Request:
We need to be able to choose the video thumbnail.
Your auto thumbnail creation often picks the worst possible video frame.

Just look at your video pages. You often have a black thumbnail frame. Who is going to click on that?

Request:
We need to be able to choose the video thumbnail.
Your auto thumbnail creation often picks the worst possible video frame.

Just look at your video pages. You often have a black thumbnail frame. Who is going to click on that?

I totally agree. I can't help but think Dennis will chime in as well and confirm the sentiment. This is a top request and I hope to see it implimented in the not-too-distant future.

-Mat

Quote from: Dennis Radeke on November 06, 2018, 10:11

Quote from: rushay on November 05, 2018, 07:12

Mat its about time you guys develop a app for AS.

...I'm the content lead for Video on Adobe Stock and would love to hear what you would need for an application.  I'm assuming you're talking mobile, but let me know if I'm wrong?  What are the main pain points and what should an application accomplish to address them?...

Not sure if you're looking for feedback from video contributors about their needs or are asking more generally about a contributor app for stats information.

If you're asking about an app for stats in general, have you looked at Shutterstock's contributor app for phones (iPhone & Android) and tablets? It's not perfect, but it's useful. There are many, many stats that Adobe doesn't currently have anywhere - like total sales in $$ and units for a given image - and some nice little extras such as telling you when an image sells for the 100th time, or 1st time, which is both useful and fun information to have.

You want access to sales stats, recent acceptance/rejection of images. Viewing your portfolio and any collections. Searching for an image in your portfolio. Shutterstock lets you upload content too although I don't upload that way so have no insights to offer.

It'd be good to have the browser interface on a desktop have all these features too - that's had so little work done since "Insights" was added. You can't get a monthly list of sales in $$ and downloads simultaneously, for example - my huge monitor with tons of space for more information and I see one type of information at a time (and the downloads total is shown with $$ signs in front which should be a simple fix)

Yes a contributor app that shows total sales for an image, maybe upload from the phone (unless Adobe doesn't really want phone photos), that notifies of sales... Or add sales total for any image to the "Insights"?

Ok Mat, thanks
So i will create a second Adobe ID
Does i need to use 2 different email accounts ?

Yes.

I can't get into the Fotolia contributor site at all now.  It just kicks me to the front page.

Everyone is so concerned about uploading process, mobile apps, which really are the matters of a secondary importance.
Let�s tak about real thing - money. Mat, what is your stance on Adobe decreasing commissions from 40% to 33% for high ranked contributors ? What do you think about depriving high ranked contributors of the privilege of setting price higher per image ? Everyday I get at least a few 10/20/30/40-credit sales (or so), soon these will be gone.

There is no simple answer to your question. At Adobe Stock the pricing for all content is the same to provide a consistent experience for customers. For stock buyers, finding the right content and making the purchase can be challenging.  At Adobe we do everything we can to ensure the most straightforward and simple process to find and purchase content is at Adobe Stock. We continuously strive to enhance the search and offer simple ways to purchase at competitive prices . Regarding the specific question about the commission rate, the commission has always been 33% at both Adobe Stock and Fotolia for subscription downloads. This has not changed since the launch of Adobe Stock. We are always looking for ways to ensure contributors are well compensated both in commissions and through added perks such as the free Creative Cloud subscription plans, free access to Adobe Portfolio, promotion of contributors through social media and Adobe blogs and tutorials and more.
 
My personal philosophy on this is that credits sales have been declining for several years now as the entire industry has evolved. I rarely see credit sales in my account already. There is a record volume of content available now at multiple agencies and most sites have shifted into a subscription based plan because this is what the customers want. I understand that many long term contributors (myself included) have benefited from the higher priced individual downloads with Fotolia credits in the past. I have found in my personal experience the way to maintain a steady income now is through consistently creating more and better content. Even with the decline of credits sales I have managed to increase my overall stock income year over year by creating and submitting new content on a regular basis.  I think this transition is best compared to the original introduction to microstock. I once sat in on a lecture from a stock photographer who was teaching about stock in general. This was not long after Fotolia had launched. During the talk he started to rant a bit about the absurdity of the microstock concept and that it would never last. I know countless photographers who profited greatly in the past by selling stock with rights-managed licenses for hundreds of dollars per license, the volume of sales was much lower but the sales price was much higher. Then came microstock and  the industry was completely disrupted. While many photographers protested, the reality is that the change was inevitable. What was generally accepted in the past, was not what customers wanted at that time. The industry has continued to change since then. For creatives to find success, we must also continue to change and evolve our business strategy.  What is the best way to do that? I can't answer that in a general statement. I know what works for me but that might be completely different for you. The consistent theme for success since the beginning of photography has been hard work, skill and creativity.

-Mat
 

I can't get into the Fotolia contributor site at all now either.  It also kicks me to the front page of adobe, and I can't even find how to get to the contributor page from there.

Quote from: niserin on November 07, 2018, 14:30

Everyone is so concerned about uploading process, mobile apps, which really are the matters of a secondary importance.
Let�s tak about real thing - money. Mat, what is your stance on Adobe decreasing commissions from 40% to 33% for high ranked contributors ? What do you think about depriving high ranked contributors of the privilege of setting price higher per image ? Everyday I get at least a few 10/20/30/40-credit sales (or so), soon these will be gone.

