To my surprise, it turned out that I had not purchased a subscription anyway and to this day I am still unsure what I actually purchased because I am not able to download anything. I logged in to my existing Adobe Cloud account and purchased a subscription for as an addon to my current account. 47 / 100 (Seems faster than scores dictate however)Ĭonclusion on Adobe Stock site speed: First search so slow you notice it. If you get other results when testing this, share your findings in the comments section below. Shutterstock scores 47/100 on average between mobile and desktop users. Adobe’s stock site scores 52/100 on average. In comparison, my own site,, with a much lower “server budget” than Adobe, scores an average of 65/100 on Google’s PageSpeed Insights on a search for the keyword “cute” for example. Repeat searches load quickly, but first time searches take as long as 6 seconds to start loading. The landing page of loads very fast, but a simple search for a keyword like “cute” loads very slowly. To be sure, I ran it through various site speed testers and the results were quite interesting. At first, I thought the problem might be my connection or geolocation since I live in South Africa. The first thing I noticed is that the website seems slow. They pretty much expect a loading time that is equal to that of Google, which is not easy to achieve. These days, the customer’s expectation regarding server speed is very high. Why not put Adobe Stock through the same preliminary evaluation process that we used to perform in order to determine whether or not we would submit our images to them? In the following article I will rate Adobe Stock on a scale from 1-10 on various critical criteria. Instead of diving straight into the middle of these discussions, I thought I would do something different. On the online communities there are many opinions and ongoing discussions about this newcomer and the impact it might have on the stock industry. Adobe launched its “Adobe Stock” which is the biggest entry from a foreign entity that the stock industry has ever seen.
Just recently a new player has entered the Stock arena. Most of the time the assessments we made were right, and I believe part of my success is attributed to not wasting time on the wrong distribution partners. Before making the call to engage with new agencies I´d make a preliminary evaluation of the site’s potential success. it still took months to get the images online. Back then I only had 40 000 images, but considering the time spent on uploading, categorizing, attaching model releases, etc.
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Together with my distribution manager, I would go through a series of analysis for each new stock agency that would pop up to determine whether it would be worth our while to work with them. Today I’m exclusive with Getty, but prior to that, I distributed to as many agencies as possible. My name is Yuri Arcurs, and for those of you who don’t know me, I’m the world’s top selling stock photographer and founder of I have spent the last 10 years as a stock photographer and I´ve worked with over 100 stock agencies.
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