Author Topic: Review time (Read 27759 times)

Ariene · « **Reply #25 on:** August 18, 2014, 13:14 »

Did you upload anything lately? What is the review time now?
Thanks.

ShadySue · « **Reply #26 on:** August 18, 2014, 13:47 »

About 3 days IME.

dbvirago · « **Reply #27 on:** August 18, 2014, 15:47 »

Quote from: svanhorn on February 20, 2012, 16:56

I have had about 75 approved with no problems. Now I have 10 sitting in QC. Will they tell you what ones have been rejected? Why would the next batch be rejected also?

Almost exactly 30 days after your submission, you will get a reject. They will only give you a reason for the one image they are rejecting. All other images in that batch or submitted between that batch and the rejection will also be rejected. It is one of the frustrating things about working with them and there are several threads on their forums about it.

My experience that batches that pass are always early the next business day. The first thing I check if that doesn't happen is to see if there are any UK holidays.

ShadySue · « **Reply #28 on:** August 18, 2014, 16:07 »

Until last week, mine were taking c5 days.

Ariene · « **Reply #29 on:** August 18, 2014, 23:26 »

Quote from: dbvirago on August 18, 2014, 15:47

Almost exactly 30 days after your submission, you will get a reject. They will only give you a reason for the one image they are rejecting. All other images in that batch or submitted between that batch and the rejection will also be rejected. It is one of the frustrating things about working with them and there are several threads on their forums about it.

I was rejected once, over a year ago. I got that info second day after uploaded batch. I could upload next batch the same day (so I did). When I pass I usually get info in two days too.

In last column of Media submissions named Status (Terms explained) you can see little "i", click it and you'll see all images rejected, but the bad one will have Rejection reasons visible.
Mine was Noticeable retouching and yes, I'm glad they found it. My mistake.

The way Alamy review has plus and minus:
plus - they can accept much more images than if reviewing one by one. It would take months to review every single image...
minus - you can make a mistake and upload bad image and it'll be on sale soon, but... it's your gallery, you are the author and it's in your business to put only best quality images that can sell.

TheDrift- · « **Reply #30 on:** August 19, 2014, 05:25 »

I have uploaded 6 batches so far this month inspection times have varied from 1 day to 3 days for me

Ploink · « **Reply #31 on:** August 19, 2014, 05:29 »

Quote from: TheDrift- on August 19, 2014, 05:25

I have uploaded 6 batches so far this month inspection times have varied from 1 day to 3 days for me

If they are accepted, that is. If they are rejected, you have to wait almost a month, as dbvirago said above. Plus everything you submitted in the meantime will be rejeceted, too.

TheDrift- · « **Reply #32 on:** August 19, 2014, 06:33 »

Quote from: Ploink on August 19, 2014, 05:29

Quote from: TheDrift- on August 19, 2014, 05:25
I have uploaded 6 batches so far this month inspection times have varied from 1 day to 3 days for me

If they are accepted, that is. If they are rejected, you have to wait almost a month, as dbvirago said above. Plus everything you submitted in the meantime will be rejeceted, too.

sorry yes i'd guess that if you have been waiting any more than 5/6 days your in the sin bin

ShadySue · « **Reply #33 on:** August 19, 2014, 06:35 »

Quote from: TheDrift- on August 19, 2014, 06:33

Quote from: Ploink on August 19, 2014, 05:29
Quote from: TheDrift- on August 19, 2014, 05:25
I have uploaded 6 batches so far this month inspection times have varied from 1 day to 3 days for me

If they are accepted, that is. If they are rejected, you have to wait almost a month, as dbvirago said above. Plus everything you submitted in the meantime will be rejeceted, too.

sorry yes i'd guess that if you have been waiting any more than 5/6 days your in the sin bin

Not always, I think I've gone to 9 days and been accepted, a while back.
If anyone hasn't uploaded for a while, be aware that the acceptance email doesn't come out right away nowadays. If you check Track Your Submissions, you'll see when they get in - it can be over a week when you get the email, often three or four different batches together (i.e. batches accepted at different times).

TheDrift- · « **Reply #34 on:** August 19, 2014, 06:42 »

not sure what my longest historical is..but at the moment they seem to be down to a few days for me, so if I got to day 5/6 and not been reviewed I would think myself very lucky to avoid the sin bin..

..thanks for tip on the email I didn't know that, I have just assumed I had missed the email..somehow..

Difydave · « **Reply #35 on:** August 20, 2014, 08:04 »

Just had a batch accepted after just under 4 days. I'm completely new there, my first "proper" upload after being accepted. The email must have gone out pretty well immediately as I had checked on the site an hour or so earlier and they were still waiting.
Now to keyword etc. . .

Mantis · « **Reply #36 on:** August 20, 2014, 08:10 »

The last three weeks have produced fast reviews, usually within 1-2 days. Always "Passed QC".

Ploink · « **Reply #37 on:** August 20, 2014, 08:25 »

Quote from: Difydave on August 20, 2014, 08:04

Now to keyword etc. . .

Oh, the fun of it...

Difydave · « **Reply #38 on:** August 20, 2014, 08:35 »

Quote from: Ploink on August 20, 2014, 08:25

Quote from: Difydave on August 20, 2014, 08:04
Now to keyword etc. . .

Oh, the fun of it...

Yeah, not my favourite job, but at least the images there are accepted, so the work on the description and so on is not in vain.

ShadySue · « **Reply #39 on:** August 20, 2014, 08:42 »

Quote from: Difydave on August 20, 2014, 08:35

Quote from: Ploink on August 20, 2014, 08:25
Quote from: Difydave on August 20, 2014, 08:04
Now to keyword etc. . .

Oh, the fun of it...

Yeah, not my favourite job, but at least the images there are accepted, so the work on the description and so on is not in vain.

Must be the day for it. Batches, dating from Sat morning, just came in. I'd been refreshing 'track submissions' but seeing your post above made me check - and the email is in too - though that covers batches from the 13th to date.

Dragomir Nikolov · « **Reply #40 on:** August 20, 2014, 15:03 »

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Ariene · « **Reply #41 on:** August 20, 2014, 23:49 »

Quote from: Difydave on August 20, 2014, 08:04

Just had a batch accepted after just under 4 days.

Same here, 4th day accepted. Back to work and luck with your sales!

@ danielitos, I got the email too.

wordplanet · « **Reply #42 on:** August 21, 2014, 01:35 »

Uploaded two batches last week - first took 2 days, second was less than 24 hours.

Red On · « **Reply #43 on:** September 27, 2014, 07:33 »

If you are a professional photographer and Alamy is part of your busines, this means that you'll upload an average of almost 50 perfect pictures per week as I do, including livenews. In this case every batch will be reviewed in no more than 36 hrs. If you fail QC the delay will be longer

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