Quote from: ccbcc on November 05, 2015, 15:35

Sales at Dissolve are actually pretty good for me, and increasing (since the price drop I make more),

This is my biggest complaint about the move to equalize at the lowest price. Those who haven't uploaded to VB lose out to similar lower priced clips.

VB at $49 is better than the slew of $10 clips on P5


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Quote from: stocker2011 on November 05, 2015, 09:05

I was wondering if there was any clarity on the pricing at dissolve. Now that I've lost an agency (Revostock) I was hoping to fill the gap with another but I am still confused about the pricing at Dissolve as I've done a quick search and can see clips for sale at $49 and $79.

Who exactly is pricing these clips, is it the contributor or do the staff evaluate the clip and price it accordingly?

Also, has anyone seen any increase in sales this year at Dissolve?

Thanks.

Avoid Dissolve like a plague.  Just try VideoBlocks and you probably will be happy.

I would say that if you are on vb then avoid dissolve. You are simply competing against yourself for lower royalties.  Way lower royalties. Thats why i closed my account. If you are not on vb and are on higher paying agencies or pricing your content higher on p5 then you "might" consider them if 30% is okay with you.

Thanks for your input. Yes 30% does sound low especially if it is of $49. I'm not with VB either and was seriously considering it, but there's something that says $49 per video and 100% royalties doesn't seem right. $49 because it seems a bit low considering the market and I don't like to encourage this price point to customers especially if your content is high quality. Although $49 is OK for smaller agencies that don't represent any threat or dominance to the market.

And 100% contributor royalties seems too high, I know that sounds crazy where a contributor questions a 100% royalty but I would actually feel better if the royalties were something like 80% for contributor and 20% for agency even if it was just to cover admin costs, keep servers running etc. I like to think of when joining an agency both parties mutually benefit in some way in terms of royalties, but that's just me. Now If I could price my clips at say $59 and keep 80% VB would become my new favorite agency

btw. I'm not questioning any other contributors reasons for joining a particular agency as we all have our different lives and circumstances. But I'm just not completely sold on VB which then leaves Dissolve to fill the gap, and I originally asked about Dissolve because the lowest my clips sell for $60 on P5 which I feel is reasonable for the quality and length.

Good luck.

Quote from: gcrook on November 09, 2015, 19:44

So far it looks like (someone correct me if im wrong) they've priced clips at 49 for those who continued uploading AFTER the announcement.So they didn't go back to change prices from 79 to 49 to those who uploaded all these clips to vb.
And for good reason,a lot people would pull ports and general mayhem would occur.

But the way has anyone seen the new contributor's dashboard that they promised month ago (twice) where all magic things can happen?
Guess not.
That's the extend of things we can expect from them.
So until sales dry out then....

That's inaccurate. They repriced all of my clips to $49 without me doing a thing but get pissed off.

Since they lowered the price on all my clips I stopped uploading.  I figured I would wait and see what the impact would be, Dissolve has less than 25% of my portfolio so I wasn't too worried.

So far sales have really dried up there, pretty dramatically actually.  Everywhere else things are steady or improving.  I wanted to ask for others people's experience. 

Perhaps they are on the decline as an agency?

It's a small sample size, but I was selling more at Dissolve at $80 than $49.  Looks to me like they pissed off contributors AND are making less $.