Hi MSG Folks,

Whom do you feel has the 'Highest Standards' in the MS world?  I know that each company has it favor thus not sure if I would base my selection on strictly acceptance ratio along? Overall, I would say GL- fair but firm standards. I am interesting to see what you think...


Tom

Me. 

It depends on how you define high standards.  IS, for example, is extremely tough on technical minutiae where SS take a broader view on what is commercially useful.  SS will accept images rejected by IS and vice versa.

It depends on how you define high standards.  IS, for example, is extremely tough on technical minutiae where SS take a broader view on what is commercially useful.  SS will accept images rejected by IS and vice versa.

No kidding and I might add, things that are my best selling on SS have few sales on IS. That and the top five on SS for me, were refused by IS.

To answer the question I think Veer is the most selective. They wouldn't take one of hundreds that were accepted on SnapVillage and that's their own site? (or maybe all those photos of mine were CrapStock to start with, which I'd be easily convinced is the real answer) 

I don't have any honest difficulty with reviews and rejections for quality. But the "too many like this" from one place, and "these don't sell well" from another, then "low commercial value from the other, and I forget what the IS version of, "not interested at this time" is.

I always liked the concept of, let the buyer decide? Image reviews passing images, by quality and sometimes just because of content. Not refused because of content.

1) That would mean, no series of inch by inch, degree by degree, slice by slice, kitchen shots. And no more of the redundant color replacement, crop or filter variations series. No 50 shots from the same setup, same model, with slightly different arm positions...No more same shot portrait and landscape. I mean, actual variations required.

2) Keyword review and regulation so that objects in the description and keywords are actually prominent and in some cases actually IN the image! Anyone keyword spamming, gets a warning and if that doesn't clean it up, they can get a vacation while they have more free time to remove the errors.

3) If there are going to be concepts, put it in the categories, not the keywords. And for the rest of us, one required category, so we can get past that waste of time if we aren't interested.

4) Search by options and buyers choice (this is a big one really) Where they can decide if they want Newest - Best match - most sales - size - concept - catagory or a number of things and THE BUYER not the agency decides their own best match, according to that selection. Buyers who just want the newest, can set that. Buyers who only want best sellers that are old, could do that. Let The Buyer Decide.

What I like about IS reviews is that they can appreciate a different photo, artsy etc, probably because they have the Vetta collection.

Can non-exclusives get into Vetta now? That would be awesome if we can ...?