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There are two trends for microstock producers.
An exponentiell trend of decreasing DL and a linear trend of portfolio growth for producers.
The exponential assumption that the number of download per photo will halve in about four years.
For beginners ist possible to follow the exponential trend. But with time they will hit a wall.
With an larger portfolio the portfolio growth will get more and more linear. But the exponential trend of decreasing DL will continue.
Maybe there have been some niches for high quality Composing and lifestyle producers.
But with AI there are no niches anymore in future.
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« on: March 10, 2024, 05:39 »
1) Because I have a day job and (stock) photography is just a hobby.
But i have reduced uploading at microsotck already. Its getting boring somehow.
So in future maybe
2) or
3) or
4) anyway.
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« on: February 18, 2024, 04:57 »
"...This makes it all the more urgent to provide Ukraine with equipment and funding. The fact that the Ukrainian army is now running out of ammunition is "absurd" and "unethical".
Yes it is. But in fact Europe and US are running out of ammunition. I am quite sure that Europe will get in a war with Russia in less than 10 years. So we should start to produce more weapon and ammunition now. It won't prevent the upcoming war with Russia but will give us some chance.
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« on: February 17, 2024, 06:48 »
Same here, no longer get anything more than $1.01 My last $1.42 was on 1/14/2024
Now overwhelming majority are 0.32 cents. My downloads are growing, but % of $ that I get are getting lower and lower.
Plus my bestseller sales disappeared in January.
Mat, I will sent you email with my files as well. Thank you in advance for your time.
We get 200% more on Adobe Stock than Shutterstock at lowest payment. Look at the bright side!!!
Thats crazy I only contribute to Adobe. Why do people bother contributing to other stock agencies if they pay so little? Is it a habit?
Microstock is a rollercoaster. At the moment Adobe Stock is doing better. Because of AI i guess my real images outs of DSLR will get hard competition in next years at Adobe Stock. Probably not so much at istock or Shutterstock. So at the moment Adobe Stock ist doing better for me, but i guess it will change next years.
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« on: November 19, 2023, 03:08 »
They seem to be losing customers too.
Never would of thought of saying anything like this some months ago but my shutterstock vs adobe stock port performance suggests adobe stock's customer acquisition strategy is taking customers from shutterstock.
Years ago contributors and customers left istock. Shutterstock did benefit most of this escape. Now it seems the same happens to shutterstock. But its very simply. If customers want to buy my latest images, they only get it at Adobe Stock :-)
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« on: September 24, 2023, 08:10 »
watermark doesn't make much sense nowadays.
With 40MP+ DSLR watermarks at small resolution preview doesn't make much sense.
At microstock you will make the money with high resolution on demand DLs or EL.
If someone buys an Image for $0,X subscription or someone downloads a low resolution preview for "free".
There is not much difference.
If there is a need for a high resolution images or EL, they will probably buy it.
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« on: July 28, 2023, 10:19 »
Finding bestseller?
I thought AI is good at big data.
Its probably possible but expensive right now.
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« on: July 27, 2023, 13:31 »
Why don't you let AI copy stock photo bestsellers. Maybe the smartest way. AI is doing the work and you earn the money.
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« on: July 21, 2023, 13:02 »
I need only three lenses for everything,
wide angle lens like 24mm or 28mm
normal lens around 50mm
portrai lens between 85 to 105 mm
So for travel i would use a zoom lens like 24-70, if i want to use just one lens.
I never have been happy with extreme zoom lenses like 28-200.
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« on: July 16, 2023, 06:29 »
Nobody can tell the state of microstock industry earnings in 10 - 20 years.
About 20 years ago istock, shutterstock started.
Now AI is at the starting line.
AI is a tool like DSLR have been at the beginning of microstock. This tool is much more intelligent than a DSLR.
I guess the complete process of stockphostography can be done by a script in a few years. Making the image, editing, keyboarding, uploading, etc,.. So don't forget some users with powerful workstation uploading hundreds of images a day to free sites.
So i guess an enormous number of AI Images uploading at free sites will be hard competition for stock photographers.
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« on: July 14, 2023, 09:12 »
Dear colleagues,
I've just published this blog post on a trend that I potentially see occurring soon (hope I'm not giving these agency decision-makers any ideas):
During the past six months, most notably, Wirestock and Picfair have dropped their respective statuses as free to upload stock agencies in what is a potentially significant trend for contributors. In this blog post Ill discuss whether this business model will become more commonplace and if it may present itself as a threat to contributors income in a time when were already experiencing diminishing returns coupled with rising inflation. Or perhaps, this fee will be an opportunity!
https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2023/07/13/will-contributors-soon-have-to-pay-microstock-agencies-to-host-their-content/
Alex
I think it would be a good idea to pay for every upload. Twenty years ago i was shooting medium format. Every image i took did cost around 1 Euro. A medium format slide film including developing did cost about 10 Euro. Depending of used format, 4,5X6, 6X6 or 6X7 you got around 8 to 12 images at one roll medium format film. So i think photography is to cheap nowadays. Every upload to microstock should be charged with one / $
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« on: July 12, 2023, 11:33 »
Getty Images has always been something special, very special.
