HI
Has anyone had any successful sales on Pond 5 and if so what is the size of their portfolio?
Thanks

Quote from: Sue Burton Photography on August 18, 2016, 09:52
HI
Has anyone had any successful sales on Pond 5 and if so what is the size of their portfolio?
Thanks

I had regular sales before the big changes a few months back. Absolutely zero since. (I have almost exclusively images, not footage)

Agree with Marcvstvllivs. Sales aren't too frequent for me for the last 5-6 months.  I still get a few video sales and some still sales, but not like in the past. Waiting to see where they take their business. Could be a long wait, too.

No complain!Regular sales,port size 16547 files

Got 150-230$ per months with about 500 videos, just being a contributor 6 months ago and suffered from 2 moths review.

The sales are unpredictable but I hope that it should do better than this.

After 10 years of existence this is what you get.
Slow motion is their best sellers and the hope their favorite PR shout.
Wonder how long investors patience is going to last.

Quote from: fritz on August 18, 2016, 15:29
No complain!Regular sales,port size 16547 files

That is one amazing number of assets. Are they all video or a mix of stills?

Quote from: Mantis on August 24, 2016, 13:47

Quote from: fritz on August 18, 2016, 15:29
No complain!Regular sales,port size 16547 files

That is one amazing number of assets. Are they all video or a mix of stills?

Clips and stills!

Quote from: Mantis on August 18, 2016, 13:21
Agree with Marcvstvllivs. Sales aren't too frequent for me for the last 5-6 months.  I still get a few video sales and some still sales, but not like in the past. Waiting to see where they take their business. Could be a long wait, too.

have to agree. just another site now. used to be good. never had a rejection since day one. Now...all the time. Guess what I do is not good enough Now all of a sudden. Oh well. the ones that count are getting smaller. SS is red Hot for august, FT is still going very strong and finally some very good movement at DT. I took a chance on Colorbox because all ya have to do is upload and I like try a new site every now and then, Nothing else to do. ftp and Hit send and done.. I sent them 6300 and they accepted everything except My Proven Best sellers. I deleted everything the next day. Quite bizarre. Big stock is still bringing up the rear. I stay there Because of bridge to Bigstock and no other reason. Some of you probably weren't around but in the beginning Bigstock was a very cool Little site.

who cares about what  happened 70 years ago

I never had much success with P5 until the changes a few months ago.  Now I get a few video sales a month but almost never images.  My portfolio there is just over 500 clips and images.  It's weird because the same images sell on other sites all day.

How are video sales on Pond5 these days compared to SS?

Quote from: wds on August 26, 2016, 23:23
How are video sales on Pond5 these days compared to SS?

Our August sales on Pond5 are awful, about 1/6 of Shutterstock (same collections). There is definetely no pattern though.

have 2 videos on p5. Make about 1 sale per month - so roughly $10.

I know, my stats are so useful

Quote from: adijr on August 27, 2016, 01:04
have 2 videos on p5. Make about 1 sale per month - so roughly $10.

I know, my stats are so useful

Actually, if you have two videos and sell 1 per month...that's pretty good!

What do folks think the 2nd best site $$wise (compared to SS) is for editorial videos?

Part of the problem there is the massive rejections. They are picking and choosing pictures based on their perceived need, and since they do not have a means to house a very large collection, they try to avoid having too many pictures on the same theme.

I wrote to them a while back asking why so many rejections and that's what they told me anyway, not with the same words, but basically that. And that they were thinking about creating an artist hub where they would communicate to us their needs.

I haven't uploaded there in a long time. IT is a waste of my precious time.

Quote from: AlessandraRC on August 30, 2016, 14:27
Part of the problem there is the massive rejections. They are picking and choosing pictures based on their perceived need, and since they do not have a means to house a very large collection, they try to avoid having too many pictures on the same theme.

I wrote to them a while back asking why so many rejections and that's what they told me anyway, not with the same words, but basically that. And that they were thinking about creating an artist hub where they would communicate to us their needs.

I haven't uploaded there in a long time. IT is a waste of my precious time.

Doesn't sound very encouraging. Regarding not having the means to store a large collection...don't quite get that, it's not as if they are putting video tapes in cardboard boxes.