Hi all.
For a long time I noticed a steep decline in the level of, how to call it... basic understanding - of video reviewers working on our clips.
And this applies to all agencies.
I had my share of stupid rejections in the past, no debut about it. But it seems to me that the agencies had to recruit many new reviewers to keep up with the huge volume of submissions - and they just went out and hired totally incompetent people for the job.
Some recent examples:
This clip marked as editorial only in Depositphotos:
https://depositphotos.com/156530762/stock-video-slow-motion-shot-of-the.htmlA content team member in Fotolia claiming this clip has no commercial value (just days before it turned out to be one of my best sellers):
https://us.fotolia.com/id/131518395 Shutterstock rejecting timelapse shot with slow shutter at night of a huge square with people tiny as ants, due to "missing model release"
And the list goes on...
BTW - the most "liberal" agency for now seems to be VideoBlocks... With review time that is quite long - but way better decision making.
To be honest - after investing sooo much time, money and efforts shooting these clips, uploading, tagging - just to face ridiculous rejections from minimum wage reviewers.... just makes me wanna quit.