Selling of specific assets.

[KDJ Imagery and Graphics]

Greetings, 

I have a question concerning the selling of certain assets or images. I've noticed in the past few years that I've been a contributing seller on here,  that a certain number of my uploaded images are selling and not others. I'm not talking about anything in general, I mean that I have multiple images that are in the same genre/categories and some sell and some don't. More or less what I want too know is why some sell more frequently than others. Are individuals just not looking at my other images? Or is it that the images that are selling are ones included in collections? I have numerous images on here and only a handful sell. I admit that I'm a casual contributor and that I'm only selling on here too make a few extra dollars for my film photography, is this a typical occurrence? Many thanks for any input and have a great day!

Cheers,

Keith J.   

[daniellei4510 · Accepted solution]

As I understand it, if an image sells, it gets moved up in the search algorithm and becomes more likely to appear in further searches. As a result, those images become "best sellers." That's the simple answer, I think. 🙂

[Jill_C · Accepted solution]

Yes, it is typical for only a portion of your assets to have ever been sold. I think my rate now is ~25%, which means that the majority have never been licensed. From previous discussions here in the forum, that seems like a typical rate of sales, though some Contributors have reported significantly less and some a higher percentage. Stock is a very competitive business, and if your images are in categories where a lot of results are shown to the Buyer based upon their keywords, they may never even see yours if it is many pages down in the search results. Nevertheless, I do regularly have images that have been in my portfolio for years that are finally sold, so there is always hope. Including your assets in Collections in your Portfolio has no impact on sales, to the best of my knowledge. 

As @daniellei4510 said, the search algorithm moves your previously sold images higher up in the rank of search results, so that's why you might see repeated sales of the same image, but no sales at all of similar images. 

[Abambo · Accepted solution]

Depending on the number of assets and the duration of your contributions here, having somewhere a ration of 10% of images that sell is good. My experience is that an image that does not sell at all for years, and that get a single sale, will get more sales in the coming weeks. So, this needs to be related to the search algorithm, that privileges assets with recent sales.

However, as none has really insight into the algorithms, we can only make educated guesses on how this happens.

• Newer assets get precedence.
• Assets with a lot of sales will get more sales.
• When an old asset gets a sale, it is probable that in the next days, it will get an additional sale.

[Nancy OShea · Accepted solution]

KEYWORDS

Generally speaking, if what the customer wants can be found in a keyword search, you're more likely to make sales than if they can't find it.  Examine your use of titles, keywords & descriptions.  Are you maximizing your search potential?

DIVERSITY & COMMERCIAL APPEAL

Does your portfolio contain diverse content that's likely to appeal to a wide range of customers and commercial uses?  The key word is commercial value.  The nicest pictures in the world may not have much commercial appeal.  Compare yours with other Stock inventory in the same keywords.  Does yours measure up or could it be better?

INVENTORY

If what your submitting is crowded out by too much other competition, you won't make sales. For example, Stock has over 39 million abstract background & wallpaper images, far more than demand requires.  Before submitting, ask yourself if Stock really needs any more of these.  To get noticed, you need to be a big fish in small bowl by submitting content that fills a void or niche that's not well represented. 

Hope that helps.

[KDJ Imagery and Graphics]

Thank you all who replied. I wonder how Adobe's keyword algorithm works? I mean it auto populates keywords, presumably with all this new AI stuff, yet more so than not it inserts keywords that aren't related too the image I'm uploading. I find myself going in and deleting a lot of keywords that I feel are not relevant.  I don't want too deter someone from a sell on the count that the keywords don't match the image, it makes me feel like the image/keywords have been uploaded by one of them so called "BOTS". 

As for the selling of repeated images, it makes sense that the ones that sell more frequently are moved higher up in the search results. So, if any of the staff and or individuals who are reading this can forward this too the tech support,  about the odd keyword results it would save a lot of time when uploading images. Thanks again for all who have taken a moment too read this. Have a wonderful day! 

[Jill_C]

Adobe does not reveal info regarding their internal,business practices. They do use AI, which they call Sensei, to auto-generate keywords; however they also openly admit that some of them are wrong and that Contributors need to carefully review them to delete those that are inappropriate. 

Since Adobe is already of the fact that their AI tool doesn't generate a perfect set of keywords, there is no need to alert them of this fact. 

[daniellei4510]

"more so than not it inserts keywords that aren't related too the image I'm uploading. I find myself going in and deleting a lot of keywords that I feel are not relevant. "

Which is what you are supposed to do. Adobe's keyword suggestions are simply that: suggestions. And of course it's a bot. A moderator is not spending time letting you know which keywords to use.

[Abambo]

Thank you all who replied. I wonder how Adobe's keyword algorithm works? I mean it auto populates keywords, presumably with all this new AI stuff, yet more so than not it inserts keywords that aren't related too the image I'm uploading. I find myself going in and deleting a lot of keywords that I feel are not relevant.

By @KDJ Imagery and Graphics

This is not new AI stuff. Suggesting keywords is part of Adobe stock since years. It was present when I started seven years ago. And they are what they are: suggestions, that you should edit to delete irrelevant keywords and add relevant ones. There is no obligation to use the keyword suggestions.