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tab62

« on: May 04, 2012, 18:44 »
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Hey MSG Folks,

Here is what I got for the majority of my travel pics that I submitted recently- this includes flowers, landmarks and water shots.

"Unfortunately, this image lacks production value or is too editorial for Veer. We are currently focused on providing our customers with imagery that has strong production value and presents obvious commercial uses."

Okay, I am back in my studio shooting Tomatoes on white ;D


T


« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2012, 22:40 »
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Veer has some rather hard-to-fathom standards for inspection. I have a lot of travel shots - some cities, some tropical beaches - and I have had a lot of things that Veer says lack production value/are too editorial. I also have a lot they accepted. I honestly can't tell how they decided to separate the OK from the rejects.

All my outdoor images are carefully edited and "picture postcard" pretty.  As an example, if you search SS for Cayman Islands, 20 of the first 100 images (sorted by popularity) are mine. Veer rejected almost all of them as lacking production values. I know the images sell well but for whatever reason they don't want them.

I mostly try to ignore this sort of thing because I can't influence the agencies - they all think they know best :)

« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2012, 22:58 »
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I have a similar story with Veer. Some they take some they don't.

Its frustrating when you know that people will buy them.

If you have a few best sellers that they didn't accept, I'd wait awhile, do some slight tweak and resubmit. Of course the slight tweak you made was to increase the production value.

I wouldn't both doing that unless they are really good sellers as veer is one of my worst performers.  (probably because of their rejection policy)

edited for spelling

tab62

« Reply #3 on: May 04, 2012, 23:23 »
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I am kind of glad that others have had similar experiences- sad but reality of the MS World...

« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2012, 01:48 »
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A lot of mine that have been accepted don't show when I search for them.  I need to disambiguate those that were transferred from Snap Village but some places aren't in their vocabulary.  I sell a lot of places like St. Ives on other sites but I get zero results when I search for it.  They must be losing a lot of money because of this, travel photos can be big sellers.

« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2012, 08:35 »
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I've had the same thing - the occasional batch gets rejected for production value, or large proportions of some batches, whereas others with similar subjects and quality sail through with few problems.  I think it's variability among inspectors, or possibly one who is moody.  I've never bothered to resubmit so don't know whether that is successful.

They're one of my lowest sites so I don't bother about them too much.  However, they have he highest RPDL of all the micro sites for me so I hope that sales will pick up - that's what keeps them in the list.

tab62

« Reply #6 on: May 05, 2012, 10:36 »
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I seem to attract the 'moody' reviewers  ;D

« Reply #7 on: May 05, 2012, 22:51 »
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A lot of mine that have been accepted don't show when I search for them.  I need to disambiguate those that were transferred from Snap Village but some places aren't in their vocabulary.  I sell a lot of places like St. Ives on other sites but I get zero results when I search for it.  They must be losing a lot of money because of this, travel photos can be big sellers.

They mess with keywords all the time.  For example, I have a shot taken from a boat on the river at Wisconsin Dells of the actual dells themselves and they removed wisconsin and dells from the keywords.  They have removed the words figure and skater from a photo of a woman in figure skates and a sequined costume with her hair in a bun.  Seriously!  You can't go in and fix them either.

« Reply #8 on: May 07, 2012, 14:23 »
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I have the same experience - some yes, some no. Its absolutely random. The most funny is the fact that my best sellers are travel shots from Norway.

All micro has "no travel" disease and often reject such pictures as "low commercial value", while they proudly accept isolated apple - aproximately 120.000 in their collection... kinda weird thinking. Recently Ive decided to invest much more effort in Alamy and personal marketing regarding travel shots.

« Reply #9 on: May 08, 2012, 15:12 »
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They mess with keywords all the time. 

one of the absolute worst is BS - any time you use 'woman' as a keyword, their 'suggestion' for keywords usually inserts 'sexy woman'  when there's nothing in the images, desc or keywords to suggest that

tab62

« Reply #10 on: May 09, 2012, 14:13 »
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Just shows us that 'sex' and 'Women' are still used in selling products  :o


 

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