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Agency Based Discussion => Shutterstock.com => Topic started by: JetCityImage on August 15, 2016, 09:58

Title: W.T.H? No sales for the day and none of my pics in search results!!!
Post by: JetCityImage on August 15, 2016, 09:58
I searched for a particular phone company and the results were T-SHIRTS. I can't imagine buyers are happy with the change. Is this an experiment or permanent change?
Title: Re: W.T.H? No sales for the day and none of my pics in search results!!!
Post by: alno on August 15, 2016, 10:31
It's their permanent experiment...
Title: Re: W.T.H? No sales for the day and none of my pics in search results!!!
Post by: Dumc on August 15, 2016, 10:36
Thats probably, because SS doesn't allow brands in keywords, as far as I know.
Title: Re: W.T.H? No sales for the day and none of my pics in search results!!!
Post by: alno on August 15, 2016, 10:53
Thats probably, because SS doesn't allow brands in keywords, as far as I know.


They accept brands: http://www.shutterstock.com/video/search/?autocomplete_id=&language=en&lang=en&search_source=&safesearch=1&version=llv1&searchterm=iphone&site=videos (http://www.shutterstock.com/video/search/?autocomplete_id=&language=en&lang=en&search_source=&safesearch=1&version=llv1&searchterm=iphone&site=videos)
Title: Re: W.T.H? No sales for the day and none of my pics in search results!!!
Post by: famfara on August 15, 2016, 14:33
Same here, few of my illustration are nowhere to find on shutterstock ("people avatars" no brand involved) and also no sales for a few days.Never experienced this before.
Title: Re: W.T.H? No sales for the day and none of my pics in search results!!!
Post by: Justanotherphotographer on August 15, 2016, 15:08
Could it be the system misidentifying titles as spam? Do the missing files have words that appear more than once in the titles?
Title: Re: W.T.H? No sales for the day and none of my pics in search results!!!
Post by: Photobomb on August 15, 2016, 16:43
I just did a quick search - assuming you mean the company that starts with "T" - I got 95 pages of results no shirts and easily found one of yours on the first page. and there are others upon further scanning.

edit:
Did their Auto-complete function default you to t-shirt instead and you just didn't notice?
Title: Re: W.T.H? No sales for the day and none of my pics in search results!!!
Post by: JetCityImage on August 15, 2016, 17:16
Nope, my search was for "AT&T," and if you just do "att," you get a few results and then tennis pictures.
Title: Re: W.T.H? No sales for the day and none of my pics in search results!!!
Post by: Photobomb on August 15, 2016, 18:06
well that blows - for anyone wanting to buy or sell AT&T images.
Add the word 'phone' to the search it helps.