Well, Stockbo has just closed my account and told me my work is no fit. Funny that, because first time around they were more than happy to take my images.

This must be the first time that my comments in a forum made an agency closed my account. I guess Stockbo is the Fotolia of down under. The vague TOS kind of was an indicator of that as well.

Happy new year, good luck with the start up. I hope its a smashing success.
Ronald

Well, Stockbo has just closed my account and told me my work is no fit. Funny that, because first time around they were more than happy to take my images.

This must be the first time that my comments in a forum made an agency closed my account. I guess Stockbo is the Fotolia of down under. The vague TOS kind of was an indicator of that as well.

Happy new year, good luck with the start up. I hope its a smashing success.
Ronald

Apologies Ron it seems your account was accidentally closed. It's back open. The email you got was part of the automatic system we have in place for approvals to replace applications to the artistry email. Initial invitation to upload if and when our styles meet still stands. Happy new year to you too

Mantis, thanks for the well wishes .

Goofy, all good mate I have nothing but respect for Stocksy! We went for the safer option of letting our lawyers prepare the legal docs, but since there are a few issues we are rectifying. We have already adjusted our License Agreement based on feedback.

Also was great to meet up with Rob yesterday! If anyone else is in Perth and would like to meet up over a coffee let us know.

Happy New Year everyone

Ranjeev

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Also was great to meet up with Rob yesterday! If anyone else is in Perth and would like to meet up over a coffee let us know.
Happy New Year everyone
Ranjeev

Ha! for a moment I thought you meant the Fair City of Perth, rather than Perth, Oz. 

Unfortunately the Fair City is too cold for us !

Ranjeev

I have a bunch in orphaned media as well. Unclear what this means. I'm also wondering if it would be possible to add a tab for "approved media" as well. Thnx.

Hey guys!

Apologies for the late response forgot to check this post during the weekend.

Thanks for pointing this out Rugider and Alfonso, yes once edited the images are going through a new review process. But this is unintended and we will get that fixed ASAP.

There was an update to the IPTC reading but it is not completely working yet, our developers took a break for New Years (thus a few broken things around the site). But we will keep the service up until that is fixed. We will be going through this week to make sure all approved images have their metada transferred to the site.

Rudiger and jrwasserman, great suggestion we'll add in an "approved media" tab or maybe edit "My Media" to just show approved media since pending and failed have their own tab.

Orphaned media are images that have not been assigned to any galleries which means they won't show up on the front end. Might not be the best term haha which we'll look into changing. You can assign images to more than one gallery by holding the 'control' button when selecting a gallery.

We'll send out an update email today or tomorrow, we've made a bunch of draft edits to the t&cs based on Jo Ann's feedback which we'll send through too.

Btw happy new year everyone

Ranjeev

Hi Ranjeev,

four quick questions:

I uploaded a bunch of pictures a couple of weeks ago, of wich some got accepted in the meantime. Today I edited the titles, descriptions and keywords of four or five of them. Now these pictures are listed as "pending" again. Does that mean that every edit of approved images will be starting a new complete reviewing process? Or do you just check if title and keywording fit the image?

Most of the stuff I uploaded I did not keyword before. Luckily you guys added some tags for me. Was that just because of your problems with the IPTC-data or are you going to keep up that service in the future?

I don't see a possibility to get a summary of my accepted images in the "My media" section. Is there any?

What the heck happened when some of my images are shown in the orphaned media folder?


So far I really like what I see at stockbo, even when there is a lot of work waiting for you. Keep on running!

All the best
R�diger

Submitting needs to be efficient, adding more work is not going to help you get people to sign up. Assigning categories is a nuisance. You are are new starter, with no proven track record, no sales. The more time it cost to submit images, the more likely people will not bother.

I have to agree. Once you have a significant number of images having categories ("galleries") will not provide any additional value to a client.
I'd suggest you drop them completely. That will ease uploading for contributors and will reduce design complexity for your site developers at the same time.
For clients it does not make a difference, because anything that can be accomplished by categories can (even better) be accomplished by keyword searches.

One more proposal (as we already had discussions re your acceptance criteria): add a notice giving a reason when you reject a file, so contributors can more easily learn what you want.

Great point, we can do that, anything for simplicity especially if it makes it easier for you guys. We'll make them keyword based instead of a manual entry requirement.

We do plan on providing feedback but are unable to do it in batches and since the collection is being built up there is a lot to go through. We'll look at alternatives for now, maybe through feedback emails.

Ranjeev

If you want categories make them smart categories based on key words instead like Stocksy.

I don't mind having to assign an image to a particular gallery and I would imagine that some buyers would prefer to peruse by gallery.  However, I would simplify by eliminating some of the more obscure ones such as Assignments, Creative Arts, and Corporate.....add a Nature category and Business category (in place of Corporate).  Combine others if possible.

Also, add the Title and Description to the file closeup page. 

I sent my Link. Im going to offer 831 Great selling original paintings. and see how you do with them, Or if ya even want them. I Like new sites. Best of luck.

Also, I agree 100% with the others, The site that makes it easy and fast will at least get the catalog. I've been with I think about 39 sites since 2002,2003 Wish I had those hours,Days,weeks,Years of wasted time back with good intentioned wannabes. And Im sure most here feel the same.

Macrographics has it down, Hope they stay. I always try new sites and Pray they can give the big 3 a run for the money because they need a kick in the rear.

 Again..Good Luck to ya.

How will they compete with the big 3 who have backing of MILLIONS of dollars for marketing? The last somewhat successful start up was Deposit and they arent selling much either. Plus Stockbo is looking for the instagram / desaturated look which is limiting any success as well.

You more likely to have success starting up Symbiostock

Good for you. I guess they changed their mind then.

There gonna take my paintings and start a special category. Well See. Been there/Done that.

And are they going to commit a chunk of doe to market that kind of image? Or will buyers have to find them by chance? Just creating a category for paintings does nothing for you, zip.  Just saying. What they probably really want is your images, which are incredible by the way.