http://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/imagebrief-com/msg262520/#msg262520

http://www.microstockgroup.com/selling-direct/success-on-image-brief/msg388989/#msg388989

http://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/accepted-into-imagebrief/msg355232/#msg355232

I hope that helps a bit?

I've only submitted to 3 or 4 briefs, and had one sale. The sale equaled a few months worth of microstock money, so it was worth the effort.

My main annoyance there is the lack of a feedback or question system, as often the briefs I would attempt are vague. If I know I'm shooting the right subject, I'll do it, but I'm reluctant to make an effort to shoot something the buyer may or may not actually want.

Yep, I also have many shortlisted and never got any sales. Will not bother this year.

I've even stopped to look at their briefs e-mail. I have been shortlisted once but the brief was never closed even after a long time after the deadline. Plus, many of the requests are very hard to fulfill for me, as many require travel shots around the world so it's impossible to contribute.

I started at Image Brief in December I think, so it hasn't been long.  They must be putting the premium photographer persons' photos on the "a selection of submissions" page that shows when you go to the brief.  There are always at least some reallly bad ones on there and usually most or all are just not good.  I've been shortlisted once.  None of the others shortlisted for that brief looked like mine.  They were almost all stock looking and mine was not.  I have noticed that many of the photos look just like stock photos available everywhere, so what is the point of saying they are not a stock photo place and that the photographers can't have their photos anywhere else in stock places??  Also, why would clients pay larger amounts for that stuff when they can get it so cheap other places? I noticed someone said they wanted it to be their own even if it looked stock.  I don't know exactly what to think of it.  I have so far kept trying.  I just did some shots this morning, and now I go on there and all the featured photos for that brief look completely stock.  Many times the photos don't follow very closely what the client asked for them to be.  I agree it's as if stock photographers just scroll through their stuff and put anything remotely close on there.  My fiance believes like someone else said, that it is basically a scam to get a monthly fee out of photographers.  There's no way I can ever or would ever, unless I were getting plenty of pay from it, pay it   I showed photo pages to people and they remarked as I thought they would.  Most of the photos look like anybody could've pushed the button on the camera for them.  They are flat, blurred, over exposed, and usually have that big ole sunspot in them.  The people usually look so very faked.  If that is what clients like then there isn't anything I can do but it is just odd.  Another brief I am in just got shortlisted.  Mine is not shortlisted.  If you saw the ones that are you would realize that it is FREAKY.  They look like a two year old made marks on the page and that's it.  Totally.  WTH

I wasted time submitting to a few "contests" as well, and then lost interest. 

Not a fan of IB. It reminds me of the workers hanging around a corner waiting for the dudes in pickup trucks to come by an make day work offers,, everyone scrambling to get a job. 

Lots of shortlist no sales, it's like endlessly quoting for work but never getting the contract. Flawed business model if you ask me.

I am there, had a photo selected in the beginning but stopped uploading there as all the briefs I submitted to never seem to come to a conclusion. IB says all briefs get closed, but I dont believe it. Sometimes you have these urgent briefs, a buyer needs an image within 24 hours and a week later its still open.

Also, the amount of spam images submitted is staggering. Like no one reads the briefs and just submits anything they can find on their HD that remotely matches the request.

Personally I still like the concept, but IB really needs to tighten up the model to keep me interested. Since I don't have a lot of images sitting on my HD that aren't already in stock elsewhere, I only submit to briefs that I can shoot easily and that I think have potential for stock after the brief closes.

The last one I shot for was a brief posted on May 20 with a two day deadline for submissions. Three weeks later the brief is still pending with no buyer activity for weeks. In the meantime though my images are in limbo. IB needs to be more stringent with buyers, forcing them to either award or close the brief within hours (or at the very least days) of the deadline. More direct buyer engagement and feedback would also be helpful.

Seem to be in the same boat as many of you. Shortlisted but no sales. Haven't uploaded that much there but I like the concept. The number of unfinished briefs and no sales to date, keeps me from buying into the premium account but I think it's an interesting concept and it seems to be getting more traction.

I don't know anything about this company, but I wonder if your odds go up if you DO buy into the premium account? I know other companies I have dealt with using this business model do that. They favor those that pay to play.

I think this article sums up my feelings pretty well:

http://photobusinessforum.blogspot.com/2015/02/imagebrief-scourge-on-photographic.html

ImageBrief seems to me like a place art directors go when they want something specific they can't easily find on the stock sites; photographers will probably never earn back the overhead they spend shooting for the briefs becuase the chances of being chosen are slim. I guess if you have something on your hard drive that fits the bill it might be worth your time to try, and if you can also license the image elsewhere it might make you some money after all, but it sounds like a much better deal for the buyer than the photographer.