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Does anyone know who is Fotolia's director of content and how to contact them? I used to know someone, but my old email folders got wiped out unfortunately. I am puzzled by my recent approval rates there - getting as low as 30%... I submit images of good technical quality (been told by many agencies that it's "excellent", never had a rejection on any macro sites I am working with), never submit  batches of similar images, the content has good sales potential as it proves somewhere else, and being currently #14 in the Fotolia ranking I think indicates well enough that my images are in demand by Fotolia's customers.... Am at loss why so much of my stuff gets rejected. It's getting to the point it's not worthwhile spending time on submitting... Does someone know how to address these issues?

Well, that's not exactly what I was looking for:) I am happy with my sales at Fotolia, they are a number one earner for me, so I am not looking to leave the agency... I emailed Chad (hope I got his email address right), hopefully he can help me with solving those issues...

I contacted them via Contact us link but only got a response that it is a different department that does reviewing. I then asked if they could give me a contact of the reviewing department and they said they couldn't. I stopped at that point. If buyers really want my images they can find them on other sites.

I got a reply from Chad, he promised to look into it... asked for sample rejected images (no shortage of those:)). I am pretty puzzled about this, my approval ratio these days is above 90% on most agencies. Hope we can sort this out somehow.

That was quick (I sent have sent him 8 emails over time, friendly ones requesting info on crank you rank etc, things support have directed me to him, never once got a response )

Please keep us informed of what he says as it interesting.

Really I surprised that the agencies dont adopt an automatic approval system for the people at the top, ie black diamond equivalent.  When you think that the top 20 people would submit well inexcess of 100k images per year and they would know what's going to sell and be acceptable, it would be a tidy saving in reviewing costs to just 'wave them through'

Sorry to hear that Elena. I'am lucky to I get literally everything accepted at Fotolia - maybe except some outdated stuff we uploaded accidentally or images where we mistyped the title badly... things like that. Rejection is aroud 1%. There must be some kind of a miscommunication in your case like a hidden technical parameter... or I don't know. Looking forward to hear what Chad investigates.

In my early days with Fotolia I had pretty much everything accepted, too - funny, because what I do now and the equipment I use now is way better than back then. I know standards have changed, but how come my quality is good enough for Getty RM and not for Fotolia?... On Istock, we have 70-85% percent accepted and most of rejections are because of keywords which sometimes are just a matter of personal judgement.... So honestly, I don't even have a clue why suddenly they decided that my images are not good enough for them. Subject-wise, I do very little of business shots and isolated people (I do some, but that's not the majority of my port), but again, I never did that, it's not that I changed the areas I am working in. What I do still sells, and, as some of you here, I do get constant requests from agencies around the world to represent my portfolio... I do hope Chad can help me understand what's going on (I haven't heard back from him yet), but if the acceptance rate will be this low, I don't think we can justify spending time uploading more images there. We won't pull out, but time is money, and submission process on Fotolia with their branching out categories is pretty time-consuming.

You are not required to pick a category to submit to an image to Fotolia.

30% acceptance ratio !!! that's insane. I've literally seen tons of your images at 100% and they are always awesome. There must be a major screwup somewhere at FT for you to be experiencing that. I hope they get it sorted out fast for you ... in the meantime don't stand too close .. I don't want to catch your bad luck. 

They're probably pretty heavy - especially at 100%!

Why don't you call them?

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Kone

hi elena:

sorry this is happening to you too at ft. great portfolio and track record so i'm sure it's a rogue reviewer on the loose.

but, i'm kind of curious as to what declined message are you getting? is it the ubiquitous "not up to our aesthetic standard" that they give to the rest of us, or is it "your photographic work is excellent, but not needed, blah, blah blah?"

approx 15.8 lbs. .. we output all images to our flintstone jumbo deskpeck printer then inspect the final image with a convex lens strapped to a small piece of wood. It's a time consuming process but that's how we roll