I have over 3000 in my YAY portfolio, same content as the other agencies and uploaded till june this year. After a couple of 15 eurocent sales from imageclick in March (!) nothing happened. I stopped uploading because of their weird rejections ( files that did very well at the other agencies). The latest files that were accepted still have no views.

After reading the other posts I think they hardly have any traffic so I leave it like that for a while and see what happens.

DP is a steady earner for me, submitting is easy but they sometimes reject batches for: not suitable for commercial use while I did sell similar images with them!

Quote from: daveh900 on February 01, 2013, 19:22
My sales have been good. January was BME for me, even after having commissions cut (I'm level 4).

Substantially better sales at 123 than at DT, FT, and DP.

Same here, hope I can check my sales again today....site is still down for maintenance:(

Quote from: luissantos84 on December 05, 2012, 23:18

Quote from: steheap on December 05, 2012, 23:12
Ahh - pretty complex! I ended up with 2881 credits for 2012 to date. So I'm at 45%

Steve

really? you must have a lot subs and small downloads

Same here: Your contributor level : 4    |    Past 12 Month Credits Total : 3499

Quote from: Konstantin Sutyagin on November 18, 2012, 01:16
It is not unusual to wait a few weeks for a review. If you sell stock you have to practice some patience.

+1!

October was a very good month for me at 123RF but it looks like november started very slowly here. Anyone else have the same experience?

I have a bunch of accepted files but it seems to take days/weeks before they show up in my portfolio. Did they have some technical problems recently?

Not here: Oktober so far is 300% of september sales

Does anyone have any sales recently?
I'm there with 2000+ files, last sales was in August.

I'm still uploading files (yeah...limited to 10 files a day!). Most of them rejected because The image subject doesn't suit the site at the present time or This category is too big compare to other categories.
What does Featurepicks accept? To me it's already clear that they do not want flowers, food or animals but even other subjects seem to be fully covered.
Funny for such a small, low selling agency. Guess they do not want to grow and make a decent profit?

Oposite here: sales this month are 150% of the sales for september. Acceptance of new files seems fair to me.

I have 150+ files online there, all uploaded before december 15th: no bonus, no royalties even no image views. Site looks dead to me

There's really something strange going on: I submit files there since four years and always had a decent approval ratio but the last times I had all my submissions rejected because of "minimal commercial value" which NEVER happened before!

When I look in their latest images section or check the contributors with most uploads in the past 30 days I see loads of images I wouldn't buy myself but that doesn't mean they have a minimal commercial value? It depends on what the customer is looking for. If that customer is looking for a pile of dog crap one day, even that pile of dog crap can have a huge commercial value!

Quote from: Anglee on December 30, 2010, 02:24

Quote from: borg on December 29, 2010, 21:02
I am mad!  

Lately, they reject most of my new files...!
Some of them are already good earners on other sites, also main reason for rejections is "minimal commercial value"...
Who is crazy here?

Examples:

http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-67557541/stock-photo-conceptual-view-of-an-internet-addict-during-calling-of-nature-in-the-toilet.html
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-67818976/stock-photo-closeup-sectional-view-of-wheat-germination-in-the-soil.html
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-65180464/stock-photo--conceptual-view-or-metaphor-about-hunting.html

Hi Borg,

You may check your account now. Our reviewers have re-evaluate the rejected images. Happy New Year & Happy Holidays.


Cheers,
Anglee

WOW...I checked my account to and had a FEW of the minimal commercial rejections approved!! It feels like there is a bone given to keep a barking dog quit...... Funny to see that two images from one serie have different commercial values:) To be continued.....

Quote from: leaf on December 22, 2010, 22:39
haha.. check out this page.
http://scratchstock.com/members/users_list.php

YuriImages - 24,000 images
everyone else combined - 275 images
Looks like Yuri has a fairly dominant presence there!

Perhaps Yuri gave himself a nice Christmas present: his own stock agency???

Quote from: bizair on December 26, 2010, 19:37
Still waiting for review of my initial upload - since June!

Same here! Nice to read that there are people accepted and uploading there!

By the time we are "invited" to this exclusive club we are allowed to upload 15 images a day so it will take years to built up a reasonable portfolio there!
What if your initial upload isn't accepted? You can upload another batch and wait another half year?
I wonder if they are going to send us a Happy Birthday card or some other nice reminder when we are in the pending queue for a year?

Uploaded some of my best sellers too...most were rejected for soft/blurred etc. Considering the time consuming upload process and the low sales I dropped the site.

Don't expect too much: In July and August sales were picking up there but I haven't sold one single image in a month and a half from my 1100+ portfolio....

Site looks "dead" and indeed: poor English and I'm not a native speaker as well:
   
    * Select a image ->
   

I will quit uploading there and delete some of my best selling files....
It takes more time to upload at Istock than on other agencies and they do not accept files that were accepted by the other big companies. Their partnerprogram sucks with a $ .25 for subscription commission.
Only if they raise the commission to a normal level I will consider uploading @ Istock again.