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If they were only allowing quality items in - I'm all for that.

That's not the case. They are just mass rejecting because the reviewers - whomever they are - just don't feel like working.

Quote from: SuperPhoto on March 30, 2020, 22:40

seems right now the solution by some reviewers at shutterstock is to reject 100% of items. total laziness.

the reasons have no bearing on the video footage. its actually a complete waste of time right now to even bother submitting.

I'd recommend everyone else here for the time being don't submit to shutterstock, unless you want to re-do your work later.

Sorry, no one from us like rejections, but to me this sounds like good news from Shutterstock, the better news can be to start removing some existing crap.

There are black clouds coming over this business after COVID-19, and if this is true and they apply rigorous review this will improve the revenue per photo accepted.

The old experienced contributors knows very well the value of acceptance, this is not a routine process.

P.S. I don't mention your rejections or someone's particular, I focus my thoughts as a whole about the collection.

Could this be AI?

There must be someone, a team, that is responsible for the reviewing process and is accounted for all this. If there is a team that now reassigned the work, let�s assume that an initial screening is done by AI and then a human might see our photos-videos etc.
If he/she is working from a remote location in a distant country where we would need to change 3 flights and travel 23 hours to get there, chances are he is not having a big 4K calibrated monitor.
Let�s assume again this real, not AI, person sees a photo in a 15-inch laptop or a video on a PC with no decent video card. Even if he is an honest worker, he can�t see DOF properly or judge background noise or see a panning scene without stutter.
Why do we care about that? We don�t, because we need our work to be reviewed but we should care because we get rejections we don�t accept as valid ones.
Just now I had one of three videos accepted, with two rejected for focus (not valid) and noise (denoised with Neat video and not blurred or pixelated).
If they need slow apertures let�s just tell us that they do.
Let�s just tell us we should not need cinematic fast lenses and they need all focused focus and videos.
It�s simple. They could say, from now on � etc.
Also, they need to make clear what the rejection reason is.
If this person who sees that, has some preset buttons to press, let�s give him more options that make it clear.
Also, since they have such a big amount to review, they could simply add a tab with the option we add comments. That is always under the assumption that a person and not a machine reads them.
As things are, it is a continuous fight couples that are bored of each other have, with ironies and shouts.
If they want, they can do some small steps to improve reviews and keep the interest in the relation alive.
Do they?

This week SS reviewed my 108 Clips and accepted closed 70 or so. Every agency has some preference levels and the kind of content they want.