Can we hear the opinions of people who works for Pond5, in regarding of this issue. Why leaving us the choice of what price to set for footage if the best selling clips are 69$? Someone puts 5$, someone 300$, what this looks like... Why not set a fixed price and accept only the file that meet the criteria.

probably not...cause they are too busy vacationing, flying and partying around the world

OK, thanks for your opinion , but still, it would be good to hear the opinion of people who own or work for Pond5.
I think, that it would also be good, or most importantly, to hear what customers have to say about this issue, what are their experiences and how they choose what to buy and for what price? The product is worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it.

For me, Pond5 is the best agency for now, and first place to sell the footage with the highest earnings and it's okay to have a flexible prices or decide how to sell our work. I'm just saying that if customers are most willing to pay for footage amount of 69$, why do not specify a limit for regular quality HD clips between 40$ for low and 90$ for heights price and that's it. If someone has unique HD or 4K footage, then make a special group and separate them from other clips, so they price also will be a unique. If you think that people who put prices of 10 or 20$ for HD clips are negatively affect to the stock market, maybe this would solve that problem.

No point pricing when nobody can actually find your clips.

 
Taken from Pond5 forum:
Wideweb: "This does not make sense at all. Public Domain clips with 0 sales infiltrate the lines of clips with tens or hundreds of sales.
Search for something, sort by sales. You will see that more than 20% of the search result at the top of the page is PD with 0 sales.
For example, search with blank search box, you will see PD clip with 0 sales between two files with 283 and 275 sales.
What's the point?"

http://www.pond5.com/community?forum=629&thread=39986639&lp=1

 

Personally i pretty agree with you, but there's a but:

1- If someone wants to sell a 4k clip is free to do it
2- as per you're statement he should be an amateur

This leads to the conclusion that you're a professional therefore youre clips should have a better quality.
If someone is looking for quality will choose your videos not one by an amateur. If someone is NOT looking for a quality video chooses for a 10$ 4k or, worse, just choose to shoot by himself.

If you really believe that your work is in better quality you should not be scared of the price falling. Personally i'm not scared by a 4k video sold for 10$.
 
For the record: i price around 50$ my clips (i have only HDs)...i don't give the same price to all my clips, what in my opinion is better i put an higher price.
 

I price most of my Pond 5 content at the current price shown except for the collection of cars crashing on camera that is stuff you pay the big bucks for but everything else is at the current price and sales have been steady until the recent slowdown across all sites and even then I am still selling just not as much so I have to now work on doing my own direct advertising to buyers and see if that helps.

I did a price experiment early in the year hoping for insane volume of sales and those sales did not happen, lower price, sales stayed about the same, raise prices big time and sales dropped big time so I went back to my current price and will probably raise slightly but not by much. 

Mark
https://www.pond5.com/artist/WeatherENG

. just saw this is an older thread and i already posted above. sorry.

I don't like the default prices showing on P5 at all -- I think that does a disservice to contributors. Particularly out of place seems to be the 4K pricing. Here's what I see when I submit a video:

HD clips: $43.60 (all), $59.80 (best-selling)
4K clips: $50.30 (all), $80.30 (best-selling)

$50 4K clips?    And if that's the average price, that means there are a lot of contributors pricing below $50. No wonder I've yet to sell a 4K clip there (not that I've sold many anywhere).

Those numbers look like they came off the artists resource page, I don't think those numbers hardly ever change, you are best to browse the prices of the various artists and clips actually up for sale than go by that page.

Pond 5 is great, easy uploading and batch tagging, set your own prices, fair curators.....I have a ton of severe weather stuff and college and university students content, a lot of it is branded editorial and it's up there and passed curation, not ONE of the other sites will accept what I have and SELLS on Pond5.  Right now you can see what my prices are set to, I have one folder of high priced stuff but everything else is at the mid-range price.

Everyone is in a bit of a slump right now but that's no reason to change prices right away.

http://www.pond5.com/artist/WeatherENG (Average price $66.95)

Uber expensive but exclusive and you are paying for the freezing off of my butt in the 6 hour stake out to get these shots.

https://www.pond5.com/video-sound-effects-music-after-effects-photos-illustrations-images-3d-models/1/clipbin%3A1013880.html

Expensive and again...exclusive and a long stakeout involved.

https://www.pond5.com/video-sound-effects-music-after-effects-photos-illustrations-images-3d-models/1/clipbin%3A988461.html

$900 for a clip?  Good luck.

Just those few, there are some $1499 ones as well, the rest of the 24,000 files are $66.95

Quote from: KB on June 04, 2015, 10:41

I don't like the default prices showing on P5 at all -- I think that does a disservice to contributors. Particularly out of place seems to be the 4K pricing. Here's what I see when I submit a video:

HD clips: $43.60 (all), $59.80 (best-selling)
4K clips: $50.30 (all), $80.30 (best-selling)

$50 4K clips?    And if that's the average price, that means there are a lot of contributors pricing below $50. No wonder I've yet to sell a 4K clip there (not that I've sold many anywhere).

