They already have many of my images. Another partner site?

They already have many of my images. Another partner site?

same for me! just wrote to this adress to know more : [email protected]

"�PxBee isn�t pitching itself as a potential �Terminator� bringing death to traditional stock-photo services like Getty Images or Shutterstock,� laughs Tony Duan of Fotor. �PxBee prefers a more authentic and naturalistic look over staged photos. Our images are entirely unique and the traditional stock photo market has no access to the imagesthat PxBee distributes, we offer a service that is entirely complementary to that of our competitors,� Tony said."

They have all my SS pictures... strange

They are not showing my SS pictures.  Did you opt in at the Big Stock partner sales program? 

The link in the OP appears to be missing some of the words from the original on Business Wire (but they link to the original).

This press release is packed with even more marketing drivel than the average:

"PxBee isn�t pitching itself as a potential �Terminator� bringing death to traditional stock-photo services like Getty Images or Shutterstock,� laughs Tony Duan of Fotor. �PxBee prefers a more authentic and naturalistic look over staged photos. Our images are entirely unique and the traditional stock photo market has no access to the images that PxBee distributes, we offer a service that is entirely complementary to that of our competitors,� Tony said.

If you do a few searches, after waiting for a bit (the site was painfully slow for me) you'll see masses of familiar images from the stock sites. One thing I did not see was anything looking more "authentic" or "naturalistic" than typical microstock.

Luckily, I don't see any of mine, which means they've likely partnered with an agency I've already left - like 123rf - or one I never joined because of their unsavory nature - such as Deposit Photos.

Having a few exclusive photos from their online photo editing platform Fotor doesn't make their images "entirely unique".

Their stated goal to use their "AI" software to  "automatically rate photos based on their technical and aesthetic appeal. " seems like a fun idea, but I can't imagine them being able to figure out usefulness to commercial buyers, where that isn't necessarily how they pick their images.

And they should try and get their search working better, or create some useful search filters (orientation, minimum resolution and uploaded last day/week/month/year is rather sad) first.

So this seems like another press release that tries to puff something small and not very interesting up to a big deal to try and build their business.

Quote from: trek on August 01, 2018, 10:44

Quote from: christiano on August 01, 2018, 10:38

"�PxBee isn�t pitching itself as a potential �Terminator� bringing death to traditional stock-photo services like Getty Images or Shutterstock,� laughs Tony Duan of Fotor. �PxBee prefers a more authentic and naturalistic look over staged photos. Our images are entirely unique and the traditional stock photo market has no access to the imagesthat PxBee distributes, we offer a service that is entirely complementary to that of our competitors,� Tony said."

They have all my SS pictures... strange

They are not showing my SS pictures.  Did you opt in at the Big Stock partner sales program?

Nope, but i have the same pics on ALMY, SS, AS, IS, DT, 123RF, canva.
Are you exclusive with SS?

Not exclusive.  I also have content at Alamy, SS, AS, IS, DT, 123RF.  Opted out of partner programs where possible (except Alamy). 

I did a search for a few of my photos, and found nothing. I am only on SS and Adobe. I see a lot of pics of ronald mcdonald and colonel sanders, but no editorial license? I wouldn�t touch this place with a 10 ft pole.

Did I leave that out?  20 foot pole? 

I don't want any part of "the next big thing" sites. PxBee is some kind of partner reseller. The reason I mentioned Zuma is they are a news distribution agency. I don't know who or where but I know they upload to Alamy. The way it works is artist takes the photos, keywords, uploads to Zuma who them distributes to their accounts. Might be a good way for one upload many site distribution, if someone has the right materials.

Back on PxBee, a number of the images have the zuma agency tags included, things like ZNEWS for example, which are required on first upload to the agency.

Meanwhile, PxBee is getting images from someplace and anyone here who tracks their agencies should be able to eventually eliminate from our lists and find the one.

I'm pretty certain NOT SS, AS, DT, or IS. If they only tapped most recent, could be Alamy, or somewhere else. I'm happy with less agencies and knowing where most of my images went, most of the time. I see nothing of mine on PxBee.