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Adobe Stock / After 3 years in stock I feel scammed
« on: June 21, 2024, 01:50 »
I have over 4k images on sale (3D + AI + some videos)

Adobe used to make $250 a week at ~2k images, I'm down to $40 a week now, with 4k+ images

I have to feed the beast daily because I'm sure that last upload date is part of the search algorithm, but even that doesn't help anymore...

It's not just adobe, sales down x5 on all sites I contribute to, this is a horrible waste of time

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123RF / AI Images that were under Photos deleted
« on: April 24, 2024, 08:51 »
So when there was no "AI Images" upload type yet, 123RF accepted AI Images as photos (last year)

I had over 1000 images accepted with all needed keywords and titles, marking them as AI.

They were selling ok, but, last month sales dropped 90% and Images were just deleted, not moved to AI images, deleted.

1000+ approved images removed from site without even saying anything, I have no words.

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Adobe Stock / Custom License as low as $0.29 now?
« on: April 22, 2024, 03:54 »
A month ago or so, I started to see a lot of $0.30 downloads,

I was told "taxes are being withheld on your sales", my tax info is unchanged for the last year+ and I never had those sells before.

Today I suddenly see $0.29 sales, we Shutterstock now?

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There are a lot of different subtle options that affect the review times on adobe, here are my results:

- Submitting AI as Illustration: 1-3 days
- Submitting AI as Photo with recognizable faces: 2-3 weeks
- Submitting AI as Photo without people: 1-2 days

The other thing I already mentioned on this forum is the huge difference in Illustration and Photos, I (and some other users) see double (and more) sales for AI images submitted as Photos.

I'm sure there is more to this, rejections, profile age, profile size, etc...

I'm still waiting for more results on other options, but it's obvious that Adobe has really put in the work to make their review system efficient with a lot of variables

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Did anyone notice this?
The images I have submitted as Photos sold way more, most are Illustrations (because that was a rule for AI, but not anymore) so I wanted to check with other contributors if they see the same results...

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Adobe Stock / Custom License $0.30?
« on: January 30, 2024, 06:54 »
So this is new to me, countering the $1.47?


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I want to share my custom keywords generator.
I've used it for thousands of stock images I've published in the last year with great results.

It's quick and easy to use,
generates a list of keywords and a breakdown for each keyword with amount of results.

it's free, try it here:

https://upstock.guru/keyword_checker

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Adobe Stock / Payout history should be in descending order
« on: October 01, 2023, 06:20 »
Once you have some payouts, it's getting annoying to scroll all the way to the bottom to see the payment status, and it makes more sense to flip the order...

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There is a new upload category/type on 123RF "AI-Generated Images", I just noticed it few days ago

Full updated stock sites list here:

https://upstock.guru/information/stock-sites-list-for-contributors.html

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Shutterstock.com / No way to contact SS?
« on: January 16, 2023, 09:07 »
I'm trying to contact SS and all I get is:

"Something went wrong with Contact Us request processing"

It's not a temp issue, over a month now...

Is there any other way to contact some type of support?

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Try our new stock sites keyword to amount of images checker:

Features:

- Check up to 50 keywords at once
- Results from adobe and freepik (more will be added soonᵀᴹ)
- All keywords data is refreshed weekly
- New keywords data added each hour
- Over 100k keywords data already available
- Sort and copy ordered list
- Limited to 5 daily checks (~250 keywords a day)
- 20 checks a day (~1000 keywords a day) for https://upstock.guru free registered users

Try it here:
https://upstock.guru/keyword_checker

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It's not "recognizable" right?

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General - Top Sites / Freepik rejection reason "Filename issues"
« on: January 05, 2023, 14:16 »
I've been naming my files as "some_keyword_8k.jpg',

now, my latest submission got rejected, and the reason is not explained anywhere...

Anyone know what that means?

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General Stock Discussion / 3D renders on stock sites
« on: December 11, 2022, 02:58 »
Are there any 3D artists here that sell renders on stock sites?
Can you share your experience, what sells and what doesn't?

I've tested a bunch of different niches and categories, from my experience best selling images are medical / biology / scientific visualizations...
What works for you?

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Shutterstock.com / What did they do to the dashboard??
« on: December 08, 2022, 22:02 »
It seems that the contributor dashboard was redesigned?

You can't see the latest sales/downloads now, only on a huge map with locations, and there are huge unnecessary images all around the page (like 50% of the page).

Is there a way to use the old dashboard?

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Hi everyone,
I wanted to share a new project I've been working on, aimed to help stock distributors like myself.
I currently contribute to 12 stock sites, and it really speeds things up for me.
 
It's a stock image and video multi site uploading service, with features that I wasn't able to find anywhere else.

It's https://upstock.guru

Totally free for registered users, main features:
- 2GB monthly bandwidth
- Support for FTP, FTPS and SFTP servers (couldn't find anything similar that actually worked well)
- Easy to use server management (server username and password is saved in your Dropbox account) with live server status check
- Upload batches - to make uploads easier to track
- Detailed reports, bandwidth usage reports, and upload history per batch, server and file
- Real time upload progress monitoring

Upload your content to your Dropbox account once, select the files you want as a batch in dashboard, and it'll distribute to all the stock sites you added

Would love to hear some feedback and suggestions from multisite contributors on how to improve even further please :)

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