@ Andrej.S. thanks and good luck to you too.

@ HalfFull congrats,it must be a great satisfaction! 

Thanks... yes, when I started FT back in 2012 it felt like a gamble and required long hours but now it feels more relaxed and calculated. Still hard to believe it's nearly been 13 years... it's treated me well which I'm grateful for!

Best $ April comfortably but not with highest weekly rank. Also best in terms of DL vol...  3201 so far in April. It would suggest Adobe is growing in strength in terms of customers/sales and contributors. I would probably need 3800 or more DLs for the same period to match highest rank in April. I'm ok dropping in weekly rank if the $ are going up and I'm improving on my PB's.

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I use Payoneer and I�m based in the UK. Probably for a year or two now.

That said, I would love it if Adobe would let you set up bank details to transfer income to like Alamy does. PayPal and Payoneer etc seem to be in competition to see who can inflate their fees the most! Any chance of this happening @MatHayward?

Late to this but doesnt Alamy bank transfer only use SWIFT and therefore attract large fees?

Just checked my last payment from them. The conversion resulted in fees that were less than Paypal but probably only marginally less than Payoneer.

How much are we talking here? Some places are $30+ for swift fixed fees. I'm trying to move from PayPal due to their fees so gauge the best way to do so

The money received would = �0.749 per $ instead of what was �0.77 per $. We are taking a couple of � fee.

However, I'm based in the UK and Alamy is a UK company paying me in $ (bizarre I know). I've never received a fee of $30+ swift fees but this may depend on the country you live in.

I'm now at 446... up from 451 in my last post (453 beginning of the year). Creeping up one by one.

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It's been a while since I reported in. It's a fresh start of another week... sort of creeping up steadily. A little down on previous march but only just and there is still another 7 days left. Very similar pattern to previous years.

Very nice rank half full!! Congrats.

I am currently very frustrated with the similars rejections.

If you follow the discord you will see some examples of two wedding cakes, where I had one file declined.

I had 8 wedding cakes before, mostly for wedding venue, with people and tables in the background, these were the first "cards".

I also checked for similars with adobe tools and felt confident it was a fresh little niche in design and colors.

I have hundreds of generated cake images, but really made the effort to check what is already available to upload something new to my port and not with similars in the collection.

I chose 2 files.

Now I keep reading this affects everything, ai, photos, videos, png, people are getting a crazy and unpredictable amount of rejections.

It feels like uploading is a lottery ticket at the moment.

Image rejections can be an issue unfortunately. I've had to contact them once or twice but mostly, I've been ok. Sometimes I've received declined images for quality issues. They're normally correct but one or two have been overturned (Adobe that is). When I've gone in and looked at the .psb file I've found that I missed something on a mask etc. Now, I've set up a system for quality checking masks beforehand. Sometimes a decline can be useful to change the way you approach something.... sometimes not. Adobe I've found responsive and helpful with queries but Shutterstock.... their contributor support is like a black hole. If you're lucky, they'll respond in a few weeks but a month or more isn't unusual either.

I would prefer a more detailed explanation to the decline so you can correct it without taking up their time. One day maybe!

Thanks for the update Raul. Just one question, could you clarify the following

"Contributors are compensated anytime their Stock asset is used "

As in, it follows the existing pay structure when one of our images are used... min $0.38 and upward depending on image use etc.

Thanks

I started out with AS in 2013. Still going and doing nicely. Last year seen a slight dip but, I didn't submit that much. Probably between 500 - 1000 files for the year. This year I will be doing a lot more so should see a return to the usual progression hopefully. I'm a FT contributor and have been since I started.

1.337 / 5.000
How will misleading content in the Adobe library be removed? According to the examples given, everyone is knowledgeable about their own region.

I searched for "Istanbul" as artificial intelligence content in the Adobe library. I know very well because I live there. 85% of the images on the first page are misleading. How can an employee working at Adobe and living in another country know this?

Or how can I know whether the image about "Hamburg", which I have never been to, is misleading?

Actually, I wonder where exactly artificial intelligence images are used. Artificial intelligence images are definitely not used in magazines, newspapers, press and publishing websites in Turkey. It was used in the news of major newspapers a few times in the beginning. However, since the use of models that did not look like Turks in a news about Turkish Retirees was found quite ridiculous, the content of the news was changed immediately.

I am sure that the customer knows what kind of image they want. It is very good to separate Real Photo and AI in searches. But the selection tool could be in an easier place. It could be in the selection in the upper left corner.

