My best assumption is that they have not gotten around to it yet.  My hometown on New Jersey is not in the Getty vocabulary, but most of the surrounding towns are. 

I remember, for a long time, Getty did not have "Wildwood" in their search.  This is a major summer tourist destination on the Jersey Shore and includes Wildwood, North Wildwood, Wildwood Crest as part of "The Wildwoods."  Then, one day, it appeared.  The same thing happened with my original childhood hometown of Babylon, New York.  The search would only bring up the ancient city.  Now the NY town appears.

If the location of the shoot is not available in the search, I always include it in the title or description.  The search engine will find it, as will the all important Google search engine.

Getty makes adjustments on their keyword searches.  However, I do not know the process on getting certain words and locations added

As I stated in a previous thread, my RPD has decreased, but not as dramatic as others have seen.  I reasoned my better fortune was due to the On Demand photos faring better than in the past.  Like everyone else, the subs are down.

As we are now two weeks in, I wanted to see where I stand, and if the law of averages caught up to me:

Jan 2020 - 0.63 RPD
Feb 2020 - 0.77 RPD
Mar 2020 - 0.69 RPD
Apr 2020 - 0.72 RPD
May 2020 - 0.55 RPD
Jun 2020 - 0.57 RPD

While I'm doing better than last month, I am still down when compared to the other months of 2020.  Also, May was one of my worst months on SS in about 2 years. 

Just for laughs (because, otherwise I'd cry), I looked at June 2019's RPD.  Sure enough, I was getting about 0.75 RPD.  My RPD is down almost 1/3 compared to last year.

I have stopped uploading to SS on 6/1.  My next step may be to disable my portfolio

Yup, happened to me too.  After getting five sales for $0.36 today, I got one sale for $0.14 and another for $0.10.

Good bye Shutterstock

When I saw my earnings, my first reaction ws "Holy Mother of God, that's horrible."

Time has not healed that wound.

This is my worst month in more than two years, and I even  had some COVID-19 related sales.

All right, it is getting ridiculous.  I just had a photo of the US Capitol rejected.  Not for noise or focus, but because I did not include a property release.  I have never needed a release for an exterior shot of the Capitol. 

And besides, who do I get to sign the release from?  I am a US taxpayer, therefore, I am technically an owner.  Can I sign the release?

I have been doing pretty well this month on SS. 

For me, SS has been declining for the last four months straight, though January 2020 was less than $1 below December 2019.  This followed six months of increasing sales.

At the pace I am at now, I should end my losing streak and go over January 2020's sales.  However, I doubt I will reach February 2019's sales, as it was one of my BMEs.

SS has been very low to start the year.  However, this is typical.  Traditionally, for some unknown reason, sales are slow the first half of the month, but usually pick up towards the end of the month.  This week has been very good, though still not enough to make up for the lousy beginning of the month

I am not currently with Depositphotos, but, like you, I am considering it. 

As for the other minnow agencies, here is my view:

Dreamstime Pros
--Extremely easy upload process - they take 80 keywords rather the customary 50.  Also, each word is separated, so you do not have to duplicate such as "New," "York" and "New York."  This enables me to add more fringe keywords and use US and UK spellings (color and colour).
--Sales are OK, but I go into this knowing it is a low earner.  However, I have scored some $10+ sales (far the exception rather than the rule)
--They accept almost anything.  When IS or SS rejects a photo for content (sporting events, public artwork) DT will usually accept

Dreamstime Cons
--Only uploading drawback: you have to select three categories.  Really?  Three?
--Sales are just OK  35 cents for subscription
--The $100 payout takes a long time.  I have 4000+ photos there and I had to wait two and a half months to reach $100.
--Public website could use updating

123rf Pros
--Extremely easy upload process
--No limit on keywords. 
--No categories to choose, except country of photo
--Sales are OK
--$50 threshold for payout

123rf Cons
--You can wait forever for the staff to review your photos.  There are topics on this board where people wait for months for the review.  I currently have 73 files in cue that have been there over 6 months
--Don't complain about the review time.  The times I did, I went from a 90% approval rate to a 75% rejection rate.
--Their judging is sporadic.  I have had photos rejected, only to repost (with no changes) and have them accepted
--Sales are OK, but, for me, lower than DT.  I will wait about 2 months for a $50 payout with 3000+ photos
--Public website could use updating

Thanks Jo Ann,

I'll do the adult release with my daughter.  The worst the agencies can do is reject it, forcing me to send in a minor release

For me, Dreamstime is one of the easiest to upload.  Probably the only reason why I stay with them as they are one of my lower earners.  The fact that they give you 80 keyword minimum rather than 50 means less editing and less deciding which of two keywords to need to discard.  Also, DT does not use duplicate words.  I dont have to include "redwood," "tree" and "redwood tree."

I don't go through their ftp, I just upload through the website with photos that have been pre-populated with keywords in their meta data. 

I did OK in 2018, up approximately 20% from 2017, though my portfolio there is smaller (1778 images).

As someone posted before, we wold all do better if they approved submitted images.  I have some waiting in the funnel for almost a year.  BTW, the last time I sent them a friendly reminder about my pending photos, I went from a 90% approval rating to a 75% rejection rate. 

mine returned after about an hour