I have over 600 video files on Pond5. Jan and Feb sales were good but March, April and so far this month sales seem to have dropped off and are down about 50% of what they were previously.

last month was super hot. This month not so good. Same with SS. It's slow right now.

It's gotta be something else causing the issue.  For a 50% drop in sales, I would assume there would have to be a doubling of the content on the site to evenly distribute total file demand.  But there's no way they could have doubled the total files in just 3 months.

Sales have been very good there for me, peaking with a really good month last month. Then it has gone very quiet this month. Still plenty of time for this month to kick into gear though.

Small video portfolios there for some who have commented above make ebbs and flows very noticeable. Until you have a good size selection (at least 1000+) of videos covering a broad range of subjects, it's hard to blame the ups and downs on any external factors.

I sell mainly audio on P5 and for the last 3 years it has been my main income until now. The last 3 months for me sales have tanked to an absolute low. I am uploading new work ALL the time and sales are worse. I have even opened up my photo portfolio on there and have not had any sales. Dire !!!

BME for me for footage

I used to do really well @ P5 with a small video port, but for about a year the sales have been decreasing steadily. If you are experiencing a decrease as well don't expect it to get any better with the summer slowdown arriving. 

Has anyone received a boost in sales from the pixmac merger?

Pixmac merger ? I don't think it has happened. Sales boost ? just photo sales would be good before any boost.

General answer:

Where the more you worked and uploaded, and the more IS innovated and pushed, the more my income jumped. [2005]  You could see results.  Now, with more than 1000 images on P5, and not a sale in 15 days, I don't know how anyone would think positively.

But P5 could be "the next big thing"  Which I'm sorry to say, there hasn't been the next big thing, pretty much since Microstock started. It was the big thing, now we have promises and hope, dropping sales, dropped commissions, lower income, lower returns, which in this case, what has been touted as a merger. Who believes that it was really a merger? I'm skeptical.

Here's a likely hypothetical scenario. Pixmac was going out of business, P5 took over the debt and the name and the site. Bailed out the owners and gave them work. But to save face, it's called a merger.

Yep... Next Big Thing, the P5 PXM merger.   

It's quite the opposite for me. I have an 100 clips portfolio and never had a sale on Pond5 until last month when I had 2. I noticed that my oldest clips sold, so I'm thinking that maybe the files need to be online for a while until the first sales. Made some good money in June thanks to those sales. It really motivated me to work more.

If you try this formula you might be able to better project your future sales- it's all relative   

E = m c^2 = (gamma) m0 c^2 = K + m0 c^2

Its looking for me that this month's P5 payment is set to be the lowest since Nov 2010 when I had only just signed up with a few audio files. This year I have nearly 2000 sounds and over 500 images added this year and it's getting worse by the month. Very very depressing !!!

I just asked them to close my account. I dont know why people are so positive about them or reported these good sales numbers. If Sean Locke cant pick up decent sales there, I have no chance in he11