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1401
« on: February 03, 2017, 11:08 »
It takes many years to upload 22,000 clips...
1402
« on: February 03, 2017, 10:56 »
This person has a similar approach:
https://www.pond5.com/artist/patuwe97
Over 22,000 clips, HD at $299 or $300.
A few hundred photos at $429.
I discovered their portfolio a few years ago and it was much smaller back then and the pricing was similar as now. If they have motivation to grow their port like this, I assume that this approach must be working, at least to some extent.
Definitely food for thought for all the people who think that a Peanut Vending Machine like Videohive/Envato is the pinnacle of stock video industry.
Well, the beauty of high-priced portfolios like this is that you can see how much they sell at P5. And we're talking 1-5 sales per week. To me, that is just incredibly BAD for a portfolio of 22,000. The prices are too high. Is $8-25 too low? Yes. But $199-429 for HD or photos is also too high to maximize revenue today. They're shooting themselves in the foot with those prices. I think around $49 to maybe $99 is what you should be aiming for with high quality clips if you want to maximize revenue.
1403
« on: February 03, 2017, 10:29 »
for sure she spend money for herself...but she also took for example stylist and make up who costed her 100000 dollar for a bunch of shooting.
That is simply called reckless spending, not necessary production costs. Anyone with an ounce of economic self-control and non-inflated ego will not put themselves in those situations. Anyone can go broke if you start buying islands, but there is no way hotelfoxtrot spends more than $50,000 a month to make those shots. Or even remotely close.
1404
« on: February 03, 2017, 09:32 »
Yes, but hotelfoxtrot shows up in common, simple searches like "happy people". She has very good search exposure and she could reduce spending to $0 today and still earn $50,000+ per month for years with that portfolio.
1405
« on: February 03, 2017, 09:13 »
Yes, the Bitcoin currency is way too volatile to be used as anything but instant payment. Monthly payments would have to go, and you would have to be paid directly for each image sale.
Agencies don't like that as holding on to millions of dollars each month before payment is financially rewarding.
1407
« on: February 02, 2017, 02:46 »
Would you mind reporting if uploading makes a difference? It had stopped having a measurable impact for me, so I quit.
Well, maybe the impact is that sales aren't going down MORE? You can't go up forever, and at some point you need to consistently upload just to stay at the same level.
1408
« on: February 01, 2017, 14:32 »
u look video expert...what camera u suggest...i am photographer and i use only pentax camera , k1 and 645d and z nowadays with plenty of pentax lenses plus ricoh gr.....but i'm not satisfied by video, mostly for lack of 4k and frame per second. i shoot drone with go pro and i have also a s800evo for photo...i plan to buy a gh4 used and add the gh5, to use with my glasses adapted and native glass. or better move to sony a7? i also like the black magic for guerrilla type video but it looks to have so many limits.
and i want buy a small powerful light led video kit. what you suggest?
I am absolutely not a video expert, I just like keeping track of data, but the GH4 is probably the cheapest way to get high quality 4k footage. Of course it's not as good in low light as the Sony, but it does everything else really well. The GH5 will of course be a couple steps better, but at more than double the price. A flip-out screen is VERY valuable when it comes to filming, and it's a shame that so many cameras don't have it (5D mk III/IV)... The Sony only has a tilt screen which is not good enough... There are MANY situations when you want to film close to the ground or really high up and that flip-out screen really helps.
1409
« on: February 01, 2017, 14:27 »
Where do you see how much he has sold ?
You can't, Pond5 thankfully got rid of that tool. It's great IMO, I did look at how many sales some clips had made but at the end of the day it stops copy cats. People need to be creative and not copy others.
Yes, you can, if the producer has high priced clips.
1410
« on: February 01, 2017, 12:09 »
well 50 60 download. all so easy?
Not easy for the average producer, but she sells many of her clips several times per day.
1411
« on: February 01, 2017, 12:05 »
Well, 30 people for one day, maybe 100 each, and she might get 50-100 clips from that. Plus location costs and production team.
Let's say 4,000 for 50 quality clips. 80 per clip to produce. She makes that back very quickly.
1412
« on: February 01, 2017, 11:56 »
anyway if we look at numbers 20 k with 55000 quality video clip looks like 0,5 dollar per clip at month....well not a great rpc....even for a producer of super clips....so everything returns to the same point...quantity is the real force of micro stock, without giant number of production you can have alla the quality stuff but earning will be low.
Well, I think her total is probably closer to $60-80,000 per month from all sites. Her clips are in the top on most sites. So maybe $1.5 per clip per month is a realistic figure. Still not that great since I get around $2 per clip per month and I don't have anything in the corporate/people/aerial categories at all!