So i built keyword set at LR only for istock.
Some kind of CV, and use only generic description in english.
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« on: June 18, 2023, 02:55 »
On Monday, the agent received the photos and thanked me saying that the result is absolutley amazing and he will surely sell the apartment fast and with even more money that he would of wanted to post. Well.....2 weeks past and the agent DID NOT sent me the money
You edit slow and bill fast. Dont panic you probably will get the money in a few days or weeks. But i guess they won't pay 9 hours editing for a simple job.
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« on: June 13, 2023, 12:13 »
We are at the begin of AI Age
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« on: May 06, 2023, 09:34 »
No, i have not till now.
But i think Adobe has enough power to get it work.
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« on: May 06, 2023, 01:56 »
AI is the future.
Because of Adobe Firefly i would invest in Adobe and not in Shutterstock.
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« on: May 02, 2023, 11:11 »
It can be said that earnings on Adobe Stock are maybe increasing. But the other stock sites in general, especially Shutterstock, are declining for a while now. So the total contributor earnings are pretty much going down.
Can this negative trend for a contributor be changed anytime soon? Are there any optimists?
Probably not. There ist high inflation but no increase in price for microstock images.
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« on: March 26, 2023, 03:16 »
AND here i was responding to a (quite common ) msg implying RPD for S was $.10
Her Ugliness wrote -"SS fails to bring in many sales higher than $0.10 these days." Nothing about RPD.
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« on: March 12, 2023, 06:02 »
It will be hard for a microstock contributor to maintain income without AI images.
If a contributor don't do microstock full-time he will maybe work some hours a week for microstock.
Now there are working some computers for AI microstock images full-time.
Meaning lots more of new AI images uploads daily.
It don't have do be better images than your non AI images.
But your images gets lost in search with stagnating uploads and more overall AI uploads.
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« on: March 11, 2023, 13:15 »
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« on: March 11, 2023, 10:43 »
Seems it will be a problem for cryptos.
Like the real estate crash 2008, starting at the beginning oaf 2008 and crashed in autumn 2008, we maybe will see an crypto crash 2023 in autumn.
Maybe there will be more debt invested in cryptos than debtor can pay back.
I think some banks involved in crypto investment getting nervous now.
The problem is, if investors invested debt in cryptos and sell now they incur a loss. If they don't sell and cryptos continue to fall they maybe get bankrupt.
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« on: March 05, 2023, 04:57 »
Looking at monthly income report of Steve from January 2023. He is making about $2900 with average 15.000 images.
Thats an RPI of 0,19.
I cannot even dream of getting anywhere near an RPI of 0,19.
Yes 0,19 is a quite good RPI nowadays. Regarding some reports of microstock income the RPI range of a generalist seems to be between 0,01 and 0,3. Some professional seems to be in the RPI range between 0,4 and 3. But these professionals are specialists doing mostly lifestyle photography.
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« on: March 03, 2023, 08:05 »
The cat images sell some months above average, some months below. But overall this single image is not much important for his yearly income. So i would not focus on a single image,
We are nowhere focusing on the cat image. The earning downward trend for cat image (Steve's best-seller) is shown to demonstrate of what we will do for every image of his portfolio in order to estimate for portfolio half-time.
Estimation is hard for separate images precisely for the reasons you mentioned. The ultimate goal of the article was to estimate that on the portfolio level.
P.S. RPI does not matter much at all in my opinion because it is too detached metric.
Sorry, maybe i am to focused at the best seller cat. Interesting report. Thanks for your work.
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« on: March 03, 2023, 04:49 »
Looking at monthly income report of Steve from January 2023. He is making about $2900 with average 15.000 images.
Thats an RPI of 0,19.
The cat images sell some months above average, some months below. But overall this single image is not much important for his yearly income. So i would not focus on a single image,
There is a downward trend of images selling half at about 24 to 48 months. Yuri called it mpm.
Its important to "maintain a production minimum" to keep income stable.
The cat images is probably selling well longer. Maybe because of maintaining a good stable search rank. Nobody can tell.
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« on: March 03, 2023, 04:21 »
RPI is always earnings per portfolio size.
Earnings of a single image ist not important.
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