Author Topic: Veer Marketplace Is Live (Read 27001 times)

michealo · « **Reply #1 on:** February 23, 2009, 12:20 »

sounds very (un) luckyoliver

perkmeup · « **Reply #2 on:** February 23, 2009, 12:36 »

So....how do we contribute directly to the site. The main reason I never contibuted much to Snap Village is because of the painful upload process. I got so frustrated that I just deleted most of them....

tubed · « **Reply #3 on:** February 23, 2009, 12:39 »

Quote from: AaronBooth on February 23, 2009, 12:09

Hi everyone,

Veer Marketplace is now live on Veer.com. Check it out: http://www.veer.com/marketplace

This phase one launch features the first batch of SV contributors to be moved over to Veer. More SV contributors will be moved over the next couple of months. And then in spring/summer we'll have the full Marketplace site up and running, so contributors can upload their images directly to Veer.

Let us know what you think and feel free to ask Brian and I any questions.

Aaron

ps. The announcement of "A Brand New Low" is a tongue and check reference to pricing. Veer customers are smart design nerds so they love the inside jokes.

What if we have not been moved over yet and would like to start uploading right away?

Freezingpictures · « **Reply #5 on:** February 23, 2009, 12:43 »

So do you take every contributor from snapvillage? I am not yet on Veer I just discovered. Will I be there automatically when I am on Snapvillage?

tubed · « **Reply #6 on:** February 23, 2009, 12:47 »

Quote from: AaronBooth on February 23, 2009, 12:42

We'll be accepting direct submissions to Veer Marketplace in spring/summer once the upload tool is launched.

For now, you can submit your contact details here and then we'll contact you when it's ready to go:

http://submissions.veer.com

OK, I'll just wait..

AaronBooth · « **Reply #7 on:** February 23, 2009, 12:49 »

We're going to take most of SV contributors for Veer Marketplace. I can't say "all" because Veer has different submissions criteria than SV. The simple answer: we'll take as much as possible.

SV contributors that are not moved over will be welcome to submit to Veer Marketplace after the spring/summer launch. We'll have more guidance on the site as to our criteria and the Community Content Editors will also be there to provide feedback so everyone has a clear idea of what we're looking for.

helix7 · « **Reply #8 on:** February 23, 2009, 12:55 »

Quote from: AaronBooth on February 23, 2009, 12:49

SV contributors that are not moved over will be welcome to submit to Veer Marketplace after the spring/summer launch. We'll have more guidance on the site as to our criteria and the Community Content Editors will also be there to provide feedback so everyone has a clear idea of what we're looking for.

Just to clarify, we don't need to do anything in order to be moved over to Veer, correct? Like I don't need to set up an account at Veer... assuming I'm selected to be transferred over, it's all automatic? And I suppose I will just be able to log in at Veer using the same login I used at SnapVillage?

AaronBooth · « **Reply #9 on:** February 23, 2009, 13:03 »

Yes, SV images, user names, accounts, etc. will be moved over automatically.

runamock · « **Reply #10 on:** February 23, 2009, 13:04 »

I have the same questions as helix7 and why do we need to submit our contact details again? You already have them!

Edit:

Oh you answered before I asked!

Eco · « **Reply #11 on:** February 23, 2009, 13:22 »

Will Veer Marketplace be truly open to photographers from around the globe, or will they also limit their contributors to those few countries that are supported by PayPal. I joined SV right in the beginning, but had to delete my images when I realized that SV have no intention of paying contributors in countries not supported by PayPal. I still have an account at SV, but no images. I will be interested to contribute to Veer Marketplace, but only if I can get paid.

AaronBooth · « **Reply #12 on:** February 23, 2009, 13:37 »

Veer Marketplace will be global. Absolutely, we'll have other payment options in addition to PayPal to make it work for everyone.

lisafx · « **Reply #13 on:** February 23, 2009, 13:45 »

Quote from: AaronBooth on February 23, 2009, 12:42

We'll be accepting direct submissions to Veer Marketplace in spring/summer once the upload tool is launched.

