gbalex: opinion of this anonymous employee exactly corresponds to what i thought about latest version of SS as a company. What we see on contributor side are the consequences. The company aged but in not good manner and very very quickly

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Compare to others i think i have not a lot of unreasonable rejections, but i have them. The trend shows that SS does not have wish and possibilities to keep things clean. They devalue the efforts which were done by ss owner and contributors before. Inertion will give some life to continue, but something else comes. SS can miss their train like many other agencies.

Another bell rings. This time Alamy.

And careful : not all agencies willing to sell, but they use your work for their benefits. I received an e-mail from BigStock yesterday : inviting to join for 7 days of FREE downloads. "Download 100% royalty-free videos"

Only when they are dragging down the value and look of your portfolio. When the early images are an embarrassment AND not making money.

I did the same. Only some images returned online after reprocessing - the new software did its magic

This is one of major agruments against exclusivity of photographer. You cannot prevent agency's play with your products, and giving exclusivity will be against photographer at the end. Agency will decide to expose your images or not, or whole your port. At beginning there is "democracy" but then there rest only interests of people in relation to business or its officers. This then gives space for another player and the cycle repeats.

If to check threads history on ss forums about BS, yes it is clear they behave as a test platform with very negative attutude. Again regarding history agency needs something more valuable to give to restore its reputation. For now no sign. I don't upload already long time there too.

I would be careful. The trend is - to hide real process behind deals. The mass expectations are usually correct - avoid max not clear situations in business. And somebody wrote already on this forum: after pessimistic posts always come just several positive which don't do a trend. If it is so good for contributors, why to provide opt-in /out only all or nothing? Why not per client/contributor/image? Why not to give more clarity before action? Was the result of any deal of any agency last years positive for contributors? Why all agencies started to work through partners? Symbiostock with good idea could not compete with advertising budgets and power platforms. But the idea was idealistic and practically doable with heavy investments. Personally i don't want to give for google licensing images which will be used as they were boughtout forever. For majority of contributors it will be final. Even somebody from them will receive good money, still current situation cannot change my opinion and opt in.

Never paid attention to this. I upload when i have time. For me another concern - will buyers see the images in their search result? I already had several not pleasant cases. Because of this many my new images go to another place.

Firing test stuff it is a trend now. Can be ss too.
Another not pleasant thing - too noisy Contributor app, non stop popping up with messages "your image is popluar" or "added to 5 lightboxes" . Notifications instead of e-mails and these are not about sales even, useless. Does there somebody think - for what these notifications? Better to do the site working. Today uploaded by web interface one image and it disappeared.

This is not first time. Actually they leave less and less control for contributor in general, but saved time on creation of new products for new brands they started with. Before it was with new devices cases, now bottles. They do this not with all products and probably not with all contributors. As before i will just delete some products which i don't like to see with some images. When i have time.

Tried. Scary trick. Sure will not upload there.