Always nice to be acknowledged as a logical extension :-)
Simon Willis produced a cracking report on citizen journalism/user-generated content/punter pix for the BBC Newsnight Scotland, broadcast last night. You can catch it here for, I think, 24 hours or so. Below is our contribution to the piece:
...to us :-)
Two years old today.
In a word, or three, we're getting there. Right now, we're uploading a selected archive culled from submissions over the past couple of years. If you are a Scoopt member who has submitted pix in the past, you should be able to log in to the new site using your old email address and password. In the Dashboard, go to Manage your photos > Your Scoopt Gallery. There should see any photos that have made the editorial cut -- but do please give us a few more days.
If you can't login with your old details, you almost certainly did not respond to our (many) emails about accepting our new Terms and Conditions before the new site went live last week. If that's the case, we will not be including any of your old pics in the gallery and you are now no longer a Scoopt member. That's a terrible thing so please re-register with Scoopt.
Any queries, the contact form is here.
Scoopt doesn't go through radical changes very often but today sees the launch of an all-new website. The most obvious change is the inclusion of public picture galleries, which are frankly long overdue. Now, finally, contributors will see their submissions published online in Scoopt.
Well, some submissions. Hopefully most. The point is that Scoopt puts all content through a pretty stringent editorial process. We only accept content that we genuinely think has a chance of making a sale. If we don't think we can sell it, we'll tell you quickly and waive all rights. The very best pictures also get published on Getty Images editorial site here (use 'scoopt' as a search term).
So what do you think of the site so far? What else should we be doing? Tell us here. Right now, we're busy uploading about 1,500 archive images into the galleries now so bear with us while it all takes shape. And do please dive in and comment on any (all!) pics in the galleries.
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