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Shutter stock rejections arrgghh
georgep7:
Assuming a regular one man band contributor uploading,100 videos per week with a 75% acceptance rate is yet a nice what? 3900 new clips per year? Isn't that already a good annual portfolio sum up? (Again) assuming no random editorial or whatever passes in front of the camera uploads.
???
Uncle Pete:
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--- Quote from: Shelma1 on April 20, 2020, 20:31 ---“ Shutterstock the provider of stock photography, footage and music had to slow down its approval rates for submissions. This as more and more states and cities implement isolation and quarantine measures, including shelter-in-place orders.
The company recently slowed down the approval rate of those uploading images for sale on the site. And also the rate at which sellers can upload their images. It has also limited the volume of content contributors can submit weekly due to a reduction in review capacity. According to the new arrangement, contributors can submit up to 500 images and 100 videos in a 7-day period.”
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According to the new arrangement, contributors can submit up to 500 images and 100 videos in a 7-day period. And have them all rejected.
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angelacat:
My rejection rate (video only is very high past few weeks) got worse.
Rejected for "similar content" when the "similar content" was rejected for noise. Uploaded them all few days later and accepted.
Model releases always rejected now - it seems I can't use a template Model Release anymore. Only the docusign model release even though there is still an option to upload a model release.
I did send an email to SS but only answer I get is "rejections are frustrating blah blah".
lostintimeline:
angela thats happening cause they use AI to reviews photos.this has been discussed to death here and in their forums
its not humans who review your content.although i believe some reviewers in the past rejected pics cause they were bored to check for technical errors or they had already a portolio and they didnt want to compete
but the truth is nowdays the contributors have to deal with some stupid ROBOT in one word .you said it your shelf they are rejected the first day they are approved the next without any changes
and all that for 10 cents
you can continue and dont care or quit and move somewhere else
ss is not the only agency out there
OK82:
Just started uploading to shutterstock.
I noticed that three of my images that were approved had some sensor dust spots. I wanted to fix those, so I deleted those images from shutterstock, used healing brush to those spots and re-uploaded basically the exact same images without dust spots.
Well .. one of them gor rejected beacuse of the noise and other two beacuse of intellectual property and visible trademark even though they were earlier approved as commercial image.
I guess lesson is that if images are approved, it's just better to leave them be no matter what mistakes they have.
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