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Title: Why sales on videoblocks are rapidly decreasing??
Post by: stockambition on December 21, 2018, 12:11
What is happening at Videoblocks?
Title: Re: Why sales on videoblocks are rapidly decreasing??
Post by: Minsc on December 21, 2018, 17:38
Probably due to competition from other websites and other contributors.
Title: Re: Why sales on videoblocks are rapidly decreasing??
Post by: Kokkoros on December 22, 2018, 12:48
What was VideoBlocks' original business model?  Was it doing to video what Shutterstock did to photos?

fyi - not a rhetorical question.
Title: Re: Why sales on videoblocks are rapidly decreasing??
Post by: SpaceStockFootage on December 22, 2018, 22:40
Well the prices went from $49 to $79... so their USP was that they were $30 cheaper than most other places. Now they're the same price as most other places, so people may as well shop around. Probably other reasons as well, but I'm sure that has a bit of an impact.
Title: Re: Why sales on videoblocks are rapidly decreasing??
Post by: noodle on December 22, 2018, 22:53
Well I guess we can guess how this may play out

With next to no sales, the pitch will be to lower prices in order to boost sales, and the steady descent will continue

 :P
Title: Re: Why sales on videoblocks are rapidly decreasing??
Post by: Mantis on December 23, 2018, 11:36
Quote from: noodle on December 22, 2018, 22:53
Well I guess we can guess how this may play out

With next to no sales, the pitch will be to lower prices in order to boost sales, and the steady descent will continue

 :P

They've already done that.  Sales tanked further.  They are just like any other agency who chooses to use the phrase "we expect sales volume to increase by cutting your royalties", when in fact they cannot possibly believe that when historically that hasn't worked with virtually any agency I have been with in over 10 years.
Title: Re: Why sales on videoblocks are rapidly decreasing??
Post by: kenwood on December 23, 2018, 16:17
I used to get a few sales each month from videoblocks and my last sale was back in Oct.