Good month for me, by today's standards.
(I had a 'jackpot' sale, which makes all the difference)

Congrats for the 'jackpot' sale - nice to hear those things still do exist.

I had an average month with nothing special at all

What does "no free submissions" mean?

It means I did not submit any of my images for free - you can choose if you upload as commercial or as free images (which earn very little).

Hi, everyone. I would like to know how many days i have to wait for automatic Wirestock withdraw? Thanks! I reach $39.79.

Normally the billing runs automatically within the first 4 days of the month if everything is entered correctly.

But this month they are late... will come soon

Do assets accepted into the free collection get automatically back to the regular paid collection after 1 year?

I'm pretty sure that's exactly how it worked.
Unless, of course, the asset is nominated again and accepted again.

Some assets from last year's Free Collection are now marked as �not free� in my portfolio again and I can also find them in the normal search.

today i have 9 downloads so far, north america is missing.

It's the same for me - 6 downloads so far today, which is about 30% of what I usually have on weekdays at this time.

In total I have 85 downloads so far this week, which is at a low 60% of my usual average.

Thanks. & strange re: motionelements - I've had a few thousand assets there for 4-5 years, and not one sale yet... I find that rather odd!
What kind of revenue do you there, and is it mainly images, or videos you find sell well there?

Never signed up for iStock/getty... I've heard now it's a bit challenging to do well there? Do you still find that's the case?

Shutterstock... also - after j. originer pump/dumped his stock, didn't really do much sales there (maybe only $50-$100/month).

123rf... first year I signed up - I think I made $100... since then, revenue flat there.

MotionElements (2.56% of my photo revenue)
- Fotos, AI Images and Videos uploaded - you don't get a detailed sales report, just an amount in $ per month

IStock (3.83% of my photo revenue, 26% of my video revenue) - had this on the wrong 2nd position, its 4th, sorry for that
- the upload process is very time consuming using their DeepMeta tool

123rf (2.49% of my photo revenue)
- they dropped in sales for me in january 2024 from $80 a month to now $8-10 per month, no image reviews for more than half a year - not worth any time

ShutterStock (12.17% of my photo revenue, 25.1% of my video revenue)
- yes, that 10cent and "fight again each year" is definatly a crap-show, but they are still in 2nd position for me in revenue
- I do not upload my better quality images and videos there since "10ct"

I think your quality standards will pay off - unfortunately I'm not the type for that, a picture should take a maximum of 2-3 minutes (editing and tagging). I have automated most of the steps here, the results are only checked by hand, i.e. post-processing and keywording.
And then all the stuff has to be uploaded to 19 agencies with all their individual exceptions ^^

In any case, high-quality images should sell for longer, as they should last longer - good quality simply can't be copied so quickly and easily.

And now it's time for an ice cream... does anyone else want one? ;-)

This year I have 3k of images and last August I had only 300. My sales are worse this year and going down. My new files are not picking up for some reason. This is my year in sales:

I have a very similar effect in my port - since the end of March, sales have dropped abruptly (I have already described this elsewhere here) and have now leveled off at a level around 40% lower.
New files (newer than 2 months) sell next to nothing and I regularly upload 30-40 images/videos to the submission every day.

I don't have an explanation, just assumptions that I can't back up

yes, too many people traveling when they could stay home & work & just buy my travel pix instead

Exactly ;-)

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

I'm very pleased to hear that your account has been unblocked - great news!

As I've already had an account block myself... in the coming weeks your sales should recover to a normal level, for me it took about 8-10 weeks to get back to my previous level.

I agree with the others here that blocking an account because of "conspicuous sales" and then unblocking it weeks later is a very unfortunate option.
Here the contributor is condemned before it is proven that he is to blame.

I can understand that the sales may have to be deducted again if, for example, a purchase was made with an invalid credit card, but this direct "pre-judgment" of the contributor is definitely the wrong way to go.

The whole thing creates a new atmosphere of fear - I, for one, look at the screen every day with fear when I log into my AdobeStock account and hope that the account still exists.
The climate in the stock sector is definitely getting rougher and of course we are more and more at the mercy of the rules of the big stock agencies.

Have a nice day,
Michael

Have a nice holiday :-)

Today (Friday) was the slowest day at AS for me this week, about half the sales as Monday to Thursday.

Yes, the ticket system is probably the right way.

My account was also blocked for uploading because I uploaded silhouettes that were supposedly created by AI, at least that was IStock's opinion.

After a somewhat lengthy communication with the ticket system, during which I had to control myself to remain particularly friendly and of course humble, I am now allowed to upload 50 images per week again. And no, they weren't AI images that I had uploaded, but if their automatic system says �this is AI�, that's probably their reality.

In the end, this �stamping� fits in with IStock's 15% share policy.