Author Topic: What If? (Read 2054 times)

jjneff · « **on:** June 21, 2024, 08:48 »

I have been in this industry for a looooong time, I still earn thousands a month on my stock "mostly video" As I see people getting hammered on photos and I have the same concerns I was wondering if we all went to P5 which is not perfect and priced our largest size at $10 and just uploaded there then hey we would at least see a decent return on our images. Oh I am aware of the getting sales and traffic problem but I think it could be done!

Photobomb · « **Reply #1 on:** June 21, 2024, 10:54 »

Doesn’t the company (SS) that recently screwed us the most own P5?

jjneff · « **Reply #2 on:** June 21, 2024, 12:48 »

Yes, but so far with video all is good, you can still set your prices for photo and still make more %

Brasilnut · « **Reply #3 on:** June 21, 2024, 13:02 »

I have just under 2,000 images on Pond5 vs average of 12,000 elsewhere (at the non-exclusive agencies). With those I've had such few sales for those images, well below even my least profitable microstock agencies (Depositphotos, Dreamstime, etc.)

Jo Ann Snover · « **Reply #4 on:** June 21, 2024, 13:28 »

NFW

The longer version

I had a small number of items with Pond5 from way back (Photoshop templates and such). When the Stock Coalition was formed in 2020 I uploaded a big chunk of my portfolio as there was an effort to work with contributors. None of that amounted to anything - a couple of promotions on the front page.

Photo sales are close to non-existent there. I haven't taken anything down but I also haven't uploaded anything since. With Shutterstock as the owners I would be even less inclined to try and send traffic their way than I was when they were still independent.

If there was another candidate agency for a move like this I'd consider it, but none of the current players can be trusted further than I can throw them (which isn't far!)

cascoly · « **Reply #5 on:** June 21, 2024, 16:25 »

Quote from: jjneff on June 21, 2024, 08:48

I have been in this industry for a looooong time, I still earn thousands a month on my stock "mostly video" As I see people getting hammered on photos and I have the same concerns I was wondering if we all went to P5 which is not perfect and priced our largest size at $10 and just uploaded there then hey we would at least see a decent return on our images. Oh I am aware of the getting sales and traffic problem but I think it could be done!

first, we'd be just as small % of folk charging 10%, but bigger factor is pond's poor performance and there's not much we can do to influence their sales & traffic -- these are not just a 'problem' they are a massive wall that prevents us from reaching the marketplace on our own

we don't have the resources to compete in google searches. google ads never were useful, but my ads on ebay (for non-photo items) have a return of $40-50 for each dollar spent. mostly that's because i dont take ebay's 'advice' on what to spend per click and - ebay has about about 10K listings for my categories, so it's easier to pay to rise to the top. we can't afford to that whe there are millions of images avaialble o google

Injustice for all · « **Reply #6 on:** June 22, 2024, 03:58 »

Pond is terrible for images,for videos it's a different story,I have an open port on Pond since 2019 but I no longer found the time to upload there too.

DP is better for photos,compared to Pond5.

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