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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: StockGuy on November 29, 2016, 13:12
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Email just received from TPTB over at Dissolve below...
We’d like to inform you of a change to your Dissolve account, which is effective immediately.
You may have noticed that review times for your submissions have increased and it’s taking longer for content to go live. This is due to substantial growth in the number of contributors and the amount of content submitted to Dissolve. While it’s great we’re receiving so much content, we want to maintain reasonable submission review times. Like you, we want your best work available to Dissolve customers quickly. The sooner your content is live on the site, the sooner it can perform.
To achieve this, as of today, your account is assigned a maximum number of files that may be submitted within a calendar month. This upload level is determined by a number of factors, including collection performance and quality of content and metadata.
The levels are:
Bronze — up to 25 files per month
Silver — up to 125 files per month
Gold — up to 250 files per month
Platinum — up to 1,000 files per month
Unlimited — unlimited files
Your current upload level is: Unlimited
The key to success is to send us your best. Be selective about each submission by choosing content you believe has the greatest potential. All content should be free of logos and branding and include model and property releases when necessary.
Unused uploads expire at the end of each calendar month and do not carry over, so be sure to make the most of your limit. On the first day of each month, your total uploads will refresh to your monthly maximum. You can always find your limit and your current usage on the contributor upload site.
Contributors may move to a higher upload level depending on their collection’s performance, which we review on an ongoing basis. We’ll notify you if your level changes.
If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected].
Regards,
The Dissolve contributor team
This is a case study of the EXACT OPPOSITE of what you should do in business. This was a great opportunity to invest in technology and pump up and empower the artists to really get behind your company. Instead you decided to penalize and wag a finger at them telling artists "your not doing it right/we know what's best".
This problem could have easily been solved by using technology or other solutions that didn't discourage and beat up on the artist...there is absolutely no reason why they should point the finger at the artist and say that it is "their fault" that review times suck.
The ugly reality is that Dissolves sales have been down and so they are taking their frustration out on the artist. Good luck with that, mass exodus will now take place as nothing about their company makes sense anymore.
RIP Dissolve 2016, it was a good run!
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Two threads now open for this. Go here:
http://www.microstockgroup.com/dissolve/send-us-your-best-introducing-monthly-upload-limits-good-bye-dissolve/msg471275/?topicseen#new (http://www.microstockgroup.com/dissolve/send-us-your-best-introducing-monthly-upload-limits-good-bye-dissolve/msg471275/?topicseen#new)
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I'm just waiting for the first person to not get your reference to Tropic Thunder and give you he11 for being pilitically incorrect. ;D
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You could say that dissolve is dissolving...