Update: The transition to be part of Envato seems to be complete and images are selling well. Accounting is now difficult, and checking copyright infringement is now impossible. What's worst - and this is scarcely believable as stock agency - they don't tell you exactly what you've sold, or when, or for how much! So you have to trust them implicitly that what they pay you is accurate. As a contributor their payment model has gone from $2 to a variable amount. Update: Oops, things have gone downhill rapidly.
Twenty20 do have a mechanism for flagging them but they are still many copyright infringements on the site so check before you buy. The only issue I've found is that there are many contributors, mostly from India, who are copying images from other sites and selling them as their own. There are also regular challenges for contributors which are great for sparking ideas and original content. It looks like their algorithm scans the internet for photos that are on Twenty20 and the suspension apparantly happens automatically as soon as they are found elsewhere which isn't okay because photographers own the copyright and can sell and post their work wherever they want to! To me, the suspension looks like a way to pressure photographers to remove their photos from other stock photo sites, very sad.įrom a contributor point of view I've found Twenty20 to be one of the best - certainly in terms of the cut that contributors get for each sale. Another new development is that photographer accounts can get suspended even though the person follows all rules (another reviewer already mentioned it). It seems to happen more often now than in the past. The classification often seems very arbitrary.
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Their criteria if your photo will be classified as only available for editorial use or for full commercial use are also intransparent - I often have two very similar photos and one will be classified as editorial use only and one as commercial use, even though the first one doesn't show anyone's face, property etc and should qualify for full commercial use. Some time ago, they changed their formerly transparent contributor revenue system to a new model called "Subscriber Share" which is very intransparent - you never know how much you'll make for a photo sale. I joined Twenty20 as a photographer a few years ago and initially liked it, but a lot has changed since then and my overall experience isn't too good. You should look at your competitor, EyeEm.
Sorry Twenty20, since you got bought out by Envato, you now are no longer a great place to post pictures. I never get notification - how hard would that be? I was suspended once and it took two weeks to get back. I cannot see without going through each photo individually which ones are not licensed. I KNOW that a simple email to me verifying where they saw that picture and proof of ownership would go a long way to making photographers (the source of their income) significant. I suggested that they approved ALL images for commercial use that have only leaves, ocean, clouds, etc. I am sorry, but, assurance should translate to action and it does not. I had an email chain on this same issue last month and was assured, they appreciated the information. NOBODY is doing anything about the problems and their excuse is the spammers and work load. The canned responses tell me NOBODY is reading the emails. The problem I have with Twenty20 is the response to issues.
Once was over 6 months ago and that last one was yesterday.
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I have done the photographer verification routine twice now.
I had received the advice to "try posting on Twenty20 first" to prevent having a photo rejected. One was on a site, posted by me, and one was only posted on Twenty20. I noticed that two photographs of the moon were labeled as unavailable for license. Two photographs of the MOON, not accepted
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