I am interested in finding out more about how approval rating are changes over time. I am going to start tracking my rating more mathematically (currently its like Dreamtime: most, iStock: some, etc)

Has anyone else noticed shifts in approval for certain agencies. I am thinking of one in particular, but trying not to mention it just to see if others have noticed the same ageny.

If not, I'll post eventually.

I find ShutterStock's approval rating to have gone way down. I used to get about 60%. Not it's about 10%. Other agencies are accepting the same or similiar photos...and they're selling.

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That is interesting. I have nearly 90% approval on Shutterstock, but submit mostly illustrations to them. I find that they are not as picky as they should be on these, but it is a whole different set of criteria. Focus and noise are not a factor.

The one that has dropped for me is StockXpert. They usued to accept almost everything I sent in and they are don to about 60% now.


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I find ShutterStock impossible to please with photographic images! Tried three times to get on board by submitting their set of ten each time. In all three cases, they rejected over 80%. When the two not showing a rejection issue were submitted with eight new ones, they rejected the two and six of the new ones. Futhermore all images were already up on DreamsTime and each had ssales. I do not believe they want any more photogs.

Dreamstime has a 50% acceptance rate on average. Only thing I do not like about them is they accept only their Model Release. I use a generic release that I designed, and is accepted everywhere else. Only thing I will not disclose is the FULL ADDRESS of the model. That is due to privacy and security. I do provide the City and State and Country.

Fotolia is about 78% to 89% for me. Recently, I had 11 out of 20 images rejected due to "TYPE". That is approaching the unacceptable level.

Bigstock was around 95%, but toughened up and is now like 84% for me. Some guys and gals have seen their acceptance rating crash to 10% or less? Reason "Alittle too Fuzzy."

Harry

i've had similar exp:

tried 3 times w shutterstock -- all images accepted by at least 5-6 other agencies -- all rejected, and NO reply to any emails

istock, dreamtime - about 50% acceptance - d seems to have gotten tougher lately [hard to tell for sure, as mty submissions have not been consistent, so the subject, etc may make a didffernece]

big,123,fotolia - 60-80% -- weird thing is that while big takes almost everything, their rejects tend to be for 'blurry' when same image has been accepted by istock & dreamtime!

featurepics, microstockphoto - 90%, but no sales yet after 3 mos

albumo - 90%, just started

I just got accepted by iStock as they found the three images I sent in acceptable. So when I sent them in for approval as stock images, they were rejected? Reason was " "a few artifacts". These images are my top sellers on four other sites.

In addition to these three, I sent 12 other images - 9 of which were rejected for "Over Filtered". The three they kept actually had no sales yet on other sites. The nine rejected each had good sales records on all four of the other sites?

I am of the conclusion that Microstock reviewers are told to reject a certain number of images. So if they happen to approve 70 to 80 percent of the photog reviewed before you, then the rejection quota will be dumped on you if you happen to be a newbee or have less than a thousand images.

It might be time to consider giving up the ghost on this stuff.

Harry

I haven't really noticed any difference in acceptance. Shutterstocks always really picky with my pictures. I usually correct the mistakes why it was rejected and most get accepted.


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i got some odd rejection reasons: 1) file was overfiltered with noise reduction software. The file was untouched. 2) file overfiltered. I never filtered the image. 3) cant find a central focus. Hard to believe when the central focus is a singular object! Nothing else to center your focus on.


They have become somewhat annoying . . . make the reason at least legitimate.