Stupid rejection reasons...

cactii

Congratulation! Well done indeed. Be positive and move on is the best for your health and business. Hey you are the guy climbing up the E. Tower, are you?? This clip can't be sold because you don't have safety jacket and rope etc... and you (model) don't look like a technician without reflective safety jacket although you are one . Next time remember to wear one of this. LOL

BTW the smile of the woman is beautiful.. it Will sell...

More Bird.....

Seems as if curation has become a fair standard again, rejection rate less than 10% (no India curators).
Can't complain!

Back to 100% rejection here so maybe it was your lucky day, I wasted a whole week shooting, uploading and tagging, gonna upload full throttle to other sites for awhile since I already have a lot up here. Can't waste anymore time only to get 100% files returned or rejected.

cactii,

"Nice looking bird video! Should get that at a low angle (lay down on the ground)."


Spot on! Yes, the ideal angle will be on the water level, but I was filming on a bridge, can't go down there really. Most of my birds shot on low angle if possible.
## Some don't bother to shoot bird or priced very low because she/he think it is a easy shot. Your Turkey Vulture is not a easy shot if you are not there at that time, or just co-incident to be there. And it worth for over $100, not less, because YOU shot it.. ::))

Beautiful Turkey Vulture ! Compliment!!

weather:
as i understand right till now you uploaded direct out of camera without edit and tag in great batches. Sorry if i'm wrong, but that is "spamming the system" while nearly all of us others edit every single clip, make color correction, stabilize it and delete the audio, and tag single or in very small batches. And last not least, ..... topics, topics, topics!
Every kid can held his smartphone in any direction and call it a weather clip, ...... and is happy when any magazine ask to get it for free. That's no professional style.

Not quite directly out of the camera but close and yes it could be considered gaming the system which of course one can no longer do here. Now with the new and unique titles rule I am lucky to be able to make small batches of five clips each and even then not get those past the curators most of the time.

Here is the thing, pool of five million clips, if you only upload five clips per event/incident/subject then what are the odds of being found by a customer vs having a lot more than five clips in that pool? Sort of like a lottery, you have better odds of success with 100 tickets vs 5.

Is it spamming? gaming the system? or just increasing the odds of having sales happen? I don't know to be honest, I am in this to make money and if the money is gone then I am out.

Speaking of spamming, the other interesting thing I find with this business is if you advertise and promote the heck out of your work social media it's considered spamming but when companies do same for any other product it's considered advertising and promotion. For me it's not a hobby so it's all about sell sell sell.

Can of worms officially opened! let the debate begin!

"social media it's considered spamming but when companies do same for any other product it's considered advertising and promotion"

LOL, so true ;)
Another point is, if the overall quality is too low, buyers may leave to other stores which seem to offer higher quality content. Don't forget that we will get high priced sales, so it's important to offer a basic standart quality. For example, clips with annoying wind sound artefacts may happen by beginners and their overall first uploads, but not by any professional.

"clips with annoying wind sound artefacts "

Weather clips has "of course" artefacts, that belong to it.. LOL


@Weather

I saw many many similar clips of yours, I wonder how can customer find other artist's clips, may be have to look at page 10 or so. This may be your strategy to bomb your big amount of clips in front of customer, so they just have to/forced to pick yours. P5 should stop your submitting behaviour, and they are doing exactly so. LOL

Oh they have....party is over here for sure. But then again should everyone be trying their best to get their clips to the top or flooding the search pages? I think sometimes we forget this is strictly a business, if we sold software we would try like heck to get our software in front of as many customers as possible by advertising (spamming) everywhere.

If everyone only uploads a few clips into a pond of five million how will anyone find us?

Believe me I would have uploaded a lot more but the new rules came in and they cut me off,

Spamming will hurt you as well weathernews...buyers run away from a marketplace with thousands of the same clips,they don't want to waste time going through hundreds of pages to find what they want...
Fortunately pond5 has changed the review rules...