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Messages - DaLiu

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Sales was slow yesterday, but still holding good ranking somehow.  I want to be above 1,000th when I finish creating/adding another 4,000 AI photos sometime this year, I hope.  I'm running out of my ideas for AI photos now to be honest.  It's not as fast pace as it was in my first few months of AI photo generation.

A bit off topic, but may I ask what soft are you using to create Ai images? Thinking of adding some to my port too,

Midjourney.  We have too many contributors uploading AI images now.  So please dont start doing it!!

With so many people doing exclusive AI images since you don't need any expertise in the field, it's a good time to switch to a real photographer and try to find a niche which AI don't cover it or can't replicate it.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Monthly earnings and downloads
« on: March 13, 2024, 12:23 »
For me SS still is doing double the income of AS.

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The problem with all these AI tools, they don't provide the location, keywords and description about location which for me is very important, even tho the test image had the coordinates in the picture, Udream (the only one tested) didn't use any of that info to provide the location, so useless for me.

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Honestly, this ranking is useless, just focus on something else.

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My stats for this month:

SS downloads (mix) 2.5x more than AS
SS RPD (mix) 0.65$ (AS RDP is over 1$ per file (mix))
SS earnings 1.5x more than AS

I see a small decrease in income on SS side mostly due the video income, on images im doing better than last year, on AS I see an increase of income almost 30% in the first 2 months compared with the average of last year.

Overall both agencies are bringing more income montly than last year.

0 AI images.

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This is a clear example that everything behind these tools involves stealing from other contributors, don't understand how these kind of tools are still allowed to work.

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Adobe Stock / Re: What's your weekly ranking and how many images?
« on: February 26, 2024, 11:26 »
No idea how the weekly ranking is working, doesnt seem right

Do you also sell videos?  I think the ranking is solely based on image sales.

Yes, i sell both, but look, another update for today and the position is not moving, no idea.

You must have made a few good video sales today already.  Nice!!

No, those are images.

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Adobe Stock / Re: What's your weekly ranking and how many images?
« on: February 26, 2024, 10:57 »
No idea how the weekly ranking is working, doesnt seem right

Do you also sell videos?  I think the ranking is solely based on image sales.

Yes, i sell both, but look, another update for today and the position is not moving, no idea.


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Adobe Stock / Re: What's your weekly ranking and how many images?
« on: February 26, 2024, 09:07 »
No idea how the weekly ranking is working, doesnt seem right


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Shutterstock.com / Re: Is Shutterstock dead?
« on: February 18, 2024, 07:53 »
Level 5 on images and Level 3 on videos but for this month I see a decrease in high earnings but records number of downloads.

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Bro, we got it, stop replying to yourself.

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For me SS is providing 4 digits income and in the same time i see a 25-30% increase in reveneu from Adobe, 0 AI prompts in my portfolio.

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My last 12 months on SS

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General Stock Discussion / Re: This month's sales
« on: January 17, 2024, 19:28 »
My SS downloads are going greater and greater, strange thing is in the last year i see more and more SO sales and almost dissapeared the On Demand ones.

Today sales:

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If you different portfolios how you can even compare them, I have exactly the same portfolios on AS and SS, for me SS is 3x the number of downloads of AS.

Do you make 3x on SS as well?

Usually more than double.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Review time
« on: January 17, 2024, 07:23 »
100% acceptance for my last batch at Adobe, I must clarify that I do not use and will never use AI to replace my photographic work. I know and I'm waiting for Adobe to clean up its contributors, that will come. Its inevitable, simple law of supply and demand. And the complaints will rain...

Exactly the same, I don't do AI, not because I can't, just a matter of principles, I upload only normal images and videos and my acceptance rate is always like over 98% for both video and images.

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If you different portfolios how you can even compare them, I have exactly the same portfolios on AS and SS, for me SS is 3x the number of downloads of AS.

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"waaay more" is relative. for some people, doubling their investment is "waay more". for others, getting like $1k is "waaay more".
if you are in a poor country, maybe making $50 is "waaay more".

that's why I am asking. what do you define as "waaay more"?

So, it took 10 years to get 6,500 photos on Adobe Stock, but took only 3 months to add 3,000 AI generated photos on Adobe Stock.  $120 x 3 months Midjourney cost is very well spent.  I'll make way more than $120 in AI photo sales this month.  Also, I'm lucky I got 3,000 AI photos accepted before the mass rejection trend started.

What is that "profit" wise though? Without a reference, it is difficult to make a decision, i.e., a bar chart of $2 is much different from a bar chart of $200 or $2000...

Did you read "I'll make way more than $120 in AI photo sales this month. "?

I do not disclose my exact revenue.  lol

Wondering if somebody will steal "your" AI images, how do you prove are yours, showing the tags you use to generate them? I honestly don't understand why a customer will pay for something that can be generated by anybody, not much skills is needed, just the right tool to do it for you.

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Im doing 90% landscape and travel photos, i have ~18k images in my portofolio and I can't complain, i'm doing pretty good sales, I could quit my day job and living from it on a decent level, so it can happen and I only started in 2015 with the microstock and photography in general, many will say its way too late.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Happy Reset!
« on: January 09, 2024, 08:47 »
It bothers me they reset it every year but honestly I reach back to level 4 in maximum 2 weeks and back to level 5 by end of February, its not that bad, at least for me.

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Newbie Discussion / Re: Any romanians photographers here?
« on: December 18, 2023, 12:01 »
Si eu sunt roman dar stabilit in Cehia, sunt curios daca vreau sa ma intorc in Romania ce costuri implica sa-mi platesc taxele in Romania pentru microstock.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: What a cool SS, how well he sells
« on: December 15, 2023, 10:00 »
I'm putting a 99% likelihood on this sale being fraud.

I'm just hoping i don't wake up one morning and find my entire account suspended for suspicious activity.  There is no way that video is worth 1% of that fee.

WOW, congrats, never seen such a big sale, wondering if was sold under clip packs, enhanced video or cart sales.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: What a cool SS, how well he sells
« on: December 14, 2023, 03:54 »
Nice surprise this morning.

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