Author Topic: Inspections (Read 3988 times)

raw_milk · « **on:** November 16, 2011, 15:22 »

Has anyone noticed a huge spike in inspections? CRAZY CONSPIRACY: Have the inspectors returned from some IS retraining session?

Cogent Marketing · « **Reply #1 on:** November 16, 2011, 15:25 »

Quote from: raw_milk on November 16, 2011, 15:22

Has anyone noticed a huge spike in inspections? CRAZY CONSPIRACY: Have the inspectors returned from some IS retraining session?

I have 5 in the pipeline now for 8 days...so not here.

wut · « **Reply #2 on:** November 16, 2011, 15:55 »

I've noticed they've become tougher again, they loosened up in the last six months, SS was much tougher for instance. Now they're just nitpicking. And you have to remove all ports and buttons from Apple products, even the blurred, unreadable text on an iPad for instance (but that's surely Apple's job, they're obsessed with suing everyone and protecting their patents etc, but still they only made this agreement with IS). So I'm not sending them any photos of apple products anymore. And I came to that conclusion after numerous rejections. Before that the inspector just wrote ipad as a reason for rejection, I tried to submit it as editorial and I got the rejection that it would be better suited for the main collection.

ShadySue · « **Reply #3 on:** November 16, 2011, 16:00 »

JJ said on Monday, "Thank you for your patience, everyone ; now, buckle your seat belts - and get ready for a meltdown.
The situation will be coming back to normal before the end of this very week."

Mine have been flying through this week, especially editorial.

senicphoto · « **Reply #4 on:** November 19, 2011, 23:43 »

Quote from: raw_milk on November 16, 2011, 15:22

Has anyone noticed a huge spike in inspections? CRAZY CONSPIRACY: Have the inspectors returned from some IS retraining session?

It's been quite a ride for video contributors on IStock. I'm exclusive videographer and have approximately 160 video files sitting in the inspection queue ... the oldest one is in there since August.

Karen · « **Reply #5 on:** November 20, 2011, 09:08 »

This one passed throw the inspection directly into Vetta Collection

http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-18319139-business-meeting.php

whimsikewl · « **Reply #6 on:** November 20, 2011, 10:21 »

Quote from: Karen on November 20, 2011, 09:08

This one passed throw the inspection directly into Vetta Collection
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-18319139-business-meeting.php

Yes. Just like the previous 993 images from that contributor. Obviously another Getty dump of outside agency files. How else can you be exclusive with only 8 downloads and have almost 1000 Vetta files in only two months as a contributor.

It is this kind of blatant breaking of the rules, bias and favoritism that sours so many contributors on Istock.

That company says they have 100's of designers working for them, so I am sure they have a huge library of content they can dump into the Vetta collection to further clog and dilute the content there.

Mantis · « **Reply #7 on:** November 20, 2011, 10:29 »

Quote from: whimsikewl on November 20, 2011, 10:21

Quote from: Karen on November 20, 2011, 09:08
This one passed throw the inspection directly into Vetta Collection
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-18319139-business-meeting.php

Yes. Just like the previous 993 images from that contributor. Obviously another Getty dump of outside agency files. How else can you be exclusive with only 8 downloads and have almost 1000 Vetta files in only two months as a contributor.

It is this kind of blatant breaking of the rules, bias and favoritism that sours so many contributors on Istock.

That company says they have 100's of designers working for them, so I am sure they have a huge library of content they can dump into the Vetta collection to further clog and dilute the content there.

Exactly! "law abiding" exclusives have to be pissed! And I suppose us nons too. But it is istocks own greed that will come back to haunt them...and maybe it already has begun as their traffic seems to be piss poor....unfortunately it is our sales that suffer with this demise.

ShadySue · « **Reply #8 on:** November 20, 2011, 10:31 »

Interesting that they were headhunted, fast tracked to Vetta yet have only 8 sales ...

Karen · « **Reply #9 on:** November 20, 2011, 15:34 »

Quote from: ShadySue on November 20, 2011, 10:31

Interesting that they were headhunted, fast tracked to Vetta yet have only 8 sales ...

So called high quality getty content

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