For now, you can submit your contact details here and then we'll contact you when it's ready to go:

http://submissions.veer.com

I just left my info. There was no way to sign up just to Veer Marketplace so I submitted my application to Veer.

I will be interested in submitting to Veer Marketplace when that option is available. Please keep us posted here

AaronBooth · « **Reply #14 on:** February 23, 2009, 13:59 »

Will do!

And on the submissions.veer.com questionnaire, make sure to select "Marketplace" from the drop down menu so your contact info is sent to the right place.

PeterChigmaroff · « **Reply #15 on:** February 23, 2009, 14:59 »

Aaron,

Looks good, however the image search seems to generate thumbnails very slowly.

Maui · « **Reply #16 on:** February 23, 2009, 15:17 »

There is something strange with the questionnaire. I filled it in, but after pressing submit the form is displayed again, but with many more entry fields and questions than before. A bug?

Maui · « **Reply #17 on:** February 23, 2009, 15:21 »

Hm, much worse: After submitting the questionnaire I received a mail delivery notice from [email protected]:

Delivery to the following recipients failed.
[email protected]

There is something wrong.

Karimala · « **Reply #18 on:** February 23, 2009, 15:55 »

Quote from: Maui on February 23, 2009, 15:21

Hm, much worse: After submitting the questionnaire I received a mail delivery notice from [email protected]:

Delivery to the following recipients failed.
[email protected]

There is something wrong.

I just got the very same thing less than a minute ago.

melastmohican · « **Reply #19 on:** February 23, 2009, 16:16 »

So it's on before all accounts are transferred from SV, right? How long it will take to transfer accounts? Shall I wait or apply for account at Veer Marketplace?

grp_photo · « **Reply #20 on:** February 23, 2009, 16:48 »

The site is very, very, very slow. I'm not surprised

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AaronBooth · « **Reply #21 on:** February 23, 2009, 16:56 »

Hm. Checking on the questionnairre email issue. Should be resolved soon.

melastmohican -- Images are transferred during "phase one", then accounts are transferred for the full launch in spring/summer. You don't need to open a new account at Veer Marketplace. We'll do it for you to make sure your settings are retained.

Update on the site speed from dev:

"Aaron – there is a slowness right now due to caching on the site. As there are no existing searches for Veer Marketplace, the search hits the prod server and builds the result set from scratch. The next time the search is done – it pulls from the server cache which speeds it up. This will resolve itself."

grp_photo · « **Reply #22 on:** February 23, 2009, 17:09 »

If you try to browse through the markteplace via categories it switches back to normal veer as soon as you click the next site. Search also seems only to work for normal veer.

AaronBooth · « **Reply #23 on:** February 23, 2009, 17:23 »

Hi grp_photo, not sure what you mean by "next site". Do you mean to click to the next page of search results? Marketplace results are maintained as you move through the pages.

grp_photo · « **Reply #24 on:** February 23, 2009, 17:28 »

No it does not in the first place but i noticed the tab for marketplace with the tab it is possible to browse through marketplace. I also noticed the checkbox for marketplace in the search box. Still extremly slow for me will try it tommorow.

Elenathewise · « **Reply #25 on:** February 23, 2009, 17:52 »

What is the search results order? It seems no matter which subject I search for, especially people related, I get images from Yuri Arcurs portfolio first:) Does your relevance search go something like this: "show whatever matches from Yuri's porfolio and then everything else"?:-) His stuff is good, no question, but what about the rest of us? I don't think I will be able to sell anything if my images consistently show up on page 25...

gbcimages · « **Reply #26 on:** February 23, 2009, 18:00 »

The site works fine for me but it would be nice if you did rotate the images when searching for certain images so everyone at a giving time would have their images
in the front pages

PeterChigmaroff · « **Reply #28 on:** February 24, 2009, 13:07 »

Will sales at Veer be posted on Snap Village?

