1) Creators Onboarding

When we launched our dashboard for creators and started receiving submissions from photographers, we were astonished by the countless talented creators that decided to share their work with us. While we’d like to give everyone a shot at joining us on our journey, we’ve decided to focus on professional photographers with existing experience and sales in the stock photography industry.

This will help establish us as a marketplace leader early on, and provide an inventory that’s not only large and diverse but meets the expectations of our pickiest customers.

Our dashboard and image uploader has received glowing feedback from photographers, but also some helpful criticism. One of the biggest concerns was the need for a fast, efficient bulk uploader — one that can handle thousands of images at once, saving photographers valuable time, and break the slow pace of manual uploading via the web.

Working with our beloved content partners, we developed and launched two advanced options to upload content to Wemark:

Streamlined upload by FTP

For content producers with large photo libraries, FTP has historically been one of the most popular methods to submit their content. It’s most commonly used when there’s a need to transfer multiple images at once or images that are too large to email. After testing FTP access with a few of our early content partners, we developed a streamlined and scalable solution to quickly onboard the top content producers and their massive photo collections. We will test the new system with a few select photographers, before opening it up to more approved creators that have already gone through our initial screening.

Effortless upload via API

Some of our content partners maintain their own API, quickly providing access to their entire photo collection. To support this, we created a standardized integration manager which enables us to connect with many different APIs of different partners. This helps us automatically receive new content, keeping our inventory fresh, relevant and up-to-date, often with little to no additional effort from partners