@cobalt -  tnx for replay

i don't want to confuse costumers, but on one models have big smile and on the other just a little smile .. .. i think that costumers are not the same on Getty and on Shutterstock

but, that is moral dilema.. my question is it legal to send other photo?

I think you can just add keywords to this search.

The eyeem collection is perfect as an example of unscripted/amateurish/overfiltered/instagram content. The crazy, ugly and all the overfiltering are a real bonus, making the content authentic. Artifacts are for smartphonestock, what film is for retrostock. It anchors the file in time.

But how can you predict what will sell among all this madness? I can�t, so I just upload what is fun for me and enjoy any sales I get. But the majority of files only sell once, so I have no plans to organise a shoot just for eyeem. I really wouldn�t know what would sell, it is really unpredictable.

However, I absolutely love browsing there, I have become totally addicted to the app and I am always experimenting with stackables and filter effects from other apps.

It is really very relaxing and the diversity and completley unscripted real world reality of the images is truly liberating after more than 10 years of stock photography.

I hope they are successful with their own marketplace, they do a great job at community building. The place is just never ever boring.

And finally I have an agency that I can recommend to all the friends and family who want to also "make money with pictures" but are completely overwhelmed with normal agencies and the professional requirements for stock. But eyeem can be joined by anyone, no special skills needed, just point your phone, take the picture and off it goes.

As you can see, I am a fan

It is nice to have a place like this, in addition to all the regular stock agencies. Just browse, relax and play. Just don�t expect too much and go with the flow.

I enjoy EyeEm as well. At the moment, I tend to be using it more than any other app for mobile images, as well as posting some older images taken with point and shoot cameras "filtered up", which might not pass muster on other stock sites.  The web upload functionality makes it much faster to upload than some of their competitors.  I'm also using their new image recognition software through the web uploader and, I have to say, I am finding it pretty impressive.  I have used it on some other sites and its been pretty useless (and more time consuming to then unlike irrelevant keywords).  The EyeEm software isn't perfect but its pretty accurate most of the time.

My only hesitation in uploading more (or better quality images) is that, because it started as a photo-sharing site initially, large previews of the images are easily downloadable from your profile page.  I wish that you had the option to add a watermark to images selected for the Marketplace. 

Thanks Cobalt for the motivation to submit on eyeem. i have been experimenting the last few days. Many images are selected for the Getty collection, old point and shoot and dslr images not good enough technically for classical stock agencies but that I really liked, real smartphone snapshots that capture a moment.  I'll see if something sales, but in any case it's very fun to play with filters, it is somewhat liberating to focus on emotions and composition rather than technical perfection and supposed commercial quality, with very fast editing and keywording. It'll be a good break from classical stock from time to time I think, a good reminder than photography should also be about fun.

Have you been accepted as a contributing photographier? If not then you only see the community functions of the app.

Write to their support if you have questions.

Eyeem is not fotolia, you have to apply or be invited into their marketplace.

If you have a series and some files are accepted as exclusive, i doubt you can send the others elsewhere.

Again, ask their support, but do really want to confuse the customers?

Not exactly, Cobalt. As soon as I joined EyeEm, I began exclusively posting directly to the market. In fact, using the app for iPad, you can do that right away. There is a switch to select whether you want a post to go to the market or not and I've always set it to Market, from the very first post I ever made. Why not?

Gary

Thats good news, it wasn't possible when I asked for an invite last year. But at that time their marketplace wasn't open.

So now anyone can join without applying.

Meh - I've been trying for two days to upload my content.. of the frist batch of 50 - only 14 made it, that was after two attempts. Also keywording and captioning is not carried over..

What a crock. 

Quote from: Alfa156Melb on October 23, 2015, 16:44

Meh - I've been trying for two days to upload my content.. of the frist batch of 50 - only 14 made it, that was after two attempts. Also keywording and captioning is not carried over..

What a crock. 

You can't/shouldn't treat it as an agency because it actually isn't one. The main purpose of the platform is an online & mobile sharing community. It wasn't designed to ingest many images at once. They just introduced a desktop upload tool this week, probably a lot of people tried it out at once, and initial bugs/problems are to be expected as with any new feature.

Also, there was (actually is) no classic keywording. EyeEm uses an "album" system where people can share images into public galleries (instead of the hashtags Instagram is using). So any "keyword" you add is actually an album in the system.

Ahhh.. OK then - well fair enough... Thanks for the heads up

It looks to me that they have changed their policy, but have no yet updated their website.

You can submit RF EyeEm/Getty images to other sites too. I'm very happy about that because I have a few images on Getty via EyeEm now, so I'll upload to the other agencies.

What I'm seeing at eyeem is a bunch of really big, unwatermarked images selling for just $20. What's the motivation to actually buy them?

I know from my direct contributions to getty that the majority of the sales will be from their premium access customers and will result in mostly pennies to the contributor.

For those contributing to eyeem, am I missing something?

whats the deal with eyeem not reading meta data?

thanks for the reply, re-tagging thousands of images is not really an option for me, efforts need to be minimal just like the royalties

That�s what support told me:

"I do apologize for that confusion there. My team has given me the latest, which is that since new agreements are not yet available on documents, images will remain exclusive to Getty. Again, sincerest apologies for that miscommunication there as this has been a recent update. Until further notice, please refer to the distribution agreements available on your Market Dashboard and consider images exclusive to Getty."

I also made a few sales and I really like the platform. Problem is about exclusivity, support tells me (for the 4th time) that there's no more exclusivity with Getty, although their distribution agreement says otherwise.
I'm sure I would have more sales if I could send my non-exclusive files to Getty, but I can't do that until they change the agreement.