As you can see from this survey (http://www.arcurs.com/uploading-time-average) there are quit a few agencies I don't have any data on, so please help me out.

Next time you upload to one of these agencies, time it, and post your result here or as a comment on the post. Once we have 3-5 independent results there should be enough for a good average calculation for that agency. I am looking for time in seconds/file for both with and with-out model releases.

Swing me some numbers! Yuri

In Yuri's defence, he gives alot to the microstock community.

For instance the keywording tool and details of his workflow.

I am sorry for not being so active on this forum. I have a few places where I go to chat about stock, where people less personal. I can�t really recall a post where I �wanted� something� I may be wrong.

Anyway. Thank you to the people that have already sent me their results. I should be ready to populate the list with the rest of the agencies pretty fast.

I am getting in these numbers for featurepics: 45 secs per file with model release and I also have a guy that says he can do uploads to Istock in one minute per file. Is this your experience as well

I'm not sure what results you are going to get, since any upload depends on the internet connection, the receiving server speed, the size of the image (1600x1200 vs. 5000x3500 is a bit of a difference), any associated releases and their speed.  There's too many variables to make any kind of statistic useful without more details.

Yuri, that's exactly what i was trying to say at your site.
oh btw, you can delete my comments after that, if you like.
there was no delete link for me to edit my comments into one.
cheers

p.s.
while we got you here, maybe we can get your honest opinion of subs?
 

IS takes me a lot of time because of disambiguation.  FP is easy because it reads my IPTC data and I don't have to do anything else apart from setting my price and license - and the bulk editor makes it even easier with batches (where is the bulk editor promised by IS long ago?)

I don't have images with MR, so I can't tell what difference it makes in the process.

Regards,
Adelaide

We are mesuring the time it takes to attach model release, categories and so forth. Not the time it takes to upload, because that would be almost completely depending on your internet connection.

We are mesuring the time it takes to attach model release, categories and so forth. Not the time it takes to upload, because that would be almost completely depending on your internet connection.

My 80 sec uploading to IS include time it takes to upload.
I'm not mesuring upload time separately for each site but I count average uploading time. I upload to multiply site in the same time in only one batch, with PSM. For example :
 I upload 10 files to 5 sites and it takes 20 minutes :
1200 sec / 50 = 24 sec per file for each site
than I add only one category, MR and quick disambiguation. Then later, when the file is accepted I do second disambiguation.

iStock takes me about two seconds, because I use deepMeta.

Again, with people's workflow, I don't see what you're shooting for here.

It's a useful exercise to quantify what time it takes to upload to a site and factor it into a decision as to whether it makes sense to upload to a particular site.

And if you can keyword an image in 2 seconds maybe thats something you could share with the community at large?

Thank you to the people that did understand my post and has sent me some time quotes for how long they spend managing their files after upload. There seems to be a big difference in how people approach IS upload in general. Some spend heaps of time there and some do it as quick as they can basically.

I am looking for time quotes from people that do their online managing with some degree of effort and not just as fast as can be done. Time quotes on �if you where to do it the way the agency wanted you to do it� applying three categories where possible and not just one and so forth.

I might have to revise the quotes I put up on Istock. I seems my testers where spending un-proportionally long time there for some reason. But if one was really to do the IS uploading �correctly� in the meaning of �well disambiguated� it does seem to take some time.

I don�t have any info on Zymmetrical, Mostphotos and Scanstockphoto. Does anyone submit to these agencies on a regular basis?

Mostphotos is extremely fast, and you don�t need to upload MR.  Sales picking up there, and it�s a good storage place if your drive crashes, since you can download you stuff whenever you want.

But, I�m pretty sure your files are somehow safe...

It�s also a good place with experimental stuff, that never would see the market!!

I am looking for time quotes from people that do their online managing with some degree of effort and not just as fast as can be done. Time quotes on �if you where to do it the way the agency wanted you to do it� applying three categories where possible and not just one and so forth.

Don't take my "2 second" comment as some kind of statement meaning I don't put effort into it.  It is a tool that speeds up your workflow.  So yes, the first one may take some time (ie, a few minutes if you copy and paste, or start from scratch), but subsequent images are much quicker. 

But other people may have their own systems for speeding up workflow.  And different times for first in a series vs. similars.  And differences in keywords needed for complex shots vs. apples on white.  Etc... etc...

The survey is full of holes, as each ISP is different. Even on the same day, your upload time will vary. Worse, if you are in a country where the ISP is not as fast as we have here in North America, or Europe, it can distort your survey data.
For example, when I am travelling Asia and certain parts of Latin America, it takes me sometimes half an hour to send emails from an internet cafe. I imagine even the home connections are no better.