Email just received from TPTB over at Dissolve below...

We�d like to inform you of a change to your Dissolve account, which is effective immediately.

You may have noticed that review times for your submissions have increased and it�s taking longer for content to go live. This is due to substantial growth in the number of contributors and the amount of content submitted to Dissolve. While it�s great we�re receiving so much content, we want to maintain reasonable submission review times. Like you, we want your best work available to Dissolve customers quickly. The sooner your content is live on the site, the sooner it can perform.

To achieve this, as of today, your account is assigned a maximum number of files that may be submitted within a calendar month. This upload level is determined by a number of factors, including collection performance and quality of content and metadata.

The levels are:
Bronze � up to 25 files per month
Silver � up to 125 files per month
Gold � up to 250 files per month
Platinum � up to 1,000 files per month
Unlimited � unlimited files

Your current upload level is: Unlimited

The key to success is to send us your best. Be selective about each submission by choosing content you believe has the greatest potential. All content should be free of logos and branding and include model and property releases when necessary.

Unused uploads expire at the end of each calendar month and do not carry over, so be sure to make the most of your limit. On the first day of each month, your total uploads will refresh to your monthly maximum. You can always find your limit and your current usage on the contributor upload site.

Contributors may move to a higher upload level depending on their collection�s performance, which we review on an ongoing basis. We�ll notify you if your level changes.

If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected].

Regards,

The Dissolve contributor team

This is a case study of the EXACT OPPOSITE of what you should do in business. This was a great opportunity to invest in technology and pump up and empower the artists to really get behind your company. Instead you decided to penalize and wag a finger at them telling artists "your not doing it right/we know what's best".

This problem could have easily been solved by using technology or other solutions that didn't discourage and beat up on the artist...there is absolutely no reason why they should point the finger at the artist and say that it is "their fault" that review times suck. 

The ugly reality is that Dissolves sales have been down and so they are taking their frustration out on the artist. Good luck with that, mass exodus will now take place as nothing about their company makes sense anymore.

RIP Dissolve 2016, it was a good run!

POND5 just launched a membership program which looks like videoblock's model with 200,000 videos available at $49 per month.  This P5 product has almost 2x the videos and is 1/2 the price of videoblocks...no doubt the plan is to compete directly with VB in a race to the bottom for cheaper and cheaper content.

Here are the details: https://www.pond5.com/membership

So now we have a situation where POND5 will promote the 200k video ahead of any contributor videos and will force down video prices to take market share from videoblocks by copying their business model.

After stalling for months without getting videos approved, P5 pulls this shady move and kicks all contributors in the face competing on price to further collapse any contributor revenue and take 100% of the revenue with their own 200k collection.  Sneaky little guys used their analytics data on what was selling and bought up 200k videos to fill those niches to now get 100% of the profit and cut out contributors.  Thoughts on how this analysis is wrong?