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dissolve retaliates against contributor and penalizes clips in search rankings

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Minsc:
I would try to look at things from a different perspective. Only because I've seen both sides, as a contributors as someone who worked for a company that hosted data.

You have 20,000 clips. That's terabytes upon terabytes of data. The way they look at it is that the amount of money it cost to host all your video files are not justified by your monthly earnings, or their cut of those earnings. In some cases, it's better to not have someone as a contributor because they feel like they're losing money on the account.

I know it's tough, but that's how things work. They recommended the title changes because they WANT your files to sell better so they can justify your account. If your files don't sell, they could be losing money on your account due to the cost of storage and bandwidth. It's not a good situation for anyone.

PeterChigmaroff:
FWIW metadata is lot more important than many contributors give time for, especially the title. You have an agency pointing out problems to you. Ones that will impact sales of your clips on their particular site and you choose to ignore them. Instead finding fault in policy changes after you don't see the sales levels you'd like. If they simply didn't like your clips they would reject them and not bother with the suggestions or policy changes. They are going to take the time to upload and maintain all that storage and then penalize you by hiding the clips on the bottom so no one can buy them to be nasty to you? Maybe no one is finding them and the search algorithm is pushing your clips further and further down the stack.

unnonimus:
First of all, I have 20,000 clips, but they do not have my 20,000 clips.

Second, the problem started when I had only a few hundred videos uploaded.

third, my videos sell very well on other web sites with the same metadata. They presented no evidence that my metadata or titles were causing my videos to not sell. In fact, my dissolve sales were very strong at the beginning until they penalized my rankings.

Fourth, the title policy they had is absolutely stupid. no one says "I need a video of a man talking on a cell phone with a tree and a dog in the background". but dissolve requires stupid titles like that. the titles are not even shown on dissolve's site unless you select a  video or hover over it, which proves it is the thumbnail which sells the video, and not the title.

I checked a recent sale I had with dissolve, and it was at the end of search results along with my videos that have never sold.

Last hosting is very cheap. I did a study and calculated on one site that it takes 3 days for me to earn enough money for the site to pay the hosting costs, and that was when I was making far less money.

The problem is like I said, they want their contributors to do their SEO because they think it will increase their organic search results on web sites like google, and they are completely wrong and will fail at earning money that way.

Dissolve has some bad employees (AB and CL) and they should be fired.

cobalt:
They gave themselves an amazingly bad reputation from the start and I know many artists that avoid them.

I think their 5 year clause was the biggest deterrent, but they keep throwing out a behaviour that just has to have you worried.

Penalizing a contributors content and then complain he has no sales?

Sounds very childish.

I wish the new pond5 investors had bought dissolve, they´d have an "elitist" site with the right "attitude" for all their high flying concepts, and we would still have the marketplace we all loved so much.

helloitsme:
I think you will do much better at VideoBlocks.  Good people too at the VideoBlocks.

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