Very interesting, thanks.
I'm using not specific tool but chatgpt to title and keyword, and I agree with you, AI it's useless without human add and review.
It's very good to have a list of relevant keywords, but you need time to review, instruct AI about the exact focus, and generate several list before the final one.

By the way, I have to tell that in many years I haven't find a simple way to produce some useful scheme for standard keywording. It simply seems quite random when you see two similar images, or clips, with the same keywording scheme and several identical keywords, one on the top of best sellers and the other lost in the database.
If you have different experience and, as you said, "some insights about how metadata affects bonuses and overall performance", well that would be really interesting to know

Quote from: cobalt on January 29, 2025, 15:55
just upload something every day and then you gradually have a stream of daily accepted files.

waiting for months makes no sense and gives no advantage for review times.

Yes I do this! Images, both AI and non AI are usually reviewed in few days/weeks and I have few approved (or rejected) every day because I upload regularly
But video clips, I don't know why... I have about one hundred in queue, well distribuited in 6 months ago, 5 months, 4 months, 3 months and so on 

Strangely few weeks ago I had a couple of clip batches reviewd in few days. But all others are floating in a limbo...

New record for me, I've some clips (not AI) in queue for 6 months

Just received the "Christmas good news" from pond5
Starting from january, non exclusive contributors will earn 30%, while exclusive 40%

Great, now that they have introduced the "standard" price, so it's quite useless to raise the price by ourselves

Wow... if confirmed, this would be one of the most MASSIVE bug I've ever heard on the net!
It seems really strange to me to see a so ordinary, trivial and "blasting" bug on world email service like gmail

Quote from: zeljkok on October 18, 2024, 20:09
There is some sort of "Adobe Rank" determining how fast images are reviewed,  contributor specific, content specific or maybe both.

It could be, but it's difficult to understand why some images are reviewed in few days and others in weeks, from same session, series, or same subject. Actually I see AI illustration approved in few hours while I have some video, non Ai, in queue for two months and more
Quite difficult to see a rule, it really seems very random

Quote from: Pacesetter on September 30, 2024, 05:15
Just sold 10 videos one after the other and while each clip earned only a modest $7.95, given the experiences reported here gets a little worrying.

Yes, I've just seen seven images of same serie sales in a row. That made me happy just few months ago, now it's source of worries until next payment request...
That's insane

Quote from: fotoVoyager on September 30, 2024, 12:55
I've got 44 non-ai videos waiting a month atm.

Which is a pity, because Adobe are easily the best place to sell videos in terms of download/royalty ratio as far as I can tell.

Me too, I have a some clips in queue from TWO months

All the best Mat!
Thanks for everything you did in these years, it was great to talk with a nice and kind person like you. We will miss you for sure!

I've just sold one for exactly the same amount: earning 2$
Entrprise custom license

But in my case it was for 4K version

Incredible

Quote from: Faustvasea on August 08, 2024, 10:43

Quote from: stoker2014 on August 08, 2024, 09:57
1. You can only upload illustrative editorial.
2. They will sell. Better or worse, depending on the subject and quality of your photos or images.

That's what confuses me. Are illustrative editorial are photos ?

https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/illustrative-editorial-content.html

In short: no people, no current news

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on August 07, 2024, 14:32

Quote from: Robert_Ruidl on August 07, 2024, 13:17
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. ...."We have now deducted the irregularly earned credits from your account"....

Happy to hear your account is unblocked.

Adobe's deduction of the "irregularly earned" credits defies logic.

If the activity is something violating the rules, your account should still be blocked. If it doesn't violate the rules, you get the royalties you earned by licensing those items. What reason justifies confiscating contributor earnings like that?

This is really unsettling news for contributors IMO.

I'm agree, this really seems a nonsense.
Why Adobe don't change this situation, simply deducting the irregular sales without blocking the accounts?
This way anyone will be no more tempted to push irregular sales for himeself, as there would be no money to pick.
At the same time the "regular" contributors with no fault would have their accounts still alive, only with with reasonable deductions, if in case.

I think this is the way in which other agencies do the job, I'm sure that "irregular sales" happen everywhere

Just delete it and resubmit

Quote from: Injustice for all on June 28, 2024, 15:06

Quote from: cobalt on June 28, 2024, 14:16
An updated page of the new guidelines would be really helpful so we know what to avoid.

Anyone here can tell us what kind of content was removed?

none of you have the removed content in the pages of the rejected content section?

How is it possible to find out by ourselves only one or two images in 10/15 pages of rejections?
They are ordered with submission date. Really hard to find out which one(s) has been added to rejected

Quote from: Injustice for all on June 28, 2024, 10:58
so what?I don't see anything strange or non-transparent,everything is very clear,the terms have been updated and some previously uploaded content no longer meets the new terms.

