Hi - although I submit video to a couple of the stock agencies, I am no expert in stock footage, but I have been talking with Kevin (from Denmark) who is interning with a video production company, has been looking at agencies as a potential buyer and is trying to understand how the various stock agencies appear to the contributors. He is new to this forum and so I volunteered to help create the survey, and position it with the members of the forum. Here is his explanation:

This is a questionnaire made in conjunction with a study internship, and also pure interest. The goal is to get an overview of what is actually important for stock footage contributors, and how the different sites are positioned within certain criterias. The data generated during this questionnaire will be publicly available via Google Survey. At the end of the survey you will get a link to the results and I will also post them here. The questionnaire will be online until 25th of August. At the end of August the data will be refined into graphs and again shared.

Here is the link to the survey on Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1dINf3xE3DmWSArXGozHs6svhvM8vy2I19tzhW151Zvc/viewform

The survey should only take five minutes or so - please complete it if you submit to stock footage sites.

Steve