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Microstock Footage Forum => General - Stock Video => Topic started by: blvdone on July 19, 2023, 15:33
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I deleted all my videos on AdobeStock in early May because of $2.80 video sub sales dominating my sales report. Is AdobeStock video sales following the same path Shutterstock video sub sales have become? Our future and present seem not bright, but I don't have to surrender to those cheap sub sale agencies. I'd rather not help those who destroy us. lol
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Mostly $2.80, $5.60, and $8.60 commissions these days with the occasional $24.50, $56, and $70 thrown in there.
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those are some solid looking numbers, i have a bunch of video clips but have yet to sell one despite starting to get some sales in photo. i shoot a lot in 1080 60, wondering if only 4k clips sell. also do you edit your clips significantly? i just do a bit of cutting.
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Mostly $2.80, $5.60, and $8.60 commissions these days with the occasional $24.50, $56, and $70 thrown in there.
You only sell videos on AdobeStock? That looks not bad at least.
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Mostly videos, some photos.
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I have 470 clips on Adobe
Since January I had 7 sales for 2.80, 1 for 3.50, 1 for 4.20, 1 for 7, 1 for 8.40, 1 for 26.25, 1 for 28, 1 for 35, 1 for 55.63
So 15 sales for a total of 187.58 or 12.5 on average
All sales from mostly 10 year old clips, only added 3 clips this year.
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my rpd at adobe is around 8/9$...only video...shutterstock performs better,pond5 even better but less volume...
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my rpd at adobe is around 8/9$...only video...shutterstock performs better,pond5 even better but less volume...
It's possible that buyers who find your clips on Pond5 then search on Adobe Stock and Shutterstock and buy much cheaper there rather than buying on Pond5. Buyers actually shop around, just like we shop around comparing prices all the time.
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my rpd at adobe is around 8/9$...only video...shutterstock performs better,pond5 even better but less volume...
It's possible that buyers who find your clips on Pond5 then search on Adobe Stock and Shutterstock and buy much cheaper there rather than buying on Pond5. Buyers actually shop around, just like we shop around comparing prices all the time.
that's not my case...it goes this way since i started 12 years ago when subscription model didn't exist for footage...pond5 has always been a good earner for me but it has always had a low volume of sales....
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For me, the RPD from AS is fine:
8,14 $ April
10,13 $ May
7,66 $ June
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my rpd at adobe is around 8/9$...only video...shutterstock performs better,pond5 even better but less volume...
It's possible that buyers who find your clips on Pond5 then search on Adobe Stock and Shutterstock and buy much cheaper there rather than buying on Pond5. Buyers actually shop around, just like we shop around comparing prices all the time.
I do not agree. If that were the case, buyers would buy everything on subscription stocks. It's unlimited for $16 a month.
I think many buyers need to make their projects cost more than $16.
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2018 was when I 'hit the wall'... reached the peak of my earnings and they've not really increased or decreased much since then (but on average a slight decrease). Since 2018 my Shutterstock earnings have been very consistent, until this year when they have pretty much halved. My Envato earnings have reduced slightly year on year, my Motion Array earnings have reduced slightly year on year, my Storyblocks earnings have increased slightly year on year, my Pond5 earnings have dropped to a quarter of what they were, but my Adobe earnings are the only one that have remained consistent... within less than 5% up or down on the previous year, every year. Seeing that I haven't uploaded much to Adobe in the past five years, that's pretty impressive... if I had been uploading to them then I can only assume that my earnings would have been increasing year on year. So whatever Adobe are doing it seems to be working. Whatever the rest of them are doing... it doesn't seem to be working (apart from Storyblocks).
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A lot of 2.8$, 5.32$ and 8.4$ sales these days. Overall volume is larger and 28$ sales have become a rarity but also had a 70$ sale last month. Now I can proudly say I have witnessed a unicorn ;D
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Am I the only one getting more sales on AS than SS?
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I don't think so. SS has been horrible for me this month. Like someone turned off the spicket on the 1st.
One week in and my AS sales are 10x higher than SS.
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SS gives me more income than AS.