Always had a very low approval rate at FT. Much lower than most other sites.

     My  acceptance  has  been  good  but  there  are   a  lot  of  rejections.  I'll  take  the  acceptances  over  rejection  anytime.

no way! I am sure everybody loves getting files rejected, thanks for sharing Dan!

Of all the sites I have uploaded to over the years, Fotolia is one place where I have never paid attention to rejections. Don't even look at them. I turned off those notifications early on, and never click on the show deletions link on the My Files page. Their rate was higher even back in the 'good old days' and their reasons were useless and meaningless. They get the same uploads as my other top sites and they can sell them or not.

They were also the only place I tried the make rejections free option in the early days. I quickly found out that images that weren't good enough to sell for a quarter got thousands of downloads if it was free. Quit that immediately.

They always have been and remain my #5 site in terms of sales.

Of all the sites I have uploaded to over the years, Fotolia is one place where I have never paid attention to rejections. Don't even look at them. I turned off those notifications early on, and never click on the show deletions link on the My Files page. Their rate was higher even back in the 'good old days' and their reasons were useless and meaningless. They get the same uploads as my other top sites and they can sell them or not.

They were also the only place I tried the make rejections free option in the early days. I quickly found out that images that weren't good enough to sell for a quarter got thousands of downloads if it was free. Quit that immediately.

They always have been and remain my #5 site in terms of sales.

Exactly the same experience and same approach for me. I still send them everything the other sites get. At least I'll make them spend some time looking at the images.

The equation for FT is fairly simple-


Image Type
Studio=90% + Acceptance

Travel= 30% or less

The equation for FT is fairly simple-


Image Type
Studio=90% + Acceptance

Travel= 30% or less

Wildlife / Nature = 20% or less

I've sold few studio images and more of my dog. but I can't get a feeling for what they're about and i think I'm just not the style they're after.

Quote from: tab62 on July 23, 2013, 19:37

The equation for FT is fairly simple-


Image Type
Studio=90% + Acceptance

Travel= 30% or less

That's about it. Travel imagery is usually rejected for similarity (even if there aren't similar images). Too bad I like travelling more than working at the studio.

+10000

Across all micostock sites, there are areas where images are not many. Most of the conceptual categories for FT.  Some of images were accepted by FT because there were not many likes of those.  Also, If you shoot a concept first time and your images fit for very low numbers, you get accepted images even if there are technical issues.  For example "faulty mobiles" do not make much of numbers for existing images on MS sites.

Subjects like flowers, trees and flowing water have very low scope. When in doubt, check always the rating at picniche. More flooded images in a category or of that type, more chances of rejection. I abide by these observations.