Might not apply to you but frankly if agencies had worked on this assumption of composition commercial appeal and so on. Well the Internet wouldnt be clogged up with billions of files lacking just about everything and then we could all earn!

I have a background in art-- much of stock lacks aesthetic appeal.  But not all.  Quite a lot of it is more artistic than people believe

Perhaps reviewers know what sells with the companies where they work.  For sure, different things sell with each agency because they have clientele.  But sometimes I do not think many have a good grasp of aesthetics or composition (other than outdated overused rules). 

I have moved on -- I have plenty to do and not obsessing too much about approval/rejection since made a lot of technical changes and now most images are accepted.

I just find it intriguing that this particular rejection usually means sales for me at least.

Resubmit...resubmitting weirdly works with all agencies lately

Quote from: mojaric on November 30, 2016, 16:14

Resubmit...resubmitting weirdly works with all agencies lately

true but it also takes a lot of time - keeping track of images uploaded to each site, then subtracting those accepted and technically challenged to create a group to re-upl

for me, it's only worth doing this for SS; the other sites just aren't worth it

Agree...particularly because my old stuff that was slung out is now considered acceptable......I might try and work out where I am with fotolia but it gets confusing and don't want to risk a ban for resubmitting.....