I left Shutterstock for Adobe Stock photos
I continued Shutterstock for more than 6 months, but there were no sales at all. After a period of time I was fed up of this procedure, so I stopped uploading stock photographs for Shutterstock.
Later I found about Adobe Stock Contributor from one of my friend. I also knew about this a long time ago, but didn’t give a try. This was because of the blogs I read and videos I watched about stock photography, which recommended Shutterstock is the best option for stock photography.
After Adobe buying Fotolia in 2015, they rapidly caught up the stock photography market. Now Adobe Stock is a major competitor for Shutterstock.
FEATURES OF ADOBE STOCK CONTRIBUTOR
Adobe is efficient in many ways for the contributor.
· The best thing about Adobe Stock contributor is the possibility of the acceptance of your photos and videos is very high compared with the process done by Shutterstock. There is a less percentage of rejecting your masterpiece.
· Adobe stock contributor have a real time sales indicator, which is a new feature that cannot be seen in any other stock photography sites. Which provides you the real time analytics of your sales.
· They also have a feature of auto identifying keywords for a photograph or a video footage. This keyword identification feature will provide up to 20 suggested keywords. You will need to figure the rest of the keywords as you want. The auto key word identification process is not 100% accurate according to the photograph.
· Model releases is also a feature that is appeared on Adobe stock contributor.
GET A SATISFYING PAYMENT
Daily sales occur on Adobe Stock Contributor. The site even ranks photographers according to their monthly sales. The thing about this ranking is that you will see different contributors on the certain window known as insight, it’s not the same person every month. The subscription royalty amounts are very high compared with the other stock photography sites.
Adobe also have a yearly bonus program for the contributors which includes one year access to payed programs provided by Adobe. They also provide you free cloud space in the Bonus program.
HOW TO GET SALES EASILY ON ADOBE STOCK CONTRIBUTOR?
Though you are familiar with the uploading process and the acceptance process, you will have to make sales daily. Here are some steps that I use to get sales fast.
What is being demanded by the clients?
The main procedure of getting into sales is that knowing what is being demanded by the buyers. This can be seen observed by the insight page in the Adobe Stock Contributor website. In this page you will be able to see the contributors with the highest number of sales. Here you will also see the images that was sold. So you can get a rough idea of images that are being demanded by the clients.
Selection of right keyword
Check for the photographs with same features as your photo on the selling site of Adobe Stock. If you find match to your photo and if it suggested in the first page click on it. After you click on the photo you will able to see its information. Here you will find the keywords used by the contributor of this photo. So now you can use these keywords in your photograph too before the submission process.
Photographs according to festivals and special events
Search for the trending festivals and events happening globally. Get an idea about these events and festivals through YouTube videos. Try photographing stock photos which will be used by people for these events.
For example — Christmas is coming up on next December: So on behalf of this festival you can create editorials, videos, photographs. Such as Christmas card designs, poster designs and banners.
Do not stop trying if your photographs are rejected. Be on the game.
Thank You.
