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Upfront Royalty Payment Opportunity

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
June 7, 2021
8 replies
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As many of you know, last year Adobe Stock launched a free collection to drive traffic to the marketplace. The initial collection was limited to participation from a very small number of Adobe Stock Contributors. We were pleased with the results: traffic did increase and many visitors who initially came for free content converted to paying customers, resulting in added revenue for the larger Contributor community.

It’s now time to refresh and expand the program. For a limited time starting on June 7, many of you will see a banner in the dashboard section of the Adobe Stock Contributor portal. The banner gives you the opportunity to nominate qualified photos from your portfolio. You can nominate all eligible files (photos only at this time), or you can go through the Dashboard and nominate individual files. Please note that your best-selling images are exempt from this program. We will not be accepting any images that received more than 4 downloads in the past 12 months.

You have until June 23 to nominate any or all your eligible files. After that, the banner will go away, and our moderation team will quickly review the submissions.

A big difference between the Adobe Stock free collection and other sites offering content for free is that we are paying Contributors up front for participation. For every file approved for the free collection, we are paying a one-time rate of $5 (If paid in USD currently. Otherwise, 5 credits in your currency) . This payment is for 12 months of non-exclusive use in the free collection. After the 12 months are up, the files will automatically be returned into your paid collection.

Please see the FAQ for more details, and let me know if you have any additional questions not covered there.

Thank you,

Mat Hayward

Contributors

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nasser20

Participant

Adobe sent me an email stating that 24 assets are eligible for the free collection... Will they accept all assets or how many?

daniellei4510

Community Expert

No, they will not accept all of them. Or even any of them. They have only been nominated.

Adobe Community Expert | If you can't fix it, hide it; if you can't hide it, delete it.

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Alwi01

Participant

Why do I only get 1 dollar per selection, not 5 dollars

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debraj d.

Participant

Me too. First I was told 47x5$ then it changed to 1$ per item. I don't know why it changed. Withdrawn my assets.

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Olena24946150rixw

Participant

Hi Mat! How long do it usually take for images to be reviewed for the free collection? Based on your previous experiense. Thank you!

Jill_C

Community Expert

Could be up to a month based on what happened in 2021 and 2022.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

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Olena24946150rixw

Participant

thank you so much for your response!

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jamesn77628587

Known Participant

Can payment for any accepted assets for the free collection be deposited into my "Available Earnings" account? I Would rather have it there for drawing down later, than an immediate up-front payment.

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Angelique clic

Participant

Hello Mat,

I'm not able to click on Accept. I've tried other web browsers. Doesn't work.

Any other solution ? Thanks.

merrillier78181659

Known Participant

Same issue I can tick Eligible for free collection only but when I click on the Nominate all eligible assets I can't get the Agree button to work in either Chrome or Edge.

merrillier78181659

Known Participant

Even tried my mobile phone, Agree button is greyed out.

robinbirdg

Known Participant

If I select all images, what happens to the ones that they don't picked? do they go back to reuglar paid images

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Mat Hayward

Inspiring

The images you nominate will remain in your paid collection until they are moved into free. If they aren't accepted into free, they will remain in your paid collection seamlessly.

-Mat

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kirkandmimi

Known Participant

I clicked the "Nominate all eligible assets". Now, where or how do I go through and select or de-select the photos I want to nominate before the 23rd?

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Mat Hayward

Inspiring

You can search through your dashboard section page by page right now to see the eligible assets. OR you can wait a few hours today and we'll have added a filter to the dashboard that will show you only the eligible files.

-Mat Hayward

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kirkandmimi

Known Participant

Sounds much easier to wait! Thanks for the information. I'll check later on today or tomorrow.

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Katarzyna5DDA

Participant

Great to hear the news!

On the technical side: I am trying to accept my photos for Free Collection however the acceptance button is unresponsible, I can't press it, tried on Chrome and Brave, the screenshot below - would appreciate any help!