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Acceptance rate or percentage?

Explorer ,
Dec 20, 2023 Dec 20, 2023

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Hi, friends, hope you are doing well. I just wanted to ask you what is your acceptance rate or percentage on adobe stock as a contributor? I want to hear from both photographers and AI contributors. I submit AI art, and mine is about 80%. Is that good or bad? What's yours?

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Community Expert , Dec 20, 2023 Dec 20, 2023

80% is a good ratio. My acceptance rate for standard assets is near to 100%. It's only when experimenting that I get more rejections than usual, mostly then on the commercial appeal or non-compliant image. 

 

A rejection rate of 50% is still good, if you are a.beginner, you could even live with your first 10 assets to be rejected, if you will get lessons learned from those rejections. 

 

Most people are throwing in anything just to see what happens. When I started, I selected my best shots first

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Dec 20, 2023 Dec 20, 2023

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80% is a good ratio. My acceptance rate for standard assets is near to 100%. It's only when experimenting that I get more rejections than usual, mostly then on the commercial appeal or non-compliant image. 

 

A rejection rate of 50% is still good, if you are a.beginner, you could even live with your first 10 assets to be rejected, if you will get lessons learned from those rejections. 

 

Most people are throwing in anything just to see what happens. When I started, I selected my best shots first, giving me a good acceptance rate. Only then I experienced some setbacks because I started with more critical assets, like counter light photography.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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Dec 20, 2023 Dec 20, 2023

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Thanks for your answer.

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Dec 20, 2023 Dec 20, 2023

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You're welcome. 

 

Just checked. My first refusal (according to Adobe) 7 years ago was an IP violation. 🤔

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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Enthusiast ,
Dec 20, 2023 Dec 20, 2023

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When you're not a skilled pro AI-image creator I would say it's really outstanding ...! How many have you had under review?

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Dec 20, 2023 Dec 20, 2023

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I have about 340 images accepted and 85 rejected. So that's about 80%. And I have 400 more images in review, and uploading about 30-50 new a day. PS: Thanks for kind words 😄 I'll try to get better with time, I started uploading daily just a few weeks ago so I guess I am in fact a beginner. Thanks again!!

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Enthusiast ,
Dec 20, 2023 Dec 20, 2023

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Amazing ..!

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Explorer ,
Dec 20, 2023 Dec 20, 2023

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Thanks bro, do you sell AI on adobe stock as well?

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Enthusiast ,
Dec 20, 2023 Dec 20, 2023

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Not yet. It's a tough competition with lots of clever contributors. And I'm happy with my sales for my 'old fashioned' photos and illustrations. I will try, but I don't want to use all my time on this. 

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Dec 20, 2023 Dec 20, 2023

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My current acceptance rate for photographs is ~95%, though my initial rate when I started submitting 7 years ago wasn't so high. It took a while to learn to recognize the rejectable issues and understand the IP restrictions. 

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

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I understand, I started just recently, so I'm a beginner too. I hope I'll get closer to your percentage with time. Thanks for your answer!

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Dec 20, 2023 Dec 20, 2023

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I go back and forth between a 94% and 95% acceptance rate. I submit 100% AI. I'm actually going through my rejections now to determine which ones can be saved with further editing or by correcting flaws I may have overlooked. On the re-submissions, I've had a 100% acceptance rate. So far. 😉

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Dec 20, 2023 Dec 20, 2023

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Wow. That's amazing. Did you have any prior knowledge or experience in stock photography, or was AI your first touch with contributing images?

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Enthusiast ,
Dec 20, 2023 Dec 20, 2023

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I would ask you the same questions Riki ...

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I don't have any prior knowledge about stock photography, I found out about adobe stock last year I think and just uploaded one image haha. Then I subscribed to Mid Journey for a month, made about 3,500 images and simply started posting those since November. So definetely not 😄

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Community Expert ,
Dec 20, 2023 Dec 20, 2023

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quotewhat is your acceptance rate...
By @RikiN

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Your success as a Stock Contributor is measured in sales, not acceptance rates.  If all your sales are coming from just 20% of your portfolio, you may need to re-think what you're submitting.  Pay attention to trends.

 

Maximize your long term earning potential with greater focus on quality instead of quantity.  A single asset that receives multiple downloads is more valuable to you than 5 assets that never sell. 

 

As always, use appropriate titles & keywords so customers can find what they're searching for. 

 

Hope that helps.

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator

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Enthusiast ,
Dec 20, 2023 Dec 20, 2023

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"A single asset that receives multiple downloads is more valuable to you than 5 assets that never sell." Right Nancy - but in this game I think that today quantity is a huge asset ..? Unfortunately. But I'm sure a relatively small but good port still can generate lots of sales like in the 'good old days'. Fortunately ...   

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Explorer ,
Feb 20, 2024 Feb 20, 2024

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I've always wondered, what's the typical or decent sales percentage for a contributor's portfolio? Could you share your insights?

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Feb 20, 2024 Feb 20, 2024

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That seems an impossible question to answer. And relatively speaking, the answer would mean nothing. A contributor who uploaded 1 asset and sold it has a sales rate of 100%. 😉 (Enters rabbit hole of math: "So if they sold that same image 1000 times, what is there percentage of sales then? Still 100%? Or 100% times 1000?")

I need to go to bed.

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Feb 20, 2024 Feb 20, 2024

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You can calculate the percentage on your dashboard. If you sort by downloads and go to the page where the assets don't have downloads anymore, you have an amount of sold assets as there are 100 assets per page.

 

Of course, this metric does not tell us much (especially if you add to the equation occasional $100-$200 sales), but it can give insight into the overall effectiveness or appeal of your portfolio.

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Feb 21, 2024 Feb 21, 2024

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The percentage of my sold assets in my portfolio is slightly over 35%, I used to think it's an ok rate, but after learning that 20% might not be good enough, I started to doubt myself lol

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Feb 21, 2024 Feb 21, 2024

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Fair point, thanks!

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Feb 20, 2024 Feb 20, 2024

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The percentage of sold assets in my portfolio is 12% and my top 10 assets by revenue brought 48% of total earnings. Nancy's quote "A single asset that receives multiple downloads is more valuable to you than 5 assets that never sell." is true.

 

a great target would probably be around 30-50% with an optimized portfolio.

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Feb 21, 2024 Feb 21, 2024

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Around 10% would be good, for assets sitting in your account for a while. Obviously, for newer assets, that number tends to 0.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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Glad to hear that around 10% would be good! Thank you for restoring my confidence again 😄 

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