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Agency Based Discussion => Shutterstock.com => Topic started by: eliastheGreek on January 16, 2012, 04:31

Title: SS running late on approval time?
Post by: eliastheGreek on January 16, 2012, 04:31: Hi everybody!
I have noticed some delay on SS approval time. I have batches been in queue from the 8th of January. And my "batches" are usually of no more than 3 photos. Has anyone else noticed this delay ?

Thanks.
Title: Re: SS running late on approval time?
Post by: Paulo M. F. Pires on January 16, 2012, 04:37: Nope. My batchs are 20~30 files each, and Editorial take less a day, and others around 1-3 Days.
Title: Re: SS running late on approval time?
Post by: nicku on January 16, 2012, 05:28: Nope.... 2 days max. including weekends.
Title: Re: SS running late on approval time?
Post by: eliastheGreek on January 16, 2012, 05:37: Thanks a lot for your replies. Have just emailed them the issue.

Cheers!
Title: Re: SS running late on approval time?
Post by: wut on January 16, 2012, 05:41: Reviewed in a matter of hours 30 photos a batch lately. Good luck with getting a reply from them (at least in a timely fashion)
Title: Re: SS running late on approval time?
Post by: eliastheGreek on January 17, 2012, 03:24: Actually what happened was that I emailed them the problem, all batches were approved in an hour and after a couple of hours they replied that they don't see anything in the inspection queue (naturally) !! Well, I swear I am clean for over a year !!! ;)
Thanks for your input.
Cheers!
Title: Re: SS running late on approval time?
Post by: stockmarketer on January 17, 2012, 14:52: To me it looks like they're reviewing in record time. Some recent batches have been approved in under an hour lately.
Title: Re: SS running late on approval time?
Post by: Tryingmybest on January 26, 2012, 05:53: Quote from: eliastheGreek on January 16, 2012, 04:31
Hi everybody!
I have noticed some delay on SS approval time. I have batches been in queue from the 8th of January. And my "batches" are usually of no more than 3 photos. Has anyone else noticed this delay ?

Thanks.

Yep. Mine have been piling up. Very odd. Some have been in there over a week. Must be all those iStock ex-exclusives flooding the cue. ;)
Title: Re: SS running late on approval time?
Post by: nicku on January 26, 2012, 05:59: yap, 6 days and still waiting. The ex exclusives.... ;D ;D .... good one.
Title: Re: SS running late on approval time?
Post by: dcdp on January 26, 2012, 23:52: Quote from: TheBlackRhino on January 26, 2012, 05:53
Quote from: eliastheGreek on January 16, 2012, 04:31
Hi everybody!
I have noticed some delay on SS approval time. I have batches been in queue from the 8th of January. And my "batches" are usually of no more than 3 photos. Has anyone else noticed this delay ?

Thanks.

Yep. Mine have been piling up. Very odd. Some have been in there over a week. Must be all those iStock ex-exclusives flooding the cue. ;)
Speaking as a very recently iStock ex-exclusive, there isn't much point loading up the queue until the 30 day notice is almost up otherwise your images will be 30 days old when they become active. I'll be loading up my queue starting around the 15th Feb to make sure I have plenty of fresh files once I can make them available. Between now and then I'm only uploading a few here or there as "test" files to see what works and what doesn't at SS. I realise reviews and reviewers vary, but I have learned a few things alreayd in terms of differences between iStock and SS. Some rejected on iStock have been accepted at SS and vice versa.

So in answer to your post, they could be iStock ex-exclusives but they have had to quit iStock mid December.

ETA: As an aside my last batch inspected took a bit more than 3 days. I have a whole 13 images in my portfolio now!
Title: Re: SS running late on approval time?
Post by: PinnacleAnimates on January 27, 2012, 00:34: yes.. delays are there... Uploaded on Monday morning and got approved on Thursday late night...
Title: Re: SS running late on approval time?
Post by: Karimala on January 27, 2012, 01:16: Uploaded a batch on the 22nd and it was approved within hours. Uploaded another batch the same day after the approval and it's still sitting there. Very weird.
Title: Re: SS running late on approval time?
Post by: lagereek on January 27, 2012, 01:22: No delay here.
Title: Re: SS running late on approval time?
Post by: jm on January 27, 2012, 02:07: Photos are approved without delay, approval of vectors and bitmap illustrations takes much longer than usually.