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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Microstock News => Topic started by: Istock News on July 26, 2007, 16:55
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Starting today, iStock contributors will be able view your approval percentages, right from the comfort of your upload page.
Go take a look, folks.
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Gulp. Did just that. NOT pretty. Let me just say the switch to 250 sales for exclusivity would not have applied to me because my approval % is well below 50 >:(
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77% for me but I am more careful with them than most sites. Don't want to go through that upload process for nothing.
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Ugghhhh, my approval rate is a depressing 58.46% - - - despite my care in uploading only that which is "good enough", this number is 30% lower than everywhere else.
I sometimes have to push myself to upload to IS - especially so lately, as my new stuff seems to be going nowhere in a hurry.
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79% for me. I probably should be happy with that but I've never been a C student, and I don't want to start now.
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66.4% for me.
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77%... Interesting.
My spreadsheet I've been keeping since not long after I started microstock works out to 82% for IS.. I assume this is because it doesn't take into account stuff that has been 'dollar binned' and deleted?
Either that or my spreadsheet is broke. Might check. :-)
Sharply... I'm surprised yours is that low, you do some good stuff.
Cheers, Me.
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Sharply... I'm surprised yours is that low ...
Oh how I wish it wasn't ... I can't believe what they reject sometimes.
IS is my bane.
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61.54%......... that sux! .... however, let us all remember that many of those rejections DO finally get accepted after modification. I assume that percentage is the initial rejections. Many of my rejects only required a minor adjustment ( removal of a nike logo off a model's sock and nonsense like that). So overall, we're still not so bad? or are we.... LOL 8)-tom
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75,3 % here.
Before this thread I thought these numbers were terrible but you give me some comfort...
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I will out myself and give you guys a little more additional comfort, only 48% acceptance rate! I guess I use Photoshop to much..
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Mine is 62%. So it looks like I am in some very good company.
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69%
I am surprized that some of you (which I consider to be lot better photographers) have lower acceptance rate than me.
And I totally upload everything I have to iStock (since I hit the upload limit only couple of times in a year I have been doing this).
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Mine is so low I won't even tell you!
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63% - 425 files portfolio
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only 43,6% in here! :(
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At last! A good development from iS, and one that doesn't bring the whole system crashing down around our ears, assign weird keywords, or take months of extra work to sort out. ;)
Mind you, not quite so good when I see my figure ... 66%
Never mind. I take it as a call to do better.
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I'm at 78%.... I'm happy with that. :)
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I wonder if they will alter the search in favor of those with a higher acceptance rate?
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I wonder if they will alter the search in favor of those with a higher acceptance rate?
If they haven't already, why would they now? It's not like they haven't had this information all along. Now they are just sharing it with us.
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I will out myself and give you guys a little more additional comfort, only 48% acceptance rate! I guess I use Photoshop to much..
That's what I get nailed for the most "over filtered" "over processed" ..... all this time I think I'm making it look better... LOL 8)-tom
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60.49% for me.
Is there any problem having a high rejection rate at IS? I am not careful, like some of you are, I just wait for some sites to maybe reject for some reason I can correct. If they were faster at review, I would not wait these other sites' inspections.
Regards,
Adelaide
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60.49% for me.
Is there any problem having a high rejection rate at IS? I am not careful, like some of you are, I just wait for some sites to maybe reject for some reason I can correct. If they were faster at review, I would not wait these other sites' inspections.
Regards,
Adelaide
It's not really a problem per se, but more of an inconvenience. The only thing stopping me from having a larger portfolio on IS is time. Uploading an image that I think will make the grade - it's accepted by five other agencies afterall - only to have it rejected (usually for being "overfiltered") wastes a week of time before I can try again with something else.
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Hmmm... mine's 82.66%. I'm disappointed with that. It was 86% until last week when an inspector decided to reject three files for 'artifacts'.
ARTIFACTS? I NEVER have artifacts or noise. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER.
Three files sent off to scout......
Inspector must have been out on the town the night before......
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Heh, mine sometimes get rejected for having artifacts even after I downsize from 17MP to 2MP!
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Hmmm... mine's 82.66%. I'm disappointed with that. It was 86% until last week when an inspector decided to reject three files for 'artifacts'.
I love it here. You folks always boost my spirits... LOL. My last batch of 20 to IS had 7 rejected for "artifacts".... Must be the new catch-phrase of the week! I was kind of bummed out. Now I feel better knowing I'm in good company! LOL 8)-tom
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Mine's 77.59% and I really don't think that you can assess whether that's good or bad unless you know what the images are getting rejected for.
At one point (not the beginning, when I got bucket loads of stuff rejected as I didn't understand their standards) I was trying hard only to submit things I thought they'd accept, but there were several problems with that.
One is that other sites - SS for example - are much more willing to accept heavily Photoshopped images. Two of my recent hot sellers there (from this spring) were rejected by IS (overfiltering). My most recent Editor's Choice image at DT was rejected by IS for overfiltering and I gave IS a semi-filtered image that I don't think has anything like the impact (and in retrospect I shouldn't have done that - I generally don't resubmit if they reject).
Two is that I'm then boxing my photography/image creation in by iStock's standards, and I don't want to do that. IS has every right to set whatever criteria they want for acceptance. I didn't want to continue down the path of paying so much attention to that that I changed some things that matter to me about what I create.
Three is that once in a while, even after all this time, IS surprises me and accepts something I thought they'd reject.
Having created an image for multiple sites, I see no reason not to spin the roulette wheel at IS and see what happens.
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LOL!!!! Ok.. if this was golf, I win!! 43.94% *! :D
Mind you, I did get some images of a left handed golfer rejected for wrong orientation.