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Pond5 membership program experience. Share you income changes after joining it.
Pablito:
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--- Quote from: Pablito on January 31, 2018, 06:04 ---Hi Sauletas,
I have had a few thousand in the membership scheme since the beginning.
Up to now it's been brilliant.
I agree with P5 - as far as I can tell it hasn't impacted on my regular P5 sales; membership clips sell just as well outside the membership program.
Everything is changing on 1 March so it's now new to everyone as far as how membership earnings will go.
They've just chosen a few more 1000 of mine - I'm happy about that and reckon it's better to be in than out.
Hope that helps your decision.
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How many millions of clips do you have? ;)
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I do this full-time but so far haven't hit anything close to 1,000,000 clips. 8) I'll let you know when it happens - but don't hold your breath as it won't be this century.
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can anyone share their recent membership earning at pond5
marthamarks:
--- Quote from: [email protected] on July 11, 2021, 01:17 ---can anyone share their recent membership earning at pond5
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No.
Findura:
I've only been really active with Pond5 since the fall of 2020. Exclusive.
And since then I also always registered all my clips for membership. From less than 100 videos in fall 2020 to almost 4000 videos today.
Today all my videos in the Exclusiv portfolio are unlocked for membership.
Since a few days I start filling a new portfolio for non-exclusive videos.
The revenue for videos via membership sales is about the same for me as the regular revenue. But the total fluctuates a lot. Once it was double and once it was only a third of the amount for regular sales, usually a little less.
My portfolio grew, my regular income became more and my income via membership also became more.
I think it is a good thing to offer your media for membership, otherwise you would just be giving money away.
You can't lose anything by joining this program, you can only earn extra. All videos unlocked for membership are always available to non-members as well.
Unfortunately, subscription sales are not visible in the portfolio. But maybe that will come in the future. I didn't know the membership program was so new.
I ask every month by mail for my sold clips in the month before and then I get the item numbers. And what I have earned, I can only see by the payout. There is no more info, but you can actually live well with that.
Those who offer their media at SS know that there is especially much sold via membership. The income of many DL's via membership is only slightly lower than the income of a few DL's via 'On demand' 'Enhanced' and 'Single & Other'. But the two sums are almost identical.
It is similar with Pond5.
kall3bu:
--- Quote from: Findura on July 12, 2021, 05:38 ---I've only been really active with Pond5 since the fall of 2020. Exclusive.
And since then I also always registered all my clips for membership. From less than 100 videos in fall 2020 to almost 4000 videos today.
Today all my videos in the Exclusiv portfolio are unlocked for membership.
Since a few days I start filling a new portfolio for non-exclusive videos.
The revenue for videos via membership sales is about the same for me as the regular revenue. But the total fluctuates a lot. Once it was double and once it was only a third of the amount for regular sales, usually a little less.
My portfolio grew, my regular income became more and my income via membership also became more.
I think it is a good thing to offer your media for membership, otherwise you would just be giving money away.
You can't lose anything by joining this program, you can only earn extra. All videos unlocked for membership are always available to non-members as well.
Unfortunately, subscription sales are not visible in the portfolio. But maybe that will come in the future. I didn't know the membership program was so new.
I ask every month by mail for my sold clips in the month before and then I get the item numbers. And what I have earned, I can only see by the payout. There is no more info, but you can actually live well with that.
Those who offer their media at SS know that there is especially much sold via membership. The income of many DL's via membership is only slightly lower than the income of a few DL's via 'On demand' 'Enhanced' and 'Single & Other'. But the two sums are almost identical.
It is similar with Pond5.
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I knew about that membership thing, but was not interested in it in the past.
But now - after I changed my strategy and read your experiences - I am interested to try it out, too.
I asked pond5 about it and they told me, I should create a collection and then tell them that all medias in that collection will be offered from me for the membership program.
You (Findura) seem to registered ALL media right?
I am curious now and do not know if I should tell pond5 that I want just all uploaded media will be offered from me to the membership program or should I try out a few items first. But then which?
Should I offer good ones but not the best ones? So, the buyer might see the best one under similar medias and buy it instead of using the ´free´ one via membership? Does that happen often enough to get buyers to my membership media and then also to my usual offered media?
#Since a few days I start filling a new portfolio for non-exclusive videos.[Findura]#
may I ask you why you start now with a non exclusive portfolio? which media you want to offer there? In my eyes the exclusive including partner like Adobe is the best. Or do i miss something (a good alternative agency)?
Non exclusive also for membership included?
Just curious to know.
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