About RushPilot

What RushPilot is

RushPilot is a desktop application for people who sell video clips through stock agencies. You drop your clips into a folder. The app looks at a few frames of each clip, writes the title, description and keywords each agency expects, checks the clip for the usual rejection reasons, and uploads it to Shutterstock, Adobe Stock and Pond5.

It is in private beta, with a waitlist.

Why we publish agency rules

Building the app means writing every agency rule down precisely: clip length, frame rates, keyword counts, title length, CSV columns. Those rules are spread across many separate help articles. Shutterstock's content review collection alone had 78 articles when we checked it in October 2026, and each agency updates its pages on its own schedule.

The pages also disagree with each other. Adobe Stock gives 49 keywords on one page, 50 on its CSV page and 5 to 50 on its video submission page, as shown in our Adobe Stock CSV guide. Shutterstock allows 2,048 characters for a description in its metadata standards, while another of its articles says the submission editor stops at 150.

We publish the rules we work from so you can check them in one place, with the source next to each one. It also keeps us accountable: a rule we get wrong sits on a public page, one click away from the agency page that shows the right version. Start with the requirements by agency or the guides.

Editorial policy

Sources

Rules and figures come from the agencies' own pages: their help centers, their contributor portals and the files they publish, such as CSV templates. Forums, third-party blogs and other tools' documentation are never the source of a rule here. When an agency blocks automated access to its pages, as Pond5's help center does, we read the official page in the Wayback Machine and give the archive date with the source.

Dates

Each guide and reference page shows the date its rules were last checked against the official sources. In the source list at the bottom of the page, each entry shows the date the agency displays on that page, or a note when the page carries no date.

When agencies disagree

We put the conflicting statements side by side, link each one, and give the value that meets all of them. Advice is labeled as advice, and it comes after the rule.

The official page wins

Agencies change their rules, sometimes without notice. If a page on this site and an agency page disagree, follow the agency page.

Corrections

If you find an outdated figure or a wrong rule, write to the contact address listed in our legal notice. Tell us the page, the rule, and the agency page that shows the current version. We check the agency page, correct the rule and update the date on our page.

What we do not publish

• Figures or rules without an official source.
• Promises about sales, earnings or acceptance rates.
• Testimonials.
• Rules that sit behind an agency's contributor login. When a detail is not public, the page says so instead of filling the gap from unofficial sources.

Independence

RushPilot is not affiliated with Shutterstock, Adobe, Pond5 or Getty Images, and none of them reviews, endorses or sponsors what we publish. Their names and trademarks appear on this site only to describe which agency a rule belongs to and which agencies the app uploads to.

Why the pages are signed RushPilot

Guides and references carry the RushPilot name, not the name of a person. This is deliberate. The pages are references: the authority behind each rule is the agency page linked next to it, which you can open and check yourself. RushPilot answers for what is published, and corrections go to RushPilot.