Author Topic: Opt in option for Adobe Stock Vectors and Illustrations in Free collection (Read 18738 times)

MatHayward · « **on:** October 25, 2021, 13:32 »

Hi All,

If you have vectors and/or illustrations online in your Adobe Stock portfolio, check the contributor portal between now (Monday, Oct 25) and November 2. Selected assets may be available for you to nominate to be accepted into the Adobe Stock Free collection. If your nominated asset is accepted after the nomination window closes on November 2 you will be paid an upfront amount of $5 per asset. It's a short window for nominations so act fast!

Let me know if you have any questions,

Mat Hayward

Dog-maDe-sign · « **Reply #1 on:** October 25, 2021, 13:35 »

Great news Mat!

lowbouncerate · « **Reply #2 on:** October 25, 2021, 13:50 »

Good News! I was waiting for that.

can you please tell me how many images you guys thinking to select?

Wilm · « **Reply #4 on:** October 25, 2021, 15:04 »

Quote from: MatHayward on October 25, 2021, 13:32

Hi All,

If you have vectors and/or illustrations online in your Adobe Stock portfolio, check the contributor portal between now (Monday, Oct 25) and November 2. Selected assets may be available for you to nominate to be accepted into the Adobe Stock Free collection. If your nominated asset is accepted after the nomination window closes on November 2 you will be paid an upfront amount of $5 per asset. It's a short window for nominations so act fast!

Let me know if you have any questions,

Mat Hayward

Mat,

is it really the right way for an agency whose business model is to sell images to now give them away for free?

I see this as a huge danger for the future. Potential customers learn from the fact that there are more and more images that are given away. Why should they still buy images in the future?

The problem is that in your free selection there are many really very good images. And the - in part very successful - contributors I have spoken to, who release their images for your free selection, only do so behause the algorithm has already buried the images, even though they are good.

From my point of view this way is wrong and will lead to massive problems. Also for you. Many contributors only see the short-term additional earnings. If they were to look ahead into the future, they would have to keep their distance from this in my view.

I am well aware that the sale of software products is more important to you. And you can integrate the free images into them. But in the long run, the signal you are sending out is economically wrong!

Regards, Wilm

leremy · « **Reply #6 on:** October 25, 2021, 19:19 »

Hi Matt. How long will the my free vector content being free after they are accepted into the program?

Will it be forever free? Or will there be a time period where it will become paying-asset again?

For Real · « **Reply #7 on:** October 25, 2021, 20:23 »

Quote from: leremy on October 25, 2021, 19:19

Hi Matt. How long will the my free vector content being free after they are accepted into the program?

Will it be forever free? Or will there be a time period where it will become paying-asset again?

if it is the same as the photos than one year after they select and usually pay you. Once one year is up it goes back to the regular status (paying asset) on your portfolio.

leremy · « **Reply #8 on:** October 25, 2021, 21:28 »

Quote from: For Real on October 25, 2021, 20:23

Quote from: leremy on October 25, 2021, 19:19
Hi Matt. How long will the my free vector content being free after they are accepted into the program?

Will it be forever free? Or will there be a time period where it will become paying-asset again?

if it is the same as the photos than one year after they select and usually pay you. Once one year is up it goes back to the regular status (paying asset) on your portfolio.

Yep, that's what I understand. But I hope Matt can re-confirm this.

Wilm · « **Reply #9 on:** October 26, 2021, 03:24 »

Quote from: leremy on October 25, 2021, 19:19

Hi Matt. How long will the my free vector content being free after they are accepted into the program?

Will it be forever free? Or will there be a time period where it will become paying-asset again?

They are not talking about "photos". They wrote about "assets" - which include photos, vectors, illustrations...
Your vectors would be part of the free selection for exactly one year and afterwards it would become part of the paid section again.

Wilm · « **Reply #10 on:** October 26, 2021, 03:30 »

When the promotion was advertised for the first time, 290 of my images were eligible for the free section. Now in the second step there are 68. If all were chosen, I would receive €340.00. But, as I have heard from other contributors, not all, but only a part of the images are selected. I guess that the participation in this action would bring me at most €100,00 - if at all.

