I removed around 750 clips the last few days and put them exclusive at P5, I get bored from these 1$ dollar sales per clip

2020 average income per month: 755$
2021: 690$
2022: 574$
2023: 730$

Edit: not full time, I just upload part of the clips that we shoot for our documentaries, I didn't have time to upload any new content for the last 6 months.

The first three months of this year are twice as good as in 2022 on Pond5.
But I see a significant drop in SS. First of all because of cheap sales.

In the first three months, I have better sales on both P5 and SS, but sales at P5 come from buyers that pick several clips from certain collections, guess it's luck more than anything else.

So far, 2023 is better than 2022 on Pond5 here.

Congratulations! At which level are you? You may earn even much more from the same sale at higher levels.

Quote from: SpaceStockFootage on February 23, 2023, 21:13

Envato Elements, Motion Array, Artgrid, Storyblocks... and a few smaller sites.

Thanks for the reply. Glad I am not with any of these. 

Hehe, SpaceStockFootage said in another thread that more than half of his earnings comes from video subscription sites (Mostly Envato Elements and Storyblocks). I started uploading to Storyblocks 3 months ago and the estimated earnings for this month are 1/3 of my total earnings. My portfolio at Storyblocks is 1/6 of SS, but it looks like I will earn more at Storyblocks this month...

Envato is the worst site regarding tax withheld. I'm from a country that doesn't have a tax treaty with US, so 30% tax should be deducted from my US sales.

If I sell a clip for 100$ on SS, and I'm on level 4, I'll get 30%=30$. If the sale is for a US client, another 30% is deducted from my share and I'm left with 21$. The same happens with Adobe Stock.

If I sell a clip for 100$ on Envato, they will deduct 3$, then I got 50% of the rest = 48.5$. If the sale is for a US client, they will deduct 30% of the whole sale, in this case 30$, from my share, and I will be left with:
48.5$ - 30$ = 18.5$ (!)

Better than Jan 2022 (Mostly videos)

Checked my billing history with Adobe. In 2021 I was paying about �30/ month for all apps. now it's �51.98! a 70+% increase. LOL I guess we're the frogs that just get dumped straight into the boiling water.

Cancel your subscription and you will get another deal (usually 30% off) in a few weeks as a max.

I didn't get any...

Very impressive! my English is not that good and I wanted to ask a client for a payment in a kind way, I tried ChatGPT:

Prompt: "give me a kind way to ask for my payment from a client"

ChatGPT: "One way to ask for payment from a client in a kind manner is to simply remind them of the outstanding payment and express your appreciation for their business. For example, you could say something like: "Hello, I wanted to remind you that the payment for our services is now overdue. We really appreciate your business and hope that we can resolve this as soon as possible." This approach is polite and professional, and it should help to get the conversation started without offending the client."

Wow...

4 clips were selected by AS, I've nominated 23 only (not my best of course)

Here are my sales from a few days ago...