Quote from: rimglow on February 09, 2016, 11:33

I've been waiting for over a month for them to approve my ID. They won't sell anything of mine until then. Very frustrating.

Try opening a support ticket.  I waited over a month as well and when I contacted support they replied and approved my id on the same day.

Quote from: Rinderart on February 14, 2016, 17:45

"No agency should get more than 50% commission and together we can enforce that."

if you knew how many times I said that, You would be amazed.

I would have expected nothing else from you!

The agency commission will decline.
Agencies are becoming less important in the future.
It will be easier in the future to sell images without an agency.
Today agencies grab the largest part of the cake.
In the future sellers and buyers not put up with that longer.
Agencies be replaced by search engines.
I am convinced of that.

Submitted some Christmas footage late Oct, finally accepted yesterday, ready for the next Christmas

For vector it's faster, around 2-3 week ! I have photo pending for more than a month ... I guess video is 2 month ! Why don't they hire us to review pending files ? haha

Quote from: Freepik on February 12, 2016, 06:04

Quote from: sharpshot on February 12, 2016, 05:12

Freepik, please answer my questions.  Why should it be up to us to find the images that are being downloaded thousands of times without the copyright holders consent?  By the time these images are found, the person that originally made that image might of already lost a substantial amount of earnings.  Please tell us how you are going to go through all your images, identify all the ones that are being used without consent and fully compensate the copyright holder.  Then there's the problem with your designers making images that are very similar to other people's work instead of doing their own work.  How do you justify that?  Why would any sensible person here want to collaborate with a site that is doing that?

I�m answering you, sharpshot:

We make an exhaustive analysis of the resources created exclusively for us. It isn�t your labor, but ours. We do it, but it�s inevitable that some go unnoticed. This not only happens in Freepik but in all image banks. We are victims of copy in many occasions.

At the moment the the plagiarism is detected, we delete the content immediately. The affected author can contact us ([email protected] or [email protected]). We deeply investigate the case and compensate the author if necessary.

We don�t order similar designs, and if there is any plagiarism is because we have been deceived for the designer.

With other image banks, there is a good chance that the images on the site without consent can be removed before a license has been purchased by a customer.  On your site, they have already been downloaded thousands of times, so there's really no comparison.  For your model to work, you have to be sure that what you are virtually giving away has the consent of the contributor.  You need to stop blaming other people, if your designers are making images that are too similar to other peoples, you are responsible for having that content on your site.  Just using Google image search, you can see if they are doing their own work or have been using others for their designs.

What will your downloaders do if the copyright holders demand payments for using their images without consent?  If they ask for records of who has downloaded their images without their consent, will you give it to them?  You might well end up having to compensate people that have downloaded images from your site that shouldn't of been there.

Quote from: KnowYourOnions on February 09, 2016, 11:13

If only "artist friendly company" warned us prior to uploading that waiting time is over 2 months, I would happily applaud what you just wrote here.
BUT they didn't and they didn't even bother to explain why, not to mention to apologize for it publicly. It's been more than 3 months and this ordeal is still on.

I was warned when I uploaded.  This is what it said
'Due to upload volume, artists are experiencing unusually long wait times for content approval. Currently our average wait time is over 2 months. We are working on shortening this wait time and we appreciate your patience.'

They could easily just tell us that they are getting quadruple or more of their normal volume of uploads. Its possible that thousands of photographers have suddenly decided to try video and Pond5 is doing so well in the poll here, its the obvious place to upload first.

Other possibilities, maybe they are cutting back on the expenses of reviewers, to make their books look good for some reason.  Or they might be re-reviewing all previously uploaded clips to remove the lower quality ones but I think we would of heard about that by now.

Whatever is going on, I think they should let us know a bit more, a sites reputation is hard to build and very quickly goes when we are kept in the dark about something.

I agree with previous post regarding P5. I submitted my first large batches of videos in November. They are selling well on SS, VB, even got some sales on FT, but absolutely nothing on P5. Part of the problem is they only reviewed the content few weeks ago... hopefully they eventually produce some sales, or I'll stop believing that P5 is strong for video


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