after a long time, almost a year, this month shutterstock is above Adobe stock for me.

but it was mainly because of 2 high video sales. 100+ usd per sale.

Someone posted on Facebook group screenshot. It is Adobe Firefly or ai training compensation.

So congrats or maybe not to all of us, our assets trained ai that will not need us anymore. 😁

Quote from: offisapup on September 13, 2023, 05:31

Does anyone have an abnormally high number of sales to go with the bonus amount? Someone has downloaded 10 percent of my port in a single day. I'm not complaining but it's definitely not something that's happened before.

I would ask Adobe about that, but also prepare yourself to have your port closed during the "investigation".

In many groups producers reported abnormal sales activity followed by account closure until the fraud team could check it out.

Some reported their port was "freed" after a few weeks, others report the problem happened again and their ports were closed for months.

This has nothing to do with ai issues, apparently this is about fraudulent credit card use or other fraud issues.

I hope for you the sales are real.

Thousands contributors are reporting this so it's probably not fraud card issue.

Same, extra 100+ without a sale.

almost 600 here.

i have never participated in any free collections

yes it is down for me

Same thing happened to me today, it was video. Custom "sale", earning blank.

Can Mat explain it?

anyone still having images in their PLUS collection deserves even less then 0.03

Mat, have few questions. I uploaded few of my best sellers that were isolated on white as png files with transparent background and they got accepted.

New accepted files are still jpegs and they look like they have white background that can be interpreted that I have double files, already sold one of them.

Can contributor get in trouble because of that?

to try to answer alexandersr, my blue ribbon says we NOW accept transparent PNG ("now", not "no")

Quote from: panicAttack on July 20, 2022, 02:48

Quote from: Firn on July 19, 2022, 11:01

Average month (again).
But speaking of iStock - No one else got a mail from them  with a "special opportunity" offer? I can't be the only one.

I did and rejected their offer.

Similar to AS only worst.

Also rejected it. Much worse in my opinion!

agree, much worst.

in terms of money per assets and duration of "deal"

that's what I responded to them on why I rejected their offer.

For me too

I went from 400/500 $ month to 250/300 $ month (4.000 images) after the publication of the free collection that I didn't join.

There are very few extended license sales and the average per photo is too low ... (rpd from 1,17$ to 0,94$ - 2020 -> 2021).

Shutterstock sells for 10 cents ... but sells far more licenses over $ 50.

yes, also didn't join to free collection, I knew it will devastate regular sales.

I reply just because of your last part... I never get high custom licences at AS that I get on SS. 90-110+ USD, sometimes even more then 125USD for single image sale.

Got some extended licences on AS but far too few.

I think they should concentrate effort on providing individual custom licence deals with their buyers that are good both from buyers and contributors, because obviously there are buyers that don't care much about price if image is right.

adobe tax team not responding to my emails as well for months.

my problem is in 1042-s form (or signed letter they sent last years) they have to provide based on federal law, but they don't and their terms of use or those FAQ are against the federal law also:

The country where I reside requires Adobe to provide a "1042-S" Foreign Person�s U.S. Source Income Subject to Withholding. Can you provide this form?
Because of a special agreement we have with the IRS, we don't issue forms 1042-S separately to each contributor. However, we can provide a signed document that includes earnings and amount of withholding via email on request. Please email us at [email protected]

now read this:

Every withholding agent must file an information return, Form 1042-S, Foreign Person�s U.S. Source Income Subject to Withholding, to report amounts paid to foreign persons that are described under Amounts Subject to NRA Withholding and Reporting, even if withholding is not required on the payments. Refer to Amounts Not Subject to NRA Withholding and Withholding for payments that do not require withholding.

A separate Form 1042-S is required for:

Each recipient regardless of whether or not you withheld tax.
Each tax rate (if you withheld at more than one tax rate) of a specific type of income that you paid to the same recipient.
Each type of income that you paid to the same recipient.

from IRS: https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/who-must-file

and plot twist here is: payments are made from adobe Canada

if I dont get respond this month I will go to media with all information and evidences I have.

they don't give me any choice.

complete mess

finally, hope all other major stock agencies will follow.

prices for almost everything went up in last 5 years, atleast in EU, only stock photos are not raising them for too long.