I am working as a photographer for more than a year with them. Their infrastructure is really robust, but you are treated like a fraudster trying to cheat. They have zero trust, no matter how much jobs you deliver, they treat you like a newcomer.The payments are once a month, and very uncomplicated. They allow their partners to create multiple assignments for the same restaurant, so multiple photographers race eachother unknowingly. They make you name files twice. They don't let you reschedule appointments because they think you are a fraud. There is no priority based on your location, everyone can take jobs everywhere, practical when you want to travel/on holiday, painful if you live in a big city. If you make a mistake they punish you for weeks so you don't get any new jobs. The conditions are so weird, they expect you to deliver in 6 hours, someone else edits photos at night so clients receive photos immediately for absolutely no reason, this is not Amazon delivery, we are photographers. The restaurants call you weeks later asking for photos, because clients didn't even care to upload them. The prices they pay per project did not change since three years, and actually decreased because they create smaller jobs now like 10+1 photos instead of 20+1 previously, so it ultimately decrease your income and increase stress at work.It acts like a big corporation, so it is comfy to work with them but they let photographers be crushed by client expectations. They don't invest into the relationship with photographers, even though they rely 100% on those people's manual work. They make you feel like Uber drivers, but the drivers actually get paid per hour (in Europe), you are left on your own. They also stopped compensating last minute cancellations, which causes a big loss in income, they only compensate (30%) if you actually go to a restaurant and they refuse the session or closed or so. If you get too many cancellations, they punish you for fraud, and it is an automatic process, a human takes a look at it only after weeks.I once had a call with them, workers are actually kind and smart. It maybe that the food delivery companies are simply toxic wastelands, preying on poor restaurants, and OCUS serves them while exploiting photograpers. It is unfortunately not sustainable. Many experienced photographers left, the quality probably suffers immensely. Why should I keep the same service, if I get paid less and less, they don't understand it and expect the same quality while paying less.
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In addition to the opportunity for technology to shape an ecosystem for creatives, we recognized that brands and businesses were lacking an efficient method to create, manage and optimize impactful visuals at speed and scale. Piecing together this opportunity and market gap, we created OCUS.
Our purpose, which remains core to our mission today, is to drive online performance for businesses through always-on performing images, while creating the largest thriving ecosystem for creative workers.See more
