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Receiving images from others
I have a lot of content creators. I would like for them to send photos/videos to me. I understand the dropbox request. Here is my issue: When I receive an image I need to do a few things. Any ...
A lot of brands rely on their affiliates to submit content. Most companies have content guidelines. Our brand will have somewhere around 1500 content producers. If they submit an image or video that does not follow our guidelines, we need to reject, notify, and not give credit for the content. Likewise, for an image that does follow our guidelines, we need to accept, notify, #tag and give credit for the content.
Just thinking about my particular issue, and that others may have the same.
I am planning to use file requests to gather photos/videos from my content contributors. This is my use case:
I have a sunglasses company that is specific to anglers. As you can imagine, everyone wants a free pair of sunglasses. A few examples of our affiliate categories are Fishing Guides, Content Creators, Professional Anglers... Guides are not Cash sponsored, as content creators and professional anglers are. A typical guide package would be 2 free pairs of sunglasses per year. However, we want something in return... content. And not jus any random content, but photos and videos that adhere to our content guidelines. We get a lot of crap that we would never use. A guide is required to submit 3 "accepted" images and 1 "accepted" video each month. For each picture we will give them a thank you commission of $5-10. Most of these guides are better at catching fish than photography. Our content guide trys to resolve that. Most can do better if they want to. An image of 20 dead fish laying on a dock is not at all what we want to see. In their mind, that image shows what a great guide they are, in our mind it is ridiculous, and we will never use it.
So they get an email from us at DropBox that allows them to submit a photo. It shows up in a common folder and we review it to see if it meets our criteria.
If it does, the image is "accepted" and they receive an email with some nice words telling them "woo hoo, good job this image was accepted." It would be nice to have a thumbnail of the image. Then we must #tag the image so that we can find it at another date. E.g. #sailfish. We must also acknowledge that they have 1 of 3 required images that have been accepted and note this in our pay schedule/spreadsheet or however we decide to do this.
If the image is "rejected," they will need to be notified as well. Preferably with a rejection statement. E.g. "this image does not meet our guidelines for submitted content."
Maybe credit is not given through Dropbox but having the ability to know who submitted an image and replying with a thumbnailed email would be huge. Imagine getting 50 photos in one day.
Long and rambling, but just some thoughts on what I need to do.
