I hope this good trend will continue before winter holiday slow down in late November.
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« on: September 20, 2024, 09:59 »
Honestly, Adobe Stock has been pretty fair and good for contributors. I don't know where your anger is coming from. I'm happy with Adobe Stock and Pond5.
Good you're happy I suppose. But anger is much more appropriate of an emotion for what they are doing to us. Adobe might be as "fair" as they get, but that's compared to the others that are unashamed in their greed and hatred for their contributors. Like getting kicked in the face with steel-toed boots compared to being bisected with a chainsaw. I definitely cannot agree with "good" though, as the whole point of this AI Firefly model is to replace us, as much as they can (editorial "real" content of actual places/people in a moment of time can't shouldn't be replaceable, but I'm sure they'll try). They don't offer an opt-out, that's not "good". And their review times are inexcusable.
Pond5 in the meantime, while still the "best", has been gutted by Shutterstock. Nearly all human staff eliminated. Reviewers are now "review_system" instead of human names (AI?). And those reviews are incredibly inaccurate at that, ie, incorrectly flagging for logos and trademarks in clips that clearly have none. Contributor support inquiries now only goes to other contributors who have zero ability to help and just give bs excuses, like in the companies very obvious drop in sales, ie "It's your titles, that's why clips that sold great consistently for years don't sell today". They don't promote the site. They don't sell our clips. Don't believe me? Check your lifetime views, it's depressing. Mine are as low as they were the first month I started on Pond5 in 2010 with a handful of SFX. It's being run by a skeleton crew (at best) and possibly fully automated. Shutterstock bought them out to eliminate them, and is running them into the ground, either intentionally or through incompetence.
"Good" and "Fair" are not the four letter words that come out of my mouth every night when another day of zero sales comes and goes.
My advice to you is that getting angry doesn't increase your sales/downloads. I think the vast majority of Adobe Stock contributors are happy with doing business with Adobe Stock especially compared to most other agencies. Instead, you should focus on creating new contents. Many are reporting better sales on Pond5 too since they started the mostly $149 and some $39 2 tier pricing system to eliminate thousands of $25/HD $27/4K clips. So, I'm happy with both of them. Good luck.
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