The thing is that when I send content, the first thing I think is that their algorithm is going to reject all or almost all the images for some reason, like keyword, or noise, or any made up lie that comes across, until the last two photos are seen by a human and approved, making me waste time resending again the rejected images without choosing the already approved ones, so that they approve them.... It's just that shutterstock has become a pain in the ass.

Me, 8,24 US$ this month... What this means?

Quote from: Mimi the Cat on September 12, 2022, 09:36

Quote from: Year of the Dog on September 08, 2022, 23:09
Two accounts and they are noticing the same images uploaded to both. You won't last long.

Seriously shitterstock don't even notice all the stolen images and similars they allow in 

I am not uploading duplicate photos to different accounts, didn't you read my message above, did I write wrong in English and didn't explain what is wrong with me? I see that nobody has answered me anything interesting, just that I can't upload photos to two accounts, when I do NOT upload the same photos to two accounts.

Calling ss racist rejections for same images uploaded to another account?
[/quote] Well, Well, I don't know what to think anymore. Photographs that look great and are selling in other agencies and whose model release has been accepted without any problem, are rejected again and again in SS because supposedly the model release is not valid. I have already written my problem above. Nobody answers me anything other than, I can't have two accounts and I can't upload photos to two accounts. What a forum, so little help.

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Quote from: Year of the Dog on September 08, 2022, 23:09
Two accounts and they are noticing the same images uploaded to both. You won't last long.

No, you do not understand, I have two accounts, in one account I upload editorial images most of the time. In other account I upload creative photos only lifestyle. I never upload the same photos in the two accounts. But I tried to upload in the first account three of the photos rejected in the second account, because of the model release, (all photos has being accepted in other agencies).

¡Hola! Hello from Spain, sorry if my english is not very good.

I just want to share my experience whit all of you, trying to upload photos to my shutterstock account.
Read it please. May be someone could help me, maybe some one could understand better what happends today with SS.

First of all, I've been trying to contact Shutterstock support for three days, and I can't, because the contact form gives the same error.
https://ibb.co/y8R6wXT <--- can be seen here.... Also, on previous occasions recently I have found that it is impossible for shutterstock to help you, as they have outsourced to a company the support service, and they can't see any confidential information, ergo their help is of little use.

On the other hand, I have tried to upload three of the images that are currently rejected in the account I want to boost, in another shutterstock account different from this main one, which is where I want to upload the images that are rejected, and these three images have also been rejected, saying that the content has been uploaded previously, when it is a lie, because it has been rejected and is not online.

Here are the rejected images in question on the main account I want to boost:
https://ibb.co/P175nLd <-- Image 1
https://ibb.co/ypdbXpy <-- Image 2
https://ibb.co/K0TxCPW <-- Image 3

And here you can see those same three images pointed out, that I have tried to upload in another account, but they have rejected because they claim they are previously sent when it is a lie, they have not been published nor accepted:
https://ibb.co/PZ6B1Wc <-- The three images in question.

Conclusion. Either nobody reads the model release on Shutterstock, or the one who reviews the images is racist and doesn't accept my images because my friend is black, (I am white caucasian), or the one who reviews is a robot and doesn't know anything.

The images of the photo shoot with my friend, have been accepted at the first time without problems, for example on adobestock:
https://ibb.co/TLh7hDV <-- accepted on adobe

Or on iStock, among other stocks:
https://ibb.co/c3JL9gc <-- accepted on istock....

I don't know what to think anymore... But don't miss it, there's still more!

This summer I did some photography at a local fitness gym in the town where I live. Same shoot, same model release, I upload a bunch of photos from the shoot, all in order:
https://ibb.co/pd3vy82 <-- Accepted!

I upload another set of photos from the same session again in the next week or so, same model release, same models, same location, same sixon, all in order:
https://ibb.co/2P77pJC <-- Rejected!

Anyway, I think I've been blacklisted or something at shutterstock and they don't want any more pictures from me. I am writing to you here as I am trying to dig into internet forums about shutterstock and why they treat us contributors so badly. There is no more shutterstock forum, they closed it down, there is no direct community that can help or advise you. The company doesn't answer, the information they give is ambiguous or labyrinthine? I understand that they have to lower the prices of everything to compete, ok, I accept that to a certain extent, but * it, don't treat your collaborators like that! Treat them with care and take care of them properly!

I just wanted to share my strange experience with you, in case it helps you in any way. I don't think I'm going to be accepted on shutterstock anymore for some strange reason that I can't figure out. My model releases are correct, they are accepted by all other agencies, they have all the legally required data, etc.

Well, greetings from Spain, and thanks for your attention (I would have liked the images in the links to have the texts in English, but I don't know how to view shutterstock in English, it always loads in Spanish no matter what I do). I've used deepl to help me with the English text, although some of it is written by me.

Best regards!