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Not just you. I've been getting the same reasons. I'm thinkingvnew inspectors but I don't know.

Sounds like standard operating procedure at Fotolia; nothing's changed. I hate Fotolia -- they were one of the main reasons I became exclusive at iStock -- I blame them for what has happened! 

In this period I have, more or less, 100% work accepted. Yesterday 50 and 50 ecc. Some works accepted on Fotolia and Shutterstock are rejected by dreamstime and vice versa. There're not reason...never. Just luck.

They accept everything of mine that has a model release but not so much photos without people.

Just checked... I've had one rejection in the past 100 submissions, which has been fairly consistent for the past three years.  I wonder if they look at a contributor's sales as guidance into how closely to examine submissions.  Fotolia has become my number one agency for sales.  I'll be unpopular for saying this, but keep it up Fotolia, whatever you're doing!

just make a list when this happened. ft have a working plan for reviewers. Normaly it was at monday when everything was rejected, now it has changed.

I know this a old post but it falls right in with what is going on now. Sent in 20 photos with the same model in 3 different outfits (complete change of clothes) in 4 different locations at and around the beach. I Made sure to put different titles on them to have a good mix. Had 15 of them rejected for similar! So then I sent in 50 photos of all kinds of things and only 3 of them of a person, they inspected and rejected 25 of them in 2 min and then rejected all but 5 in the next 4 hours all in all only 4 for technical and the rest for "did not meet desired level of aesthetic quality".
Is anyone else having these problems or am I just lucky

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I'm gonna try my luck tomorrow. If I don't get over 90% in (I got 100% in at other agencies), I'm going to stop my uploads there. They're only my 5th best seller (not even 10% of SS' earnings) and I only contribute to 8 sites

FL acceptance very heavily depends on image content and less on technical quality though they are picky on that one too.

In my experience:
Staged pictures of people with good lighting are accepted well.
Textures/backgrounds - not so well but not too bad
Industrial landscapes - many rejections although they are good sellers elsewhere
Landscapes & nature - very bad acceptance, most rejected

Yeah, this seems to be the difference between IS and SS / FT / DT - IS don't seem to look much beyond the technical but man do they take it down to pixel level - the rest will forgive slight technical imperfections if they believe the subject has some interest.

I think your sales record also has much to do with acceptance rate at FT. Those who get to Gold or above have very few rejections almost irrespective of the subject they upload.

If you are leaving exclusivity with Istock then FT may agree to start you at a level appropriate to your sales at Istock which also means higher commissions. They have certainly done this in the past.