Now I have looked once. Of these 68 images I have sold 8 images in the past week at AS. If I extrapolate that to a year, I could achieve 416 downloads with these images. My RPD at AS is in 2021 at €1,09. So the images could bring me €454,50.

Additionally, I do see a problem of cannibalization. For many of the selected files there are similar images in my portfolio, which are probably no longer sellable, if the counterpart is available for free.

In addition, the images also sell at other agencies. Perhaps they would no longer be bought there if the interested parties see that the images are available for free at AS.

And then there is something that is not quite clear to me. The number of images for this campaign is limited, isn't it? If it is limited, then the free selection should already be filled by now. Why are more images being sought now? Is the selection to be expanded successively?

One last question: If the images in the free selection were downloaded very often, would they increase in ranking during the year? Would the visibility of these images be significantly improved if they were available for sale again after a year? Or would the previous ranking of the images remain the same?

YadaYadaYada · « **Reply #11 on:** October 26, 2021, 07:18 »

@Wilm easy don't select images that sell on Adobe or anyplace other. From experience, very few images are selected.

f8 · « **Reply #13 on:** October 27, 2021, 08:19 »

I'd be bloody embarrassed to offer creatives $5 for unlimited free use for one year. And I'd be ashamed to accept it.

lowbouncerate · « **Reply #14 on:** November 01, 2021, 02:43 »

@mat

- 2nd Nov is deadline, after that how many days tell us which stock selected? and how soon they will credit funds to account?

- does "free stock" will have access to public(non-paid members) and paid members?

lostintimeline · « **Reply #16 on:** November 02, 2021, 19:24 »

mat i asked this and in another thread and i hope you answer me in this .i have a yt channel with some music i composed or played and i wanna use images as backgrounds. so can i use one of the free images in my channel? and the usage only lasts 1 year? after that i have to remove the image???
i am new to this i only send pics to adobe never bought an image from stock sites.
also if i say use one of the images in my yt channel and get a copyright notice from yt how do i resolve this??tik tok shadowhanned a video of mine the other day cause i used an image which i was the one who shot it and the ai thought it was a copyright issue.

PinHead · « **Reply #18 on:** November 03, 2021, 01:37 »

Quote from: MatHayward on October 25, 2021, 13:32

Hi All,

If you have vectors and/or illustrations online in your Adobe Stock portfolio, check the contributor portal between now (Monday, Oct 25) and November 2. Selected assets may be available for you to nominate to be accepted into the Adobe Stock Free collection. If your nominated asset is accepted after the nomination window closes on November 2 you will be paid an upfront amount of $5 per asset. It's a short window for nominations so act fast!

Let me know if you have any questions,

Mat Hayward

Hi Mat, I would like to know if in the near future you are thinking of nominating clips for the free collection?... and if so what will be the upfront amount per asset?

Souf10 · « **Reply #20 on:** November 08, 2021, 05:40 »

Hi @mat
one week has past and the Free Collection files still in review ?

lowbouncerate · « **Reply #22 on:** November 26, 2021, 05:06 »

Seems like Results are late, may be by 1st week of Dec?

Morphart · « **Reply #23 on:** November 26, 2021, 12:18 »

Quote from: MatHayward on November 08, 2021, 15:44

Quote from: Souf10 on November 08, 2021, 05:40
Hi @mat
one week has past and the Free Collection files still in review ?

Yes @Souf10, this is a work in progress. Results will likely be announced sometime around the end of November. Thanks for your patience!

-Mat Hayward

We're around the end of November, do you have any news or expected delay on the annoucements? Thanks!

Jo Ann Snover · « **Reply #24 on:** November 29, 2021, 11:55 »

Looking at the counts of various types of content, it appears there are lots of new illustrations and vectors in the free collection this morning.

Compared to my last check November 15th, vectors have jumped to 112k (seems to vary by which sort order you pick) ~~79k~~ (from 18.5k) and illustrations to ~~21k~~ from 7k. Total free collection is now 959,977 - not far from a million high-quality free images

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Author Topic: Opt in option for Adobe Stock Vectors and Illustrations in Free collection (Read 18738 times)

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