Hi, I'm new to Adobe Stock. I have uploaded 4 pics, three was accepted and one was rejected due to similar content. How many accepted pictures do I need to have uploaded in my Portfolio to start earning.

Here's a weird example. I have a website with 324 pictures. Most of them have not sold. There is one winner picture that I created that has 87 downloads on it. This was in a six-month period. There are another ten pictures that have up to ten downloads. The rest have zero. So there really isn't a good answer to how many pictures you have to have before you start making money. It depends on if you get a picture that clients really like. 

Hi ​@Zii 

There is no way to predict when you’ll start earning. There are millions of contributors and billions of assets for buyers to choose from. Also, more of what is in demand, which is constantly changing, usually sell. A combination of volume, diversity and quality are fundamental factors that determine when you start earning. 

Volume: You need to grow your portfolio so that it will reach a volume that potential customers can better find your assets.
Quality: You need to place emphasis on submitting the best quality you can. Doing so will attract more viewers to your files, thus keeping them at the top of the search engine.
Consistency: You need to be consistently submitting works.
Keywords: You must add relevant keywords so that the relevant assets return in the correct search.
Diversity: You need to focus on subject, category and file type diversity. This will increase your potential of getting sales more frequently. Avoid submitting similar files. Similar submissions will hurt your portfolio. No customer wants to be looking at multiple pages of the same thing or variation of the same thing.  

Selections from high quality, large and diversified portfolios get curated in more packages, which increase sales volume and frequency.

Therefore, my suggestion is to enjoy the ride while you consistently submit high quality assets and observe the Adobe guidelines. The sales will come.

Best wishes
Jacquelin

One thing you need to understand is that stock is not a side-hustle, no matter what YouTube videos would have you believe. You can devote as little or as much time to it as you want, but one’s success will vary on a number of factors, including to what degree you spend your time creating, keywording, and uploading new assets. 

What is your niche? Can you put some screenshots up? 

How long is a piece of string?

We can’t predict when or if you’ll make sales. There are too many unknown factors involved.

By some estimates, you need 6,000+ high-quality assets & a diverse portfolio to sell regularly. That’s not to say you can’t make sales sooner. But that’s the goal for creating a sustainable second income. Everyone’s mileage varies. 

Variety, diversification, quality, and thorough and accurate titles and keywords are essential to achieving success. 

Some contributors start seeing regular sales with as few as 500-600 assets. Others, 1000-2000 or more. It can depend on the quality of the assets, whether or not the assets are in demand, one’s expertise and titling and keywording assets, if the assets are videos, photographs, or AI, etc. Selling stock is becoming increasingly competitive, considering there are 900 million assets available on Adobe stock. 

The number of assets has no role as to whether or not an asset sells.  It does however,  increase the chances of selling an asset. Demand, quality, meta data, number of times previously sold  and  the submission date are the factors that make assets be seen in the search process.