I don't get it. Have constant sales at MP, even with my small portfolio. However, I have many Scandinavian motifs there. Would be happy if other European agencies could achieve such a good performance!

Canstock is unattainable at the moment. Down for maintenance?

Quote from: roede-orm on August 03, 2017, 08:45

Got a mail from Shutterstock. Shutterstock prompts me to reset the password? Could it be a phishing mail?

From what email address has been sent the email?
Did you see all headers?

No, I can't. I am led to this link. What do you all mean? I think, it's suspicious! And I have NOT forgotten my password!  https://behindtheshutter.com/my-account/lost-password/

Just a heads up folks- a good portion of Europeans will be taking off the entire month of August for their yearly vacation thus expect even lower sales soon.  Looking forward to September when they return back to work...

Wrong, the Europeans start their vacation at different times, starting in the middle of June and ending during the first days of september. Even the federal states of Germany have school holidays at different times. So you should have lower sales already now - do you?

We still accept outside releases as long as all the necessary information is covered. 3 things that are required in addition to the legal language are the (legibly) printed name and signature of the model, the photographer and a witness.

The photographer name must match the name on your account (not an agency name for example). If the model is a minor then the printed name of the model is required in addition to the printed name and signature of the a parent or guardian.

The date of the witness signature must match the date of the model signature (they need to actually witness the signing).

Those are the most common issues I've seen with releases. If you still can't figure out what the problem is, send me an email and I'll be happy to take a look.

-Mat

Thank you Mat. First I will check the rejected releases and if I can't find one of the reasons you describe here, I will send you an email.

I successfully ignored my cam for two weeks.

Hi, I'm suddenly having photos refused by Shutterstock for: "excessive noise, film grain"
The same images have been accepted everywhere else. ...

I can not count how many times I have read this here.

The last two month were unusually bad for me. Seems to me, I'm note alone!

I use a Getty release that's dated December, 2008 with Shutterstock and my other agencies.  Started using it in mid-2010 and continue to use it without any issues.  All the problems I've encountered were about incomplete or incorrectly entered information, not the content on the form itself.

The same here. I use a model release, that Yuri Arcurs has published some years ago. Last upload to Shutterstock was some days ago without any problems. The mr was accepted as always.

Found by chance this blog with stolen photos and graphics, almost all with watermarks of Shutterstock. https://kunaiyondaime.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/

This discussion is as old as Shutterstock. It's just boring. Two weeks later, everything has changed again.

The dice was cast for me some month ago. But my account is still open and I can't wait, that it will cancelled finally. Hope they pay me my revenues. I see the risk that I have to send money to them afterwards.

To all Panthermedia-contributors: PM pulls a portion of the revenue back. Apparently there were problems with a sale partner. Check your sales summary for 2015 and 2016!