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Author Topic: 4K video upload now available in Istock  (Read 60830 times)

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« Reply #50 on: June 09, 2016, 03:09 »
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I have dropped my exclusive status and this is one reason why! I don't care to sell 4k the same as HD, I will not and have stopped loading any 4k to iStock.

The big question is, is it worth the extra effort to render out a 4K and an HD version of your clips just to give the HD to iStock where you still may only get between $3 and $9 per download?

That said, I do throw some clips iStock's way every now and then, and yes, some of those clips are HD versions of my 4K files I specifically render at 1080p just for iStock.  Generally, I do this only when I have some extra time and not have other work to do at other agencies.

Only time will tell if I continue this.

Waste of time - you shouldn't accept less than US$25 net/average per download, meaning Istock is a no go for video.
What you are saying was perfectly true until a couple of months ago.
I would have never have thought of letting istock even sniff one of my file.
Everything has changed now with p5 membership program:
Basically they are giving good hand picked files covering almost everything for practically nothing and they pay no royalties to artist.
The video stock market is dead, P5 killed it, no more sales to be had. So now I even consider uploading to istock or Envato.
Or if someone wants my portfolio for a couple of drinks, he can have it

Personally I don't agree with you. Stock video market is far from dead, you just need to have niches. P5 pay monthly retainers for all the membership videos. Since the membership I've had more sales than ever and my minimum prices are around $79. I have niches and I find if I submit cliche videos already well stocked then they get rejected.


« Reply #51 on: June 09, 2016, 13:52 »
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Pond5 is just a tiny drop in the ocean. The market is so much bigger than one small to medium sized catalogue. Pond5 needs to adapt to compete in the larger market, this is just there strategy. It doesn't change a thing unless you are one of the unfortunate people who depend on their income.

bringing on the usual question - what sites are worthwhile other than ss, p5,vb and ft (I've about given up with the latter due to worthless rejection messages listing all possible things that MIGHT be wrong, combined with lack of editorial offerings)

« Reply #52 on: June 09, 2016, 14:32 »
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I have dropped my exclusive status and this is one reason why! I don't care to sell 4k the same as HD, I will not and have stopped loading any 4k to iStock.

The big question is, is it worth the extra effort to render out a 4K and an HD version of your clips just to give the HD to iStock where you still may only get between $3 and $9 per download?

That said, I do throw some clips iStock's way every now and then, and yes, some of those clips are HD versions of my 4K files I specifically render at 1080p just for iStock.  Generally, I do this only when I have some extra time and not have other work to do at other agencies.

Only time will tell if I continue this.

Waste of time - you shouldn't accept less than US$25 net/average per download, meaning Istock is a no go for video.
What you are saying was perfectly true until a couple of months ago.
I would have never have thought of letting istock even sniff one of my file.
Everything has changed now with p5 membership program:
Basically they are giving good hand picked files covering almost everything for practically nothing and they pay no royalties to artist.
The video stock market is dead, P5 killed it, no more sales to be had. So now I even consider uploading to istock or Envato.
Or if someone wants my portfolio for a couple of drinks, he can have it

Personally I don't agree with you. Stock video market is far from dead, you just need to have niches. P5 pay monthly retainers for all the membership videos. Since the membership I've had more sales than ever and my minimum prices are around $79. I have niches and I find if I submit cliche videos already well stocked then they get rejected.
I really hope you are right when you say that the vidoeo market is not dead, by I am frankly starting to thing about letting it go.
When you talk about monthly retainers you mean the ridicolous half a dollar per clip per month, or I am missing something? When I said p5 pays no royalties  I meant that artists don't get any money per each sale. Have I got this wrong?
I suppose you are in the membership program and that explain why you are still getting some sales: apparently partecipating artists are the only one still getting some sales for the moment, as they have been pushed up in the search engine. I wonder wif you still will have sales once the whole market becomes aware of the crazy bargain in the mambership bloody thing.
I don't know if I have niches, but all I can say is that I have been uploading clips for about one year, I was very happy the way things were going until April, every month was BME, I was averaging one clip per day of sales until the P5 membership program came around.
Ever since the p5 thingy started my sales disappeared immediately, on every agencies. And I perfectly knew it would happen, because they are practically giving very good clips covering mostly everything, basically for free


 

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