Quote from: eZeePics on November 06, 2017, 09:57

Hello everybody, I have completed my application on September 17 and I sent 100 photos and videos as asked. I have sent 25 exclusive footage and, 30 exclusive photos. The rest were non-exclusive photos because I have asked how is working and got the answer that yes, I can send non-exclusive content, but, in case of approval, this content will be deleted by the reviewers. I have tried to send various photos and footage, even if my specialty is food, I have sent lifestyle, conceptual, animals and travel. I choose some of my best content. I am pretty active on socials, specially with my Facebook page. With all this, on October 12 I have received the negative answer:
"Thank you for your interest in Stocksy. After reviewing your work, we don�t feel there is a fit at this time.
As you can imagine, we get a lot of applications and it�s always a difficult decision, but we only have room for a small group of contributors.
We wish you the best in your future endeavours and thank you for taking the time to apply and share your work with us.
We hope you have a great day,"
I strongly believe they rejected me because my photos doesn't tell a story. Portfolio must tell a story and has to have a beginning related to the end, everything in the same style. In my portfolio the story lacks and is pretty messy. Also I have sent some exclusive images which were part of non-exclusive series. This was wrong too, but I didn't know. I try to reorder my ideas and my portfolio and I will try again. But I want to tell you that is hard to reach what they want, I strongly believe that only an editor can have enough eye to order portfolio and public image in order to match with Stocksy.

Oh, so sorry, after the hard work... Thanks for sharing yours learnings. I have a question: you said that they allow to upload non exclusive material and if they selected you should deleted it, where did you read about this? I just uploaded exclusive material, but if that you said is tru I would like to complement with my best shots (wich ones arent exclusives) If you or anyone can confirm this, or this will penalize me... Thanks a lot!

My understanding was that you would have to be able to delete any images accepted from all of the other sites that they are currently for sale now - and they would stay at Stocksy.

Amazingly my BME too beating Oct 2012, (unless you count the month I got a big payout for Veer's Dash for Cash)

Sadly it was mostly due to a number of big sales at Alamy, so probably not part of a trend. P5 and Canva also contributed nicely and Adobe had a decent showing. It was an ok month at SS for the new norm, but 1/3 of they heyday there and unlike in the past when it was reliably my highest earning site, it was #3 this month.

It was my BME for 4 different sites and none of the decent earners were super low.

Yeah, I got one saying they double paid me for an upgrade so they were taking 1/2 back. I had 2 upgrade payments this month (I never knew that they were a possibility before) and it looks like the smaller was the one that was doubled, but I didn't take careful notes before this happened so I am not sure.

I had a small batch, 4 accepted, one file transfer error, and one not reviewed.

This is a potentially interesting new feature, but it still needs some work.

For instance searching in your portfolio with keywords and then selecting all or at least selecting a range with shift-click would be a lot easier way to add images to a collection. It would also be nice to have the option of selecting which image in the collection will be the cover pic and also how it will look cropped.

I also like the idea of being able to have more collections available to buyers, maybe a button to go to more collections or something.

It would also be cool to be able to see sales stats for each collection.

there is that word - "sustainability"...

I'd be really pissed if they didn't already delete all my stuff.

I just got a bunch of rejects for keywords. I'll have to look at the keywords again to try to guess what they objected to, but I think it was for stuff like the scientific name of the subject. How they can complain about that but let some seriously egregious spam through is beyond me, but I am guessing it is semi-automated.

I just had a refund at the end of last month for an image sold a few years ago. Frustrating.

In addition with their messed up reporting on the first of the month it made me wonder what had happened to my total (since it was lower than I had recoded the afternoon before).

I suppose I should just give up on their promised doubling of sales when they cut the percentage paid to artists.

but content can also rise by being paid for, thereby bypassing the very thing you are trying to promote - the best images in front of buyers.

I'm happy to see the site back up.

In line with a recent discussion thread here, I have a question.   Would GL's 'extended' license allow reselling as wall art on Etsy?

Perhaps to clarify the question - does it allow reselling of digital files, possibly slightly modified (like flipped, cropped, or background color changed.

I guess the real screwing would be if Moovly paid SS a heap of money for this deal (for which we get nothing) and then sells our content rather cheaply, for which we get 30% or less of whatever Moovly passes on to SS. I sure wish the details were disclosed and opt out was possible - what if they take 90%, and we get 30% of what is left?

submit a few in the middle of a stack of other submissions - don't they only look at one image per submission? I have had that problem with SS - digital noise rejection in pictures of sand dunes - no reviewer, what you see are the grains of sand. Some things just have grain.

There has always been an element of timing and luck in an image making it in this business. Perhaps SS has the search skewed against newer images right now or maybe you just haven't gotten lucky. There are 1.2 million lottery tickets submitted every week, so it isn't a guaranteed thing. It sure is frustrating though. It was a lot more motivating to upload a batch and get sales of many of them the day they were accepted.