Whilst I shoot 99.9% video, I've got about 1000 images on P5 because it's the best platform to export Metadata CSV. However, in all the years I've never sold a single photo on that site.

Really hope they don't start saying the same about video though.

I think Uncle Pete is right in the end.

The agencies have enough for each subject. They don't need us anymore. They even don't want our photos anymore. The will reject everything and sit to see the cash coming in and pay you 10 cents or 33 cents or whatever minimum is appropriate. If they get any because a lot is free this days.
From a business perspective completely understable though (for the intermediate term that is).

Ha! Weird. Because I never saw P5 rejecting something. My latest uploads to them date back from last week, and they all were accepted. As usual.
Apparently they have "enough" which I can understand for certain subjects. Makes no sense to have thousands of images of skies or flowers in their collection.

Anyhow, no need to bother, because image sales on P5 are very scarce. I few images a year, one every two months on average, that's all I get from them.
Commissions are fine (last year got a 20$ sale) but still... at these volumes it's a waste of energy to be bothered about their rejection policy.

Today I had my first image rejection at Pond5 ever and they rejected 61 of 61 images - with the following text:

"Our team has finished reviewing your recent uploads. Here are the results:
Items rejected (61)

Curator comments:
Hello, thank you for the uploads. Pond5 now has over 10 million photos in the collection, therefore we're scaling back on the amount of similar images we accept - due to the very high volume of similar content already in the library. Photos of commonplace things such as clouds, flowers, countryside etc are very saturated, so it is unlikely we will accept many more unless they are very unique or of an extremely high quality. If you have any questions please contact [email protected]. Thanks"


Anyone else got this too?

I guess they noticed that they don't sell many images, so they aren't going to spend time trying. My only P5 sales have been through Wirestock, which makes the whole connection even stranger.

I think Uncle Pete is right in the end.

The agencies have enough for each subject. They don't need us anymore. They even don't want our photos anymore. The will reject everything and sit to see the cash coming in and pay you 10 cents or 33 cents or whatever minimum is appropriate. If they get any because a lot is free this days.
From a business perspective completely understable though (for the intermediate term that is).

At least P5 is straight about the reason, and do not use other non relevant rejection reasons in taht situation like I suspect some other agencies to do.

P5 may feel that since they sell so few images, they want to scale back review resources etc.. as a way to keep their costs down perhaps?

I never had the feeling real reviewing was taking place. They just accepted everything. Never had a rejection on P5.
So P5 actually starting critical content reviewing, not only in terms of quality but also evaluating subject saturation, would rather feel like raising the costs. 

Quote from: SVH on April 05, 2022, 13:29

I think Uncle Pete is right in the end.

The agencies have enough for each subject. They don't need us anymore. They even don't want our photos anymore. The will reject everything and sit to see the cash coming in and pay you 10 cents or 33 cents or whatever minimum is appropriate. If they get any because a lot is free this days.
From a business perspective completely understable though (for the intermediate term that is).

At least P5 is straight about the reason, and do not use other non relevant rejection reasons in taht situation like I suspect some other agencies to do.

Agree, at least they are honest about it