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My downloads and earnings keep dropping.My downloads and earnings keep dropping.

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May 17, 2024
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Actually, my downloads are not decreasing, my earnings are decreasing because I am paid 30-28 cents for my images. However, although there were almost no downloads this week, there were downloads costing 30 cents and 28 cents. Even in Frepik, I earn more weekly. Thank you Adobe Stock.

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Correct answer Abambo

No, shutterstock pays 10 cents and less. Adobe added new subscription models and customers are loving those. Theoretically you should be able to offset the low income per sale with more sales.

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MliO111

Inspiring

My images are constantly selling for 0.3-0.4

Jill_C

Community Expert

That signifies that the Buyers have the 350/image per month Subscription.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

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Geisard

Known Participant

Saw a little drop in March, but it's steadily increasing for me since.

Abambo

Community Expert

That's the standard fluctuation. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

jacquelingphoto2017

Community Expert

Hi @Sinanna ,

Adobe has a pricing structure that starts at $0.33 provided you have a lifetime download less than 1,000 assects. However, Adobe is not the only entity that sells our assets and each of these partners have their own pricing structure that is not regulated by Adobe. Many of these partners have a percentage model that allows our royalty to range from lower than $0.33 to higher than $1.00 depending on a number of facters they stipulate in thier packages. Therefore, when you are paid less than $0.33 royalty for an asset, you can assume it was sold by a partner.

In my early days I got from as low as $0.25 to as high as $7.00 for a few of my assets that I figured were sold by a particular partner.

Best wishes

Jacquelin

Instrumental

Inspiring

Well, that's a comprehensive explanation. Thank you!
The only unusual thing for me in this situation that sales lower $0.33 started happening just weeks ago or so. And now you tell you experienced $0.25 sales before. Seems it could happen earlier to me, but it didn't 🙂

Abambo

Community Expert

All strange sales amounts are custom. You have really high volume customers, licensing thousands of assets per month, but you also have flat rate customers, like the Creative Cloud Pro subscriptions, or Adobe Express. For the advantage of a flat rate, they have other restrictions.

But if you have a flat rate, and you are doing variants for a customer, you licence 5 assets and incorporate each of them into your design. So you will get paid for an asset that may be never used. But each of the 5 get a smaller share. Before this, the stock customer would download previews and licence only one…

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

Instrumental

Inspiring

You've been replied your questions here - https://community.adobe.com/t5/stock-contributors-discussions/what-is-the-0-29-earning/m-p/14576810 It's a custom license your images are sold with.

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SinannaAuthor

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So you say new shutterstck is adobe stock

Abambo

Correct answer

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No, shutterstock pays 10 cents and less. Adobe added new subscription models and customers are loving those. Theoretically you should be able to offset the low income per sale with more sales.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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SinannaAuthor

Participating Frequently

Am I the only one whose earnings and downloads are decreasing and who is affected by this pricing policy?

Instrumental

Inspiring

No, you are not. I also faced $0.30 per image sales (thankfully, these are few).

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SinannaAuthor

Participating Frequently

If they had not reduced these prices to 30-28 cents, I would earn more now. Now I have 74 downloads this month, the money I earned is 30. If it was in January, it would be at least 65 now.

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