MicrostockGroup

A news release went out today that begins with the following statement:

"Shutterstock®, already the world's largest subscription-based stock photo agency, today announced another milestone: Shutterstock has the largest photo collection in the microstock industry."

And then there is this line:

"The running total published on Shutterstock's homepage refers only to the photographs that have made the cut and are accepted into the collection, unlike other stock agencies that include rejected or deleted images into their "total" figures. "

See the following for the official SS thread:

http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15648

they are 40 short tonight. rejected everyone of my last batch.

hope they have more than one reviewer!

I've been getting the same rejection  level I've always had there. 22 out of my last 24 shots were excepted.

...status quo... my rejection rate usually runs about   20% with SS. This weekend however,  I upoaded 65 pix, they rejected 9.  I was happy with that.  And for some unknown reason, my sales today and yesterday were higher than the last 2 weeks combined.  why, no clue.  but i'm not complaining.     

Sorry, but that is not what they said.  Re-read the release (or the first post in this thread).  It says:

"Shutterstock®, already the world's largest subscription-based stock photo agency, today announced another milestone: Shutterstock has the largest photo collection in the microstock industry."

GeoPappas,

You are very correct. That's what I get for reading press releases when I didn't have any sleep the night before. 

Only Fotolia is bigger but their numbers just dont stack up.  They are either counter photos on multiple language sites more than once or they are count rejects (free section images).