Brands to be more truthful with declines
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Anna
I have just had a brand consider my submission, view my profile, then come back and decline me straight away. So my account is obviously not what they are looking for - maybe features my children too much? I get that a lot. But the generic "you just missed out" message is really soul destroying when only a tiny bit of the huge budget has been spent. I didn’t "just miss out" you didn’t like my profile.
With better feedback i might knkw if it is worth pitching again with different content or a lower fee, but at this point i just presume im wasting my time. If i try again.
Im using Tribe less and less as time goes on and its a shame because i really enjoyed it.
Jules
Merged in a post:
Remove generic brand responses
Alexandra
It’s very unproductive to be sent the same generic rejection message rather than constructive criticism which could be: we’re looking for food bloggers only, or your images did not fit the bright colour scheme we’re looking for. Provide guidance to brands on how to reply but don’t allow them to send rejections which make no sense (“the campaign has now been concluded”) or are extremely vague.
Jules
Merged in a post:
Ask brands for better feedback
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Alex
I've had a couple of declines for images that match the brief perfectly, the decline reason being 'I've just missed out this time' but they still have budget - so why have I just missed out? A lot of these generic reasons don't help us as creators to improve, we're just expected to carry on working for nothing in return, not even decent or constructive feedback.
I appreciate there must be loads of submissions, so doing personalised feedback for every submission would be ridiculous, but can you add an option where creators could request more indepth feedback from brands?
I've worked hard getting the perfect images but receiving these reasons for decline when they still have a budget just puts me off submitting for that brand in future campaigns.
Jules
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Jessica
Agreed
Lynsey
Yes please! I just got rejected for a campaign because other submissions were apparently closer to the brief. I followed the brief to the letter, which had a few easy steps. It has made me extremely angry. I had to go and buy a product to film the content - I won’t be reimbursed for that. I will not be submitting to any other content campaigns to receive a generic rejection like that. Waste of effort and money.
Barbara Maria
OMG 100%
Leah
Agreed
Alexan
True
Gloria
I agree with you 💯
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