Curating News and Updates

Recently I uploaded an editorial image of a local star, a picture taken in a public space during a public event. I asked in the 'note to curator' field that the file be marked for editorial use only. Guess what!? The file got rejected for missing release and I am instructed on how to upload one. No problem. But the curator insists that I should do what I already done: to mention in the 'note to curator' field that the file should be marked for editorial use only! That's nuts! As far as I know, there was not such a request for filling the 'note to curator' field asking to mark the image as 'for editorial use only' and the files missing a needed release were automatically marked as 'for editorial use only'. Just a waste of precious time for both sides. The file IS EDITORIAL.

p.s: on another site(usually more strict about the rules) the file was up in less than 24 hours. yes, the world is changing.

remember that P5 has told us they decide what is editorial. The checkbox about people or business really is meaningless. Over the years many times since they started they have told us the checkbox really does not mean anything.

... remember that squirrels are people too ;)

We should have like buttons on comments.

The curators should get back to work and catch up on stuff that's been sitting, waiting for months.

So... Any chance someone from Pond5 can let us know what's going on and if this 3-month lag will ever be caught up or we should just expect a 3-month delay when submitting new items.

Then they are ignoring stuff uploaded by others because I have stuff waiting longer than a few days.

New to the site. Am I getting this right that there is a 3 month delay in approving new items?

My last batch of clips took 3 months to get approved. My current batch is at 3-weeks and waiting. So, yeah, the queue is pretty long.

19 days... My current batch was just reviewed at 19 days, so they are catching up.

I'm at 17 days and 500 4K clips waiting for review ....