AaronBooth · « **Reply #29 on:** February 24, 2009, 14:07 »

Hi Zeus, until Veer Marketplace is fully launched in spring/summer, sales will be reported and paid to contributors via SnapVillage.

null · « **Reply #31 on:** February 24, 2009, 18:11 »

Will Veer leave our keywords alone? SV used to alter my keywords for the worst, that's one of the reasons I stopped uploading there.

bittersweet · « **Reply #32 on:** February 24, 2009, 19:40 »

Am I seeing things correctly? That I can add these images to my cart right alongside images from the macro side, and pay for the whole thing by PO like I always have?

bittersweet · « **Reply #35 on:** February 25, 2009, 00:19 »

Quote from: brian_oshea on February 24, 2009, 21:09

Quote from: whatalife on February 24, 2009, 19:40
Am I seeing things correctly? That I can add these images to my cart right alongside images from the macro side, and pay for the whole thing by PO like I always have?

Hi whatalife -

Yup!

- Brian

That totally rocks! THANKS!

null · « **Reply #36 on:** February 25, 2009, 09:57 »

Quote from: brian_oshea on February 24, 2009, 21:06

On Veer Marketplace submitted keywords will be mapped to the Veer controlled vocabulary.

CV is the way to go, but as the iStock experience learned, it puts a lot of overhead on the contributors (in terms of disambiguation etc), especially since microstock is a numbers game. I'm curious with what you will come up with!

PeterChigmaroff · « **Reply #37 on:** February 25, 2009, 10:27 »

I could be wrong here but this looks like the first major agency that has decided to put its micro offerings on a tab right next to everything else. I'm not sure about Jupiter, I never followed them very closely.

Maui · « **Reply #38 on:** February 25, 2009, 10:54 »

Quote from: AaronBooth on February 23, 2009, 16:56

Hm. Checking on the questionnairre email issue. Should be resolved soon.

Has this been resolved now? I would hate seeing my input disappear in a black hole again.

tubed · « **Reply #39 on:** February 25, 2009, 11:24 »

Quote from: Zeus on February 25, 2009, 10:27

I could be wrong here but this looks like the first major agency that has decided to put its micro offerings on a tab right next to everything else. I'm not sure about Jupiter, I never followed them very closely.

Yes as far as I know, but inmagine is doing the same thing right now with 123 as well..

bittersweet · « **Reply #40 on:** February 25, 2009, 15:13 »

Quote from: Zeus on February 25, 2009, 10:27

I could be wrong here but this looks like the first major agency that has decided to put its micro offerings on a tab right next to everything else. I'm not sure about Jupiter, I never followed them very closely.

Yes, I think it is. The huge difference that I see is that I can use a corporate account and one shopping cart to make purchases seamlessly from the entire collection, micro and macro, with a single PO number, without the clunkiness of having to switch between two payment systems. I don't have to purchase a huge number of credits in advance a la istock corporate and subscriptions. I don't have to make client purchases out of my pocket and then later be reimbursed, a la everyone else.

Sorry to gush.

PeterChigmaroff · « **Reply #41 on:** February 25, 2009, 16:18 »

Quote from: whatalife on February 25, 2009, 15:13

Quote from: Zeus on February 25, 2009, 10:27
I could be wrong here but this looks like the first major agency that has decided to put its micro offerings on a tab right next to everything else. I'm not sure about Jupiter, I never followed them very closely.

Yes, I think it is. The huge difference that I see is that I can use a corporate account and one shopping cart to make purchases seamlessly from the entire collection, micro and macro, with a single PO number, without the clunkiness of having to switch between two payment systems. I don't have to purchase a huge number of credits in advance a la istock corporate and subscriptions. I don't have to make client purchases out of my pocket and then later be reimbursed, a la everyone else.

Sorry to gush.

Well it is big deal, although it can be argued for it's advantages and disadvantages.

greener · « **Reply #42 on:** February 25, 2009, 16:33 »

this sounds quite exciting. I am looking forward to seeing how it plays out.

bittersweet · « **Reply #43 on:** February 25, 2009, 18:25 »

No doubt, Zeus, someone will find something to argue about, but from my perspective as a buyer it is a 100% big fat positive thing.

