By the way, anyone know why email notifications of new posts don't seem to be working, here? I have never received one at all.

Gary

Quote from: cobalt on October 16, 2015, 17:26
Have you been accepted as a contributing photographier? If not then you only see the community functions of the app.

Write to their support if you have questions.

Eyeem is not fotolia, you have to apply or be invited into their marketplace.

If you have a series and some files are accepted as exclusive, i doubt you can send the others elsewhere.

Again, ask their support, but do really want to confuse the customers?

Not exactly, Cobalt. As soon as I joined EyeEm, I began exclusively posting directly to the market. In fact, using the app for iPad, you can do that right away. There is a switch to select whether you want a post to go to the market or not and I've always set it to Market, from the very first post I ever made. Why not?

Gary

Quote from: hofhoek on October 16, 2015, 15:33
I have uploaded a few to Eyeem to test the water but I am not sure how the reviewing works. I know that the reviewing for Getty takes a few weeks and that they ask if you want your image at Getty but how does it work for Eyeem itself? How do I see if my images are for sale? When I click on my images it doesn't say it's for sale but maybe that's because I see the image from my own account. Do they give you info if your images are for sale or when they are rejected? I tried to go to the Marketplace but that link doesn't work. Anyone cares to tell me how it works?

I've had photos approved for Getty within days, myself. Usually, within no more than a week of uploading to the market.

Gary

LOL, Sean!    I'm a fine art photographer, myself, and I have only recently begun posting to EyeEm, simply because I became aware that it is a Getty Images portal and I wanted to be sure to take advantage of that, as I have no qualms about establishing a periferal income stream. I shoot for my own interests and projects, though, I don't shoot with stock in mind. Nevertheless, a lot of what I've posted to the market has made it into the "shortlist" for inclusion on Getty.

I did finally find the collection, thanks. I also noticed that none of my images has made it into the collection, yet. I contacted Johanna Fulache, the Community Director at EyeEm, about this and she told me that they have a heavy backlog in getting images into the collection and have to tag them all with keywords before Getty makes its final selections, so it will be some time before we see our work there, I think, unless you got in on the ground floor last year, that is.

Gary

I also tried to cut to the chase by searching for myself by name, under Photographers, but no luck, there. Of course, if I'm right that my images haven't yet been included in the collection, then that explains that, right?

Gary

Another gripe I have with the EyeEm Collection is the lack of sufficient filters there. Where are the filters for any of the tags I've so laboriously spent my time entering on each of my images? I would expect, at minimum, that a client looking through the collection should be able to specify, for example, black and white.

Gary

Yep. Since posting, I found a link that I believe Cobalt posted to the EyeEm Collection. However, in searching the collection (All Images/USA/Seattle) I found absolutely none of my own. So, I guess what EyeEm's reviewers mean, when they email me to tell me my work has been "shortlisted for inclusion in the EyeEm Collection at Getty Images" is that my images are being considered for inclusion, but have not actually been included, yet.

Gary

Cobalt, thanks for the link to what I presume is the EyeEm Collection on Getty Images(?). How does anyone search the collection, though? If my images there are discoverable, via tagging, then how does one enter any tags to search for on the collection's pages?


Gary

Judging by the social networking activity there and the overall poor quality of most of the photos uploaded (selfies and tourist crap), it seems more geared to the Instagram crowd than it is to stock shooters.

Yep, it's a combination social networking/stock site, from what I've seen, so far. I've been posting to EyeEm Market for about a month and have over 800 images there, so far, of which the reviewers are still working on. I get notifications just about daily of approvals for the EyeEm Collection at Getty Images and have had 227, as of this morning, approved, so far. However, I have visited the Getty Images site and tried to find some mention of EyeEm Market or the EyeEm Collection there, without any results. So, I think maybe Getty is only using EyeEm Market as a "feeder" site to gather images from.

"I am also worried that eyeem will not really be marketed as a sales plattform, that instead it will just be another content feeder agency for Getty. Similar to the content they took from flickr."

Agreed. I have over 800 images on EyeEm Market, now, with 227 of them approved for the EyeEm Collection at Getty Images, yet, when I visit the Getty Images website and search for the EyeEm Collection there, nothing turns up at all and there is no mention of EyeEm or the EyeEm Collection on Getty's site at all. Thus, I am wondering if this is a one-sided arrangement in which EyeEm Market is gaining some status from their claim to a Getty connection, while Getty is pretending EyeEm doesn't exist. It's either that or, as you say, EyeEm is just being used as a "feeder" site for Getty's purposes. Considering the overall quality of the images at EyeEm and the fact that most EyeEm members treat the site as a social networking venue, I'd say that must be the case.

Gary