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Adobe Stock / Rejection patterns.
« on: April 24, 2023, 12:02 »
I've noticed a pattern with Adobe over the years. I make the effort to upload new images... They get rejected for random reasons... I get frustrated and dont upload for weeks or months... I then get multiple sales a day, so I upload more images... Immediately after uploading, the sales completely stop... The uploads get rejected... Round and round it goes. After uploading an image 4 or 5 times it will usually get accepted but for any kind of volume of images, its just not worth it.
Its like its all a lure to keep people paying Adobe subscription fees for their software forever.
Why should a contributor operate at a loss to waste time fighting to upload images into a portfolio they have no control over for constantly falling royalties in return?

Now the Adobe guy will do his helpful thing and ask for me to upload samples of the rejected work so he can investigate and on and on like its been for years yet nothing changes or improves. A Placating game to keep you on a string.

Despite being my top agency for sales, trying to grow a portfolio here just isnt worth the time for so little.

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Adobe Stock / Lifetime Downloads
« on: January 02, 2023, 19:12 »
So... my lifetime download count on the dashboard reset to zero on January 1st. I dont recall this happening before. Is lifetime now defined as 1 year?

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General Stock Discussion / Technical issues
« on: November 21, 2020, 02:28 »
What are other peoples experiences with review rejections lately on AS?

I quit stock a year ago due to relentless and irrational rejections. Now my sales are better than ever at AS, so I try to add new projects and everything is rejected for unknown technical issues. Over and over. As a test I uploaded 2 images with horrid ISO noise and they passed first time.

We do all the work and they make us bleed for the smallest piece of the pie. Doesnt seem worth the investment of time and gear.


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This Q-result every quarter, I'm beginning to think theyre cooking the books! after 14 years with this outfit I know people in every camp and I dont know ANYBODY who's doing any good or who really cares if the place is down or not??.

come on Paws whats  youre opinion youre good at this?
My opinion is as they are audited accounts and Oringer could go to prison for a very long time if they were fraudulent they are most likely correct. As has been said over and over again new supply far outstrips demand therefore most contributors will lose out. Its really that simple.

The supply otstripping the demand!  jeez we have known that for year now, nothing new!  no I dont buy that anymore theres got to be something else. before it was just some people, some camps crying and complaining NOW it almost everyone!

Wow. You mean all that crying and complaining that certain people were doing was actually about something real? I guess crossing fingers and wishing hard didnt make the problems go away after all. Its just easier to attack them rather than stand united against a company thats screwing you with your own property to make profits for themselves.

Supply is outstripping demand at Shutterstock because they made it so. I believe they opened the gates to anyone to desperately inflate their library and make as much money as they could for themselves before the stock photo market totally collapses. This is why sales are down everywhere:

https://unsplash.com/

Decent quality photos for completely free. Multiple sites are out there like this and they are growing fast. Web traffic stats show free sites getting constant high growth while most micro sites are falling. Shutterstock web traffic shows an increase but I'm sure thats the flood of new amateur contributor traffic and not paying customers.
Sites like Unsplash have convinced tons of naive photographers to give their portfolios away for free so they could stick the word free on the front page and generate mountains of traffic for themselves, starving out the existing market. This new trend does nothing but train consumers that our images have no value and that they DESERVE our images for free... even for commercial use. Why would they pay anything for images now?
There are tons of unaddressed legal issues at these sites that will create problems for them in the future such as the lack of releases but its pretty tough to compete with free in the minds of consumers. I believe the only course of action to take is to draw a line in the sand and that line is quality. Let the garbage images be free and the consumers will tire of it and will pay for quality again. Thats Shutterstocks mistake. They prioritize the garbage over the quality.

The ironic part is that all of this happened because contributors allowed it to. Its our property. Its our photos that make these sites even possible. Contributors chose to follow Shutterstocks poor choices and stick their head in the sand. What would happen to Shutterstock if contributors stood up to them and said no. What if contributors united together and opted out of sales on their portfolios in protest? They cant ignore their store literally shrinking. They cant ignore that loss of sales, especially under these conditions. Its our images that make all of this even possible.

Food for thought:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M_OZWtpokc

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