The problem is, new content is almost impossible to sell.
I think that their politics to accept everything to become the largest database in the world has led the to purposely hide the new content. Accepting everything means that they accept even sh*t. I've seen ports that are beyond any imagination, and I'm speaking of 100K+ ports that really should not even exist.
What do you do if the search engine shows such a shame? You make that the search only shows popular and bestseller images. But how can a content become popular if it just does not exist when you search for it? The beginning of this disaster was in late 2016 and we're still paying those brilliant ideas.

I fully agree with you that accepting everything of course leads to rubbish. But basically ShutterStock started to destroy the industry in the first place, by making downloads so cheap. That leads to mass production and acceptation of everything. So quantity above quality. My problem with SS is that they were going for both: and quantity and quality and that does not go together. So that is an additional push back.

If you make chip downloads and mass production, than allow everything, because for photographers to make any revenue, they need you upload bunch of everything. If you do not do that, it will make the death of stock faster. It will otherwise dye anyway, just slower. 

So, they are now finishing what they started when they appeared - take the market, take the money, destroy everything and run. But hopefully Adobe has seen what happens and still hold the line somehow, making the death of whole market a bit slower...

I think the least we can do is stop uploading there at all... if you have any self respect...

Probably I'll disable my account from 1st of June and fully concentrate on AdobeStock...

I've always had problems with iStock releases. Now they refuse them because "date on photo EXIF does not match date on release".

How can that be - there is no Date in my EXIF - I remove it always before I send the photo??? Probably they are looking at "modified date" of the file itself, and of course that is not the same date as when the photo is made...

So that is why I stopped sending them photos with people, it is not worth all the hassle.

I'm still uploading there because I have made upload process so easy - just one click at checkbox and it goes... But I'm thinking if it is even worth effort of that click...

I have some images from October 2018... I thought something is incomplete in them, but looks like something is incomplete in 123rf review process  who cares anyway...

Maybe a stupid question... where can you see how many files you've uploaded this year?

If you click on one image from your portfolio you can see the date when it is accepted. Every screen has 100 images, so it is easy to scroll the screens...

I finally managed to get 300 photos accepted this year!

It was good thing to increase productivity, but just I was wondering it the giveaway is still valid...

I would understand if they needed different MR's for different photo sessions, but this is just rubbish.
I have the same person, in the same environment, just different pose, same day, same time, and why then they need different release?
I have all rejected because of that again...

The other question is - do they check if we used the same release before current submission?
Or just if we used the same MR in the current one?

Actually I don't understand their call for artists, why are they doing it, when 99.9% of the photographers are going to be rejected?
I believe that their "call for artists" is made only for making the people believe that their content is something really extraordinary, giving them aura of being something special, or out of this world. I can not find out any other reason except spreading the story among photographers about their magic.

Because, if they need only like 10 photographers, they could have found them without any call for artists. They cold have simply sent them an email, without all this fuss. And this is absolutely not fair that people are left waiting 3 months without any answer.

I did try one year with awesome account or something similar, and realized that you get only view at your statistics - who liked your photos and frequency of views and comments, etc - something that I even don't want to see. You also get web site, but you get it also with your adobe subscription.

Everything else you get with free account, so it was easy decision for me, to step out. Selling photos does not depend on type of account.

Anyway, a few weeks ago I got one sale and earned something like 45 cents, so I immediately opted out of partner sales, and I will remove my photos from marketplace as well and keep low resolution files only, just I'm too lazy to even look there.

Thanks Sean... I also don't see until when is the call for artists opened?

Jim, Indeed, being accepted would give some sense of purpose to all this...

I developed my own Java program for automatic keywording and submiting images to stock agencies.

For keywording I used shutterstock site and JSoup HTTP requests for retrieving images and then choosing image from which you take the keywords. Basically I made my own browser with search field which only retrieves the thumbnails.

For sending them to agencies - you can use FTP service, very easy to program and all the agencies have FTP server.