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What am i doing wrong on Pond5?
Quote from: izzikiorage on October 08, 2016, 06:15What am i doing wrong on Pond5? People don't go to Pond5 to buy images, they go there to buy footage and music. Images is just something they added there but those customers are used to Shutterstock and the others.
Quote from: increasingdifficulty on October 08, 2016, 09:01Quote from: izzikiorage on October 08, 2016, 06:15What am i doing wrong on Pond5? People don't go to Pond5 to buy images, they go there to buy footage and music. Images is just something they added there but those customers are used to Shutterstock and the others.Don't bother uploading images! Look at their home page...ONLY VIDEO advertised!"Find inspiration by searching the largest library of royalty-free HD and 4k stock video"
Well they did reply, premade and very exhaustive but nothing for me specifically Hi We are sorry to hear this. First off, we would like to thank you for being a contributor with us. We would like to also provide you with some nuggets of knowledge, regarding helping raise your exposure and ultimately, your revenues on our site.If you have more high-quality media, definitely continue uploading more of your work. Our customers know what's good, and the larger your high-quality collection, the more recognition you can have with our community. Buyers are always hungry for amazing content!For your clips to be easily found, accurate rich info in titles, descriptions and keywords are helpful. How you title and keyword your work isvery important. If you spam your keywords or titles, it will only hurt your visibility. So doing this in more detail, butACCURATELY has a significant 60% SEO weight on the search results.We also, always recommend that you promote your work, to up your exposure. You can create a Collection bin showcasing your footage, and then simply copy the link, to add that to your website or social outlet. Here is a link to our Knowledge Base article explaining this: What are Collections?Another option, is just to simply post links of your clips and distribute all over the internet. You can even add some of your clips to our "free clip promotion", for this will also help get your name out there.Next, you are welcome to explore through our Artist Resources page. Here you will find tons of very valuable metric information, such as what kinds of files comprise what percentage of the sites sales, the most commonly searched key words, and so much more information that we think are useful for our artists.Lastly, if you use your Referral Links, you can even make 5% on all purchases or sales made for the first year of people who sign up using the links you give them. That's another way of thanking you, for sharing Pond5 with your friends!We hope this helps. Please let us know if you have anymore questions.
There are many, many, many authors meeting $100 every month on Pond5, believe me. $5,000+ is not that uncommon. Yes, you most likely need 500+ video clips or quality music for that though.They sell footage for millions each month but of course, there are quite a few clips so if you're new with a small portfolio it's hard to be seen.Sales create more sales and new stuff isn't too visible in the search engine. But after a few years when you have high ranking stuff the sales can really roll in. It takes time.
Quote from: KnowYourOnions on October 09, 2016, 04:08Quote from: increasingdifficulty on October 08, 2016, 09:01Quote from: izzikiorage on October 08, 2016, 06:15What am i doing wrong on Pond5? People don't go to Pond5 to buy images, they go there to buy footage and music. Images is just something they added there but those customers are used to Shutterstock and the others.Don't bother uploading images! Look at their home page...ONLY VIDEO advertised!"Find inspiration by searching the largest library of royalty-free HD and 4k stock video"Yup, even their sales stats seem to tell the same story
Thats the whole point. It'll take me much more than my 15+ clips to get any real sales
Quote from: izzikiorage on October 10, 2016, 11:17Thats the whole point. It'll take me much more than my 15+ clips to get any real salesOf course. 15 is nothing. 500 is minimum to see any action at all even if you have good clips. Just get to work.
I realize that, its just amazingly hard to edit and upload video. The workflow for images is much more sorted. Need a lightroom type deal for video
Quote from: izzikiorage on October 11, 2016, 00:12I realize that, its just amazingly hard to edit and upload video. The workflow for images is much more sorted. Need a lightroom type deal for videoThat's why you can still charge hundreds of dollars per clip and there are still a few good years in the footage business left. It's good that it's hard.Just use After Effects or Final Cut. The workflow is not more sorted for images, it's just that video takes more time and involves more data.You can quite easily do 20 clips in two days (film, edit, upload to multiple sites). Ten days full-time work: 100 clips. It's not THAT hard...For one person getting 500 clips up in two months from scratch is not an impossible task at all. But of course, you have to treat it like any other job and spend the hours.
a) you have quite a few files actually, in comparison with all agency's database b) your images are not commercial. these two reasons are in my opinion main reasons for low traffic of your images.
Can you please tell me how much you got from video sales at Pond5 per month?and is it really possoble to get 5000$ per month for video sales at Pond5??Thanks
Quote from: WindyTai on October 16, 2016, 23:59Can you please tell me how much you got from video sales at Pond5 per month?and is it really possoble to get 5000$ per month for video sales at Pond5??ThanksYes, absolutely. I would say that Axiomimages, Blendimages, Hotelfoxtrot, Wavebreakmedia, Rickray, Skyworksrf etc. all make around $10,000-30,000 per month from Pond5 alone. Naturally, most authors will make much less, but there is great potential.
I can't help to notice that most of the weekly and monthly best sellers are Music files....I never imagined it
Thanks, have been playing around with images for a few years now. Video is relatively new. Will keep at it
Quote from: increasingdifficulty on October 10, 2016, 06:48There are many, many, many authors meeting $100 every month on Pond5, believe me. $5,000+ is not that uncommon. Yes, you most likely need 500+ video clips or quality music for that though.They sell footage for millions each month but of course, there are quite a few clips so if you're new with a small portfolio it's hard to be seen.Sales create more sales and new stuff isn't too visible in the search engine. But after a few years when you have high ranking stuff the sales can really roll in. It takes time.Can you please tell me how much you got from video sales at Pond5 per month?and is it really possoble to get 5000$ per month for video sales at Pond5??Thanks
I seem to be doing something fundamentally wrong on pond5. I've had some video sales but NEVER an image sale, never, not even once. My stuff sells well on SS, iStock, Fotolia and even 123rf. What am i doing wrong on Pond5? https://www.pond5.com/artist/amlanmathur
At Pond5, I've made an average of $600 per month this year. So still a long way off $10 to $30K, but it's reasonable!
In the same period (~1 year) and same videos I sold one video at Poond5, 10 at SS, and 3 at Fotolia. I have about 40 videos. So for me, pond5 isn't best for videos.