There is no simple answer to your question. At Adobe Stock the pricing for all content is the same to provide a consistent experience for customers. For stock buyers, finding the right content and making the purchase can be challenging.  At Adobe we do everything we can to ensure the most straightforward and simple process to find and purchase content is at Adobe Stock. We continuously strive to enhance the search and offer simple ways to purchase at competitive prices . Regarding the specific question about the commission rate, the commission has always been 33% at both Adobe Stock and Fotolia for subscription downloads. This has not changed since the launch of Adobe Stock. We are always looking for ways to ensure contributors are well compensated both in commissions and through added perks such as the free Creative Cloud subscription plans, free access to Adobe Portfolio, promotion of contributors through social media and Adobe blogs and tutorials and more.
 
My personal philosophy on this is that credits sales have been declining for several years now as the entire industry has evolved. I rarely see credit sales in my account already. There is a record volume of content available now at multiple agencies and most sites have shifted into a subscription based plan because this is what the customers want. I understand that many long term contributors (myself included) have benefited from the higher priced individual downloads with Fotolia credits in the past. I have found in my personal experience the way to maintain a steady income now is through consistently creating more and better content. Even with the decline of credits sales I have managed to increase my overall stock income year over year by creating and submitting new content on a regular basis.  I think this transition is best compared to the original introduction to microstock. I once sat in on a lecture from a stock photographer who was teaching about stock in general. This was not long after Fotolia had launched. During the talk he started to rant a bit about the absurdity of the microstock concept and that it would never last. I know countless photographers who profited greatly in the past by selling stock with rights-managed licenses for hundreds of dollars per license, the volume of sales was much lower but the sales price was much higher. Then came microstock and  the industry was completely disrupted. While many photographers protested, the reality is that the change was inevitable. What was generally accepted in the past, was not what customers wanted at that time. The industry has continued to change since then. For creatives to find success, we must also continue to change and evolve our business strategy.  What is the best way to do that? I can't answer that in a general statement. I know what works for me but that might be completely different for you. The consistent theme for success since the beginning of photography has been hard work, skill and creativity.

-Mat

At the moment I do receive quite a few credit sales, good mix of smaller ones and some larger ones.

Ultimately, if all the smaller credit sales still happen in the future (i.e. the customers don't go elsewhere) and they were to licence the images from AS using credits, then we could make more money. You may lose out on some of the larger credit sales but, make extra from the smaller ones that now result in $3.30 compared to only a fews cents for the lower resolution images. Without being able to identify the credit sales in the raw data it's impossible to say whether that would be the case or not.

The only concern is whether the client, who was saving a few $ by buying a lower resolution image would be prepared to pay the higher price of the AS credits. If not, AS may lose the sale altogether as the client goes elsewhere. That wouldn't be good.

Separate question. At SS they have a team that makes deals with enterprise clients that result in higher licence fees. They can make a difference in earnings. Only takes a few $$$ fees to make a positive difference. Do AS do something similar or, plan to?

I emailed you about some random $ amounts that didn't match the AS page and weren't identified as S,M,L, XL credit sales etc. Did you get a chance to look at that? Would these continue after FT has gone?

Cheers

No Fotolia!!!!  I cant get in there at all now??  whats happening??

Quote from: derek on November 08, 2018, 02:34

No Fotolia!!!!  I cant get in there at all now??  whats happening??

I couldn't sign in right after this announcement , I had to agree to the new, updated TOS of FT first. Have you done that?

Dont know??  where did you see that? on the actual sign in inteface?

Quote from: Sheila_F on November 07, 2018, 00:27

OK, I read through the thread (quickly, so I may have missed it). When I upload, the default setting seems to be to set the price at the lowest level. This is part of why I upload via fotolia vs adobestock, so I can adjust the price level up to my current level. Why is this not automatically default to the higher level since we've theoretically received the "raise". Is this going to be an issue when I have no choice but to upload to Adobe directly?

If you aren't planning to provide an app, can you at least work with the group that provides the Microstokr app so we can check our stats/sales via their app? I get my numbers from them now through my Fotolia account, but Adobe Stock is not even on the table for their app for some reason.

There are no price variations available at Adobe Stock. The cost is the same across the entire collection for a consistent customer experience. The price flexibility you have referenced is only in regard to credits based purchases at Fotolia. If you submit a batch of images through Adobe Stock and would like to have the prices increased for your credits based sales at Fotolia you are welcome to submit a request through the Adobe Stock Contributor Portal and we can take care of that for you in a bulk change. It's important to note that any files that hav,e gone 6 months or longer at Fotolia without a sale are not eligible for the price increase.

Regarding Microstockr, this is referenced in the FAQ I linked in the original post. You will need to contact them directly as we are not affiliated in any way. As a reminder, you can upload directly on the Adobe Stock Contributor portal using drag and drop, or through FTP. We also support direct uploads from Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic CC and Adobe Bridge.

Thank you,

Mat

If i understood correct every time when upload batch i have to request price increase. This looks to me unnecessary load. Will be very helpful to have opt in button for the price increase or some other way.

No Fotolia!!!!  I cant get in there at all now??  whats happening??

Fotolia is still up and running. You will have access until Nov 5, 2019. The features will be limited after February 5 but you will still be able to log in.

There should be a link to continue to Fotolia after you see the prompt to go to Adobe Stock instead.

-Mat