Brian O'Shea · « **Reply #44 on:** February 26, 2009, 20:11 »

FYI: For those that had trouble with the Product Submission Questionnaire - these submissions are flowing through properly now. If you had problems before - please try again.

- Brian

jsolie · « **Reply #45 on:** February 28, 2009, 16:08 »

Quote from: AaronBooth on February 23, 2009, 13:03

Yes, SV images, user names, accounts, etc. will be moved over automatically.

Will we receive an email indicating when our images, account, etc. are moved over?

Stu99 · « **Reply #47 on:** March 02, 2009, 14:25 »

I already see most of my SV images moved over.

I had stopped submitting to SV due to low sales, however, I am excited about the prospect of Veer Marketplace and will be closely watching their progress and hope to start submitting again. I like the different product offerings on the same site, this could be an interesting development.

rimglow · « **Reply #48 on:** March 02, 2009, 15:32 »

Move me! Move me!

Freedom · « **Reply #49 on:** March 05, 2009, 15:45 »

Brian, before I get moved to Veer, if I continue to submit to Snapvillage, will my photos be reviewed? What is the current timeframe for the reviews?

Thanks.

Quote from: brian_oshea on March 02, 2009, 13:38

Quote from: jsolie on February 28, 2009, 16:08
Quote from: AaronBooth on February 23, 2009, 13:03
Yes, SV images, user names, accounts, etc. will be moved over automatically.

Will we receive an email indicating when our images, account, etc. are moved over?

Hi joslie -

Yup. We'll let you know.
This process is going to take time - so don't fret if you don't hear from us right away.

- Brian

helix7 · « **Reply #51 on:** March 05, 2009, 22:25 »

Quote from: whatalife on February 25, 2009, 18:25

No doubt, Zeus, someone will find something to argue about, but from my perspective as a buyer it is a 100% big fat positive thing.

I agree, it's a very positive thing. Right now the company I work for has both a Veer account and an istock corporate account, but the istock account is clunky and lacks some basic record-keeping and PO functionality. You can't even assign internal PO numbers or job numbers to a single istock image purchase, just to a credit purchase (which is pretty much useless). But this combined Veer offering looks like it might be the ideal solution. Just need to wait until the marketplace is populated with enough images.

Freedom · « **Reply #52 on:** March 05, 2009, 22:35 »

Thank you very much, Brian, for your timely response.

My question was referring to the review time for images submitted to SnapVillage. The second part of your response is also very much appreciated.

Fyletto · « **Reply #53 on:** April 27, 2009, 12:08 »

Hi, if I understand it well, Veer is about to start. Ok, I applied to join few weeks ago, but recieved no response yet... Is it normal? Thanks

leaf · « **Reply #55 on:** April 28, 2009, 00:56 »

I'm looking forward to when it is possible to upload through Veer.

borg · « **Reply #56 on:** April 28, 2009, 04:08 »

Quote from: AaronBooth on February 23, 2009, 13:37

Veer Marketplace will be global. Absolutely, we'll have other payment options in addition to PayPal to make it work for everyone.

Will Moneybookers be live on Veer?

AaronBooth · « **Reply #57 on:** May 01, 2009, 11:10 »

Yes indeed, Veer Marketplace will offer PayPal and Moneybookers as payment options.

m@m · « **Reply #58 on:** May 01, 2009, 12:15 »

EDITED: never mind!

Dreamframer · « **Reply #60 on:** May 01, 2009, 13:35 »

What about FTP? That was the only reason why I quit submitting to SV

melastmohican · « **Reply #61 on:** May 01, 2009, 13:46 »

Every time I read this subject I want to check if it's ALIVE for me. NOPE, my photos aren't there yet.

Kngkyle · « **Reply #64 on:** May 01, 2009, 20:49 »

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