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silveandalu:
Hello everybody.

I come from Getty video, and I am putting all my portfolio in SS, Pond5 and adobe, I have to think others agencies, but for now this are the 3 ones, because I have 2.500 videos and is a hard work to upload and submit all of them.

So, I have been working this month uploading, I have uploaded around 600 videos in each agency, but the incomes doesnt arrive, just 1 video sold in SS. Is this normal? When do you think the "normal" numbers will start to balance?

If you want to check my port and tell your opinion I will apreciate this :)

SS:https://www.shutterstock.com/video/gallery/Silvestre-Garcia-Ortega-2440694/

Getty: http://www.gettyimages.es/search/filmmaker?family=creative&photographer=silvestre%20garcia%20-%20intuitivofilms&sort=best#license

Thanks!

SpaceStockFootage:
Hard to say. Nice portfolio. Go for VideoBlocks/Storyblocks as well... you'll probably find it's worth a go. 

increasingdifficulty:
Nice clips, but there are many similars, meaning that your portfolio has more like 100 unique clips.

I would go through the rest of your 2,500 clips and only pick the best of each group. Upload those 500 clips and you will have a diverse portfolio online a lot faster.

Anyway, 100 (unique) is quite a low number, and footage takes a lot longer to sell than images. Pond5 tends to be the slowest site to start generating sales, mainly because they have the biggest library, the most competition. On top of that, their search is not very friendly to new clips.

The Fotolia search is a lot friendlier to new clips, but they don't have that many footage buyers yet. The upside there is that it takes very few sales to get to the top of the search results.

All in all, it can be a year or so before you see things taking off a bit more.

If your clips have a lot of competition from other contributors, it takes a very specific search for them to be found.

This means "general beautiful landscape aerial" will not result in a sale for you, but "specific location aerial with specific lighting conditions (like cadiz, daytime, sunny)" might yield a sale for you. After 5-10 of those sales, more general search terms might start generating sales for that same clip because it now ranks higher.

500 unique clips can be worth more than 2,500 clips with lots of similars since there will be advantages in the search.

silveandalu:
Thanks SpaceStockFootage, yes I just open account in storyblocks fro trying.

Thanks increasingdifficulty. Interesting point about the unique clips, I also thought for myself that maybe is better less but focused and selection of best shots, than a lot of variations, because it can lose the probability of one of those videos get more sells and visibility... but I saw the tren of other contributtors (big ones) in Getty and I saw that they upload around 20-30 variations...

And in my experience in Getty, is true that my best sellers clips came from little batches of 4-5 clips, but also I have batches of 50 (father with child shooping) and the sells go to a funny clip of them running in the market... I tell this because if I didnt submit all the 50 maybe I wouldnt submited this funny clip... so the market "selec" after you upload, now the funny clip is the more visible and I sell other times...


In the other hand the same microstock agencies reject more than getty (for logos, or people around) so I suppose than of my port of Getty It will reduced to a half... so, maybe this can have the natural filter...

Anyway, thanks very much.

I hope not to wait a year hahahahah

Justanotherphotographer:
Side note. Your SS bio reads:

"I am a videographer who loves the nature, the adventure and photography. I do a lot of time lapses and landscapes. I love travel with my camera."

More correct would be:

"I am a videographer who loves nature, adventure and photography. I do a lot of time lapses and landscapes. I love to travel with my camera."

Your English is great, much better than my Spanish!, I just thought I'd let you know as I happened to spot it.

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