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How about a sticky thread on review times for the big 6?

SS: my images get constantly reviewed in 2 days
IS: about a week (don't know about exclusive reviews)
DT: no clue, didn't upload anything new in a while, ETR says 127h
FT: same as dt
StockXpert: last images took about a week
123rf: under 24 hours!

I'll add BigStock even though it's not in the Big6.
BigStock: two weeks or more

for 123RF, if you find the review times more than 24 hours after you've uploaded, (and you're sure all keywords, descriptions and releases are there) do send me an email.

Alex.

I agree with gualberto, I find difficult to sell anything in 123rf, maybe they have less customers 

Although I appreciate quicker review times (Simply because my images are available for sale)
I have to generally agree with michealo "I don't care what the review times are for any site, I just upload and forget about it .."

I upload so many images that everyday new images are being added to my portfolio EVERYDAY regardless of review times.

It appears to me that the only people really concerned with review times are generally amateurs adding images piecemeal
a few images at a time, or once or twice a week or so.

Cranky MIZ

On some sites I dont care what review time is (well actually it's like rjmiz said: "the sooner the image is online the sooner it can start selling". This is true for all sites). But still on some sites I especially like the fast reviews because:
- on SS I usually submit small batches that get online during the first days of the week. I noticed that files get better sales that way (getting files online on friday doesn't work for me. Might be just a random thing, but I still don't like to practise it). So if they review the batches in a day, I can submit a batch every day. If the review them every 2 days then I submit every 2 days (since they tend to review all the pending batches at the same time. Not always, but quite often.).
- same goes for IS. If the images get reviewed fast they can get downloads fast. If they get downloads fast they appear higher in the best match search. Also I like to know when my files will be online on IS so that I can add them to lighboxes(same for 123rf),...
- My acceptance ration at BigStock is currently just under 70% so I can have only 40 images pending (which is not enough for the 2 week waiting period). So I'd like them to review images faster, because I can't get them online as fast as I'd want.
- often I produce similar images which I don't submit in the same batch, since they would get rejected (123rf is strict about that, also fotolia,...). So I break them up in a few batches. If a site reviews images fast then I can get all the batches online faster.

Review times on BigStock are a bit better lately. Had the last three batches approved in 5 days.

I hate to agree with MIZ but I have to agree.

If you upload in bulk and you expect the sites to approve your images within 24 hours, you 're not being reasonable.
I upload one at a time, being very selective, giving each site what they tend to prefer, as each site has different needs.

We have to be professional about it, and not just upload everything to every site we belong to. Or else, when you get a bulk rejection,
you will come back here on this forum to complain about being rejected en masse.

finally, as to the speed of review time, I return the favour that each site presents to me. The sooner they accept my images, the more I send them, as I sense their interest in my images are being reflected through their quick review time. Needless to say, I am in this for long term, so I don't judge a site on a quick sale, but more so, how they take an interest in my submission and how communicative they are when I contact them.

do you give discounts on bulk order, MIZ ?