Dear Shutterstock Contributors,
My name is Scott Braut and I was recently appointed Shutterstock’s new Vice President, Content.
I’ve been with Shutterstock since 2009, and I managed the relaunches of our Bigstock and Shutterstock Footage brands. I’ve also worked for major content brands including the Associated Press, Scholastic, ABC News, and Corbis. Just as importantly, I’m also a photographer, and have a lifelong passion for photography and video.
I oversee our Content Operations team, which handles our review and submission processes, and our Contributor Relations team, which communicates with our contributors. I also work to source great new content from image and footage contributors, and partner with the Shutterstock tech team to improve the submit.shutterstock.com site.
Our teams are looking forward to strengthening our relationships with you, providing more educational materials for artists, and creating new ways to share your images and footage with our customers. We’ll be listening carefully to your feedback.
Thanks for being a part of the Shutterstock community. Keep creating great content and sending us suggestions.
Best regards,
Scott Braut
Shutterstock Vice President, Content
23 Responses
Hello Shutterstock, this is a great way to introduce the people behind the company. Keep going like this and your contributors will feel more comfi with selling through you. You did also very well on the last MicrostockExpo in Berlin.
Would be great to see you portfio cause it is really interesting. I believe you know major trends and for many of us it would be usefull.
Why do not you merge the two databases photostocks. At one sell by subscription, and the second – single image.
Scott, it’s nice to meet you. I hope Shutterstock will continue to accept my scientific work. Shutterstock now has a educational micrograph (photos taken with a microscope) section second to none.
From Shutterstock I get way too many rejections, from other sites I contribute to I get sales.
Who is wrong?
Congratulations on the new title…
I have been a contributor with shutterstock since 2004 (id 327) and am almost exclusive here…
I like the site and have watched the content grow from thousands to millions.. as a result the new work almost instantly disappears and I have stopped uploading since a while because the new content doesn’t get the chance to be seen and gets lost without acceptable attention.(Thru my experience on the site it affects content badly)
I suggest that you give us a chance to advertise our approved work on the main page like a paid light box ( ex : fee is 50 downloads per image per week…) or a banner either on the first page or in internal searches as in google, that way shutterstock and contributors both benefit..
sorry for the long post & goodluck with your new job…
Congrats Scott!
Ah, a fellow photographer as VP of content, excellent idea… onward and upward SS!
Hi Scott,
Nice to have some good contributor communication happening, thanks for letting us know. All the best with the new job.
Hi Scott,
Congratulations on your new position! I look forward to a long and prosperous relationship for all!
Mat Hayward
http://www.MatHaywardPhoto.com
Congratulations, Scott. I hope you’ll find your Shutterstock job creative and fulfilling.
I will try not to whine often.
Congratulations Scott. I hope to see more communication in the bugs forum.
Also Scott. Dated 1/30/12 There have been a huge amount of threads about nothing but Old images selling and lots of us wonder if even uploading new content will Help because they don’t sell…. Do you have any words of advise on this??? and if you do, I strongly suggest you post it. 1000′s are concerned. I have 32,000 posts on this site and I kinda have the heartbeat. Pls respect that.
Hi Scott, Lovely to meet you.
nice to see SS has put a fellow photographer/videographer in! Congrats Scott!
Hi Scott:
Congratulations, I´m here from 2007, it´s the fist time in tis months where new content don´t sell, and approval times where more than 13 day and waiting.
Regards
Alex
Hi Scott! Congratulations! Hope to get less rejections during your governing
Wish you well, Scott
Hope Shutterstock grew from strength to strength!
Hi Scott and congrats.
Exciting to here that SS is about to improve the somewhat uneven review process!
And this will no doubt be done withou sacrifizing the quality of the stock.
Somebody necessarily help to make critically posts I might state. That is the first time I frequented your website page and to this point? I amazed with the analysis you made to make this particular put up amazing. Wonderful job!
hI! Nice to meet you!
I always wrught to support and now writing here^
I’m dreaming about lightboxes as they are on IStock, to present different content. It will be comfortable for customers and for contributors too.
You made a vesion of lightbox, I use it, but its not so useful as I dream, I want any customer see my lightboxes when he entered my portfolio without special links
Thankls!
Good wishes!
What�s Happening i’m new to this, I stumbled upon this I’ve found It absolutely helpful and it has helped me out loads. I hope to give a contribution & aid other customers like its helped me. Good job.
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