Studio Blog

Hello Studio writers,

We wanted to address some threads in the forums regarding writers being let go this week. We have actually been doing this since the inception of Demand Studios, especially in regards to a high number of rejected articles (as a percentage of their total articles submitted) and uncontested plagiarism flags. We also take a hard look at writers who have had more than 40% of their submitted articles (all time) sent back for rewrites. One of the major complaints we’ve heard from our writer community is not having timely, fair reviews of their content. One issue that works against that is poor writing which backs up the copy-editing queue.

We don’t want you to panic and think we are on a firing spree, because we’re not. We are currently working on tools to give you better visibility into your library of content. As a reminder, things that play a big part in terminating a writer’s privileges are a high number of valid rejections, a high percentage of rewrites, poor content that doesn’t meet the stated guidelines and plagiarized articles. Of course, we will also continue to give you tools and training like the recent writer conference call hosted by the Demand Studios team and featuring writing tips from Richard Lally and Eve Lederman. We do want to help in every way to make you better at your craft – but we also believe that a key way to do that is by supporting our community of quality writers through efforts like this. 

I hope this puts most of your minds at ease. Thanks for listening.

Johan and the Demand Studios Team