I was very disappointed to discover that a large number (over 200) of my video collection has been duplicated and re-uploaded to Shutterstock, Pond5 and AdobeStock (and probably other stock sites but I haven't checked).
The account goes by the name CreativeVideoIdeas in various forms and there are a lot of videos on this account that are not mine, I have reached out to one other contributor who I could track down but it will no doubt have other contributors videos as well.

On pond5 the account was set up in 2020 and is set to Exclusive even though my content is already on there, so I guess it goes to show they really do not monitor their exclusive upload process if the same content can be uploaded even when it already exist in the database.
https://www.pond5.com/artist/creativeideas
How Shutterstock does not pick it up is surprising as I get rejections for 'similar' content of my own within a batch so to approve the same content goes to show their image recognition software is crap.
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/CreativeVideoIdeas/video

I have reached out to BlackBox about my stolen videos. I know that their videos are from many contributors and I don't want to get their account suspended without them at least taking some steps to remove it, but as yet I can not get a reply from them, so I might in the coming days make a copyright claim against them as well.

Is this kind of thing becoming commonplace with cheap subscription plans allowing anyone to download 1000s of clips for nothing?

Anyway check that clowns account to see if your videos are on it.

After quick search I see there is no post regarding Naturefootage.com.
I thought I would write this quick post to others who may be thinking about uploading content to the site.
Over the last few months I have been uploading my HD and 4K wildlife footage which I love shooting, to Naturefootage.com. In that time I have uploaded just over 2400 files of various animal subjects from all over the world. The contributor dashboard section of Naturefootage.com gives you some basic stats like 'View Count' and a 'Preview Download' counter but no sales counter. Shortly after I began uploading I noticed that the view count and preview download count was rocketing with over 30 preview downloads a day. Naturefootage pays quarterly, as you can imagine I though wow I have got to be on to something and I excitedly waited for the payment date. In one quarter I had over 10,000 views and 3000 preview downloads, which I though has got to be worth something. When I buy stock for my own projects I may test a preview download but I pretty much always go with it so I though even if only 10% or 1% of the preview downloads translated to sales I would be happy.
The end of the quarterly payment date came and went, I waited a few weeks then decided to send an email to follow up. I received a reply saying that I had no licensing sales. I could not believe it, from 3200 preview downloads not a single sale.

To rap this up, if you are thinking of contributing to Naturefootage.com do not bother, it will be a massive waste of time.

I am getting a tax withheld rate today of $14.15 for a HD clip sales. Yesterday and all sales before it the tax withheld rate was $2.36. Anyone else getting this?

Has anyone been having any issues with uploading? Over the last couple of days my upload speeds to 123rf has gone from under 1MB/per sec to 12MB/per sec however none of the footage I have been uploading (since this speed rise) has been showing up?
Anyone experiencing something similar?

Hi,
I understand that Fotolia does not accept CSV or XML files but are now accepting meta data embedding in video files.
Does any one have any tips on batch editing files on Fotolia, I uploaded a heap of videos before I realised that I could not batch edit them using a csv and I really don't want to have to delete them, re-edit the meta data for each individual video and re-upload them.

Anyone come up with a workaround? Is there a workaround to batch apply meta info?