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Has anyone noticed a huge spike in inspections? CRAZY CONSPIRACY: Have the inspectors returned from some IS retraining session?

I've noticed they've become tougher again, they loosened up in the last six months, SS was much tougher for instance. Now they're just nitpicking. And you have to remove all ports and buttons from Apple products, even the blurred, unreadable text on an iPad for instance (but that's surely Apple's job, they're obsessed with suing everyone and protecting their patents etc, but still they only made this agreement with IS). So I'm not sending them any photos of apple products anymore. And I came to that conclusion after numerous rejections. Before that the inspector just wrote ipad as a reason for rejection, I tried to submit it as editorial and I got the rejection that it would be better suited for the main collection.

It's been quite a ride for video contributors on IStock.  I'm exclusive videographer and have approximately 160 video files sitting in the inspection queue ... the oldest one is in there since August.  

Yes. Just like the previous 993 images from that contributor. Obviously another Getty dump of outside agency files. How else can you be exclusive with only 8 downloads and have almost 1000 Vetta files in only two months as a contributor.

It is this kind of blatant breaking of the rules, bias and favoritism that sours so many contributors on Istock.

That company says they have 100's of designers working for them, so I am sure they have a huge library of content they can dump into the Vetta collection to further clog and dilute the content there.

Interesting that they were headhunted, fast tracked to Vetta yet have only 8 sales ...