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Gizeh:
Hi there,

after a longer break I just submitted a larger batch of images to the usual suspects (IS,StockXpert,SS). Please find my impressions below. It would be interesting to hear your comments.

IS
The reviewers at IS seem to be the best trained. Often comments are valid and helpful. However there seems to be a pattern to also reject some of my very best images. Could it be that some reviewers have a hidden agenda and reject excellent images for protecting their own portfolios? Acceptance rate: 74 %

StockXpert
Comments very short but usually comprehensible. Good acceptance rate 80%.

SS
Comments mostly completely off and a catastrophic acceptance rate of 23 %. Will have to rethink if this is worth the effort, especially since I don't like their subscription-only business model.

Cheers
Gizeh

leszek:
IS - I would not suspect the reviewers of ulterior motives - but again I am not submitting to IS yet (another 40 days before I am eligible for my 6th try  :D )

StockXpert - right on the money. They actually care to tell exactly why the image was rejected. I have very good acceptance rate recently and hardly any rejections - but the beginning it was the other way around.

SS - sometimes weird rejections, and hard to figure out why. OTOH - after initial submissions were mostly rejected - couple of last batches have been accepted 100%. While rejections may put you off at times - it can be hardly denied that SS knows what sells and how to sell, so I do not hold any grudges - but rather try to submit what I think SS likes. At any case - 85% of my (admittedly small) portfolio had sales on SS so far.

dbajurin:
Well there is no problem with reviewers. In fact only problem is each agency business orientation. Every one of us taking different pictures and motives so beyond technical quality their is acceptance quota for each theme.

My ratios are in last 2 years (not counting first year when I skill myself in technical issues)

IS - 70%
SS - 99%
StockXpert - 40%
Fotolia - 50%
Dreamstime - 82%

So every one of us after we solve technical issues we need to know what kind of image they need and how much. You must now that sometimes because of business informations they don't tell you exact reason for rejection, they told most nearest reason for rejection. That is  the same in all firms.

But sometimes you can do something about that reason of rejection. Use your imagination in naming images (that helps a lot at dreamstime and IS) and be specific and clear with useful informations in description (SS) and with fotolia don't upload same theme batches. Upload 2 by 2 images of the same location every week and you will have bigger acceptance.

Well that is from my experience.

Dario

sharpshot:

--- Quote from: Gizeh on March 14, 2008, 04:50 ---IS
The reviewers at IS seem to be the best trained. Often comments are valid and helpful. However there seems to be a pattern to also reject some of my very best images. Could it be that some reviewers have a hidden agenda and reject excellent images for protecting their own portfolios? Acceptance rate: 74 %

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I have read a few times that istock seem to reject images that sell very well  on other sites.  This happens to me as well.  I do wonder what they are doing, it makes no sense to me at all.

leszek:
"I have read a few times that istock seem to reject images that sell very well  on other sites."

Could be. Different images sell differently on different sites. This is afct (although based exclusively on my personal observations - so I could be wrong).

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