Author Topic: Anyone else getting a lot of returned or rejected clips from Pond5? (Read 1729 times)

Tyson Anderson · « **on:** April 22, 2024, 11:08 »

I've been uploading to Pond5 for 9 years. My website and YouTube videos link to Pond5 collections. I had assumed the liked how many links I have sending people to my clips on Pond5 since they've accepted 100% of my submitted clips for years now... but the last few weeks my clips are getting rejected or returned. I'm not doing anything different. Is anyone else experiencing something similar or did I just recently get a strict curator??

blvdone · « **Reply #1 on:** April 22, 2024, 17:18 »

Quote from: Tyson Anderson on April 22, 2024, 11:08

I've been uploading to Pond5 for 9 years. My website and YouTube videos link to Pond5 collections. I had assumed the liked how many links I have sending people to my clips on Pond5 since they've accepted 100% of my submitted clips for years now... but the last few weeks my clips are getting rejected or returned. I'm not doing anything different. Is anyone else experiencing something similar or did I just recently get a strict curator??

Any rejection reasons?

odesigns · « **Reply #2 on:** April 22, 2024, 17:22 »

I've had a few previously approved and online clips go into the "rejected" tab recently. I suspect these particular clips were no longer compliant with the new rules from the powers-that-be (i.e., SS).

No reason was given.

rod-09 · « **Reply #3 on:** April 23, 2024, 05:32 »

Yeah, I've had a few of those rejections lately "contextual metadata..."
Just write to the Pond5 team and they will help you with the issue.

Cheers

stoker2014 · « **Reply #4 on:** April 23, 2024, 06:57 »

Basically my video acceptance is 100%. Sometimes you come across slightly inadequate curators, but letters in support of the site return the video to the accepted section. This happens very rarely.

Tyson Anderson · « **Reply #5 on:** April 28, 2024, 18:13 »

Just had a bunch returned today for contextual metadata and finally sent an email to support. I think I just got a weird curator. I read over my titles and descriptions and they perfectly describe the clips. I've had 100% acceptance rate for years... hopefully this gets figured out.

synthetick · « **Reply #6 on:** April 29, 2024, 06:44 »

They rejected an animation of a crying emoji (100% my own design), but I thought the email was quite funny because under the rejection message there was the picture of the crying emoji which looked like it was a reaction to the rejection.

jasonlee3071 · « **Reply #7 on:** June 01, 2024, 17:49 »

I've been getting rejections for some of my pics also. Mainly editorial ones. These are ones I've taken of commercial establishments like Levis, Gap, Cracker Barrel and Skechers. Rejected because I didn't give the date and place where they were taken. Previously whenever I submitted such pics like these I never did have to give such info. I thought it was only required for newsworthy items. Or pics of celebrities.