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Pond5 has joined Shutterstock
Simon Brough:
:) or :(
"Over the past fifteen years, Pond5 has become a thriving community of millions of buyers and sellers interacting, transacting, and creating together.
We are so grateful that you have made this journey with us. Today, we are thrilled to announce a monumental next step: Pond5 has joined Shutterstock to form an unrivaled creative platform that offers full-service solutions, high-quality content, and applications for brands, businesses, and media companies.
Our combined reach is unprecedented in the media licensing industry. Together, Pond5 and Shutterstock will bring your work to tens of millions of creatives around the world for use in feature films, video games, advertising campaigns, and much, much more.
Additionally, Pond5 and Shutterstock partner with the biggest companies in the world - including Google, Meta, Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, and Bytedance - with a combined user base in the billions.
The future is very bright and your work is destined for greatness!
You do not need to do anything differently - your content remains on Pond5 and, if you also contribute to Shutterstock, your content will continue to be licensable there. You should continue to upload new content as you would typically across both platforms. Finally, your payouts from both marketplaces will continue on their usual schedule.
As you may be aware, Pond5 and Shutterstock have very similar, but not identical, Contributor Agreements. We have no immediate plans to amend our Contributor Agreement (or any of the terms of use of our marketplace), nor does Shutterstock.
You will undoubtedly have questions in the coming weeks and months. As always, my team and I are here to help. Learn more on our Help Center or contact us at [email protected] and we’ll respond promptly.
We have an exciting road ahead of us, and we’re thankful to move forward side-by-side with you.
Sincerely,
Tom Crary, CEO"
FAQs - https://help.pond5.com/hc/en-us/sections/6126870297229
gnirtS:
Definitely >:(
Merged (or taken over) by a company that offers contributors no control at all over pricing, constantly reduces commissions and frequently "sells" material for tens of cents.
Long term SS aren't going to want their "partner" offering the same material for 20x the price their packages are.
Bart:
That’s some “exciting” news from the industry 🤦♂️
Wonder how this will effect p5/Adobe partnership?
wollwerth:
If Pond5 ends up following the same commission schedule as Shitterstock, I will drop them as fast as I dropped Shitterstock the first time. I'll get to break up with them twice.
smcbuki:
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Great.
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