I'm getting rejections that don't have any sense and I don't know how to contact Adobe to clarify these rejections. Do they even have any way of contacting, or do I just spam same image/videos until I get banned from the platform?

"Thanks for giving us the chance to consider your image. Unfortunately, we found that it doesn't meet our needs so we can't accept it into our collection.

Possible reasons:

- Non compliant use of another artist's name.

- Undeclared Generative AI Content.

- Content not compliant with overall guidelines:

To learn more about the type of content we're looking for, please visit this page: https://www.adobe.com/go/stock-contributor-help"

https://www.cinema5d.com/pond5-expands-distribution-rights-legal-coverage-media/

Can anyone clarify if this is normal for Adobe stock search?

this is the title of my stock footage


and their useless search results:


Does this mean that there are many many files in my portfolio that aren't even searchable? But if I put in "child doctor" I am able to find it...


This makes NO COMMON SENSE.

What I found today might completely destroy Pond5 reputation...
I was trying to find via public search a specific file from my database, while not finding it I did found it on my harddrive... because I thought they might have rejected it or it wasn't properly uploaded. I also had the metadata for the file from Pond5. Which is kinda strange... so I tried searching the file via the contributor uploader. And there it was marked as ONLINE. But, I'm not able to find it in the public search.

So, is Pond5 capping my search results? Must I go through all 15000 files to confirm that all files are visible to buyers? I crap you not this is very depressing.



I'm sure gonna stress out the support about this crap.

Since when does it matter in what format was it shot if everything then encodes into ordinary Quicktime proress or h264 or photo jpeg?

https://www.4kshooters.net/2019/04/19/pond5-to-launch-premium-prores-raw-collection/

stupid selection for stupid marketing.

With new EU rules about privacy things, I suppose that even agencies will be affected by this. Will there be any changes in Model releases? Does anyone have any clue? Which model release has this covered as best as possible?

Pond5 has removed the referral program without any notice or apology. We figured out by coincidence when writing them about some details for the referral program. And they still didn't respond to our question about the reason for shutting down the program.

We had some customers and some income also. If we promoted the referral program they should at least warn us about. But no, they didn't care if we would promote it for the next five years with no new customers.

So much about the attitude towards contributors. We are very disappointed.

We have been contributing stock video for few years and we've started a website putting some experiences and tips for contributors and buyers.

It will slowly grow and receive many useful information, tips, how to and statistics. Maybe we will even start some courses (depends on ).

Your input would be useful too, that is why we are posting website here.

Link: http://video-stock.org

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