Thanks Mat 

Wow, this is great news!

I'm just below Emerald with Gold rank and a large editorial port. I've written to contributor support with a link to my work to see if I can be included early.

Great news, Thanks Mat

Stu :-)

Used to be about 2-3 every week now its about 2 a month. I think there are still plenty of EL sales across the site, but its simply down to quality content growth exceeding EL demand. There is an ever increasing number great photographers submitting quality content than there used to be.

Ok so my $396 sale was an error, but they need to either correct this line in my reported stats or show a negative credit on my account for this month so I know the exact amount that was taken back. This is so F'd up.

Quote from: Stu99 on February 11, 2019, 11:00

Today got this great sale; 'Your commission, $396.00'. Um wow, thank you very much Adobe!!! Non exclusive photo. I think this image just sold its soul! 

Sounds like dream for me 
On what kind of image was the sale made?

https://stock.adobe.com/27436528

Happy for you :-) But for me, worst month in a decade 

I sensed the writing was on the wall about a year ago, there just seemed to be less attention and communications whereas as previously there was more of a marketing effort and buzz across social media and briefs were closed fairly soon after they expired. I made $2700 with them in my first year 2015/16. Also some briefs that I shot specific images for and weren't chosen were removed from the site and submitted to Shutterstock, one image has gone on to make about $750 as RF. So wasn't a complete waste of time for me, now I have over 800 exclusive images that were on ImageBrief to upload somewhere.....

Wow, I've gone from level 4 to level 1, from 0.324 to 0.216 per sub DL.
Inability to sell = slash the commission rate based on your 12 month points total. Time to pull the plug on this site.

Nice going 123rf

It's a holiday for most people in the US so don't expect too much action today.

Quote from: Stu99 on January 25, 2016, 17:40

I just got my first EL under the new structure, I got $30.

Did you get $29.85 or $30? I ask because 30% of 99.50 ( the current price of the 2-pack in the US) is $29.85. Possibly if the purchase were made in another country, the price amounted to $100 when converted into USD, but nice round numbers on currency conversions suggest shenanigans with the exchange rate

It was a $30.00 EL

I just got my first EL under the new structure, I got $30.

I decided to test the waters with Image Brief in April, I have submitted to quite a few briefs, mostly archive stuff from old shoots and unused images. Whilst I am disappointed at the low number of briefs that are awarded and converted into sales I remain interested as I have actually had some good sales there. I signed up as a premium member and paid the annual fee of $499. So far I have had 3 sales since April ($1250, 100% commission as a premium member) and still have a number of images that are shortlisted.

This week they launched the beginning of a new way to get your images in front of buyers through their 'Personal Marketplace', thus allowing me to create a database of searchable images as well as the usual method of exposure by submitting to briefs, I can select images to be sold as RF or RM, minimum selling price remains at $250.

My advice is not to write them off, keep an eye on the briefs especially the specific ones where you might have something sitting on your hard drive that fits the brief criteria. This may not be a good fit for all photogs but look at the briefs and see if your work suits some of the styles the represented agencies are looking for. I am enjoying being with them right now, their communications have been excellent every time I posed a question and I am am making sales. New developments like the 'Marketplace' shows to me that they are expanding their operation, hopefully this will in time bring more sales. I hope sharing my experience helps and wish everyone good luck in making some sales in this super-competitive field.