Author Topic: What's your weekly ranking and how many images? (Read 85163 times)

cobalt · « **Reply #600 on:** June 22, 2024, 23:33 »

That is a different Cobalt….not me.

https://stock.adobe.com/de/contributor/201373819/cobalt?load_type=author&prev_url=detail

but maybe I should do more background and design elements

why am I making the effort to do people, if clean backgrounds is all you need?

cobalt · « **Reply #601 on:** June 24, 2024, 06:10 »

Progress in tiny steps. I actually sold some easter themed images this week. People very slowly beginning to pick up, mostly people uploaded last year.

now 5200 files, still over 50% winter seasonal stuff

also decided to start adding more timeless/non seasonal food

Injustice for all · « **Reply #602 on:** June 24, 2024, 07:31 »

A "normal" week of a "normal" month just ended up on Adobe Stock.

Number of sales this month so far is very similar to the number of sales in June 2023,this last week will be decisive to see if there will be an improvement compared to June 2023.

The results for the free collection should also be available this week.

Lately I've been uploading a lot of various types of content,the real problem and the real challenge is finding the time to do everything.

Regarding AI,up to now I have sold more no people content.

yuriy · « **Reply #603 on:** June 24, 2024, 09:13 »

such a straight line this month

SuperPhoto · « **Reply #604 on:** June 24, 2024, 10:18 »

About this time last year (May 2023) there were about 5 million "gen ai" images.

As of today (June 2024), there are about 88 MILLION "gen ai" images.

About 17x as much competition, educated guess primarily from east indian "artists" (content mills/spammers with multiple accounts to circumvent things/etc), as well as malaysian/phillipines/etc.

Could be part of the reason...

Mifornia · « **Reply #605 on:** June 24, 2024, 10:30 »

Didn’t know that there can be the same name on different accounts
judging from most weekly bestsellers, it’s people images that sell the best.

cobalt · « **Reply #606 on:** June 24, 2024, 10:47 »

my alias on adobe is cobaltstock, on istock it is cobalt, in some other places jcobalt etc...

Injustice for all · « **Reply #607 on:** June 24, 2024, 11:18 »

Quote from: cobalt on June 24, 2024, 10:47

my alias on adobe is cobaltstock, on istock it is cobalt, in some other places jcobalt etc...

so many Cobalts in the world!

on Adobe Stock your alias should be: "Cobaltstock the original"

cobalt · « **Reply #608 on:** June 24, 2024, 13:04 »

LOL!

When I signed up with istock I just used my old university (chemistry) alias. I had no idea it would be a career...

I guess I am lucky I didn't sign up as pinkyteddy99... or thevomitingunicorn or jumpingblackspider

Mifornia · « **Reply #609 on:** June 24, 2024, 22:27 »

20 days for png file??? What is going on?

Injustice for all · « **Reply #610 on:** June 25, 2024, 04:29 »

Quote from: cobalt on June 24, 2024, 13:04

LOL!

When I signed up with istock I just used my old university (chemistry) alias. I had no idea it would be a career...

I guess I am lucky I didn't sign up as pinkyteddy99... or thevomitingunicorn or jumpingblackspider

cobalt · « **Reply #611 on:** June 29, 2024, 03:54 »

This week things are picking up. I think I sold one people image every day for the first time. Several older files had their first ever sale and even two easter sales.

pos 3970 5280 files

must do more people and more food

looks like the dog days are over

eta:

yesterday I sold 10 images on dreamstime, my first ever daily record, usually I sell 2-5 files a month. Now I need another 12 dollars for a payout, so chances are good I will make it this year...

alijaber · « **Reply #612 on:** June 29, 2024, 04:09 »

Usually I'm anywhere between 4000 and 7000. This week is bad in number of downloads, but luckily some good video sales...

tätarätä · « **Reply #613 on:** June 29, 2024, 04:38 »

Quote from: cobalt on June 29, 2024, 03:54

This week things are picking up. I think I sold one people image every day for the first time. Several older files had their first ever sale and even two easter sales.

pos 3970 5280 files

must do more people and more food

looks like the dog days are over

Congrats.
I also do some food images, but non AI.
There is such a huge amount of AI food images at AS. I think my income on food images will go down in future.
May i ask how much production costs are for one AI food image and how much time consumption.
I fear its much below my costs.

cobalt · « **Reply #614 on:** June 29, 2024, 04:43 »

Actually most of my food is still done with camera. I don't do elaborate studio food shots, just daily life outdoors mobile phone food. And always video, the videos sell even better than the images. It might take some time, but it usually pays for the meal.

