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Agency Based Discussion => Crestock.com => Topic started by: Boylet on August 21, 2006, 07:32

Title: Crestock Announcement
Post by: Boylet on August 21, 2006, 07:32: Anybody here posting their photos @ crestock??? If so, they just emailed that they'll be announcing their new marketing strategy on August 30. I wonder why the wait? ???
Title: Re: Crestock Announcement
Post by: kacper on August 21, 2006, 10:04: Quote from: Boylet on August 21, 2006, 07:32
Anybody here posting their photos @ crestock??? If so, they just emailed that they'll be announcing their new marketing strategy on August 30. I wonder why the wait? ???

WHATEVER!

This is not directed at you Boylet :) but at Crestock themselves. They've been "creative" and been doing "marketing" for a year now. They have all these "awesome" articles on "featured" photographers and "photographic" techniques. And guess what? Their top photogs (like Logos, Dolgachov, Dashek, etc... you know the "big" guys getting thousands of downloads per month on other sites) have about 30 downloads TOP in the last year. So pardon me for being a bit sarcastic, slightly sceptical and highly ironic. But until these guys actually do some work, I'm not going to submit a single photo to them.
Title: Re: Crestock Announcement
Post by: Boylet on August 22, 2006, 03:01: Yeah ... It's a good thing I dont spend much time uploading on that site... way too picky for me. I'm having a hard time comprehending what their definition of "stock photos". Well, I submitted, they rejected, not my loss.
Title: Re: Crestock Announcement
Post by: Bateleur on August 28, 2006, 13:59: Yeah, I started submitting to Crestock, too. They seem to have a hellishly tough acceptance policy and I get a huge rejection rate.

It does bug me when they say (for a rejection) that ... 'The creative content did not accord with our standards. We invite you to address these concerns. ' But then they don't say what their creative standards are so that I can 'address them'.

I mean ... what are 'creative standards', anyway? The whole thing's hugely subjective.

Anyone else any experience with Crestock?
Title: Re: Crestock Announcement
Post by: gbcimages on August 28, 2006, 14:07: Yes,they rejected mine also. I droped them!!
Title: Re: Crestock Announcement
Post by: madelaide on August 28, 2006, 15:49: High rejection rate, except for vector illustrations. Just 35 images online. No sales.

Regards,
Adelaide
Title: Re: Crestock Announcement
Post by: hospitalera on August 29, 2006, 17:52: I dropped them too...
Title: Re: Crestock Announcement
Post by: Bateleur on August 30, 2006, 02:59: I have had one sale with them (for 16 images accepted so far) so I'm hanging on in. You never know ...
Title: Re: Crestock Announcement
Post by: Quevaal on September 04, 2006, 03:42: F*** them.
I just told them to close my account there.
I've had it with their F***ing high brow rejection notices. They live in the North of Norway(= mega rural), but take special care to sound like some posh Cambridge twats. Any money from them is purely hypothetical and long in the future, and so I'm not going to waste my time uploading and get slapped in the face with their stupid little notes afterwards.
Title: Re: Crestock Announcement
Post by: Boylet on September 04, 2006, 03:58: And here is the announcement !!! :o

http://www.crestock.com/en/news_item.aspx?id=102

Better too late than never .... I think.... ???

Now, if only they have also redifined their definition of "stock".... :-\
Title: Re: Crestock Announcement
Post by: Wisent on September 04, 2006, 05:16: No offence to the photographer but i wouldn't use this image for a world wide launch, or am i imagening the long hairs on the females tshin(don't know the spelling, but it sounds like that)

http://www.crestock.com/admin/uploads/exIII.jpg
Title: Re: Crestock Announcement
Post by: maunger on September 04, 2006, 20:03: Quote from: Wisent on September 04, 2006, 05:16
No offence to the photographer but i wouldn't use this image for a world wide launch, or am i imagening the long hairs on the females tshin(don't know the spelling, but it sounds like that)

[url]http://www.crestock.com/admin/uploads/exIII.jpg[/url]

Nope... i sure wouldn't pick that either
Title: Re: Crestock Announcement
Post by: leaf on September 05, 2006, 03:35: well they sure sound pretty eager. I'm interested to see if it does any good.
Title: Re: Crestock Announcement
Post by: CJPhoto on September 05, 2006, 05:08: I kind of hope they dont make it big - I am not currently submitting to them (since currently they haven't sounded promising) so it would just be another to add to the list.

So let me know how they go and only once they start getting good sales, can someone give me a referal link.
Title: Re: Crestock Announcement
Post by: leaf on September 05, 2006, 05:15: i don't think they have a referral system.
Title: Re: Crestock Announcement
Post by: grp_photo on September 05, 2006, 09:05: I read the contract the pay 20% right?
Well the ads looking cool but...
Title: Re: Crestock Announcement
Post by: Enjoylife on September 05, 2006, 09:29: Useless site, sold 1 photo there gets me 2 dollar wow!!!! :-[
20 percent is a joke !
i stopped uploading there a long time ago.