ai will continue to increase, but won't eliminate other images for specific niches & SS will succumb to the ai memes

--- goals

• continue to add metadata to 15K+ images from last 5 years
  
• continue to add 500+ images to agencies each month
• lead a group tour of xmas markets on the rhine or danube in Nov
  
• continue to lead tours to Turkey & the Balkans with many photo opportunities - next year i'll take groups to Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria & T�rkiye
• organize other discounted river cruises that offer multiple locations over a short period of time

Have to say I am not as optimistic about 2025 as I have been in previous years looking forward to the new year. That said, I have not given up and am continuing to upload.

Just generally, compared to 2023, this year 2024 has seen a big fall in earnings on Shutterstock and a smaller fall in earnings on Pond5. iStock has shown a modest rise in earnings in 2024 while Adobe Stock has seen a huge rise in earnings. The end-of-year fall off in terms of earnings has been earlier, faster and further.

Still I did reach some goals with every month since February to November achieving >$1k per month. I just passed my total 2023 earnings earlier this month but must be considered in light of uploading over 500 videos to each 4 portfolios this year, and over 2000 to 2500 to each 4 ports since November 2021.

I just hope 2025 doesn't see a greater fall in contributor earnings overall though I do acknowledged the exceptional performance of Adobe Stock many of us seen this year.