![]() ![]() Our innovative, easy-to-use tools live in just one platform, saving you time and streamlining your work. We know how you work, so we designed software and services to help industry professionals from designers to contractors manage and grow their businesses with ease. View Signatures and Comments Here<- some of these stories of lost investments into Houzz marketing are so sad.Houzz Pro is the all-in-one marketing and management solution built exclusively for home remodeling and design professionals. We want change and we will fight long and hard to get it.įor those who have signed, share this petition today. We are so grateful to each and every one of you. ![]() If you agree with any one of our concerns or want to support our cause, please sign the petition. ![]() Our petition has been reported on by blogs, industry news like Editor at Large, and even national coverage like Architectural Digest but we are not done with our fight.Īs Houzz responds with lackluster promises to help the design community, we must band together now, more than ever. The interior designers & their supporters who’ve signed this petitionĭesigners, Industry Friends, and Lovers of Good Design, Your entire business model is built on our work – so we expect a swift resolution to our demands. Houzz must seek a designer’s permission before they use a photo of theirs in any online editorial content. If a designer does choose to advertise with Houzz, they must receive analytics proving that what they have paid for – namely higher billing in searches in their marketplace – is actually what they are receiving. If a designer does not choose to buy any additional advertising from Houzz, they are removed from the Houzz call list permanently.į. They simply won’t appear in search results.Į. If a designer decides to opt-out of using the Houzz platform, their business is not listed or “remembered” by the platform in any way. Houzz must not allow third-party partners to use designers’ photos for any ads or editorial articles without first receiving permission from those designers and/or their photographers.ĭ. Designers must be allowed to remove their photography - regardless of how many idea books the work has been shared to - at any time with no consequence to them.Ĭ. Houzz must immediately stop selling products from designers’ images in all markets in the United States and internationally until an appropriate use license or affiliate agreement between Houzz and the designers and photographers has been negotiated.ī. And so we ask Houzz to change because we have no other choice. So the Ivy sale was a betrayal of all that Ivy promised us, and what you originally promised all of us, too. Many of us have felt for years that Houzz is not a friend to designers and we do not want our private information about what we do, what products cost, our customers, etc., shared with Houzz. ![]() We do not want Houzz to have access to our private accounts, to the “inside information” for how we run our businesses. And now the same thing is happening with Ivy. Your founders have boasted that Houzz has a billion-dollar valuation, but that was built on our backs using our creative work (see Spotify for why that’s a problem for you). Often those products are lower-priced and inferior to the ones we use in our custom designs, which is not only a misrepresentation of our work and misleading to the consumer, but also may be a violation of copyright. When you started selling products from our room photos, you never asked us – the designers of those rooms – for permission. Houzz has evolved and it is now using photos of our interior design projects in a very different way, one that impacts our businesses and our industry. We also liked Ivy and trusted them, we were willing to work through all the coding errors and issues because it also seemed that they were on the side of designers.īut for both Houzz and Ivy, the business models have changed between what we were promised and the reality today. Houzz said it was solely built to promote our businesses, to connect us with consumers who were interested in good design. When you first launched, we trusted you and liked working with you, just as we did with IvyMark. ![]()
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