Today, Adobe has announced the public beta of the Adobe Stock Contributor Site. Meant to integrate deeply with its Creative Cloud platform, the new service allows photographers, videographers, and illustrators to directly upload and sell their work with a high degree of efficiency and automation.
With recent releases of its Creative Cloud applications, Adobe has made stock images, videos, illustrations, and vectors more readily accessible and easily used than ever before, integrating them heavily into their core tools. Today, they're continuing that trend with the Adobe Stock Contributor Site, which allows creatives to showcase and sell their work inside CC applications such as Photoshop and Illustrator.
Since many people who work creating stock content often have thousands of pieces, Adobe has worked to streamline the submission process. It can be completed directly from within Lightroom and Bridge. Once uploaded, Adobe's algorithm automatically analyzes and generates five keywords for each image in order of relevancy. Because the algorithm is based on machine learning, it's expected to improve in accuracy as it sees more use. With the sheer reach Adobe has through its products, this could be a very intriguing option for many creatives.
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From the Adobe site: "Receive best-in-class royalties for your creative contributions."
So what's the royalty? 33% for photos. That's hardly "best-in-class." And given that there's no information on who sets the price (which means Adobe does), I'd be pretty leery of submitting anything.
The reason why these things "betas" never work is because they are aimed at creative people by creative people who are creative. Why would I "a creative person" buy another persons work????? I'll just make it myself, or take the photo myself.
In order to sell and make $$ is by providing creative things to people who don't know how to create things themselves. It's the same reason why Apple does not buy PC computers, they make their own.
500px suffers from this all the time, no one makes any money on there because its just photographers following other photographers. People who are not photographers have never even heard of the site.