Just got another pop-up for a mission in my dashboard:

"Videos Mission SFX: Everyday Objects & Materials
Capture video clips with audio (10–30 sec) where every sound matches a visible action. Each clip should contain one action, with the sound coming from a clear object or action in real-life settings.
Assets for this Mission do not require releases, metadata or post-processing.
Volume: Upload 50 to 50 assets per submission. Up to 1 submissions | Used: 0"


Compensation: 92 USD

That´s less than 2 Dollars per clip. For gathering items, setting up everything, making the videos and titling them accordingly (that´s a must in the detailed briefing) I would say it´s minimum 3 hours. I´ll pass again.

Do you see the mission? What´s your compensation?

Not "up to 100". Exactly 100! With at least one other person. For me it says 300 USD.

Hard pass for me.

Quote from: SuperPhoto on September 17, 2024, 16:38

Quote from: Robert_Ruidl on September 16, 2024, 05:45
Hi, I´m just here to report that after reactivation of my Account the sales returned pretty quickly to normal. The problem seems to have been:

- a customer bought around 50 images from me
- this customer even called me and asked if I had more photos on the topic
- he later realized that the photos were editorial, he needed commercial (this I know, he told me later)
- my assumption: He somehow reversed the transaction with Adobe to get his money back
- meanwhile, I had immediately cashed out (like I always do, as soon as I hit the 25 USD limit)

So I assume for Adobe it must have looked like a fraud, which is understandable to a certain point. But deactivating the account for weeks without any clarification is brutal.

Thanks again to all your good wishes and feedback!

How did the customer get in contact with you? There doesn't seem to be any place to list contact info for your public account, unless I am mistaken and there is somewhere?

He called me. I use my real name on every platform, if you search the internet you easily find my homepage with my phone number on it.

Hi, I´m just here to report that after reactivation of my Account the sales returned pretty quickly to normal. The problem seems to have been:

- a customer bought around 50 images from me
- this customer even called me and asked if I had more photos on the topic
- he later realized that the photos were editorial, he needed commercial (this I know, he told me later)
- my assumption: He somehow reversed the transaction with Adobe to get his money back
- meanwhile, I had immediately cashed out (like I always do, as soon as I hit the 25 USD limit)

So I assume for Adobe it must have looked like a fraud, which is understandable to a certain point. But deactivating the account for weeks without any clarification is brutal.

Thanks again to all your good wishes and feedback!

Thank you all for your kind words and empathy! 

I will post it here if/how/when my sales return. But in the next two weeks I am going to 2 festivals where I will spend the money I haven´t earned! 

Hi, I just got an email that my account will be unblocked.

The cause was "highly irregular sales activity", as I suspected. A buyer bought ~50 photos from my portfolio, all of the same topic. He even contacted me directly to ask if I have more.
This is the reason why I have been blocked for weeks now. How can I defend myself against such situations?

Oh, needless to say, of course I don´t get to keep the money for the sales...."We have now deducted the irregularly earned credits from your account".

Ridiculous.

Update from my blocked account:

No (real) answers from Adobe. Photos and videos ready for upload are piling up on my drives...


This really is f***ed up, the only good thing is that I don´t depend on the money.

Thanks for your support!
Last week I sold 48 photos (all with the same theme) at once to a single customer (I know this, because a few days later the buyer contacted me directly to ask if I have even more photos on the subject), maybe that´s the problem?

Quite ironic: The day after Adobe deactivated my account I got an email, that one of my uploads in the queue (1 photo) has been approved. Hooray.

Now it hit me too: Woke up this morning to see me Adobe Contributor account deactivated. No explanation, no email.

I have 4000 assets, mostly photos, all non-AI. Latest upload was 2 photos of a Cannabis-plant and a video of me mowing my lawn. 
Curios where this is going, I´ll keep you posted.