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I have about a thousand images at SS that I have added over the past 2 years.  My acceptance rate has averaged about 60%  It used to be rare that I get a 100% rejection on my images.  OTOH  at IS  my acceptance rate is about 20%.

But... the last few months I have been getting whole 10 image submittals rejected at 100%.  I am now at about 3 in  row (30 images).   I took those same images and submitted them to BS and about 25 were accepted.   30-90% were accepted at most of the other Top and Middle tier sites.

My IS rate is still almost a constant 30%

I just wonder what in the heck is going on at SS.   Its my best sales site.   But they are behaving like they are Getty or something.  Maybe they don't want my style of images anymore??  Most of my stuff is nature, buildings, abstract.

Its getting really depressing.

Does anyone know what is going on?

No Bob I don't know.

I used to have a fairly good idea what was acceptable and what was throw it at them and hope. Now I send things that I expect to pass and they get refused. Maybe they have just reviewed and trained the inspectors and are enforcing higher standards. Maybe I was just getting some undeserved passes? My SS rejections are up lately, however maybe they deserve to be?

For me I still get more accepted at SS than IS and BS takes some that the others don't. I know that SS says they are going for the same standards, but for some reason I get more through, same images, uploaded on the same day, and BS takes them. The funniest one was one refused at BS that's a top ten seller on SS.

Of course there is some proof in that, acceptance doesn't mean sales. I sell nearly nothing at BS!

I normally will not re-submit and don't bother thinking that I'm missing something. If an image is a good seller someplace else, then I might try, if not, nothing lost. I tried a resubmit at IS and it was an edit correcting the flaws. Got a note back that I was "abusing the system" because it had been refused without a resubmit the first time. Oops, and it's my best selling on SS. 

Looking the other direction. I don't think I have anything that gets through at IS that has been refused on SS, but I could be wrong.

I've had SS rejecting wholesale recently on batches which are getting 70% - 80% acceptance on iS. I don't know what's going on, either.

I was wondering what "40 Fotolia" was - then I realized the letters f t must get changed to Fotolia.

It is frustrating getting this kind of rejection. SS does like all of the subject to be in focus - maybe a point and shoot with a tiny sensor would solve this problem for you. HA

The big sites seem happy just selling old images.  Istock might accept more now but do they sell many new images?  This could work out well for us because the newer sites are going to have different collections and it should be a good reason for buyers to look at them.  The old sites still have lots of old images that haven't sold and were produced with the lower quality cameras of a few years ago.  If other people do what I do, only submitting the good stuff to new sites, they should have something superior to offer buyers.

SS: if I don't take into account weird mass rejections (happens very seldom nowadays in fact), my rate is well over 90%.
IS: about 95-98%, unchanged since my last 7-8 batches (which spread over many months, to be fair )

For me, after over 5 years and 5000 images, I have quit uploading to SS. the mass rejections that use to be erratic have now become the norm. Almost all for composition, the rest for lighting. Other sites haven't changed much for me. Couple that with the fact that SS doesn't sell new images like it use to and it's just not worth my effort. I'll keep checking to see if this gets turned around, otherwise good luck to all the people who are still doing good there.

Its better to have 5 accepted at SS, that will eventually sell!  then 20 accepted at IS, that will end up on page 500 and slowly die.

I hope you're right.    But they might just be taking a Spring holiday.      

quite easy I guess, mine was around the 40 to 50 now that I have been sending people I am now at 65% seem that it will grow quite fast

Attila the reviewer was on Easter Break? 

All those people holding uploads for after vacation missed their chance.

maybe this is frowned upon but whenever i get a batch that gets rejected across the board and i get that feeling that the reviewer just went through without fair consideration, i simply resubmit them all.  most of the time they get through the second time around 
funny thing is, ive found batches that get rejected on friday will usually make the cut if i resubmit them and they get re-reviewed earlier in the week. 

I do illustrations and I submit both vector and raster versions at the same time. Recently I've had some vectors rejected but the rasters approved and these rasters have sold (rasters do not sell as well as vectors normally). What I do in cases like this is resubmit the vector with a note to the reviewer and invariably they then approve the vector.

My thoughts here is this: how is it that one reviewer will reject an image yet another reviewer approve the exact same image albeit in a different format.

Yesterday it happened again, the raster approved but the vector rejected, resubmitted and waiting to see if vector gets approved today.

One illustrator contacted support a while ago on this same subject and the reply was that if one version was accepted then there is no reason why the other version of the same image should not be accepted (unless there is some technical error with the file), alas this scenario happens often these days.