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I last submitted a week or 2 ago; it's been consistently about 8 days for reviews. 

Same here, much quicker lately.

Yes, I have noticed short review times too and that they take anything now.
I was wondering if there are new reviewers  or new rules directed from Getty.

Kone

review times seem shorter, 2-5 days, but i also received my first lcv rejection:

 "With the rapid growth of the iStock collection, we give valuable consideration to each file but unfortunately cannot accept all submissions. Please don't take it personally. This isn't necessarily a reflection of your photography or skill, rather a decision by iStock to determine commercial applications for your images as royalty-free stock."

supposedly is never reject on any ground other than technical, but this new direction may help it pare down some of its bulk.

same here, less time to review.. but we must wait till "next week" to upload more..

sorry I didn't understand, wasn't I clear?.. next week to upload more 15 photos

Photos get reviewed faster, however, this is not true for vectors. Have some pending from last weekend which won't be reviewed for quite a while (at least judging from the file numbers). Usually it was the other way around, what happened?

I guess reviewers discovered Copy/Paste functionality :-) Today I got image from outdoors rejected for having direct on camera flash while it was shot on a tripod in cloudy day. Apparently image next to it got similar rejection and it was indeed shot with ring flash :-)  It's whole secret of fast, it is faster to reject :-)

Like a couple of you guys, I just had some off-the-wall rejections.   I've quit uploading to IS for a while - maybe things will start making sense again at some point, but whatever is going on there now, it just isn't worth all the hassle to me.  I no longer have any idea what will be rejected or approved. You would think that as time goes by (a year in my case) you'd get a better sense of what they want.  Just the opposite has happened.

I'm looking now for new sites that might have a future.  IS is becoming the crazy old aunt with all the money, that you're so tired of trying to please.

I just checked how many images are ahead of mine in the review process and found a funny thing. Highest file IDs of newly accepted non-exclusive files are about the same as for the exclusive files. Some non-exclusive images that were uploaded yesterday are already online Just some (new?) reviewer who started picking images from the wrong pile?

PS: I'm not complaining, as far as I'm concerned it can stay that way.

No it doesn't. I've had my queue full for a couple of months and never saw any faster review times.

About my previous post: looks like it was just a few batches of images that got reviewed faster, now non-exclusive files have much lower ids.

First time I've seen this. Interesting?

I had a few photos rejected for copyrighted content, (they contain modern jet aircraft I suspect is the problem) so I took the time to ask scout what I could do to avoid this and what I did wrong. Listed a couple of the last files, which I thought I had figured out. No problem, I may be wrong, but here's what my last two files say now.

Pending executive

I think IS manages to slot things around and keep them under an orderly review. Now that I had a number of concurrent failures, I look forward to the answer.

At least it doesn't just say waiting for review. It gives me the indication that something is under review?