I've been uploading to Pond5 for 9 years.  My website and YouTube videos link to Pond5 collections.  I had assumed the liked how many links I have sending people to my clips on Pond5 since they've accepted 100% of my submitted clips for years now... but the last few weeks my clips are getting rejected or returned. I'm not doing anything different.  Is anyone else experiencing something similar or did I just recently get a strict curator??

I've been selling stock footage and photos since 2015, with most income from the footage.  Like everyone else, that income has been dropping over the last 3 years.  It has come to a point where the effort put into creating high quality footage isn't seeing enough return to continue with my same strategy, uploading to all the sites.  I'd love to focus on one site to sell exclusive footage with hopes to simplify my process while possibly earning more because of exclusivity. 

Does anyone have info on what the best site for this would be??

Hello is anyone contributing to Artgrid.io that would like to give feedback of their experience?

I've recently done some freelance work filming vertically for an app.  Kinda annoying to deal with in my opinion, but left me wondering if there's a need for vertical footy in the stock footage industry.  Has anyone filmed or submitted any vertical footage for smartphones and apps?  Will the top agencies accept this?

I'm trying to find out a good way of emailing a model/talent release to people that's easy for them to fill out and send back, that doesn't require them to print and scan it.  I've been using the Easy Release app for all my releases in person but I'm looking for a way to email releases with a curser at all the required boxes and an E-Signature or signature that auto fills when they type their name.  This type of thing is not my specialty so any information would help, thanks.

And yes I know the professional thing would be to have people sign a release before filming.  I've been doing aerial work of kayaking and rafting.  Sometimes I'm told a certain part of a river to post up at and don't get to see some of the people before or after the float.  This example is what created the issue.

Just received an email from Videoblocks to opt in for Enterprise.  Sounds like an extended license type situation for large production companies to purchase footage for unlimited views and such.  Contributors will make 60% instead of the %100 commission from their normal marketplace, but they say the sale prices will be high enough that we will never make less on an Enterprise sale then we would in marketplace.  Seems like a good deal to me, I opted in.  Any thoughts on this??

I just went to the Videohive site to explore the option of uploading there but keeping my prices high.  I'm aware they're known for selling very low priced footage but I was thinking about experimenting.  I see some people doing well on Pond5 with video clips at $500 each so I was wondering if there's any of that happening at Videohive, since it's another agency where you can set your own price.

Here's what happened:  I did a search for "aerial" with the price range of $100-500... Nothing.  Then I left the search bar blank... Nothing!  I then dropped with price range to $50-500 and finally some clips started to appear.

So even with 4k footage they don't even have 1 clip listed at over $100?  Is this place the frickin' armpit of microstock!?

I guess my real question is, would it be worth it to upload some clips and list them at... say $200, with hopes that some buyers might see them as higher quality and less populated?  I'm just trying to experiment here with agencies that allow us to set our own prices.  I'd love to hear thoughts on this.

Hi I'm looking for a site to start an account for my 12 year old son.  He's quickly becoming a better photographer than me and I would love to start an account for him to start earning money at a young age.  Has anyone had experience with this?  Based on some looking around a few months ago it looked like most sites require you to be 18 years old.

Can anyone recommend a stock photo site that allows me to embed my portfolio on my personal website??  I use Nimia to embed my video portfolio on my website, but it's hard to believe there isn't any photo sites that allow the same sort of thing. 

I'm looking to embed single photos and possibly my entire library on my website with the option of buying, like I did with videos on Nimia.  Has anyone been able to make this happen??

Samples:
Videos - http://www.openrangestock.com/videos/
Featured - http://www.openrangestock.com/featured/

(I apologize if this has been covered)

Hello, I'm new to Microstock Group and this is my first post.  Been following discussions for a while and figured I'd get involved.  First question is one I've been wondering for a while.  Has anyone experienced an increase of traffic to their portfolio or sales after offering clips or images for free?

(I apologize if this has been covered before)