My experience of doing business on eBay is that it is full of untrustworthy buyers, scammers. eg, I was selling a Hassleblad digital camera and lens etc. I had an offer to send it to an address  in California, so I googled the address and it was a derelict building on the edge of town.
And in Aus, all buyers want to do is beat your price down, auctions no luck.
We have a thing called Gumtree which I think is world wide, that is not as bad but still issues with buyers.
In the past I sold an item to someone in the same city, during the sale process they winged about pricing because they had lived in singapore and how bad Australia was, then once the item was delivered they complained to eBay about the product and I did not get my money for weeks, after contacting eBay on numerous occasions and had some kind of restrictions on my eBay account. There was nothing wrong with the product this person was just horrid.
The way I do business on these platforms now is I send the item when the money is in my bank account, not just on PayPal or cash on delivery.
Really sad that a few bad people spoil it for evryone.

For me stock, both still and moving iarea bit like retail one never knows what will get approved and what will get accepted.
Perhaps AS uses software to check images and not a human being.

As I was told a longtime ago, don't worry about an individual image, if your images are being accpted other places. "JUST keep shooting and uploading".

The more we shoot the more we learn about our craft, just a shame the people that have control of our images are not as passionate as us.

David May

Thanks for the link, and yes all my AS images are there.

Much appreciated.

I really like the concept but unless it is operated in a similar manner as Stocksy, were the original owners had great contacts in the advertising industry, I am sad to say I don't think it will work.
I do not know for sure but I reckon they have agreements with agencies that they are the first port of call for images and a lot will be shot as if the photographers are contracted by the agency, so that they get there bases covered and then the other work is the cream on top.

Can anyone please kick me in the right direction.
I want to start shooting stock video footage and am trying to find gear that will give me 4k @ 30fps, hopefully if not full 35mm frame then close to it.
I shoot Nikon and have a d800 and a number of good quality nikon lens that I would like to be able to use.
Got very excited about the d500 but it is dx and so my fx lens will be out of sinc with the camera, ie 50mm becomes 75mm etc.
I really like my 800, so  should I just keep the nikon and buy a high end point and shoot with a fixed lens.
I am getting the end of my tether here.
Have gone through Canon xc10, panasonic, sony, all of these are OK but one has to give up one or two features.
I don't want to make a feature film, just shoot good quality 4k stock.
Can someone please stop me going around in circles.
Thanks guys!

How about this a a bit of an alternative, Photographers that have their own online offerings gather together in a cooperative way and promote each others sites with some form of central locations where image users can go to search and then license the images they want.
Limit contributors to say less than 5000 images with NO similars.

Just my 2 bobs worth.

Before photographers post images to Imagebrief, I suggest that you look into the ACTUAL sales they make, I have entered a number of briefs, at least 2 of these were URGENT must be filled promptly, they sat around for literally weeks, then closed and the briefer did not purchase one image. When you look carefully at the briefs listed and the briefs that are filled is is pretty small.

I looked at Pond5, very early on for my still images and decided that they were a bunch of hoods then and have watched with interest, how they have performed as an entity, abusing there contributors all the way.

It's time us image creators started our own coop and got rid of the rip off artists.

Provide a good honest service to users as well as contributors. Like Stocksy but more reasonable prices.

One things ALL you contributors don't have to worry about is that YAY will make sure they get their pound of flesh out of this "Streaming deal".

The best thing to do is move your images elsewhere, if they ain't got images they can't rip you off.

There are numerous sites that give you a much better return than .27c.

Just my two cents worth.
Some of the NEWER sites seem to be allowing images that are obviously NOT RF into the RF section, saw this great pic of a melbourne alleyway full of coffee shops, people looking at the camera, logos everywhere and they were licensing it as RF and this site originates in Melbourne, you'd think they would know better.
So you should also be doubly careful submitting images to sites that just accept images as RF when the obviously are not.

Remember it is your responsibility, you took the shot!!

Best of luck sunshine, all the people you quoted are international celebrities with huge music companies and corporatre lawyers behind them.

I's worth looking at their closed and ended brief's that have NOT had any images shortlisted before you commit to spending money.

I upload what I have on file, been shortlisted a few times but not licensed anything yet and I sometimes think I am speaking another language to the person whom writes the brief's because the images chosen have NOTHING whatsoever to do with the brief wording.

Again they have a lot of hype on the site and talk about shoots that have been commisioned and just like Stocksy they do not disclose any information regarding sales JUST potential sales.

50% sounds good but without the data to back it up it is just Marketing hype.

So why don't you tell us potential Stocksy image creators firstly, what your sales figures are and % of images that sell for the magic $500.00. so we can concentrate on getting SELECTED to be part of the Coop.