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Dreamstime.com / Re: Would like some advice on Dreamstime. Thanks
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I don't understand why people waste their time uploading to Dreamstime
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Dreamstime.com / Re: Would like some advice on Dreamstime. Thanks« on: March 15, 2024, 14:26 »
I don't understand why people waste their time uploading to Dreamstime
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Adobe Stock / Re: Does Adobe have any contact info for contributors?« on: March 13, 2024, 22:36 »No. I hired someone to make me an original character design... BINGO!!!! 3
General Stock Discussion / Re: Does your % acceptance on Adobestock affect how much your images are seen?« on: March 06, 2024, 15:48 »
If you go to church every day and pray that your images move high up of the algorithm they will eventually rise. If you pray, you will be listened. That's what I was told since I was a child.
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General Stock Discussion / Re: Adobestock review-How many files do you have currently waiting?« on: March 05, 2024, 07:55 »3000??? How do you write a description and keyword that many if you don't mind me asking? Some people employ other people to help them to edit and write keywords to the AI images they upload. For example I know a man in India who employs teenagers to do the job in exchange of candies, sodas and cigarettes and he is doing very well. He told me he now uploads more than 2000 AI images a day using different accounts under several family member names. 5
Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock photo sales revenue only 1/20 of Adobe Stock's.« on: March 02, 2024, 08:09 »
SS will not last more than 3 years, victim of AI and its own greed the infamous agency will have a slow death.
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General Stock Discussion / Re: Stock agencies that will disappear in 3 years?« on: February 29, 2024, 13:23 »I would say 5 to max 7 years is a realistic scenario where only the big agencies like Adobe Stock, Getty / Istock, Alamy, etc. and of course agencies with editorial content will survive. People will need no agencies for that, it will be free applications available that will do everything for free. SS is charging a customer for something the customer can get for free in many applications today. Imagine in one or two years. SS is a sinking boat like most of today available agencies. 7
General Stock Discussion / Re: Stock agencies that will disappear in 3 years?« on: February 28, 2024, 18:06 »I'm new to stock. Started last year. Just wanted to. Monetise my images. Don't think I want to make living from images. My main target is to grow on YouTube. But obviously love to make some passive income from images. You are jumping into a sinking boat 8
General Stock Discussion / Re: Stock agencies that will disappear in 3 years?« on: February 28, 2024, 18:03 »Three to five years, we'll be down to the last of the survivors. Adobe, iStock, SS and Alamy. Each of those has a big corporation backing them, while the stand alone agencies will be drowning without a life jacket or anyone to rescue them. [/quote] They will squeeze more and more the contributors, they will drop the prices, they will introduce advertising in their pages etc etc etc they will finally die drowned without a life jacket or anyone to rescue them. 9
General Stock Discussion / Re: Stock agencies that will disappear in 3 years?« on: February 27, 2024, 12:28 »
You guys all wrong, all but Getty and Adobe will disappear in max 3 years, the industry is changing almost every quarter because AI. SS disappearance will shake the dying industry. SS business model is now obsolete with many agencies offering the same garbage to the public.
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General Stock Discussion / Re: As more people start generating own AI images, will our sales go down?« on: February 23, 2024, 11:26 »
I know a person in India who has hired 12 year old kids from a school to generate AI images, add keywords and upload them to Adobe. He manages 16 different accounts using names of family members and is making thousands of dollars. He told me that he uploads over 1000 images a day and is trying to expand his business to upload at least 3000 images a day.
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General - Stock Video / Re: Freepik Wants My Videos For A Price« on: February 16, 2024, 13:25 »
Stay away from freepik
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Adobe Stock / Re: What is a good number of images to submit to AS per day?« on: February 09, 2024, 10:45 »
Between 200-300 a day to have a decent amount of earnings by the end of the month
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Adobe Stock / Re: 9 Million+ AI generated photos - Stock Photography coming to end« on: December 30, 2023, 11:32 »
350k a day
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General Stock Discussion / Re: Whatever happened to Yuri Arcurs?« on: November 18, 2023, 20:53 »
I guess Yuri will be aware of how hard generative IA is going to hit his business.
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General Stock Discussion / Re: Would Adobe correct 2 images for me or do I need to delete and start again?« on: November 18, 2023, 08:07 »
AI Christmas and New Year's Day images have already passed in Adobe. Now easter and St. Patrick's Day images should be uploaded.
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General Photography Discussion / Re: AI Photography-Where will standard photograhy be this time next year?« on: November 18, 2023, 08:00 »
In the short term most camera and lens manufacturers will stop doing so. Wedding, social event and portrait professionals will use smart phones whose photos and videos will be manipulated by AI to give spectacular results. Of course, stock photographers will disappear just as the professional darkroom photo developers disappeared in the past. All this will happen in stages over the next three years as AI advances. It will be a slow and very painful end.
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Adobe Stock / Re: 9 Million+ AI generated photos - Stock Photography coming to end« on: November 08, 2023, 09:45 »
I have no doubt that at the rate artificial intelligence is advancing, stock photography has a maximum of two years left to live. Right now the smart thing to do is to sell all the lenses, equipment and cameras on ebay before it is too late and they become worthless junk.
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General Stock Discussion / Re: My Sellers in October 2023« on: November 08, 2023, 09:42 »
I have no doubt that at the rate artificial intelligence is advancing, stock photography has a maximum of two years left to live. Right now the smart thing to do is to sell all the lenses, camera and photographic equipment on ebay before it's too late and we don't get anything for them.
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Adobe Stock / Re: Why image was selling great, then suddenly almost nothing?« on: November 06, 2023, 13:39 »similar experience ehre Welcome to the new normal 20
General Stock Discussion / Re: Adobe requesting people to submit images for dataset training« on: October 05, 2023, 11:50 »
There are countries in the world where for $60 you can buy an entire village, including the mayor's daughter.
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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Getty Images announces AI Generator« on: September 26, 2023, 15:57 »
Eventually, in approximately two years, the client will enter the keywords they currently use in the search engine, and as a result, pages and pages of images automatically just created by AI will appear, just like it happens now with photos. However, this time, no contributor will receive anything; everything will stay in Getty's bank account. That's the plan. That's the future.
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Canva / Re: Canva July sales are in, and it's not good« on: September 17, 2023, 09:29 »
All these small agencies will eventually go out of business because greed and AI
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Adobe Stock / Re: Title says robotic solar panel factory - genAI versions not even close« on: September 04, 2023, 13:40 »
The important thing is not the truth or what is true, but how people imagine that truth, even if it is a lie. Nowadays, people believe in their own truth, even if it's a lie. Truth is something subjective, dependent on who creates it or believes in it. Welcome to the new world of the 21st century.
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CanStockPhoto.com / Re: CanStockPhoto ceased operations and is closing down« on: September 02, 2023, 09:11 »
Many more agencies will disappear during the next years, AI will eventually kill them all.
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Adobe Stock / Re: Account blocked - I need help please« on: August 26, 2023, 18:16 »
Given what's happening, I wouldn't upload any AI-generated images to Adobe for now, and I would delete the existing ones just in case. A portfolio of photos and videos uploaded over the years shouldn't be at risk of being deleted due to reasons that are unclear.
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