My tongue in cheek analysis of the actual state of the stock photography industry.
Mostly for a laugh, please don't shoot the messenger...
https://youtu.be/VRulE4nXqFg

Good video and realistic
I’m handing in my resignation at my day job tomorrow 😀

Nice job - I liked it.

Good and entertaining as always. Keep them coming.

Nicely done. Beer's on me next time you're in the area. 

Thank you!
Which area are you in? Always ready for a beer!

Nice job - I liked it.

Thank you,
I am glad you liked it!

I see one of my pictures in adobe prmeium

Which one is it?

Quote from: Brightontl on February 24, 2018, 05:04

Quote from: JaenStock on February 22, 2018, 09:48

I see one of my pictures in adobe prmeium

Which one is it?

https://stock.adobe.com/es/images/suit-woman-with-raincoat-and-hat-taking-pictures-in-city-street-with-mirrorless-picture-machine/188529461?prev_url=detail

Sold one time

Good picture, and nice girl!

Nicely done. Beer's on me next time you're in the area. 

Still waiting for the beer
:-)

The numbers speak by themselves.
I just played smthg different than in this video, watching newest submissions with keyword "nature" for ex.
What's the goal of agencies accepting rubbish (except to claim "I have the bigest one!"), what's the goal of submitters to submit rubbish?
hosting companies can get rich... for sure...
The psychiatrists of the inspectors, also.

Hem, are images stil inspected by humans???

Are photos taken by humans? 

Here's one to wonder about, Girl Jumping https://www.shutterstock.com/search?search_source=base_landing_page&language=en&searchterm=girl+jumping&image_type=all

226,089  if you run out of ideas, have your kids or your friends jump, pay your model to jump...

39,290 Girl Jumping Beach, or add a piece of silk or something cloth and you get the famous girl jumping silk shots.

I agree with the rubbish, why submit and why do they accept, but I don't have any logical reason. It makes the sites look like trash, the uploads will most likely never sell, once accepted the junk will just clog the search for the better shots. Then the people who make good works, will make less and leave, or stop uploading the good shots, which will leave just the junk. Doesn't make sense at all.

Quote from: Oligo on March 11, 2018, 15:21

The numbers speak by themselves.
I just played smthg different than in this video, watching newest submissions with keyword "nature" for ex.
What's the goal of agencies accepting rubbish (except to claim "I have the bigest one!"), what's the goal of submitters to submit rubbish?
hosting companies can get rich... for sure...
The psychiatrists of the inspectors, also.

Hem, are images stil inspected by humans???

Are photos taken by humans? 

Here's one to wonder about, Girl Jumping https://www.shutterstock.com/search?search_source=base_landing_page&language=en&searchterm=girl+jumping&image_type=all

226,089  if you run out of ideas, have your kids or your friends jump, pay your model to jump...

39,290 Girl Jumping Beach, or add a piece of silk or something cloth and you get the famous girl jumping silk shots.

I agree with the rubbish, why submit and why do they accept, but I don't have any logical reason. It makes the sites look like trash, the uploads will most likely never sell, once accepted the junk will just clog the search for the better shots. Then the people who make good works, will make less and leave, or stop uploading the good shots, which will leave just the junk. Doesn't make sense at all.

I believe that the big agencies cannot keep up with human reviewer, so they end up accepting everything, apart from things easy to spot by machine.
All and all I believe that the huge number of bad images is taken care by he algorithm: they are quickly buried and only images that sell will be shown