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    Collect Media from Contributors

    Everett Louie
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    In this Article:

    Contributors is a media submission tool that makes it easy to collect images and videos from photographers, influencers, and other content creators. 

    Important: 

    • Contributors is available on Growth plans and up 
    • Contributes is available on Later for desktop
    • Your Contributors can you send images up to 25MB, but they must meet our image format guidelines
    • Videos can only be submitted through a Contributor Later account, not through email submission

    How Contributors Works

    • Invite anyone to submit media, even if they don’t have a Later account
    • Your Contributors can send images to your own personalized submission email
    • Your Contributors can submit video and images by setting up a Contributor Later account 
    • You can create a separate submission email address for each Group in your account
    • Images sent to your submission email address will show up in your Contributions in Later
    • Media Notes can be added by Contributors when submitting media with a Later account, or by adding text within the email submission
    • When you receive Contributions, select the media you want to keep and discard
    • You can add media directly to your Media Library

    Create Your Personalized Submission Email Address

    First, set up a unique email address that your Contributors can send images to:

    Note: Videos are not supported through email contributions.
    1. From Later for desktop, select Media > Contributors > Get Started
    2. Choose a handle for your email address
      • Your email handle can only contain letters, numbers, and underscores
    Important: You can change your email handle later, but you’ll need to let your Contributors know if you do. 

    Invite Contributors

    Once you've set up your email address, you can invite people to contribute media through your newly created email address.

    1. Select Manage Contibutors:

    2. Enter the email address of the Contributor(s) you'd like to invite
      • Separate multiple email addresses with commas
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    3. Select Send
    4. Select Done

    A Contributor doesn’t need a Later account to send you images, but they’ll be invited to set up Later account with a Contributor view.

    If your Contributor creates a Later account with a Contributor view, they’ll be able to send you images and video through Later for desktop.

    Note: If your Contributor already had a Later account before you invited them, they'll see a Contributor view in their Later account after accepting & logging in through the email invite. They can use the Access Group switcher to switch between the Contributor view and their other groups.

    Add & Discard Contributions

    When your Contributors send you media, it will show up in your Contributions. You can then add Contributions to your Media Library or discard them as follows:

    1. Go to Pending Contributions to see newly submitted media.
    2. Select the media items you want to add to your Media Library (or click Select All) and then select Add to Library
      • Contributions that you add to your Media Library will be labelled contribution
      • They will include the email address of the Contributor in the Notes
    3. To discard a Contribution, select it > Discard
    Tip: You can filter your Contributions by All, Pending, Added, or Discarded. You can also filter by Contributor and Media Notes, and sort from new-to-old or old-to-new. 

    Manage Your Contributors

    You can invite more contributors as follows:

    1. Under My Contributors, select Manage Contributors
    2. To add Contributors, enter their email addresses in the Invite People field
    3. To remove a Contributor, select Remove beside the Contributor
    Tip: The status of your invited Contributors is shown beside the Contributor’s email. If the person you invited has created a Later account from your invite, their status will be Accepted. 
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