Quote from: KuriousKat on December 29, 2018, 05:59

I just tried uploading with the new Adobe interface, and I like it very much. However, I cannot set the price for the ELs as I can on the Fotolia page from 30-100.

Mat, I know you have said in the past that we can write in and get this changed, but are we to write in every time we make a submission, or are you going to allow us to set a default amount somewhere?

The Extended license price is fixed across the entire collection at Adobe Stock. The price is $79.99. There is no need for the feature you have requested. While Fotolia is still active however, we can make the change to extended license prices for you. The most efficient way to  submit the request is to write us via the "contact us" link at the bottom of the Adobe Stock Contributor Portal. You can also open a ticket via Fotolia however our response time will likely be slower.

-Mat

My own experience:

I switched my uploading habits recently and moved from Fotolia to Adobe Stock.
On Fotolia, I used to always set my EL price to the maximum possible (100).
If I look at my last uploaded images (uploaded via Adobe Stock), the EL price is set to 100 (without me requesting anything from support).
Somehow it seems to work how I want it 

Fotolia support has replied to my request.
There was a "temporary problem with withholding tax" (my translation from German...).
The incorrectly withheld amount has been booked back to my account.

Thanks FT/Adobe for the quick reaction!

No help now, but for the future why not just keep a folder with all fully keyworded files (jpg version) on your drive? No need for another export, all ready to upload. Cost of disk space is not an issue any more...

Mat, some suggestions for improving the Adobe Stock Contributor portal:

- for displaying my own portfolio I would prefer a list view as on Fotolia ("My files"), showing columns for date uploaded, views, sales and total earnings per file (the latter is not available on Fotolia but would be great to have).
- On dashboard and Insights, the graph on top shows data for weeks. I would much prefer to see months instead. Possibly that could be made configurable, so that everybody can choose what they want to see. Also, exact numbers are missing on the graph for downloads and earnings per data point (could be done as a mouseover).
- While Insights allows to select any timeframe for statistics, you always need multiple clicks to get any result. Would it be possible to display some useful numbers (e.g. downloads and earnings for the current day, current week and current month) as default on the page? Or make that configurable also.
- You do support making our own collections, but they are lacking some basic functionality, like displaying statistics (number of downloads and total earnings per collection). Also, adding files to collections doesn't really work well without a search function within the list of own files.

While some of these are not available on Fotolia, it would be great to see them implemented.

Thanks!

Out of interest, does anybody KNOW that 500px have got any of their images actually on Getty and/or China Group? If so, then how please?

You'll find them via google (your 500px name + getty images).
Mine do actually show up on Getty.

Sales are a different thing though. They seem to report sales months after the fact. The last few I had reported showed the text "our distributor sold a License of..."
No information on who was the distributor.

I do see a massive increase in views (more than factor 10), but no noticeable change in downloads.

Brilliant!
Many thanks to Adobe, that's really good news!

I'd rather see Adobe/Fotolia use the description from my image metadata rather than the image title.

Its a pain in the ass having to copy and paste descriptions to each and every image upload.

Agree.
But a workaround as long as they don't change it: When the title is empty, they take the description field.
You can easily delete titles with a short script for ExifTool. That makes it one doubleclick before uploading a batch of photos....

Not only that they also switch off the servers to parts of the world. I Germany I heard its been a stand-still for over 15 hours or something.

You heard wrong.
It stopped working about one hour ago, before that all was fine.
In Germany.

But here's the bit that kills contributors

"Paid download growth slowed to a near-standstill, rising just 0.5% year over year to 43.7 million and actually declining slightly compared to the fourth quarter of 2017. Yet Shutterstock got a lot more revenue from each download, boosting unit revenue by 17% to $3.40 per download"

So how did they do that? Either by fiddling the figures (unlikely) or by pushing the lower value 25 cent contributors therefore making more money per download

But of course thats all tin foil hat conspiracy stuff isn't it?

They are talking about revenue per download, not profit. How much the contributors get is not relevant for that figure.
Most likely they are more successful in selling higher priced licenses and / or videos.
Should be good for us (RPD going up)

Just out of curiosity, I just did a quick comparison over the last two one-year periods (May 2016 - April 2017 vs May 2017 - April 2018).
My own RPD rose from $0,75 to $0,98.

Number of downloads was almost flat (slight decline), but total revenue was up by around 20%.

NCL Cruise Lines saw one of my images and asked if they could post it to their social media sites and gave me a link to their terms. Sounds like a sweet deal. They get full, unfettered rights and as far as I can tell, I don't even get credit.

"I hereby grant to NCL Corporation Ltd., it subsidiaries, agents and affiliates, the unlimited worldwide, perpetual, unending right to use, reproduce, distribute, and convey my image/photograph in any format or medium now known or subsequently developed, to modify and edit my image/photograph, to combine my image/photograph with other images, video, audio, text and other media, to create derivative works incorporating, including or based on my image/photograph, and to sublicense any or all of the foregoing rights. This grant shall be construed broadly."

Easy. Tell them you are thrilled by that opportunity, you only ask them to agree to your terms: "NCL Corporation Ltd. grants <insert name here> and his/her subsidiaries, agents and affiliates (translates into friends and family), the unlimited worldwide, perpetual, unending right to use all services of NCL Corporation Ltd."

Free cruises forever.
Quid pro quo.

Quote from: dirkr on January 23, 2018, 07:26

Just use -site:fotolia.*

That should do the trick.

It works on the first site, but if I want to exclude several sites using the same formula, all the following will not be excluded. Imagine that after fotolia I want to exclude SS, IS, DT and so on so I only get the results that are not on the agencies sites.

The second site exclusion and others that follow are not recognized in the following formula, so i keep getting FL and DT site links:

-site:shutterstock.* -site:fotolia.* -site:dreamstime.*

Strange, works perfect for me.

Quote from: dirkr on December 10, 2017, 18:58

Quote from: sarah2 on December 10, 2017, 14:45

It now just shows TOTAL sales. Unless I am mistaken.....

On the account balance page pick a date range where you actually had sales, then a list appears with all the details.
Pre-selected time period is one month, so if you had no sales in the last month, you will see nothing.
It's confusing...

The details are there, but I don't see where it tells us whether we got 50% or whether it was a distributor sale (30%) or an associate sale (38.5%). (Some people have mentioned they had associate sales, but that might have beebn (?) before the recent interface change)

For me it's all there, in the "detail" column...
For each sale two lines in the table, one with "sale" in the description and the detail column, the next with "alamy commission" in the description and "50%" in the detail.
For distributor sales three lines, an additional one detailing the distributor commission.