I have started to do ai food, but like with every new subject it is a learning process.

I don't have an individual image breakdown for costs but I usually pay 100 - 200 dollars a month on ai costs. Trying to bring it below 100, probably by end of the year.

Also I am not a food photographer, so I don't know the current trends.

But my test searches show a lot of foods that I like are still missing on many agencies, so I am trying to gradually add that.

cobalt · « **Reply #615 on:** June 29, 2024, 04:48 »

Quote from: alijaber on June 29, 2024, 04:09

Usually I'm anywhere between 4000 and 7000. This week is bad in number of downloads, but luckily some good video sales...

Those are great results and a reminder that for absolute money video is probably superior to images.

May I ask how large your port is?

alijaber · « **Reply #616 on:** June 29, 2024, 10:51 »

Quote from: cobalt on June 29, 2024, 04:48

Quote from: alijaber on June 29, 2024, 04:09
Usually I'm anywhere between 4000 and 7000. This week is bad in number of downloads, but luckily some good video sales...

Those are great results and a reminder that for absolute money video is probably superior to images.

May I ask how large your port is?

1500 videos, 6500 images (mostly Ai, created as a hobby by my son). Ai downloads reached 440 on October 2023 and it's decreasing slowly despite the increase in portfolio, this month it's 245 Ai downloads only.

Edit: I barely create content for microstock, I sell some archival material that we shoot for our documentaries, and some motion graphics clips that I created for my commercial projects. Among my 1500 video clips, there is 250 motion graphics clips which most of my video sales are coming from. I've created a nice motion graphics clip in After effects for a client, it was looking good. I gave the Ae project to my son and he created 250 clips as variations of that project, I've uploaded those and that collection's income is between 200-300$ per month for the last 18 months.
I guess I'm really lucky, I barely do anything for microstock but despite that I got around 1000$ extra income each month. I have some ideas to create additional motion graphics clips, but currently I'm super busy.

cobalt · « **Reply #617 on:** June 29, 2024, 12:04 »

1000 extra for doing hardly anything and adding little is fantastic.

But because you are a working pro you probably have a very good eye for what makes a clip useful.

Your son probably needs another 18 months to really understand what customers need. Having the most beautiful or cool looking images is not a guarantee of great sales. On the contrary, it can be really mundane looking stuff that becomes regular bestsellers.

I spend a lot of time on research what is missing in collections, does he do that in a systematic way? Perhaps that would help his sales, if he spent 6 months more on browsing the various collections and prompting less.

Also check the competition. Especially with midjourney I often get absolutely fantastic content with a specific prompt string - but sadly 5000 other people already had the same idea and prompt and got basically the same picture. So I will then discard it or keep prompting until I get a variant that is not available yet.

Just an idea.

But if he keeps at it, he will get there.

All the best, with your skills you could probably turn stock into a 4k a month business if you really wanted to.

Or you do that when you retire from your day job.

synthetick · « **Reply #618 on:** July 01, 2024, 04:02 »

Quote from: alijaber on June 29, 2024, 10:51

1500 videos, 6500 images (mostly Ai, created as a hobby by my son).

I've created a nice motion graphics clip in After effects for a client, it was looking good. I gave the Ae project to my son and he created 250 clips as variations of that project, I've uploaded those and that collection's income is between 200-300$ per month for the last 18 months.