That's fine, I agree
Anyway still it would bew helpful to know which and why some assets was removed
And, in short, what is exactly new in the updated terms.

Just to be deeply informed

Me too, I received the email saying that 2 assets will be removed.
It would be interesting to know which ones and why.

Also a clear underlining of the policy changes would be helpful

Quote from: HalfFull on June 26, 2024, 17:14
I've just received an email confirming assets accepted but it appears to be a duplicate of the email confirming "Video Assets" I received earlier in the week. Same number of assets, same $.

That would mean out of 1-2k images submitted zero were accepted? Something seems a little off?

Yes the same for me, probably it's an error, same number of asset and same amount (very low, despite of nominated), but images should be 5us$ each instead of 8us$, if I remeber well

Proposal @Mat
I know very well how can be difficult in big company to talk from a dept to another, sometimes communication is not easy and, most of the times, the results that departments have to reach is in conflict or, at least, questionable.

My suggestion for Mat, that is a master in communication with contributors, is to kindly ask the legal dept to let him give a look at the few long time contributors involved. I'm quite sure that this is a small number of people, that could have a fastest way to know their problems.

This would be a great step for long time contributors involved.

Quite easy to produce: list of contributors deactivated, in order of lifetime

BTW, I hope not to need this option in the future 

I'm starting to think that someone with stolen credit cards or abused accounts is working to do massive buy to generate automatic kick off of long time contributors...

BTW I don't know Rod-09 and I don't know nothing about his deactivation-block reason. But it seems to me that several long time contributors are affected, and this is strange 
Adobe should absolutely work in more clear process to let contributors know the reason of any blocking

Quote from: whatwolf on May 29, 2024, 15:12

The first of all, everyone who use Midjourney, could get images with THE SAME QUALITY.
WHY I produce 100k simlilar files?
I produce 4 images in one prompt. I don't use any repeated prompts unless the images are really good at selling.

When you have more than 100000 or 200000 or more ai images, WHAT TO CREATE is meaningless. I CREATE EVERY THING.

Well, yes, not only you but everyone can create anything, this is no more a breaking news, it's more than one year that Midjourney is on its way.
And in one year we saw boith traditional photography and AI images that sells well.
So I'm not agree with you, what you're talking aboout is quite overtaked... There are actually billions of AI images in Adobestock and, you guess, traditional photography is still selling.
Sorry but I'm not agree with you, you seems to be a little outdated. Actually the best sellers are quality images not quantity, as quantity is something that anyone can have access to.
My opinion, of course

Quote from: whatwolf on May 27, 2024, 16:56
I have upload more than 100000 AI files to adobe stock. And I have developed some tools to help me to get it.
Such as
keywording automatically.
upscaling automatically.
remove the background automatically.
Upload automatically.
Submit automatically. (It is not work yet.)

SO if you have some questions, You can ask me.

Yes, there is a question.
Why do you only speak about quantity?

Success in microstock is a good mix between quality and quantity, and this is a well known rule for any contributor.
Speaking only about quantity is not good way. 100K images... images of what? you have to find what to create. Or you could produce 100k similar files, that is a nonsense.

A good and quick workflow is for sure a good idea, but in terms of revenue it has 50% of weight.
So why do you speak about quantity only?

As someone else already told, there are a lot of contributors that do same or better results with 1/20, or maybe 1/50 of that numbers

Quote from: Uncle Pete on May 02, 2024, 21:09

Quote from: derby on April 29, 2024, 11:12
Exactly same trend for me I was around position 3000 and in a couple of week I'm down to 4690

About how position is calculated, my opinion is that it counts last seven days and is updated continuously day by day, so if you have a great day you go up even if the day after should be very poor. It's not calculated on fixed week monday/sunday (for example) but it's from today plus six days back downloads

Because on Sunday it resets to zero, so it's not a running 7 day total. Unless the Derby post was about lifetime, but then why mention weeks?

I don't see any reset on sunday... Total weekly download reset to zero, that's true; but the position ranking doesn't reset at all, it remains quite near the previous days :-)
Well, this is what I see... I think...
I can't be sure of course :-)

Exactly same trend for me I was around position 3000 and in a couple of week I'm down to 4690

About how position is calculated, my opinion is that it counts last seven days and is updated continuously day by day, so if you have a great day you go up even if the day after should be very poor. It's not calculated on fixed week monday/sunday (for example) but it's from today plus six days back downloads

It's dataset earnings
Just check in financial page of your account, easy to find

Quote from: zeljkok on March 20, 2024, 22:30
This is all Uncle Pete fault for starting thread too early 

Yes we have the guilty 

BTW I have a HUGE amount of refunds too...