In addition to our general formatting standards and guidelines for effective titles, descriptions, and tags, please follow these metadata and validation details for photos very carefully.
Title Requirements & Validation
- Titles must be no longer than 100 characters
- Titles must use English language characters only
- Titles must not contain brand names or trademarks
Tag Requirements & Validation
- Tags cannot simply be a whole number. However, tags beginning with numbers are acceptable (e.g. “3d”).
- Tags may be more than one word, and single spaces and hyphens are acceptable (e.g. “virtual reality”, “close-up”).
- Tags cannot contain '!', '#', '$', '%', '(', ')', '*', '<', '=', '>', '?', '@', '{', '}', '[', ']', '^', '~', or any non-standard whitespace characters.
- Tags cannot start with a '.' character.
- Tags cannot end with '&', '_', '+' or '-'.
- There is a maximum limit of 50 tags for photos (any tags beyond the first 50 may be truncated).
- Individual tags must be no longer than 100 characters.
- Each tag must be separated by a comma and (optional) leading space (e.g. "blue, hat").
- The entire set of tags must be no longer than 2048 total characters.
- Tags should be all lowercase.
- Tags should be spelled correctly (using American Standard English) and should relate to your photo and its possible uses.
IPTC/XMP Metadata Validation & Mapping
- Our upload system will attempt to automatically extract the required item information from your available embedded image IPTC/XMP metadata, as follows:
- Item Title:
- IPTC “Title”
- IPTC “Headline”
- IPTC “ObjectName”
- XMP “Title”
- Item Description:
- IPTC “Caption”
- XMP “Description”
- Item Tags:
- IPTC “Keywords”
- XMP “Subject”
- Please note all of the fields listed above are in order of highest to lowest capture priority
- E.g. if the IPTC “Title” field is available, it will use that and ignore all following fields and data. However, if the IPTC “Title” field is empty/unavailable, it will next look for the IPTC “Headline” data.
Not following the metadata requirements will result in errors when attempting to process your photos. Items with errors will need to be manually edited/fixed, or removed and reuploaded altogether.
To get started making money with your photos as quickly as possible, please ensure that your photos and metadata meet our system requirements before upload.