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Adobe Stock / Fotolia: Changing a Title/Description after a file has been accepted

« on: August 19, 2015, 21:32 »

Is it possible to change a file description after it has been accepted?
It seems you can only change category, keywords and pricing. The title/description field seems to be locked out. I made a minor typo and want to change it.

Shutterstock.com / Why Does Shutterstock seem to break up mult-word keywords?

« on: July 25, 2015, 21:46 »

It seems when I upload files with embedded IPTC keyword data, multi-word keywords seem to be broken up.
For example, the keyword "isolated on white" gets broken up into three keywords: "isolated", "on", "white".
What may I be doing wrong here?

Adobe Stock / Fotolia takes Description field if Title field is blank in your IPTC data

« on: July 22, 2015, 16:26 »

I am frustrated by the fact that on upload, Fotolia uses the Title field rather than the Description field if your file has IPTC data. Today I accidentally discovered that if the Title field in your file is blank, than Fotolia in fact uses the Description field from the file!

Now to figure out the least painful way to make use of this fact!

General Stock Discussion / Suggestion to Agencies: How about "auto-categories"

« on: July 22, 2015, 10:25 »

Since categories are redundant (relative to keywords) and usually inadequate and therefore problematic, how about "auto=categories"? Specifically, if a customer does a "category" search, behind the scenes, the site would use an algorithm based on keywords etc. to present that "category" of images to the user. This would eliminate the time wasted by contributors picking categories, and it would also allow the agency to refine, add, and improve the results (via algorithm improvements) of "category" searches by customers.

iStockPhoto.com / First Week of New iStock - How are you doing?

« on: September 21, 2014, 08:37 »

Okay, clearly it's way too early for meaningful trends, but just curious how folks are doing after the first week of the new iStock?
For me, it's been about a wash in terms of downloads and $$$. Downloads a little higher, $$$ a little less. A bit disappointed in $$$/download. I am iS exclusive.

Shutterstock.com / Does uploading too many files "at once" hurt chances for success at SS?

« on: August 20, 2013, 15:24 »

I have seen it mentioned that it may not be a good idea for new account holders at SS to upload large numbers of files in a short time as they would compete with each other and drive down their search positions. Is there any proven truth to this or is it pure conjecture?

I would think that any "large number" of files by an individual contributor would be totally swamped out by the bulk of files from all contributors. If there was any truth to the "don't upload to many files at once" rule, it would imply that SS search algorithms "cared about" library growth rate at the contributor level...hard to believe.

Can anybody shed any light on this? If a new contributor has a few thousand files to upload, should they not "upload as fast as they can"? Should they hold to some metered rate and what would that rate be?

General Stock Discussion / Image Source

« on: December 13, 2012, 10:40 »

What does anyone know about these folks?: http://www.imagesource.com/

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