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Depends on how good they are, but in general... they do sell, but not amazingly well. Just using VideoHive as an example, as they show sales figures...This one makes 40 sales a month: https://videohive.net/item/fireworks/19009056This one makes less than 1 sale a month: https://videohive.net/item/classical-music/18732933
Well the guy makes $280 a month from them. If it was $79 on SS then he'd have to sell 14 a month to make the same. Nothing unlikely about that, but my point is that if he sells them for $10 and gets 40 sales a month, he's unlikely to get 40 sales a month if they are $79.Just like this: https://videohive.net/item/global-network-orange/12004875I get $2.88 every time it sells. If it sells on Videoblocks, I get $47.16. The latter is great, and more preferable, but the amount I make on VideoHive is roughly the same as the amount I get on Videblocks, Pond5, iS, SS, DT, 123RF, Motion Elements and Fotolia combined... so there must be something to be said for a lower price-point to drive the volume of sales.
Quote from: SpaceStockFootage on July 05, 2017, 07:53Well the guy makes $280 a month from them. If it was $79 on SS then he'd have to sell 14 a month to make the same. Nothing unlikely about that, but my point is that if he sells them for $10 and gets 40 sales a month, he's unlikely to get 40 sales a month if they are $79.Just like this: https://videohive.net/item/global-network-orange/12004875I get $2.88 every time it sells. If it sells on Videoblocks, I get $47.16. The latter is great, and more preferable, but the amount I make on VideoHive is roughly the same as the amount I get on Videblocks, Pond5, iS, SS, DT, 123RF, Motion Elements and Fotolia combined... so there must be something to be said for a lower price-point to drive the volume of sales. 14 sales on SS is very likely with that quality, it seems to me. If the files are split up and sold separately.The thing is, with prices like that, video becomes even more a commodity than it already is. If people are willing to buy a single image for $5, he could easily price it $25 and it will still get sales. He's leaving a lot of money on the table (like many other contributors there) because they have no idea how much their work is actually worth.Plus, how much work goes into it? A whole set of animations and a fancy preview video, in case of AE templates even regular updates for the same package. $280 a month for one package sounds great, but not if you spend too many hours on creating it. And this is a high seller, so it's an exception to the rule. How many of those aren't getting sales?
You can give the source. I can not find out that no Videohive will no longer want video material
They have not yet closed the upload and still can send video clips
From what they said in their forum, they seem to be dropping footage altogether
And if they are reviewing 4/5/6K a week, then it's highly unlikely they have just one person reviewing, not sure where you heard that one from.
because they have no idea how much their work is actually worth.
$280 a month for one package sounds great, but not if you spend too many hours on creating it. And this is a high seller, so it's an exception to the rule. How many of those aren't getting sales?
and catching up with the crazy dudes and dudettes at the water cooler. I may have over-estimated, but I'd say that you've definitely under-estimated... so if we average the two to be fair, it's still 106 hours, which would require three full time staff.
Quote from: Noedelhap on July 05, 2017, 10:34because they have no idea how much their work is actually worth.Very few people know exactly what their work is worth because it's based on sales figures that can't be predicted with any reliable amount of accuracy. I think we can all agree that the $20 you might get from one SS sale isn't worth it. You wouldn't take on a client commission for $20... but then if you get two sales, three sales and so on and so forth, then it starts to make it worthwhile. That's when the worth of your work starts to reveal itself... not so much the sale price and the commission rate. There's a sweet spot when it comes to sales price versus sales figures which is going to be influenced by the quality and uniqueness of the clip... and none of us know what that sweet spot is until it starts selling. And even if we figured out what that sweet spot price was, there's not much we can do about it unless it's Pond5 or Motion Elements.
As for it being a high seller... it's a high seller because it's a high quality clip and the guy has put the work into something that he feels will be commercially viable. If people are making lower quality stuff that is less commercially viable...