Quote from: KnowYourOnions on April 15, 2015, 08:58
Stop traveling, start SELLING !!!!!!!

You seem to be very knowledgeable on how the stock media industry works,how sales happen,how companies micromanage,how investors ceo's and employees behave,you propably even knowwhen and where they take a dump.
When it comes to pond5 and shuterstock you knowledge surpasses our collective knowledge, that's pretty much proven here.You know everything about them yet you love one and hate the other,but nevermind that.You must have your reasons i guess.

So then,why dont you share all this knowledge and enlighten us,as to how one company pushes sales and the other one doesn't since these two are the major video agencies.
I'm really curious to know the inner working of this business.
Please elaborate,from your own experience if you may.

(I haven't read the whole thread, so don't know if it has been mentioned already.. )

I have a problem that many times a bunch of my photos are put back to editing because title should be longer.
Most agencies want a short, 1-2 words title field and a longer description field. While I really like Pond5, at this rate of sales I'm not sure if it was worth the extra effort to write an extra title for all my files just for Pond5.
Either you should have an option, to mass transfer every file's description to title, or eliminate this policy of having to have long titles.

Quote from: Desintegrator on April 18, 2015, 10:35
Most agencies want a short, 1-2 words title field

Hę? Which are they? As far as I know the best title is around 3-4 words, 5 is max.

You should improve mobile friendliness...

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/?utm_source=wmc-blog&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=mobile-friendly&url=pond5.com

Quote from: KnowYourOnions on April 21, 2015, 22:44
You should improve mobile friendliness...

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/?utm_source=wmc-blog&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=mobile-friendly&url=pond5.com

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/?utm_source=wmc-blog&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=mobile-friendly&url=m.pond5.com%2F

Quote from: tickstock on April 21, 2015, 23:12

Quote from: KnowYourOnions on April 21, 2015, 22:44
You should improve mobile friendliness...

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/?utm_source=wmc-blog&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=mobile-friendly&url=pond5.com

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/?utm_source=wmc-blog&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=mobile-friendly&url=m.pond5.com%2F

Excellent...thanks...
good to know that THIS particular page http://m.pond5.com/ shows well in google test. :-)

But original web site pages showing different score though:
- SS, VideoBlocks, iStock, Dreamstime, DepositPhotos, Alamy are friendly
- Fotolia, 123RF, Pond5, BigStockPhoto are NOT friendly.

Plus it looks like P5 Dev team is well aware of not-friendly status too! - http://www.pond5.com/community?forum=622&thread=43020745&lp=1

just saying...

p.s. thanks for all the minuses good fellas! ;-)

someone already said it....improve sales! i have ZERO sales with 100 videos...these video are selling ok in SS and IS

Quote from: mojaric on April 22, 2015, 07:34
someone already said it....improve sales! i have ZERO sales with 100 videos...these video are selling ok in SS and IS

I'm wondering if they have a similar cycle as Dreamtime. It seems like one month I have 5-6 video downloads and the next month I nab one. For example, last month I made $300 in video sales and this month I have made $24. I have 500 videos.

I have 1400 videos last month made 750$ this month I am at 170$ kind of crazy like this doesn't make much sense


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Earnings dont help this discussion very much though.300usd doesn't tell me much,number of sold clips is more helpful as data.
Pond5 has dropped 20-40 percent for me while i was growing my portfolio, 500 clips end of 2014-900clips now.
I was used to getting 15-20 sales a month near the end of 2014 (it had stabilized pretty much) but february and march was more like 13-15 although this week it looks like it has picked up a bit.

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Quote from: gcrook on April 22, 2015, 16:23
Earnings dont help this discussion very much though.300usd doesn't tell me much,number of sold clips is more helpful as data.
Pond5 has dropped 20-40 percent for me while i was growing my portfolio, 500 clips end of 2014-900clips now.
I was used to getting 15-20 sales a month near the end of 2014 (it had stabilized pretty much) but february and march was more like 13-15 although this week it looks like it has picked up a bit.

Seems that someone doesn't like me being open with my sales figures.Is it my accountant?Sorry Nick, lol.

Well I don't really agree because if someone sells his clips at 20$ it makes a really big difference and it destroys the market and our business even selling at 40$ is very bad for us so I would really say that everything depends on the price and not the number of clip sold


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Quote from: fmarsicano on April 23, 2015, 20:20
Well I don't really agree because if someone sells his clips at 20$ it makes a really big difference and it destroys the market and our business even selling at 40$ is very bad for us so I would really say that everything depends on the price and not the number of clip sold


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Yes you are absolutely right,but for the drop in earnings discussion what i meant was that numbers dont mean anything because we dont know for how much everyone sells at p5..
If someone wants to openly discuss numbers there's no point in throwing figures there,he should translate that to number of sales.

Maybe his more expensive ones sold in April or maybe almost the same number of his his cheap ones,that's a variable of no actual meaning since sales stay the same only commission changes but that's not a drop.
But if you sell 50 clips montly and you drop to 30 even if they are the more expensive clips (commercial, talent released etc), earning the same amount of money means there still is a MAJOR drop in sales there.

Just wanted to welcome some positive changes at P5 that might bring some long waiting professionalism! 

CMO, CPO, VP of People, VP of Finance and some other top roles given to Ivy-League educated folks, just been announced. Congrats!

Let's hope VP of Sales will be appointed soon too! 

p.s. Thanks for all the minuses    It is rather incredible to get them after giving compliments!

Pond5 The most important question is whether you are paying for licenses MPEG.LA authors DSLR sales movies movies? Are our videos are licensed?

recommend look

http://www.microstockgroup.com/newby-discussion/canon-nikon-sony-you-can-not-sell-movies-without-a-license/

Shutterstock is licensed, is on the list, and the authors do not have to worry.

http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/abt149737.html

http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/Licensees.aspx

Pond5, Istock, VideoHive not have a license for the H.264 / AVC, so the authors themselves have to buy licenses MPEG.LA

Quote from: fmarsicano on April 22, 2015, 15:42
I have 1400 videos last month made 750$ this month I am at 170$ kind of crazy like this doesn't make much sense


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I had a good month last month on P5 as well. 500 videos and made over $300. This month I am at $79.

...and then comes this Job advert for Copywriter! 

http://www.indeed.com/job/wizard-words-k-copywriter-0d6bbb3051b51712

About us: ... We're an incredibly creative group of film-makers, photographers, musicians, burlesque dancers and circus performers - we bring creativity to work with us and apply it to everything we do. Oh, and we have a strong work ethic. We get sh*t done.

     

In a million light years could anyone explain me the connection between circus performer/burlesque dancer with microstock, apart from them being models of course.
Do they have any Programmer, Developer or these guys don't matter at all!!! 

P5 is really desperate for that "we are so cool, different and creative" bs.
Such a crap PR! 

P5 is a great idea but has a bad execution and management.

The guy who started this topic has left the company!
Vita says: "To me, the changes at The Company got to a point where my strenghts might become weaknesses."

It's worth a read...
https://medium.com/@vitavalka/why-i-left-a-well-paid-gig-b64bc5efae92#.7800csbe7

I would say, consider yourself super lucky to get out from that circus on time, and GOOD LUCK!

For me review time is very important. Pond5 is one of the most slow of all marketplaces.

Pond5 is the only site i never sold anything. 2 years 

Bring more customer !!! Because I love the site, but I don't sell a lot.

Quote from: Julied83 on October 24, 2015, 15:42
Bring more customer !!! Because I love the site, but I don't sell a lot.

+ a lot. Do what Julied83 recommends.