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I started using Wirestock almost 3 years ago. Before that, I uploaded pictures to a few stock agencies. But because English is my second language, I had a lot of trouble with the keywords. When I started, Wirestock was free to use and took 15% of the sales. The number of pictures I could submit every month depended on the amount of percentage of images that were accepted. If you ask me, a great way to do that. Because I completely understood that Wirestock does not want to spend time on media that is probably not good for the stock market. For me, that was over 90%, so I could submit quite a few images every month and my portfolio was growing quickly. I took around 6 months to get my first sales (at that time I had around 800 items). And slowly I got more sales. And Wirestock added more stock sites, so I was happy. The interface was easy to use, the mobile app was a great way to quickly see how many images were waiting for a review. Adding new images using the website took only a few clicks. Then the review times became much longer because a lot of new users joined the platform. That was totally understandable, but there were a few small issues, there was no single indication how long is would take. Also, sometimes newer images were reviewed faster than older images. During this time, they also lowered the number of items you could submit a few times (without sending an email). For me, that felt a bit scam like but during that time I also got my first payouts. After a while, Wirestock introduced a paid plan. This plan got you more items to submit and quicker reviews. After a while, the review times outside the paid plans became more than a month. So I started paying for using Wirestock, what is still find strange until this day is that for the paid plan they still take 15% of my sales. Then they also slowly started making the dashboard worse. First, they removed a few cards that showed me how many images are waiting for a review. But during a stream, they showed a new dashboard, but until today I have never seen that dashboard. Then submitting images would take a few more clicks. and everything would take more time. During all of this the communication would be terrible. Occasionally the site would be offline for almost a day without any email. They changed the dashboard without any communication. There was a Slack channel where questions could be asked, but that was closed at that time. Then they started AI features to the site. And adding that to the dashboard. As someone that would never use that. I was getting more and more angry because they could make AI features but the dashboard was getting worse every update. So I sent a really long email with all my complaints. I will include the list of items that are broken at the end. None of the items are fixed even today (over 2 years ago). I really want to like it, but I keep being very frustrated using the platform. At this time, it is 2 stars for me. That is only because they make me a small amount of money. If they only a few things of the dashboard, it could be 3 stars. When they get better at communicating, another star. And for the last star I really think they should lower the 15% commission they take. TLDR: Dashboard is broken: - Ctrl selecting images during the submission opens then in an new tab instead of only selecting them - Submitting multiple items is really buggy. Every so often what you fill in is not done for all items and when clicking submit it error’s out. - When submitting images as editorial, you cannot fill in the extra info input. But images will get rejected for not filling it in. - In the table with all your sales, you cannot click the item to go to that item. - There is no easy way to see the number of items that are waiting for a review. - When going to the details page of a item, you cannot see all separate sales only combined. - Things could be done with fewer clicks to make using it so much faster. - I want to be able to remove all the AI stuff from the dashboard. - On some screen sizes, the UI is broken and keeps moving and flickering. - The site has so many JavaScript errors that the site sometimes uses over a gb of ram, and some antivirus programs block the site. - The log in on mobile devices does not seem to work, and I get logged out almost every time. Communication is terrible: - Site is down for hours without any communication. - Payments are weeks late without any communication. - "Priority 1-2 day content review" got removed from the premium plan without any notice. - Sometimes sales are Hard to make money. - Paid the premium plan for two years (about $70 each year) submitted over 1600 items. And made $198 so in two years made only about $50. Tags and keywords could be better

I use Wirestock in the past year, great service and very helpful website. I appreciate everything they do.

Wirestock contests are fun, inspirational and educational. To me, it's like a game where you can earn points and real money. I have worked on several artistic paid projects, and I am satisfied with all of them.

By far my best stock agency, always pays out promptly. Images curated quickly

Wirestock has made it simple to get my work out and available. The platform is easy to use and effective.

Super easy uploading and keywording that saves a lot of time. One perk more is huge exposure to other sites that you can upload your work to. All that for a small price.