Those numbers look like they came off the artists resource page, I don't think those numbers hardly ever change, you are best to browse the prices of the various artists and clips actually up for sale than go by that page.

Pond 5 is great, easy uploading and batch tagging, set your own prices, fair curators.....I have a ton of severe weather stuff and college and university students content, a lot of it is branded editorial and it's up there and passed curation, not ONE of the other sites will accept what I have and SELLS on Pond5.  Right now you can see what my prices are set to, I have one folder of high priced stuff but everything else is at the mid-range price.

Everyone is in a bit of a slump right now but that's no reason to change prices right away.

http://www.pond5.com/artist/WeatherENG (Average price $66.95)

Uber expensive but exclusive and you are paying for the freezing off of my butt in the 6 hour stake out to get these shots.

https://www.pond5.com/video-sound-effects-music-after-effects-photos-illustrations-images-3d-models/1/clipbin%3A1013880.html

Expensive and again...exclusive and a long stakeout involved.

https://www.pond5.com/video-sound-effects-music-after-effects-photos-illustrations-images-3d-models/1/clipbin%3A988461.html

Well I see you did get at least one $1,499 sale. Congrats. Frankly I would rather see people increasing prices than lowering them.

Can we hear the opinions of people who works for Pond5, in regarding of this issue. Why leaving us the choice of what price to set for footage if the best selling clips are 69$? Someone puts 5$, someone 300$, what this looks like... Why not set a fixed price and accept only the file that meet the criteria.

Hiya, I do happen to work at Pond5, so I'll try to share what information I can.

So to start, here are our current pricing guidelines at Pond5:

http://help.pond5.com/hc/en-us/articles/200944103-How-Do-I-Price-My-Files-

Pond5's mission has always been to be an open marketplace, by artists, for artists. That's why we let you price your own goods. I think there's a strong argument to be made for having firm pricing guidelines in that scenario, and I've cirtanly seen lots of feedback suggesting we need to raise the minimums. Rest assured that that feedback gets reviewed by the people upstairs.

There's been lots of talk about falling sales across the whole website, not just outside of Pond5, but we're aware of it and working on it internally too. It's true that summer time comes with a drop in sales normally, but we think there are other factors contributing that many of you have mentioned here. Our marketplace could use a good "quality" clean up, for example. That's totally on the to-do list.

Something else I can share about pricing that may be helpful is this: we've seen data that suggests when you raise prices (on quality content) it tends to correlate with a rise in sales. Now, we all know that correlation does not necessarily mean causation, but it's still probably unwise to ignore that. We think higher prices may give buyers the impression of higher quality, and when the shopper is looking for a scene to put into their next multi-million dollar movie or TV show, quality is often their primary concern. So I would definitely and highly recommend playing with pricing, and see what works best for your items. The recommendations on the edit item page are much more up-to-date than what's on artist resources, so I'd use those as a barometer first. WeatherENG's suggestion of using the search system is also really good advice.

I don't have any news or information on if or when we'll adjust the minimum prices, but if you have anything to say on the subject please feel free. As I said, I do bring this feedback to the guys upstairs.

On that note, if you really want to help, please try to offer as much "actionable" feedback as you can. Saying something like "the interface sucks" isn't actionable, and won't really help us improve anything. But saying, "I can't easily price or manage my items because the interface makes it hard for me to work with large numbers of files at once," is much more helpful and actionable.

And of course, you're always welcome to PM me on here, or email me directly if you'd like: [email protected]

All the above plus a few clarifications if i may.

Please for heaven's sake fix the 4K+HD price search.It has forced me -as well as others- to upload 4k and hd separately for the past month cluttering my portfolio.I dont want to but there is no other way since the hd gets buried in price search especially if the 4K price is high (reasonable).

Also do rejections not only based on overplayed concepts or "boring" stuff (because one can argue that he is offering a different angle etc) but in very basic things in quality.I am seeing horrible  stuff being accepted,that would never pass quality inspection in anything more that an amateur youtube video .
I have persuaded a few friends who work in film and tv to do some stock and after searching for a few hours (and not only on pond5) they were horrified by some of the things they saw and i cant blame them.

Even out of focus stuff and i dont mean crowds or traffic which an be very aesthetically pleasing if blurred correctly,i mean like buildings,close ups of people, even aerials and when i say out of focus aerials i dont mean "i am concealing logos out of focus" i mean "i dont know how to do an infinity focus on my lens out of focus" .

All the above plus a few clarifications if i may.

Please for heaven's sake fix the 4K+HD price search.It has forced me -as well as others- to upload 4k and hd separately for the past month cluttering my portfolio. ...

Raise the minimum pricing at least to $50 for HD and $100 for 4K.
...
I'd like to set prices for 4k and HD instead of the automatic pricing.

Guys there is already solution for this. Under Action dropdown menu there is "set downconverted price(video)"