Sometimes it best for people to simply not reply. While your post was professional, i think it shows further lack of knowledge that your company has any understand of affiliates and how they work.
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Originally Posted by inthecrack
As the director and photographer of inthecrack I feel obliged to respond to people's concerns here. I would agree with Dean that Angie was a little harsh on this or could have been a little more tactful. To be honest I am not concerned about what people do with thumbnails. The thumbnails on our own site do not have watermarks either. To suggest that thumbnails should have a watermark on them is a bit ridiculous. However in Angie's defence this affiliate was in violation of the TOS and we are not talking about thumbnails here but in fact full size images. I really see this violation as a trivial matter that I would have overlooked but Angie is new on this so it would be good to cut her some slack.
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I assume no one here knows "Angie" nor would they know she was new nor would they care when they receive an email saying that they have 24 hours to comply or their account would be suspended. Perhaps you should train your employees better before turning them loose on their own.
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Originally Posted by inthecrack
Now to enlighten people as to why that rule is in the TOS?. Branding is certainly a part of it but really only a small part and it is definitely not intended to short change affiliates of any potential click throughs. The fact is I go to extraordinary lengths to produce a premium product. There are not too many other producers that would fly all of the crew and models to exotic lands such as French Polynesia and New Zealand in order to get amazing locations. What customers and affiliates do not see is 10 in house trained editors that give every single picture 30 minutes of extreme detailed editing in such a manner as to not look edited. This does includes cropping to the ideal composition. I probably spend more on the post production than I do on the production. Therefore yes it does pick my ass a little bit when people feel they have the liberty to go and make their own alterations to the pictures.
I'm not likely to go and tell all our affiliates to quit altering our pictures but I would only hope that people would have some respect for the time and effort that goes into making a top quality product.
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I wasn't enlightened... To sum up everything you mentioned, it's not to get free traffic, and branding is just a small part of it. We put a lot of time and money into production, and I get pissed when people second guess my end product and feel they need to make it better.
News flash buddy, you are a photographer, you probably don't know 1/2 of what most good affiliates know when it comes to advertising and what shots work best for their sites. The fact that you get "pissed" when people alter your precious works of art, is your problem. Do you want to make money and trust your affiliates to do what they know best or do you want to get mad because someone, god forbid is cropping your image because they think they can make it better to make more sales ??