Author Topic: 4K on Pond5 (Read 9461 times)

SpaceStockFootage · « **on:** June 21, 2018, 00:14 »

Not sure what's happening with Pond5, but I've had four 4K sales this month... when I normally get about four 4K sales in a year! BME for sales as well... they seem to be a lot higher for the whole of 2018, and my item views are through the roof for the past couple of months.

I can only assume they changed the search criteria or something, as I can't see them doubling their actual customers overnight. So my gain is probably someone else's loss, but I'm not going to complain too much... I'm sure things will level out when they next alter the search engine!

Almost $200 in extended license revenue this month as well, on top of sales. Hope it continues... unlikely though!

Video-StockOrg · « **Reply #1 on:** June 21, 2018, 00:43 »

Google bots were the cause of high views for the last few weeks. The probably fixed it now, because it went back to normal.

SpaceStockFootage · « **Reply #2 on:** June 21, 2018, 00:49 »

Ah ok. Still... it was very kind of these Google Bots to purchase so many of my items.

ccbcc · « **Reply #3 on:** June 21, 2018, 04:30 »

Not sure what's going on, but I like it! BME already this month.

SpaceStockFootage · « **Reply #4 on:** June 22, 2018, 20:04 »

Yeah, me too. My best ever month from 2012 to 2017 was $389. My average for 2018 is $595, and I've made $909 already this month... with a week to go!

pkphotos · « **Reply #5 on:** June 23, 2018, 19:44 »

Quote from: SpaceStockFootage on June 22, 2018, 20:04

Yeah, me too. My best ever month from 2012 to 2017 was $389. My average for 2018 is $595, and I've made $909 already this month... with a week to go!

Please include thumbnails with your sales results so we know what to shoot!

skysense · « **Reply #6 on:** June 28, 2018, 05:26 »

I've also seen huuuuge jump in views, and was puzzled by it. As this "views" went up, sales went down

But i fear not

ccbcc · « **Reply #7 on:** July 03, 2018, 04:29 »

Aaaaaaand sales are gone.

Stockmaan · « **Reply #8 on:** July 03, 2018, 05:35 »

0 sales here too..two months now. I have more than 1k videos. On Adobe and SS sales are great!

pkphotos · « **Reply #9 on:** July 03, 2018, 06:35 »

Videos are dead, photos have taken off again

Orchidpoet · « **Reply #10 on:** July 03, 2018, 11:10 »

I get sporadic sales here and there, not great, but not dead either.

But Pond5 has been advertising a lot. Its ads are following me around the internet. Initially it only showed my own contents because I was working on them. Now it shows other people's clips as well. Hope the advertisements bring good results soon.

BigBubba · « **Reply #11 on:** July 03, 2018, 14:29 »

I think I’m on to something, I am happy with my sales but I expected more growth so I checked how my files look from the buyer point of view and found out that hundreds of my clips are labeled as editorial when they are super hardcore solid commercial clips. Across all other platforms and to any standard known to mankind.

I think this effects my sales.

Anyone else having the same issue?

I’m a big fan of P5 and hope they can fix this.

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Video-StockOrg · « **Reply #12 on:** July 03, 2018, 15:34 »

Quote from: Liorpt on July 03, 2018, 14:29

I think I’m on to something, I am happy with my sales but I expected more growth so I checked how my files look from the buyer point of view and found out that hundreds of my clips are labeled as editorial when they are super hardcore solid commercial clips. Across all other platforms and to any standard known to mankind.

I think this effects my sales.

Anyone else having the same issue?

I’m a big fan of P5 and hope they can fix this.

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Yea, had same situation... reported all commercial ones back to them to fix them.

Asthebelltolls · « **Reply #13 on:** July 03, 2018, 17:56 »

Quote from: Video-StockOrg on July 03, 2018, 15:34

Quote from: Liorpt on July 03, 2018, 14:29
I think I’m on to something, I am happy with my sales but I expected more growth so I checked how my files look from the buyer point of view and found out that hundreds of my clips are labeled as editorial when they are super hardcore solid commercial clips. Across all other platforms and to any standard known to mankind.

I think this effects my sales.

Anyone else having the same issue?

I’m a big fan of P5 and hope they can fix this.

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yea, had same situation... reported all commercial ones back to them to fix them.

Good Lord....and this is a legitimate agency?

Video-StockOrg · « **Reply #14 on:** July 04, 2018, 01:23 »

Well, they probably hired newbie currators that cannot distinguish between commercial and editorial files.

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