havent had a sale in years and recenty i had one sale of 10 cents via adobe and the 1 cent via getty.the 1 cent image was very good for my eyes to receive just 1 cent.
this agency got greedy like shutterstock and they robbing the contributors.also people complain to their fb that they dont receive their payments in time.
i agree with jo ann WALK AWAY.i d rather stay with ss even with the 10 cents joke than them
not to mention their moronic rejection massage you prob get  from an AI  THE IMAGE WASNT SELECTED FOR THE MARKET PLACE without any  clear reason why
i still remember when someone got 1 cent for a very commercial image like the ones you see in magazines with a model of course and he left the very same day

actually i am into photography also so i will post some of my images as backgrounds,and i might use images from public domain sites like the metropolitan site or the ny public library.i checked the metropolitan site it was mentioned above and you can use images with no probs in your project
once again thanks for the answers /i went and removed some videos i posted with images from the site. freeimages.com  imediatelly .

hi i ve been composing some music lately and i ve bee posting it in youtube and tik tok
i used two wallapers from my pc as a background to my music .when i played somewhere over the rainbow in the piano and i used  a movie poster of wizard of ozz it was shadowbaned in tik tok.they use AI and the AI saw it as a copyright thing
i found this page free images.com and if offers high quality images as roylalty free.some people take these images cause these are public domain and sell it in stock sites
i dont want to sell these images,but i wanna use them as backgrounds to my music for yt and tik tok
so my qs is can i do that? cause it says the site is royalty free images.i dont want to get warnings in the future from yt .
is anyone else using these from these sites to your project?

i had a good sale few days ago,on pond5  and my port there is under 100 videos.so that gave me hope and much better money than the joke 20 cents from other agencies

you sure they are not brothers?

where have you been the last 5 years?

angela thats happening cause they use AI to reviews photos.this has been discussed to death here and in their forums
its not humans who review your content.although i believe some reviewers in the past rejected pics cause they were bored to check for technical errors or they had already a portolio and they didnt want to compete
but the truth is nowdays the contributors have to deal with some stupid ROBOT in one word .you said it your shelf they are rejected the first day they are approved the next without  any changes
and all that for 10 cents
you can continue and dont care or quit and move somewhere else
 ss is not the only agency out there

the best thing is to not share your opinions,when its something negative towards the agency  at their forums anymore.they dont want you to criticize them for any of their actions.including the joke 10 cents sales
its their site.its  their business.ITS their rules.although i find it bit funny that there is a thread for other agencies to work with with the title new oportunites. i guess that didnt bother them, that people  talking about their competitors and the thread is still active
what really annoyes  me with ss is not so much the 10 cents ok its something serious.BUT the whole AI reviewing images
you getting tons of rejections cause of some stupid program and it drives many people away .
unfo i see this happening lately with adobe.the one rejection after the other and i have to wonder if they are also using an AI

if your rejection came from shutterstock then you know they use an AI to review images right?
this dumb tecnology reads clouds and rain and snow as noise and birds in the sky as sports on the camera sensor lol
istock accepts everything ecxept from illustrations.they are very picky in that area
then its adobe so maybe they now do the same? they also use an ai to review our images?
the thing is AN AI is taking over the microstock world/ and some ai will deside if our picture is technically perfect to go on sale or not
its like with these stupid algorythms on instagram and youtube

Hey gang.

I have a question about releases: I'm getting footage rejected, because I don't have a property release. The footage is aerial stuff of Copenhagen - just with normal housing and residental areas, no known buildings or landmarks.
Yet I see others having loads of material up, from everywhere in the world, with literaly 100's of buildings (including known ones), selling it as commercial clips (NOT editorial). HOW?!? How is that possible, and then why do I get rejections for some clip of a few simple apartment blocks....?

Please help me to understand this

hi if you are talking about shutterstock its not only you with this issue.they using AI and it does all the rejections for moronic reasons
have you send this video to pond 5? they ll  prob accept it and you can sell it more if it sells

And yet in the ss forums some users defend the ss with a passion.msybe these are also reviewers? Xmmm

and all that for 24 p 

unfo adobe does the same thing lately.and now they using as a ecxuse for rejection, Image quality.i double check my images before i submit A and B   And since when microstock photography  was  only for  expensive full frame cameras and ff  lenses? use a nikon d3300 and a sigma 17 50 and it might not be in the same league with ff cameras but still the quality is very good.Not to mention that i now change  the wb in lr a bit so the image looks good at least in my eyes
if you dont want a specific theme in your galleries just say it so. we have too many of these images.shoot somethin else. case is done not the moronic oh noise artifacts IMAGE QUALITY duhhhhhhhhhhhh
and btw I BOUGHT RECENTLY A FF CAMERA but still in box cause of this * virus