21: Don't skip this vital step when submitting your stock imagery

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[@OttawaCaper]

I have been saying for years this disambiguation system is very flawed. The IStock search feature is the worst of all the stock sites. Who has time to open a ticket for every word the system hasn't defined yet? PLEASE use free form text entries like the other sites!

[@assassinschord]

Let's find another microstock agencies, shall we?

[@heydendra]

totally agree!

[@user-hq4jx9jn1c]

clarifying keywords takes a lot of time, why most of the words are circled in red, is it really impossible to do without this, like other drains?

[@Nature_Connections]

I'm more concerned that videos are selling for as little as 40c

[@wahyuwardhana]

horrible pricing

[@paulroverdesign]

it's horrible

[@user-jh5dn1mw6q]

thank you!

[@heydendra]

for keyword filling, why not make it similar to other markets such as shutterstock, etc. to make it easier,

[@herobear]

Very helpful! Thank You Kalvin :)

[@joaolourenco8405]

I am a Vector Illustration contributor, whenever I check the country of shoot I allways check "unspecific", am I right?

[@heydendra]

is it worth it to be exclusive on istock ? for photo and footage asset

[@PemburuDollar17]

Thank u man

[@WondersofHimalayas]

Great agency 👏 👏

[@Arctic_Space]

It's a load of crap that takes a lot of time. I hate istock because of these shitty keywords that have to be specified

[@mendo35]

Thanks, very helpful video.

[@heydendra]

In recent forums, many people have complained because they are always rejected when registering to be a contributor of more than 5x each person. Is istock currently not accepting new contributors or are they being rejected because the quality does not meet the requirements?

[@paulroverdesign]

One thing. Why every time I need to select the country of shoot if I create illustrations only! So there are no country of shoot and the country adding in tags after my selection doesn't make sense for the customers. Please add an option like no country for the illustrations and other non-shooting content. That's what improve the search

[@gettyimagescreative3972]

Thank you very much for your feedback.

[@mariialyschyk1634]

thanks! helpful) also - nice sound and video

[@dapurngonten]

thank you

[@flavio8430]

Is it reallly necessary to include color keywords, or can Getty's search engine automatically detect them during a search?

[@gettyimagescreative3972]

Imagine that you take a photo of an orange bucket. When it comes to uploading the image, you may decide not to add the keyword orange. When a buyer comes along looking for images of orange buckets the vast majority are going to type in Orange Bucket into the keyword search bar. The system will show them the images that have the most relevant and matching keywords i.e. those that have the keywords bucket AND orange. Now, there are tools on the customer-facing websites that allow customers to use a color picker to narrow down the results, but the best way to ensure that your images are shown to the greatest number of potential buyers is to add all relevant keywords, including for prominent colors.

[@flavio8430]

@@gettyimagescreative3972 Ok, thanks for the clarification.

[@tonypmedia]

Yes it's necessary to tag your images especially if you are proclaiming yourself a professional photographer. Stores don't just get items in and put "5pack Bell Peppers" and call it a day. They need quantity, the type, color(s), brand, weight.... all of the inventory fields to search. This goes for photography content too, why dump to a server with no way to be found? Not everything can be easy breezy with auto detection. You should tag your images anyways.

[@ismailatalar]

Hello Kelvin, I uploaded my stock images with Deepmeta software for a long time. As a result of the warning of my friends, deepmeta is quite irrelevant to the stock panel, especially in terms of keyword matching. All my images cannot show their sales potential for this reason. What can I do about this? Do I have a chance to fix it again. Greetings from Turkey

[@gettyimagescreative3972]

DeepMeta should match with our CV keyword system. If you need to make any changes to accepted files or their metadata, please open a support ticket.

[@ismailatalar]

@@gettyimagescreative3972 thank you

[@Brause_Market]

is it just me or is the submitting process much faster at the moment? good work.

[@tonypmedia]

Right!? I got accepted within a few hours, I was happy as heck lol.

[@АлияТанатарова-и9ь]

Hello,if l had only 27-30 key words, it's ok?😅

[@gettyimagescreative3972]

Yes, absolutely! If you just had a photo of something very simple, like a red ball on a white background, you might not even need 10 keywords. The most important thing is to add all the most relevant keywords and avoid adding any spam keywords.

[@АлияТанатарова-и9ь]

@@gettyimagescreative3972 Thank you!

[@SemihSuda]

This system is dead. What you are watching are the last struggles of the system. Is all this effort for videos and photos that will be sold for 50c? I devoted 8 years to this system. Now you have started making sales by making artificial intelligence use our videos and photos. They are still trying to deceive you. Because the more variety of visuals you give to artificial intelligence, the higher quality its production will be...

[@tonypmedia]

Please elaborate on this by showing us proof of this because Others I've seen not on youtube are for sure not making low bucks.