The answer is in the email you posted: You have 26 photos that have been listed for more than 4 months and have not generated any earnings. Unsold images are eligible for Instant Pay. No they don't say which ones, until after you get credited with $3.40, but you should know what images you have there, with no sales?

If you allow this program, there's no promise that all of them will be picked up by the FREE agencies. Only that these 26 images are eligible to be picked. You will get $3.40 for each one selected. I don't know why the email says $4-5, because it's the $3.40 that right after that, which is the truth. They get 15% you get 85%

You need to decide for yourself, do you want to have your image on a free site, forever, for a one time payment of $3.40. It's that simple. I asked and a friend asked, can we selectively Opt out individual images and WS said no. You are in or you aren't. That could change, but that's the last we were told.

This isn't new, maybe new to you. I think you are distracted with all the keyword, order, resubmit and other issues, which have nothing to do with Instant Pay, or Wirestock actually. True the keywords are often not very specific. Right, they do what order they want. Correct, we don't know where our images are accepted. No we can't change or edit anything. You can't delete and re-upload images for better placement, because they are already accepted on various agencies. You can't be playing, add and remove and add again tricks, hoping somehow you get seen as new.

But here's what WS is. We drop our images and forget about them. No keywords, no details, don't spend time. (Wirestock does see the embedded keywords now, I don't know to what extent they use them) Wirestock has been using my titles for the images recently, read from the IPTC data. If you want to know and control everything, you'll need to upload them on your own. Or use StockSubmitter? When you go to Wirestock, you may have noticed, you can't even see what keywords are attached to the images?

https://wirestock.io/terms_of_use

"Instant Pay Program

Certain content marketplaces pay an advanced fix rate per image rather than paying per download (�Advanced Rate�). Wirestock refers to this as �Instant Pay� or the �Instant Pay Program.� Wirestock negotiates the Advanced Rate with each content marketplace that participates in the Instant Pay Program. When you agree to upload your Content for Instant Pay, none of your rights change � you still own your Content and it is still distributed through the content marketplaces. For each of your Content for which Wirestock receives payment from content marketplaces that pay an Advanced Rate (the �Advanced Rate Payout�), you agree that Wirestock will pay you 85% of the Advanced Rate Payout, but will keep 15% of the Advanced Rate Payout."

I'll repeat this part: Once someone has paid the $4 which gives you 85%, and you are paid $3.40, they get your image to give away forever. If you close your WS account that doesn't get any images deactivated or returned. No credits, no attribution, no anything. You get $3.40 which is a one time payment for some site to use your image for eternity.

If $3.40 means something to you for an image with no sales, that's nice. If you want to retain control of your work and not have it given away for free, maybe not good.

I don't think this has anything to do with the Adobe program, because that's one year and negotiated with the artists. I suppose it's not impossible that Adobe made a deal with Wirestock for one years free use, which would actually be better than free forever on other sites.

Thanks a lot for your opinions, Jo Ann and especially for the detailed clearify from Uncle Pete!

I posted it here, because it was new for me and I thought, others here should know about it.

Jo Ann discribed exactly what I was thinking directly, too:
#this option would benefit them more than you. I'm sure you realize they wouldn't offer you this money unless they though they could earn more than that#

And yes, I already stopped uploading to wirestock, well, only bad images I am lazy to keywording. But even these images we should upload ourself, because we never know, might be someone will buy it. For that boring images we can upload them to the cheap agencies like shitterstock, deposit, 123RF and newly yay. On other sites I would feel ashame uploading that boring images, lol.

As my old grandmother used to say to me "my boy, if it looks like a con it is a con".

As my old grandmother used to say to me "my boy, if it looks like a con it is a con".

What makes you think they are a con?
Sure, they are not perfect and they have some issues.
But hey, it's microstock. The complete industry behaves like a con artist.

They seem to care more about contributors than the standard agencies do.
The few times I reached out to their support, I got fast and to the point answers and flexible problem solving.

The point is, for most contributors it's a matter of using Wirestock wisely, as an addition to the accounts they already have at agencies.
Cherry-pick the advantages they offer.

How many days takes Wirestock for processing images?. I sent some image, they are on Status "Processing".

Quote from: alexandersr on August 09, 2021, 17:33

How many days takes Wirestock for processing images?. I sent some image, they are on Status "Processing".

Seems to be very different... my experience:
-> editorial with keywords included are reviewed quickly within a day or two
-> commercial images with keywords included are reviewed within some days
-> images using easy submission can take up to some weeks - I ususally send an email to the support then, which works well

Another experience:
-> upload commercial images using easy submission (keywords done by wirestock) seem to be rejected with a lot higher percentage then images where the keywords are submitted too

Thanks, i believe the process it would be fast. Hope to sell something there!