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Hello guys,I am a stock footage shooter based in the UK, I also curate video for other shooters. thanks!
"Curate" is so 2016The word for 2018 is "pimp":-)
Ahoy There! I read about this Black Box a while back and didn't quite get it. Hopefully you can clear something up. In your first video, you state that some dude from Canada gets 50%, you get 35% for curating, and Black Box get 15%. On their website, it also states they deal with VideoBlocks, Pond5, Adobe Stock etc etc. So how does it work with the agency's cut? Is it 50% to Pond5, for example, and that 100% you're explaining comes from the remaining 50%? So the Canadian dudes 50% is actually 25% of the sale price?The Black Box site looks pretty good and informative, but it's a bit thin on the details when it comes to what happens to the content once it's been curated, where it's sent/promoted, and where the money actually comes from. I mean, those stock sites listed on the website... are they all the sites they submit to? Are there any more? Is there any point in somebody using Black Box if they already submit to some or all of those sites? So if I already submit to Pond5... would I A) Not bother using Black Box B) Only use Black Box for content I don't already have on Black Box C) Submit everything through Black Box, even though that would mean two instances of my work being there.The 35% you mention seems quite steep as well. Maybe if somebody is making $5 a year per clip then that would be understandable... $1.75 over a year or $8.75 over 5 seems fair. My average is approaching $200 per year though, with a small amount of them approaching $1200... so I don't think I could justify $420 in a year or $2100 over 5 for curating one clip, just for the convenience of not having to submit it myself. I'm assuming the 35% varies between curator and client?