Congrats for another great month Jeff. I made 39 dollars on WS in August, with only 202 assets (but all titled and keyworded myself), and I havent added anything there in ages... like you said before, shame they introduced that stupid subscription fee.
Are your earning going up? My chart shows and actual improvement in sales over time which is pretty unique, but I guess as they add sites there are new potential sales. Glad to hear your still doing well there.
Great August Jeff, thank You for sharing. AS and SS is great, I wish you more sales in MA, yes it was hard with uploading and 20 keywords is bad if I do copy paste from other footage or upload tags from Lightroom. I must always do it selection and this is time consuming.
I'm amazed at the size (and quality) of your portfolios, and the results are there. Surprised that you can put that amount of work on microstock while holding a full-time job - I'm guessing - and having a family. Well-done.
Adobe seems more and more like a waste of time for the photography side of things. Drone/general videos seem to get approved quickly and rarely without rejections. It's clear what they're doing though: reject the majority, only allow in the 'top' quality which will continue to have a higher barrier of entry for the entire purpose of giving training data to machine learning. The AI side of things will slowly kill microstock unless it's direct photojournalism. It's inevitable. Their demands for quality will only increase. At the same time they'll happily accept AI nonsense that features a woman with one eye higher than the other and eight thumbs, no quality issues there.
Congrats for another great month Jeff. I made 39 dollars on WS in August, with only 202 assets (but all titled and keyworded myself), and I havent added anything there in ages... like you said before, shame they introduced that stupid subscription fee.
Are your earning going up? My chart shows and actual improvement in sales over time which is pretty unique, but I guess as they add sites there are new potential sales. Glad to hear your still doing well there.
Great August Jeff, thank You for sharing. AS and SS is great, I wish you more sales in MA, yes it was hard with uploading and 20 keywords is bad if I do copy paste from other footage or upload tags from Lightroom. I must always do it selection and this is time consuming.
If they redesigned their process, I might upload more.
I have the same on Adobe: 460 sales (1 video), $385. The waiting time is speeding up again, I guess they were on their holiday break
Hope things improve here in the fall.
Thank you for your efforts !!!
Excellent video. Thank you for sharing this info.
Thanks!
i *might have the exact same shirt from when we visited Titanic museum lol.
thanks for the vid!
I got mine in London! :)
It's great to see Shutterstock and Adobe performing well for you with some higher sales this month. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for stopping by!
I'm amazed at the size (and quality) of your portfolios, and the results are there. Surprised that you can put that amount of work on microstock while holding a full-time job - I'm guessing - and having a family. Well-done.
Job, family, yes. My daughter is 13 now, and the last few years I have been doing microstock at my computer while she does homework. Its all good.
Hi & Thank you 😊 for sharing ! How can I get a smooth Timelapse on my cell phone ! My time lap is shaky 😑
Adobe seems more and more like a waste of time for the photography side of things. Drone/general videos seem to get approved quickly and rarely without rejections.
It's clear what they're doing though: reject the majority, only allow in the 'top' quality which will continue to have a higher barrier of entry for the entire purpose of giving training data to machine learning.
The AI side of things will slowly kill microstock unless it's direct photojournalism. It's inevitable. Their demands for quality will only increase.
At the same time they'll happily accept AI nonsense that features a woman with one eye higher than the other and eight thumbs, no quality issues there.
I don't disagree with your thoughts. It will be interesting to see how quickly things change in the next couple of years.