Quote from: gnirtS on April 22, 2025, 23:20

To recap, for a buyer to see everyones content now they have to

(i) run a search
(ii) change from "Highlights" to "All images" (which isnt all images.  Its misleading)
(iii) Notice the "Filter applied: 1" box
(iv) click that box
(v) scroll down
(vi) select "All images" in the filter list

That simply isnt going to happen.

I just did a search for some of my files on the buyers site. No results found. However, a message came up saying that there may have been some filters affecting the search. All I had to do was a single action (one mouse click) to deactivate the filters and then my files appeared in the search results.

Yes, but if you do a new search then the filter is automatically reinstated (so you see unlimited only). For each search you have to disable that filter. At least it seems that way.

Really strong week. Easter sales even better than Christmas. Had 3 Christmas sales today, what haha.

Already broke again my weekly all time high.
Downloads and earnings are slightly time lagged.

///Edit:
Alone today 75 downloads and almost 60 USD are really strong. If I can sell more extended licenses again like I did two weeks ago, then I can aim the 300 USD per week goal.
I will now continuously try to diversify my portfolio with new content and reduce the rejection rate due to already similar images in the portfolio.

The good thing is, I still have almost 5,000 more unedited AI images that I need to upscale and upload. Realistically about 3,000 will be accepted, so my total portfolio will increase to over 10,000 images.
With that I should be able to consistently earn around 350 USD per week in the second half of the year.

Congrats Andrej that you are doing so well in such a short time!
In fact I was wondering about your portfolio and why it is so successful. You know, so we can learn a thing or two. So on Adobe there are multiple portfolios called Andrej. Each portfolio has it's own product/theme so it looks like the same producer uses different accounts for each category. Are you all of them? Or is this another Andrej.
Then another thing is that on LinkedIn you can find an Andrej S which is or was working for Adobe. Is that you as well?
That might also explain the success of your portfolio obviously

Way more downloads on SS and even more $ on SS then AS. So for me the same as others are depicting.

67.96 USD royalty with Istock for a still from Paris taken from the Eiffel tower. 2nd 55.63 USD for a video with Adobe for a Northern lights video in Finland. 3rd 45 USD with Istock for a still of the white house in Washington DC.

Dissapointing again from Adobe.
Nice they make a statement here after also sending the email.
But the one dollar question will not be answered. As usual. No explanation how this really would increase our income. It might well be that it will lower it if it is a cheaper plan in the end.

Good, long  story Peter. But even Cobalt who is doing a seriously effort doesn't get further then like $100 a week (at least last week it seems like that). Maybe $200 0r $300 a week when luck is her way? That is not enough in the western world we live in to get bills paid. Unless you have wellfare on the side and don't report income.
Maybe ZeroTalent has enough income to come by (haven't heard from him for a while now though). But otherwise it seems pretty useless to pursue a living from Microstock no matter what history there was how we got to this point in time.

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As for wines, I like all Spanish wines, but I like sherry and muscatel the most.

I always took you for a male but I was obviously misstaken since you like sherry which is a womans drink, as is muscatel, a very sweet drink.
My bad 

Sherry is rarely sweet, mostly it is not sweet. I do not like sweet sherry. You know very little about sherry and what kinds there are.
As for Muscatel, I also like semi-sweet wines and dessert wines.
And what, do you think men do not drink semi-sweet and dessert wines?
 

I also like whiskey, cognac, vodka, beer.

Not really. Men drink dry wine, women sweet for the most part, but women also drink dry wine. I rarely see a man drinking sweet wine unless offcourse he is ....

gay? 
You have some stereotypes. Of the sweet wines, I only like Muscatel. But not any Muscatel, only quality Muscatel. If I have sherry (not sweet) and Muscatel in front of me, I will give preference to the sherry. But after the sherry, the next day, I will drink Muscatel.
No, I am not gay. I like dry wines less than semi-dry ones. I like semi-sweet wines more than dry or semi-dry ones.

Good muscatel is a very tasty wine.

Well, if you say so.
And there is nothing wrong with being gay. Everybody hers or his liking.

As for wines, I like all Spanish wines, but I like sherry and muscatel the most.

I always took you for a male but I was obviously misstaken since you like sherry which is a womans drink, as is muscatel, a very sweet drink.
My bad 

Best thing in Spain is not wine. Our wine is the best in the world, wich is a different thing.  We don't use to drink wine every day or "sangria", wich is crap for tourists and we never drink it, we drink beer.

A good verdejo never hurt anyone 

what I will do in the next few weeks is improve indexing,especially for old content,I believe this can at least partially improve sales,at least I will try.

and I think that's enough for the moment...or not?Is there anything else anyone wants to judge or criticize? hahaha!

I'll try to help you here.
You mentioned really good growth in november last year right? Or another month, it doesn't really matter. You also mention you have uploaded a lot of items and you assume that would give you more sales.
Go back a little. Why did you have good sales in november last year (if that was the month with the growth)? Did you have one or more bestsellers making these numbers? If so, then maybe this was not normal growth you should be expecting and tone down a little your expecatations. If not, what was the content that sold in this good month? Remember those sales. Now, look what you have been uploading. Is it AI or the same of what was doing well. If it was AI then AI is being flooded into Adobes stock this year, so your competition is growing a lot harder then you can submit and you will lose ground.
If it was not AI then it might be your subject that just doesn't gain attraction. This can have mutliple reasons. But mostly it's luck.
Just an anecdote here. I shot Iceland, didn't sell a lot, market was oversaturated. So you might think, don't shoot oversatured subjects. Then I went to the North East coast of the USA and shot photos at New York, Washington etcetera. You would think that these places would be oversaturated as well. But I sell really well relatively.
So you never know what sells well or not or if there is already to much of the same subject. It's also having a bit of luck, I guess.
But my point is. Go look at your sales when things went your way. Try to understand why that was, which photos, which subjects, AI or not, and put that in perspective relative to what you have done the last year and then draw your conclusions.

Good luck but if you go weening once more that you should have more sales because you uploaded so much, I will ignore you like you never existed. Then you just don't get how this game is played.

For $250 I assume you have to sell a lot at Alamy to get that fee covered. Doesn't seem worth it to go exclusive there since almost nobody sells well over there as I get from here. Unless offcourse you are absolutely not sloppy and know where you uploaded images to.

@cobalt i too would like to hear from the ss>as folks.  for me adobe sales in jan were about 2.5x shutterstock.  ss was my #1 agency for about 2 months last year though with a few big image sales i the fall.  let's hope they stay competitive but dec and jan were pretty underwhelming for me at ss despite many new images added.

Ok, not a big player here and only speaking of download numbers. AS up 10% (but only because a very good last week, otherwise it would have been a decline), SS up 41%, IS up 24%. Rpd down over all agencies except IS because that we will only know in about three weeks. But good hopes for IS because of a lot of single asset sales on both Gettys and Istock downloads.