Adobe Stock Contributer Portal is Stone Age and urgently needs to be adapted to market conditions

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Hi,it has been a long time since Adobe added the agency Fotolia to its package and offers its own provider portal to upload and manage images. Compared to Fotolia's vendor portal and other global stock agencies, the Adobe Stock vendor portal is a bad joke when it comes to provider status/account information and statistical analytics... Not even the submitted proof of identity nor the specified e-mail address will be displayed here. No image views are displayed nor are further statistical values available.I do not understand why such a global corporation does not manage to make the most rudimentary information available on the provider portal within years. There is an absolutely massive and meanwhile really embarrassing deficit on the part of Adobe compared to any stock agency active on the world market, I think. Here, a fundamental step forward should finally be taken in order to adapt to the usual market level and to eliminate the unequal relationships between providers with and those without Fotolia accounts.What is your opinion on this?Greets,v.poth

Ricky336 · Accepted Answer

In my opinion the Adobe portal is great and easy to use - and I like the idea that you can upload directly from Bridge or Lightroom - assuming of course one uses those programmes. I also think that the auto keywording function is very useful indeed - although it is not fool proof and one needs to edit them accordingly, but it most certainly saves time having to input more of the common keyword terms!

As for the number of views - how useful and accurate this actually is debatable I think. Image views were in the past - but were taken down due to inaccuracies apparently.

I have tried another agency before Adobe, but resigned from that because their portal was awful to use - although just after I joined they were making a lot of changes to the service - but these changes drove me nuts - so I quit! For me the Adobe portal is NOT cluttered with I think useless information, which is more out of interest rather than being practical - although a lot of people may disagree with this, and is debatable.

As for the email being displayed - this information is available in your Adobe Account. And if you submit your proof of ID, and it is approved, you can upload. If not, then you can't upload. You get an email sent anyway.

I cannot compare to Fotolia as it is now owned by Adobe, but I think the Adobe portal is just fine.

So, really, this is just a matter of opinion. I don't think I would call the Adobe portal stone aged. Quite the opposite - up there with the movers and shakers.

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