Quote from: MisterElements on June 12, 2013, 07:15

I personally find new images on Shutterstock go nowhere fast. In my experience with vectors FT, DP and 123RF  my new images start getting sells faster. In fact Shutterstock makes just slightly more then most of my sites. I'm always so shocked their ranking is so high. I'm often wonder if the results for vectors and photos would be much different. Maybe the Earnings Rating chart should have  photos and vectors split. I think the vector chart would see a very different result.

Because for the majority they are the top seller. You and a few others got hit hard, but for many its still good business. My second earner is FT and thats 1/6th of what I do at SS. My 3rd earner is 123 at the moment, but thats 1/10th of SS earnings.

I'm sorry Ron I think you may have misunderstood me and run off the track with my point    My FT, DP and 123rf have grown very well and SS went down slightly. Making the difference between site earnings for me personally much closer. I'm a lvl 5 on 123rf if I did indeed make 10 times what I make on 123rf on SS well then....that would be crazy town awesome.  I was not "hit hard" by anything. Microstock is still a very good business for me as a whole.    My point was and still is....I think photos and vectors would see some very different results on the Earnings Chart

Congrats Sean! I feel DP is a great site!

I'll say it again... 123RF is top tier.   They'll officially be one of the "Big 4" in four to six months.

I very much agree with you!

I've been with them for more then 6 years and this year I've had a couple BME and this month I made BME on the 19th. I feel 123rf is a fantastic site!

when does the switch begin?

I'm at a BME on 123RF!!! Best of 80+ months. Thank you 123RF!

I upload weekly batches and see very good returns and bumps.

I also feel they have an easy uploading process with fast review times with high approval rates. A Solid middle tier earner for me.

Thanks a lot. Although this constant analyzing tend to be quite a costly affair for many of us.

Agreed......and maybe his title should be investor success?

I really don't have any best sellers on SS in recent years.......Now in the last year on FT  I have files that have sold hundreds of times each pushing ahead from the pack in my port. Oddly this does not happen any longer for me on SS.

SS is like rolling dice for me now.

BS is my lowest earner.

Thanks Anglee
  I resubmitted the batch and they where 100% approved within 24hrs! I even have a nice little sales bump today. thanks for getting back to us.
Best
 Erik aka MisterElements

Hi guys,

When people come to the forums, they're usually commenting about a group of images that took much longer than normal (i.e., people rarely come to the forums to say "my review was fast and efficient").  Therefore, it builds a notion that everyone is experiencing the same thing or that the worst-case-scenario is the mainstream scenario, which isn't the case.  Of course that still matters to us greatly, since everyone should be getting fast and efficient service.

Submission volume has been high across all of our queues. There are two queues that have -- very admittedly -- spiked for us lately: one is our vector queue; the other is our queue of batches of images that have issues (this secondary track).  Hence, we've come out with various policy communications to make sure that the images coming to us meet our standards and are less likely to be problematic.  For example, blog posts on marking illustrations accurately, our editorial credential policy, standardized releases, property releases for illustrations, etc..., all of which are designed to prevent problematic submissions from happening in the first place. 

Its probably obvious, but every contributor has an interest in other contributors providing frictionless submissions, because the most time-intensive submissions slow things down for everyone.   As with the Contributor Success Guide and our numerous blog posts, our goal is to increasingly invest in internationalized educational material, contributor tools and policy simplifications (as well as our internal processes) to reduce turnarounds for everybody. 

Best,

Scott

Thanks for the fast response

"Therefore, it builds a notion that everyone is experiencing the same thing or that the worst-case-scenario is the mainstream scenario, which isn't the case"

So why does my wife who is a top tier vector artist have the same problems on her account Maybe lighting striking in the same house hold ?

intresting Scott may I ask why this image below with these ref images has taken more then 10 days now?

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=470031976398618&set=a.310515332350284.71655.310236269044857&type=1&theater

Or this image with ref?

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=470777679657381&set=a.310515332350284.71655.310236269044857&type=1&theater

 These reasons below do not apply in my case....I will not speculate about the problems SS may have .....so I must ask what is really happening at SS?

    Incorrectly labeled images.  Blog post here.
    Event images lacking credentials (i.e., those taken on private property, etc...).  Blog post here.
    Images with problematic model or property releases. Greater release support and numerous languages here and refined policies here.
    Images with more complex trademark or copyright determinations
    "Spam"-type submissions where the commercial value is unclear (large submissions of abstract backgrounds, etc...)

They must be just dumb....this hurts them as well. They make less we make less = real dumb FT.....no one wins     I guess we have to see if this leads to a higher volume of sales.