You may not be aware of Adobe's contributor guidelines about not submitting work that you didn't create yourself, so I'll add the link here:
https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/submission-guidelines.html

"You must own or control all the rights to the files you submit to Adobe Stock. Don’t submit files that don’t belong to you, such as photos taken by your spouse. Don’t incorporate anything into your content that was created by someone else — not even images you got from a website that allows free downloads — unless you have a complete property release from the owner of the other content."

blvdone · « **Reply #619 on:** July 01, 2024, 11:34 »

Quote from: synthetick on July 01, 2024, 04:02

Quote from: alijaber on June 29, 2024, 10:51
1500 videos, 6500 images (mostly Ai, created as a hobby by my son).

I've created a nice motion graphics clip in After effects for a client, it was looking good. I gave the Ae project to my son and he created 250 clips as variations of that project, I've uploaded those and that collection's income is between 200-300$ per month for the last 18 months.

You may not be aware of Adobe's contributor guidelines about not submitting work that you didn't create yourself, so I'll add the link here:
https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/submission-guidelines.html

"You must own or control all the rights to the files you submit to Adobe Stock. Don’t submit files that don’t belong to you, such as photos taken by your spouse. Don’t incorporate anything into your content that was created by someone else — not even images you got from a website that allows free downloads — unless you have a complete property release from the owner of the other content."

Yes, that's a clear violation. lol

cobalt · « **Reply #620 on:** July 01, 2024, 12:21 »

unless he is registered as a business, then his team, even if they are family, can upload content together

at least that is the way I was always told is it works. many couples also have a photography business together.

Mifornia · « **Reply #621 on:** July 07, 2024, 10:47 »

Slow week or me 4,200, but finally I have another bestseller! I uploaded it in February, it’s not seasonal, so maybe that’s why it took so long for it to get noticed.

cobalt · « **Reply #622 on:** July 07, 2024, 14:02 »

Congrats on the new non seasonal bestseller!

Trying very hard to diversify into non seasonal myself, not easy finding good content ideas. Also takes much longer for them to sell, whereas adding seasonal content to the themes I do makes selling additional files quite easy. Might still take a few months but usually I can predict which ones will be popular.

Cruising around pos 3700, now over 5300 files.

Winter is coming.

I am slowly beginning to sell my new ai people, but they will probably take off next year. Trying to add at least 3 a day from many different genres.

JustAnImage · « **Reply #623 on:** July 07, 2024, 14:31 »

In my case, AdobeStock has been on a steady decline since the last week of March... and I can't say why that is.

I'm currently down to position 5,040 (from around 2,900) - downloads have now almost halved and I've been uploading more material than ever for months - an average of 38 files every day, mixed of photos 25%, videos 10%, AI images 65%.
And the quality of the material has gotten better rather than worse...

I can't explain it except that some switch has been flipped at Adobe and since that day (in the last week of March) my account suddenly seems to be dropping steadily and rapidly.
The graph below shows this more than clearly.

My portfolio is very diversified so trends shouldn't be hitting at this strength - so the question remains: what is happening here?

If this continues, my account will be at virtually zero by October'24... Let's see how this continues... official information on this would be great, but I'm not counting on it.

blvdone · « **Reply #624 on:** July 07, 2024, 18:40 »

Quote from: JustAnImage on July 07, 2024, 14:31

In my case, AdobeStock has been on a steady decline since the last week of March... and I can't say why that is.

I'm currently down to position 5,040 (from around 2,900) - downloads have now almost halved and I've been uploading more material than ever for months - an average of 38 files every day, mixed of photos 25%, videos 10%, AI images 65%.
And the quality of the material has gotten better rather than worse...

I can't explain it except that some switch has been flipped at Adobe and since that day (in the last week of March) my account suddenly seems to be dropping steadily and rapidly.
The graph below shows this more than clearly.

My portfolio is very diversified so trends shouldn't be hitting at this strength - so the question remains: what is happening here?

If this continues, my account will be at virtually zero by October'24... Let's see how this continues... official information on this would be great, but I'm not counting on it.

There may be a conspiracy out there. My chart is below.

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