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Just did my accounts for July...

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Justanotherphotographer:
Stopped uploading to SS beginning June. SS hugely down for July and RPD in the toilet despite me being level 6. This has been more than offset by other sites sales of my new content and not a single sale for less than 38c on Adobe!

I am averaging more than 10000 dls per month so I think this is statistically significant.

I was hoping this would happen, but wasn't expecting it so soon.

Tenebroso:
Thank you, very interesting contribution.


Saludos.

Snow:
Thanks for sharing.

I’m in the same boat but I stopped uploading to SS even before June because of their buggy reviews (be it human or AI) and now Adobe is picking up. Not as much as I would have liked but still it’s progress.
In my situation where I provide very few agencies Adobe is the only one worth going forward with. P5 to me is the most contributor friendly in every aspect but no sales makes them obsolete. Alamy is macro with micro pricing and SS is on on it’s way out.
Did anyone ever imagine saying this about SS? This was the top performer for practically every non exclusive contributor out there no?

pics2:

--- Quote from: Snow on August 01, 2020, 03:43 ---Thanks for sharing.

I’m in the same boat but I stopped uploading to SS even before June because of their buggy reviews (be it human or AI) and now Adobe is picking up. Not as much as I would have liked but still it’s progress.
In my situation where I provide very few agencies Adobe is the only one worth going forward with. P5 to me is the most contributor friendly in every aspect but no sales makes them obsolete. Alamy is macro with micro pricing and SS is on on it’s way out.
Did anyone ever imagine saying this about SS? This was the top performer for practically every non exclusive contributor out there no?

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I'm accepting the new reality also very slowly. Who would say that just a few years ago. I still think it will take much more time for a transition (from SS being number one to not being), it will take years. These empires don't go down over night, they go down slowly.Something is eating them from inside and they don't recognize it, so they could make an immune system.

Astrantia:

--- Quote from: Snow on August 01, 2020, 03:43 ---This was the top performer for practically every non exclusive contributor out there no?

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For me SS never was the top agency - Adobe always performed better for me.
The reason might be I´m quite new, started only two years ago so I never had a high lifetime tier on SS (was only tier 2).

So from my perspective it might have even been fair and good that others would loose their lifetime tiers since I didn´t benefit from those myself.
But what really pissed me off was introducing the 10 cent sub sales in june. That´s a no go.

Adobe was quite low for me during the last weeks but it now seems to start again.
But I´m quite afraid other agencies will follow SS with ricicolous cheap sub sales soon.

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