Hi Everyone 

Has anyone else noticed a review time slowdown at Yay?  I am just wondering if it has something to do with all the upgrades they are doing to their site.

I submitted a total of 10 files to them on March 29 and they are still awaiting approval.

BTW... they changed their image requirements.  Images now have to be a minimum of 6 MP.

Cricket

Yeah, they definitely slowed down. Which is weird, since all they seem to be doing for "review" is clicking an "accept" button. Not that it matters - I just can't seem to get a sale, no matter that my portfolio is larger there than elsewhere.

Yesterday I keyworded a bunch of images uploaded at the weekend (123 doesn't seem to like keywords delimited with and all approved this morning - that's pretty quick

Delimiting keywords with would be pretty cool though...  

Quote from: MarcvsTvllivs on April 02, 2012, 04:38

I love how they put a series of completely nondescript signs (i.e. road signs and the like) into editorial via their "submit to editorial if not accepted" option. what? Might as well refuse - for editorial I am sure nondescript road signs have quite LCV... 

not sure why you wouldn't want your images to go in as editorial

123 does have one of the strictest rules on property releases, but they also have the far-and-away best editorial process i've seen - unlike other agencies, the submitter doesnt have to waste time trying to decide to submit as rf or editorial, and then resubmitting, and following anal punctuation rules for captions.  instead, you just let 123 decide how they want to deal with a particular image.  they also have the best editorial acceptance  i've found - es[pecially for travel images and others where it would be impossible to get mpodel releases, but other agencies reject as LCV or 'not newsworthy'

Are you serious? You don't understand why I wouldn't want an isolated, empty blue sign to be limited to editorial use? What would anybody do with that as editorial?!

As for the rest you are saying, I wholeheartedly agree. It's the best implementation of editorial I have seen.

zoonar claims: Unfortunately, our costs for keywording, checking, translating, captioning and deleting photos has risen considerably.

   what keywording or casptioning are they doing?

i've had ZERO sales from these guys, so dont think it'll matter much what happens from here on out -

I am not sure but I think they actually have their own editorial people look at the pictures before they release them to partners. Some pictures go to "refused" for a certain partner almost immediately, while the rest then stays for weeks or months in "released". To me that indicates that someone at Zoonar decided not to send that particular file.

Also, since they allow mingling of languages in keywords and most others do not, I suppose they have to edit out (or translate) keywords by hand. Their own fault, really, but us paying for agency inefficiency isn't new or limited to Zoonar.

What a heck!
Why only Corbis is forbidden, why not Alamy or SS etc...?

Maybe they just hate Corbis a little more than the rest of them? 

And you can already hear the familiar Getty tune being sung in the near background - La Di Da Reduced Royalties La Di Da.

YMMD  

Here's a little more detail from Zoonar's site as to what Getty channels they will be using:

Getty Images is probably the best known global picture agency. You can submit RF photos of all price ranges to Getty Images. Your photos will be distributed via the Getty platforms Jupiterimages, Thinkstock and Photolibrary, perhaps via Photos.com too. Photolibrary was acquired by Getty Images in 2011, but still sells photos in the Asian market.

Getty Images generates very high sales numbers. Therefore, we strongly recommend you accept this partner. Some photos on Photolibrary and Jupiterimages are sold at very high prices. However, the majority of photos are sold via subscription at low prices and in large numbers.

For me and my (non-stocky) port they are far better than Veer, far better than Yay. Still a low earner though.

I am German (as is Panther Media) but that shouldn't have anything to do with it, as I keyword in English and my port isn't particularly German.

My Veer account has been stuck in the registration/approval process for months now. I have about 50 approved images, but they do not show in search. In Workspace it says that my tax forms are being reviewed. The link to redo the tax forms eventually leads to an error message ("try again later").

I have repeatedly tried to reach someone at Veer. The Corbis employees that man the help chat are very nice and try to help, but they are salespeople and don't know how to do contributor support. I have mailed to all the addresses they gave me, but to no avail. The best result was at [email protected]: I received an out of office reply telling me that there would be nobody there on January 2 (I tried this today).

All this leads me to ask: Does anybody else have these problems? How can I reach them? And: Is Veer even worth all this trouble?

Bienvenidos, dude.

Those photos look beautiful. I am sure some will do well as microstock, and I concur with the others that you should submit to both iStock and Shutterstock. You might also want to use an RM agency like Alamy for those pictures that are not typical stock...

Love your country and your city (and your women ), BTW.