I initially hoped that stocksy could be scaled up to size, to include many more artists. But it is very niche and too specialized for that. They do what they do exceptionally well, but the very close knit, family like structure and care of artists, i don�t see how it can be translated into a platform for thousands of people.

But somewhere between the old pond5, the photoshelter approach and stocksy lies a business model that somebody who is very clever can develop and make a lot of money with.

It does need quite a large team and millions of dollars in funding to get it off the ground.

But it is possible, this is such a tiny industry, it is so easy to connect with all the players. Friendly people too.

But you need someone with the skills of Bruce Livingstone or Jon Oringer to make it work and people like that are very hard to find.

The entrepreneur and his vision are the soul of any company. You need people with passion and also excellent business instincts to make it work.

And you can�t buy vision with money. That is why so many investor projects fail.

So after a few weeks of trialling $79 prices for all clips it hasn't worked. Not a single sale. Time to lower the prices reluctantly 

If you have less than 1000 clips I'd say give it a lot more time than a few weeks.

Maybe you should raise your prices even more, to 300 or 500 dollars.

There are artists on pond5 who have been there forever and say high prices are the best way to make money on pond5.

They have those prices on extremly simple clips, not just files with high production costs.