I have to go back to November 2021 the last time I had a zero-sale month on Pond5.

Count of clips showed I had 478 clips uploaded on Pond5 at the end of November 2021. Today I have 3555 clips. Not one sale in November 2025.

Pathetic. 

pond5 has been dead for me since July. But I also did not upload much this year. And I only have 1100 clips.

blackboxglobal is very steady and consistent even with very few uploads.

does anyone actually contribute here anymore?  i quit a long time ago. pond 5 for me seems dead.

Yes, Pond5 is a waste of time.

Quote from: cobalt on November 30, 2025, 04:18
blackboxglobal is very steady and consistent even with very few uploads.

Blackbox's assets are included in Shutterstock s unlimited download plan. I wonder how they know how much to allocate to each contributor since nobody knows which clips are downloaded under that plan. SS pays once at the end of the month with no info on which clips were downloaded and how many times.

Unless blackbox has a special deal with SS to get that info, I cannot see how they can fairly remunerate their contributors for sales on SS.

Probably something like this, although this is from Wirestock but sales are probably on Shutterstock unlimited plan...

I went exclusive with P5 about a year ago, and since then, sales have crashed through the floor. The last sale I had was in October.