1413
« on: February 01, 2017, 11:18 »
Artist resources at P5. He prices everything at $199/200 so if he sells a clip it shows up in the list.
And before anyone asks, I also know that he only sold those clips once each, since I am also in that list and know how much you have to sell to be placed there in certain positions.
So, to sum up:
Is he making money? Yes.
Is he making good money compared to the size of his portfolio? No.
Skyworksrf, Ailaimages, viafilms, hotelfoxtrot etc. are the ones actually making lots of money from footage at Pond5.
I remember reading in an interview that hotelfoxtrot often makes around $20-30,000 or so from Pond5 per month. But she also spends $1,000 or so for the production of a handful of clips (NYC aerials for example, helicopter, RED camera, etc.).
1414
« on: February 01, 2017, 11:11 »
He has sold 4 clips at Pond5 this last week for a total of $400 commission. He is also in the membership program where I have no idea how much you can sell for...
Anyway, let's do some quick math here - 16 regular sales per month on 39,000 clips is, well, quite low.
My guess is around $2-3,000 per month from Pond5. Then maybe around as much from the other agencies combined. Let's say $7,000 per month.
Definitely decent money but the return per clip isn't something to write home about...
There seems to be 15-20 near duplicates of many of the clips which means that the actual number of unique clips is probably closer to 2,500-4,000.
1415
« on: February 01, 2017, 08:13 »
I guess its time to switch to videos 
EDIT: Wait, in video clips isnt property also protected, I see brands of cars, plates etc...
Or he submit it as editorial?
Same rules as images of course. Yes, most are editorial. News, documentaries etc. You don't use stormy weather clips as much in commercials...
1416
« on: February 01, 2017, 08:13 »
I make a maximum of $334 a month from 135 files. So if he sells the same as me per clip, then he might be making $1,157,000 a year. And even if he sells ten times less than me... he's still getting $115,700 a year. Not too shabby!
Read the P5 forums. He doesn't come close. Not at P5 at least. He seems to have many days without any sales at all. But in total (VB, Fotolia etc.) I'm sure he's somewhat comfortable. Just imagine the time spent to get to 39,000 though...
1417
« on: February 01, 2017, 06:30 »
The quality plays a very minor role compared to the content.
1418
« on: February 01, 2017, 06:29 »
He is very active at the P5 forums so you can go there are read all about it.
I would say 39,000 of those clips would equal 1,000 corporate style/commercial people clips. So, lots and lots of work but at 39,000 you can make a living.
1419
« on: January 30, 2017, 15:56 »
I think the keyword suggestion tool is pretty great combined with a creative brain. It's great to spark some creativity if the brain is tired.
1420
« on: January 29, 2017, 11:11 »
Just find a good compromise. Estimate how many clips and sites you need to upload every month and use the best option that fits within your internet data cap.
1421
« on: January 29, 2017, 10:49 »
If you change colors, brightness, contrast, add a gradient etc., then yes, it is better to re-encode to a 10-bit ProRes file. You now have more information than what your camera captured.
If you don't change ANYTHING, then re-encoding won't make a difference. The only thing would be that sites want certain standard formats, and customers like to see what they are used to seeing.
1422
« on: January 29, 2017, 07:25 »
Help with what? If your connection is capped, obviously go for lower file sizes (native compression works). If it's fast and not capped, go for what professional buyers want, which is ProRes 422 (HQ). To find out any bitrate all you need to do is go here: www.google.com.
1423
« on: January 28, 2017, 13:55 »
There aren't many jobs where your salary continues to rise by large amounts every year... It's normal to work just to maintain - or not work and go down to zero.
I know that's not why we're doing this as it's a wonderful thing to be able to have a large passive income, but just to put things into perspective...
1424
« on: January 28, 2017, 07:00 »
withdrawing money is free of charge
Where are you located? Please note that the entire population of the world does not live in your country. There are withdrawal fees. They exist. Not in the US. But they do exist. I thought you had read the entire T&C?
1425
« on: January 27, 2017, 17:00 »
The information you get is this: "Includes fees. (go search for a few minutes to find out what they are)".
The information you should be getting upon each withdrawal is this: "Currency conversion fee is 2.5% which equals xx dollars". People don't like seeing that it costs $125 to withdraw $5,000 so PP don't show it.
I'm sure you see the difference. To me, that is not a transparent way of showing the fee, meaning they are indeed doing their best to mask it.
If my bank is sent USD they charge a 0.5% conversion fee. Even 1% is perfectly reasonable but not 2.5%. That is a new camera every year in currency conversion fees...
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