Quote from: Erin Cadigan on November 10, 2024, 13:43

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Quote from: Erin Cadigan on October 28, 2024, 08:50

Any updates on this? I'm in the process of possibly applying to submit work there, but I can't find very much info on if others are successful!

Hi,

What would you like to know?

I'm just trying to figure out if it's worth it to submit there. I applied through their non-exclusive option, but when I received the email and contract back, it was all written in exclusive terms. I emailed them for clarification, since I'd really like to still offer any accepted images to Alamy and Arcangel too. I also want to have the option to sell prints on FAA. They responded that they would check and get back to me, but I never heard back.

 I'm torn between submitting work and having it locked into a five year contract if accepted. I'm doing mostly nature and wildlife now, so although I sell some of it on micro, I feel like there may be other options. Any thoughts or new experiences would be appreciated!

I wasn't aware that RH had a non-exclusive option, must be new. Anyway, I'm exclusive there and have been since 2017.

I had some impressive earnings reports back then, one quarter I even earned $500 from just 100 images. Encouraged, I uploaded more but the earnings report became less and less...until I stopped uploading altogether for about two years until a quite impressive earnings report once again that gave me some motivation but like that flirty hot woman at the club who then ghosts you the next days RH has just been disappointing with quarterly reports around the $30-50 range with microstock-sized prices for individual sales.

Now I'm at 615 exclusive images and send them mostly drone panos - https://www.robertharding.com/alexandrerotenberg/

I don't blame RH directly though as they just distribute to some 80 different agencies, including print sellers. It's a tough market. Their cut is steep but they also do all the distribution work and keywording.

You say you do mostly nature and wildlife, I can't say whether you'd do well. You can always upload some 100 images and after a year see if you've had some sales and then make a decision on whether to commit more.

There's also no conflict with licensing at RH and on POD as long as POD isn't licensing.

Arcangel are another beast and I don't think they're taking on any new contributors.

Hope this helps!

You submitted them as ai illustrations?

Today I had one file accepted in 5 minutes, the others are still waiting. Same yesterday.

Some illustrations go very, very fast others take much longer.

Also had 6 ai photos accepted much faster while others are now at 12 days.

I can�t really see that there is anything special about the ones that go through faster. They also don�t sell better than the rest.

But I am grateful for everything that goes through quickly.

Videos also have a very reasonable turnaround.

pngs are over 1 month.

Haven�t tried uploading regular photos, have a huge backlog there.

Maybe there is some ai running in the background based on customer searches. And perhaps the files are in some needed category?

But I really don�t know, a lot of my content is very generic.

can't possibly be much longer

Everything you upload should be made by you (and you should therefore own the copyright), uploading derivatives and public domain images is not allowed.

It is strongly recommended to carefully read the submission guidelines of each agency. Adobe's guidelines can be found here:
https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/submission-guidelines.html

Quote from: Erin Cadigan on January 23, 2020, 20:48

I'm debating whether or not to keep the "Pro" subscription. I discovered that there is an Adobe discount of two free months (per year I think) of the photographer's package. I used the code and Adobe created two months, so there'e $20. What are the other true benefits though? I recall hearing people talk about getting license requests through their Flickr accounts. Are there any plans for Flickr to introduce their own licensing program? Thoughts?

I think that Flickr rumor about licensing has died with the sale to Smugmug, but maybe not? I mean a tie in with prints, would make sense, but for stock, the market doesn't seem to be open for new agencies and growth. Only way DP made it was paying people 50c an upload, and filling their collection. Which you can guess is all the same images that the top agencies already had, from the same people.

After that, commission changes, price drops, they are down in the has been sites with 123RF and the rest. What I mean is, there just isn't a demand or place in the market for another general stock agency. POD, why not? They have everything in place for that?

Reason for answering. Get 300 accepted on Adobe and you get a free year of Adobe CC. 

Quote from: MatHayward on December 02, 2019, 20:54

As a best practice, list the most important keyword first, the second most keyword second, etc. Once you get to keyword 11, the weight in search is pretty light as I understand it so it's less important you post the remaining keywords in order.

Another important note...I received confirmation that updating the keyword order on files that have been online for a while will not have much, if any impact on the search results.

-Mat

Thanks for that, Mat, especially the info in the 2nd paragraph.

I've been wondering if doing that might make a difference, but it would be a lot of work. I'm happy to know I don't need to bother with it.