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Hi people,

Let me share my experience after 1 year selling stock footage in microstock platforms.

I started on January 2015 selling content at Shutterstock, Pond5 and 123RF, adding Fotolia, iStock, Nimia, Dissolve, DepositPhotos, Videoblocks and Motionelements in the following months. In May I had all platforms selling my footage. At the end of 2015 I had 300 clips average in each platform with the same clips (more or less).

I've made sales in all platforms except Motionelements where I have no sales so far.

I created an excel file, where I wrote each sale in monthly basis (Number of sales and $ amount)

And here are my results: (All are not exclusive)

Agency       Clips sold   Earnings percentage
Pond5           29 sales     35% of sales
Shutterstock  22 sales     31%
Videoblocks   3 sales       10%
Nimia            1 sale        7%
123rf             6 sales      6%
Fotolia           8 sales      4%
iStock            9 sales       3%
Depositphotos 1 sale        2%
Dissolve         2 sales       2%

So, my conclusion, based in this experience is that, for maximize profit and time only Pond5, Shutterstock and Videoblocks* deserve the upload. The others, during 2015, were not profitable.

*Videoblocks are too new so I'm not sure it they will be profitable in 2016 due to the amount of people uploading.

As you can see, istock and Fotolia are the worst in terms of number of clips sold vs profit. They are a waste of time. Maybe if you play the exclusive role with those, results will be really different.

This 2016 Nimia has lower prices so maybe this 2016 they will be also at the bottom of the list (or not, maybe they will sell more due to the new prices, who knows)

This year I started to upload only to Pond5, Shutterstock and Videoblocks, as they are by far and based in my experience the most convenient places to sell clips nowadays.






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General - Stock Video / What about FilmSupply?
« on: February 01, 2016, 07:33 »
Any one here contributing to www.filmsupply.com? Any experiences about performance or revenue?

I asked to become a contributor but no answer at all.

Thanks!

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Pond5 / Pond5 review times
« on: November 03, 2015, 14:53 »
Hi,

Are review time at Pond5 getting longer and longer? I remember at the beginning of the year 2015 where review time was between 5 to 10 days more or less. Now I've content that is waiting for review since 20 days ago and counting.

I don't know if they are aware that if they do that with every contributor they are losing money (And so are we too) with potential sales waiting in his servers for nothing.

Are you experiencing this long review times?





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General - Stock Video / Be a exclusive contributor at istock
« on: November 01, 2015, 14:31 »
Hi!

I've been uploading to different microstock agencies my footage during the last year.

I'm aware that istock has a connection with Getty Images if you are an exclusive contributor, witch means that you are selling at two agencies at the same time ( I suppose ).

My question is, is there any body selling as exclusive contributor at Istock? Do you think it deserves the change?

I see the good and the bad,

Good:

Less time uploading and tagging and more time to shoot
Better search positioning at istock searches
Selling also at Getty Images
Better royalties (they start at 22 up to 45 if there are sales)

Bad:

Less opportunities to sell the content in other agencies
My content will be stuck at istock, no way to use it or sell directly
More risky if I don't get sales at istock

I know that is not an exact science, but, what are your thoughts?

Thanks a lot for your help

Ruben

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General Stock Discussion / Ultimatstock down?
« on: October 22, 2015, 05:22 »
Hi all,

Since yesterday I've been trying to access to the site (Ultimatstock.com) and I can't. Is my connection or the site is really down?

Thanks


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123RF / 123rf more than one month to review footage
« on: October 15, 2015, 12:21 »
Hi

I'm wondering whats happening with 123rf. I have footage waiting for review since the middle of september 2015 and counting.

Are you having any issues with the review time? are they that slow reviewing usually or is just momentary?

Thanks

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General - Stock Video / Footage review time comparison
« on: October 06, 2015, 10:54 »
Hi,

Last month I decided to upload a batch of footage (about 30 clips) to different platforms to see how long takes the review time.

In spite that this time can vary depending on many variables and on the planets and stars line up here is my experience:

1- Fotolia: 1 day
2- ShutterStock: 3 days
3- Depositphotos: 4-5 days 
4- IStockPhoto: 9 days
5- Videoblocks: 13 days
6- 123RF: 16 days
7- Pixtastock: 18 days
8- Pond5: 20 days
9- Dissolve : 20 days

In my opinion review time is very important in order to start monetizing content, where in ShutterStock or Fotolia you can do it very soon, others your content can get even obsolete before it's online.

What do you think?

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Hi, this is just a personal opinion, and I would like to kindly invite you to write yours.

I started to upload microstock footage to many platforms almost a year ago (SS, P5, FT, DISSOLVE, istock, DP, ME, 123RF, etc). After that year I decided to stop uploading to the ones that doesn't give any sale.

But I have a case where there are purchases and I will stop uploading to, istock. I think they have to improve a lot to start becoming a good place for non exclusive footage contributors.

This are the main reasons:


1- Only 15% of commission for each sale. Impossible to reach more that 9$ for a single purchase.

2- Video format, they only allow PhotoJPEG codec in .mov format. This format isn't the most common in microstock and the file size it's slightly bigger. For instance: 10mb file in H264 mp4 format becomes a 45Mb file in PhotoJPEG .mov format. You have to do the encoding two times, one for istock, and another one for the other platforms.

3- Exclusive vs non exclusive, regards SS or Pond5 where there is no exclusivity, in istock if you are non exclusive, it's harder to appear up in the searches and make sales.

4- The are working to admit 4K content at istock. Right now they allow 4K upload, but the 4K version only goes somewhere at Getty Images and not at istock where you can only purchase 1080p clips.

5- Low sales. I've made only 4 in 6 months while in SS for instance i've made 20 in the same period.

What do you think?


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General - Stock Video / Direct stock footage sales question
« on: October 01, 2015, 12:09 »
Hi, this is maybe and off topic question regarding stock footage selling.

But I think maybe some of you have been in the same situation,

A production company from another country wants to use some clips i've shoot and are part of a video I have in vimeo, some of those clips I have them on sale in microstock, others not.

They want a direct licensing of the videos and ask for a price for each clip. They will use it in a indy film.

Due that depending of the marketplace, there are many prices that can go from 240$ to 45$ (or less), what would we your asking price for lets say 20 clips (4 to 5 seconds each?).

I know that is a hard question and has lots of points of view and possibilities, but could be interesting just in case any of us needs to sell directly footage clips in the future.

Thanks in advance






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Newbie Discussion / Hi, I'm a new member
« on: September 13, 2015, 06:22 »
Hi to everyone

My name is Ruben, in twitter @lostintv , and I just want to say hello and give you a short brief about me.

I started selling microstock footage on January this year 2015. I'm currently selling stock footage in pond5, SS, fotolia, 123rf, depositphotos, ultimatstock,istock and Pixtastock. My portfolio is about 350 clips so far, and i'm working hard to continue providing footage at the best quality and creativity as I can. I'm a rookie stock footage filmmaker.

I'm here to learn, share and help to other contributors.

Glad to be here.

Kind regards

Ruben


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