(By the way, we can participate from Turkey, but Adobe is closed to Turkish customers. We can check our portfolio by changing the "tr" extension in the internet address bar to "fr". That's why the first page I see and the first pages you see may be different.)

The interesting question over AI is its potential impact on the stability and mental health of the general population. It's already been responsible for triggering civil disobedience via fake events generated accidentally and intentionally by local & foreign actors. The new battlegrounds of the future.

We're only at the beginning of AI really so without some sort of safeguarding, control or regulation to protect jobs and the truth, the internet is at risk of ending up as a mass of information that no one believe anymore. A lot of the fact checkers we see today are driven by companies with political agendas that use it as a way to push their own version of the truth by bending it here and there. In other words, who is going to control and provide you with the truth in the future?

For instance, if we look at the amount of AI imagery available at various agencies compared to real / photographic imagery, and, that they use the AI images as well as real ones when creating new datasets, the % of real imagery (correct data) will become less and less and potentially provide even less accurate results if things are not managed correctly. If the same happens with written facts online, people will start to doubt everything they see even if it was actually the truth.

AI has so much potential to do good things, to make a positive difference in life but if we're not careful, it could also do a lot of damage. Imagery, while important to us, is only a small element of the whole AI thing and I worry that our current crop of politicians etc are not really up to the job. They see $$$ signs first and fail to grasp the long term damage it could cause if not handled correctly, probably because they know they won't be around when the preverbal hits the fan and that'll be for someone else to sort it out.

For us older bods that only have a few years left to work it's probably not a major issue but for the younger generations that still have 20+ years left to work, they'll see jobs being wiped out with minimal replacements in return as businesses look to use the tech to slash more and more employees to improve their bottom as politicians try to tax them and the remaining employees more and more to make up for the shortfall in cash in the treasury coffers.

Of course, we don't really need to worry about it... our current crop of global leaders are bound to have it in hand 🙃

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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?

Unless�there 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.

I think the port size and % of sales to new files added recently may also be a factor. A lot of AI people are new contributors and as a result may well feature higher up in this. But...it's not really that important to be honest. I always pray to avoid those charts... and thankfully do and still rank from 75 - 800 through the year.

However, Adobe have made a conscious effort to change away from AI being the default. They won't have done it just for the heck of it and it'll either be driven by customer behaviour data (how many are switching it off for each search etc) or, they're receiving complaints from clients that they can't find what they want for the massive volume of AI imagery that is clogging up the search results. Either way, that's all I need to know from a business point of view for future planning. As with most fads / trends, there comes a point when the client (and their customers) become tired of a certain look and AI certainly has a "Look" that is easily spotted.

As was mentioned earlier, I believe AI imagery will stay around but will be used mostly by people who don't have a big budget or, by the masses who want an image to post in a forum, send to a friend or for a personal project. AI imagery in the broadsheets etc is now gaining a name as being junk, cheap and flooding the internet. It is the "Clip Art" of the future. As a designer or client, do you want to be seen using images that are viewed as cheap or fake by a large proportion of the general public who could also be your customers?

Personally, I still haven't used AI because it doesn't help me. It's another complication that requires a lot of processing, amending and fiddling around with to get it to do what I want. I just find it quicker to do it myself and at least that way I get what I want. It's about getting the idea from my head to the screen / page. I have a feeling a lot of the AI contributors it's like pulling the arm of a Slot Machine and hoping something interesting might turn up. They'll get lucky once in a while but mostly they'll produce stuff that will rarely sell... if ever. Hence the masses of junk landing all over the internet.

"Should there be a requirement to label AI-generated content? What�s your take on this?"

My understanding is that there is a requirement. If you've used AI to generate elements used in the image it has to be declared as "AI was used to generate this image" tag.

There is an exception that relates to the use of filling expanded backgrounds in photoshop or, editing out parts that are distracting but, if you add a person, animal or element to the image it has to be declared as AI.

As you mentioned, there are a lot out there that don't. I now use "Content Credentials" from Raw File -> Photoshop -> finished Tiff / Jpg. This way I can prove the origins of my work and how it was created.

Not great... I already have three Getty Accounts due to mergers of Corbis etc With any luck the regulators may say no but I won't hold my breath.

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Downloads up, $ up and running steady... ebb and flow as expected. Just less than 20k images... no AI. Total covering a 6 day period. Mon - Sat

Nice stats!
What's your return per download in $? <1 or >1?
I would guess ~ 0.75.

Thanks. I average between 0.87 - 0.94. As with most things, this will swing one way or the other but annually, that's what it is.