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Atomazul:
Pond5 has decided to reposition themselves from the most contributor friendly stock agency, to just another company whose one and only goal is to increase their short-term bottom line no matter how much damage to their integrity and long-term prospects it causes. After over 10 years of building a highly respectable reputation, they have thrown it all away with a series of backstabbing moves.

I've personally been unofficially audio exclusive to Pond5 for many years, since a 50/50 split was about as good a deal as I'd found, and they really were worthy of such loyalty. Of course, times change, Pond5 crapped all over it's suppliers, and now it's time to find alternatives for selling audio. I realize the audio forums here are quiet, but I'm hoping to gather some suggestions for stock audio agencies. Googles searches haven't yielded any solid finds. Audiojungle looks like a joke with it's pricing, and being part of the Envato family isn't exactly a positive.

Thanks in advance.

txking:
Sorry, I know this isn't an answer to your question but I'm curious. Is there a market in audio even and how expensive is it to break into it?

SpaceStockFootage:

--- Quote from: Atomazul on August 20, 2019, 14:10 ---Audiojungle looks like a joke with it's pricing, and being part of the Envato family isn't exactly a positive.

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You can set your own prices.

SuperPhoto:

--- Quote from: txking on August 22, 2019, 20:11 ---Sorry, I know this isn't an answer to your question but I'm curious. Is there a market in audio even and how expensive is it to break into it?

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Yes, there is a market if you have high fidelity audio, and unique settings. Matching buyers to sellers can be a challenge.

Breaking into it - depends what you consider "profitable". There is an abundant supply of files though (I think last time I checked pond5 had over 1 million files). So I think you'd have to produce a considerable amount to break in, and/or have something uniquely interesting.

Atomazul:

--- Quote from: SpaceStockFootage on August 22, 2019, 20:26 ---
--- Quote from: Atomazul on August 20, 2019, 14:10 ---Audiojungle looks like a joke with it's pricing, and being part of the Envato family isn't exactly a positive.

--- End quote ---

You can set your own prices.

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Thanks for that info, must admit I did not look that far into them before my post. I just saw the big "Royalty free music and audio tracks from $1" header on the landing page and the Envato name. My knee-jerk reaction was to run the other way. Seem to remember them pulling some shady moves on photo contributors in the past, and I did have several direct discussions with staff that resulted in my deciding not to work with them with video, although they were friendly, that was years ago, and a lot has changed since then.

I'm trying to figure out what the prices can be set to at Audiojungle. The link through the terms to an article titled "Author Driven Pricing" is broken. I see that the Non-Exclusive Author Fee is 55%, so from that alone it seems to suggest the contributor gets 45% of a sale, which isn't as bad as other places. However I recollect there was more to it than that, and see in the terms mention of "buyer fees, handling fees" etc., and I'm not seeing what those are exactly, it doesn't appear to laid out clearly anywhere in their terms (unless I'm missing it). These honestly seem like red flags to me so far, but I'm still curious.

Any clue to how to get some more detailed information?

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