How much do you sell daily?

[BeratonicStudios]

Hello, how many sales do you make per day without exception? I have 15 thousand assets in my portfolio and I can only make 2-3 sales per day. Don't you think this is too little? (All are Ai images.)

I wanted to ask if I'm doing something wrong.

[Abambo]

You probably have the wrong assets.

[BeratonicStudios]

What do you mean by wrong assets? Am I not catching the right trends?

[daniellei4510]

I have only 5,000 AI assets and I sell more than you are selling. Your assets aren't in demand or are not of high enough quality.

[BeratonicStudios]

What kind of strategy do you use? What size are most of your assets?

[daniellei4510]

The majority of my assets are 24 inches on longest side at 300 ppi. A few 30, a few 20. Primarily with an aspect ratio of 16:9.

[BeratonicStudios]

I understand, I just create it in 1024x576 size and upscale it 4x, that is, 4096x2304

[BeratonicStudios]

Or should I say this, will these assets of mine be discovered one day when the trending season comes?

[daniellei4510]

Also, how long did it take you to submit 15,000 assets? It took me over two years to submit 5000.

[BeratonicStudios]

It took me around 3 months to send 15k assets because Adobe automatically identified the title keyword using the csv system.

[daniellei4510]

That's too many, too fast in my opinion. I'm just guessing you have a lot of similars and/or that you aren't checking your assets as carefully as you should before submission. Automation can get you in trouble. The Adobe keywords are suggestions, not absolutes. The top 10 keywords, usually taken from the titles of your assets, should be at the top.

[BeratonicStudios]

 the automation I made is absolutely legal. I even checked and approved all my assets one by one. I just think I made a wrong strategy or the titles and keywords given by the AI ​​are very bad and do not sell. I would be very happy if you could comment on one of the ones I made.

Title: young woman camouflage jacket intense portrait

Keywords: woman portrait, camouflage jacket, intense portrait, young woman, focused gaze, determined expression, female portrait, camo jacket, close up portrait, headshot, woman in camo, camouflage attire, female model, portrait closeup, woman in jacket, determined woman, intense look, focused woman portrait

[Jill_C]

These are NOT useful keywords. You're using too many compound keywords. Who is going to search for "intense portrait"? What does that even mean? What does "focused woman portrait" mean. Look at each of your images carefully and write the keywords that describe the image. Move the most important words to the top 10 positions. Don't rely on automation. 

[BeratonicStudios]

Thank you, finally, for example, I can see the keywords of an asset and if I use all the keywords that that seller uses in that asset and write them to my own keyword, will it be a problem? Will I have trouble due to keyword duplication?

[daniellei4510]

Do the keywords of an asset you want to duplicate APPLY to your asset? Are you sure the person whose keywords you want to use are selling their assets on a regular basis? If you start with an accurate, descriptive title, the keywords will almost write themselves.

[Jill_C]

You can't actually see the keywords that any other contributors attach to their assets. You can only see "similar keywords" on the Buyer portal. It's up to you to decide if those keywords are actually appropriate for your assets. You can also use the keyword suggestions on the submission page, though you need to check them carefully and delete the unnecessary or incorrect ones. There is no prohibition against using keywords that other contributors have used, but why do you need to copy someone else's work? 

[daniellei4510]

Like @Jill_C said, too many compound words. A legit compound word would be something like "turtleneck sweater," and even then, it wouldn't hurt to write them as "turtleneck, sweater."

Also, since you do people, I'd be curious to see a couple of examples if you don't mind posting them. 

[Jill_C]

15,000 assets in 3 months is 166 per day, assuming you worked every day on them. If you spent 5 minutes editing, adding titles and keywords to each one individually, you would have had to work 14 hours a day, which seems unlikely. Therefore, it is easy to conclude that you have many similars and that they lack unique, thorough and accurate titles and keywords. That is why Buyers aren't finding your assets. You can spend more time now editing titles and keywords now to make your assets more searchable.

[Jill_C · Accepted solution]

I only have 3,300 assets, photographs from my travels around the world, and my daily sales exceed what you have reported. I have a great variety of assets and very few similars. If your assets are AI and are in very competitive categories, such as abstract backgrounds, Buyers will receive thousands of matches for their keywords, and if your assets are many pages down in the results they will never be seen or licensed. Adobe is adding >1 million AI assets every day to the database, and it becomes increasingly difficult to find unique themes for new images.

[BeratonicStudios]

Hmm I see. So is there a category you can suggest for now in ai pictures? I just started this job 3 months ago and I don't have much information about what is in demand. I would be very happy if you could help me.

[Jill_C]

Look at the Insights tab in your Dashboard page to see what types of AI assets are available in the portfolios of the featured Contributors. However, as I mentioned in my previous post, the problem might not be your content but your titles and keywords. If you would like to share a link to your portfolio we could make more concrete suggestions.

[daniellei4510]

70-80% of my assets are of people (fashion, business, tech, surreal), along with the usual landscapes, food, and animals. Chasing after "what's popular" can be likened to a dog chasing its tail. What's in demand or popular changes with the seasons. That's my opinion, at least. I do what I enjoy doing most. That's not to say I'm making a living off of stock. Far from it. But sales are good enough to keep me doing what I enjoy doing most.

[BeratonicStudios]

@Jill_C  @daniellei4510 

Let me explain: First of all, by changing the filter to the most downloaded list, I can see the keywords of the assets as in the first image. Then, I can see all the keywords used by the seller via the Adobe API, as seen in the second image. However, since I don't know if it is prohibited or not, I didn't want to do something like this and get banned by Adobe.

Note: I am a software developer 🙂

[BeratonicStudios]

And I decided to automate it, right now I can upload 100 thousand assets a day if I want, everything is done by AI. But I will definitely not do something like that, I can't fully trust AI, I want to research and create a good portfolio. I examine each picture one by one

[Jill_C]

As indicated in your image1 screen print, those are not the actual keywords entered on the selected asset; they are "similar keywords". I just checked again on a couple of my assets, and those "similar keywords" omit some very specific keywords which in some cases make my assets more searchable. 

I don't know anything about the Adobe API as a source of actual keywords, but once again I would wonder why it is necessary to go to such lengths to copy someone else's keywords... I never have any difficulty at all in coming up with a long list of keywords appropriate to my images, and I doubt that trying to automate that process or steal someone else's work is going to enhance the searchability of my assets.