Thank you, very interesting contribution.


Saludos.

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?

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.

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.

When mentioning the interior, I ponder whether Freepik's affiliation, giving a commission on sales every month that escaped to the agency, was not a perfect guide to carry out on demand what the client was looking for outside of Frepik, through its associated star collaborators.

Everything helps this deterioration, when the issue of not accepting similar ones arose, one month after announcing the sizes of the vectors, they were signs that something was attacking their vital system.

In addition, algorithms began to divert best selling images from some contributors to page 703. Adding that requests for help or information requests are answered by veteran forum staff. I think there is no vaccine for SS.

My thought is that, as the colleague said in the first post of the thread, the deterioration is precipitous. Talk about years, it seems like a long time. We'll be alert.

Regards.

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.

It can't be an SS example of anything. Agencies know that if they pay 0.10 they will miss the train of fresh files.

Regards.

Quote from: Snow on August 01, 2020, 03:43

This was the top performer for practically every non exclusive contributor out there no?

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.

From Shutterstock's perspective it is "fair and good" too keep more money for themselves.

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I've stopped uploading to SS and I hope their portfolio goes stale in a few years with fewer and fewer quality contributors uploading to their site. AS has been killing it lately.

I've always been a optimist, but the SS royalty changed took the motivation out of me. If I do produce new content, SS will not be getting any of it. In fact, I'd consider Istock before SS.

however, one big difference is SS accepts editorial and AS doesn't  (AS only gets about 1/2 my new images for that reason). i like 123's approach - if it isn't accepted as RF, it automatically gets reviewed as editorial -more efficient for reviewers & submitters

You people must be lucky then with Adobe! I am a level 6 myself now and SS as usual is badly down and I certainly can't see any increase at all with Adobe and neither can a ton of fellow members that I know.
Adobe is doing exactly the same as SS which is nursing and looking after members from poorer countries simply because they upload in droves only they dont do it as obvious as SS.
Just saying

Because the whole industry and market is down, so I wouldn't expect Adobe to be up, no matter how many new people or how many have removed their work from SS.

Just to add to the nothing under .38 at AS, for me that's .36, I'm kind of new, as I dropped FT when DPC came in, started over when Adobe bought them. But still Adobe has many 99c downloads as well. More of them, that's what I need.  This is all with none of my Editorial images, but Adobe takes my illustrations that SS won't. Works for me.

I don't honestly think Adobe cares what country we come from, while they push the images that will make a sale and do the best for them, not who uploaded it. Their reviews are real humans and very consistent.