An HD video costs less than a full size image! 5 credits vs 10 credits. Nope, nope, nope.

Hmmm...Pond5 hasn't worked for months for me either. Also, I guess my yearly subscription just ran out as a few of the agencies just disappeared from my dashboard. No notice to resubscribe or anything, just gone.

I'm really sorry but these sort of sales are increasingly what istock is sending our way. Wait until the new payment structure really kicks in in the next few months. There is no way to opt out. Expect much, much more of the same and worse. I think getty sees istock content as for just this sort of thing.

This is not just iStock by any means. This is what getty contract photographers have been seeing for years now. When Premium Access was launched it was a very small percentage of the monthly downloads and most sales were for regular (ie higher) amounts. Every year there are more PA sales and less regular sales.

What's even more frustrating is that many/most of the PA sales have big company names attached (ie, MTV, Viacom, Time Warner, etc.) and the amounts are pitiful. These amounts are often far lower than microstock rates.

I'm also having problems with Pond5. This should be fixed, it's not freeware.

Agreed!

Pond5 still not working for me?
Anyone else have this problem?

Pond5 hasn't worked in the iOS version for a long time.

Should this be RF? I don't think so!

This whole RF v RM argument sometimes feels like that famous Stanford marshmallow experiment about delayed gratification. 

In other words, I may either have many low-value (RF) sales now or be patient and get some huge RM later.

Or instead maybe just a couple tiny RM sales. While it's true that there is a possibility to make a large RM sale, it's also true that many/most RM sales are for small amounts. While it's true that the largest sales I've ever had we're RM it's also true that the smallest stock sales I've ever had were RM. No guarantees either way.

you can sell your videos as downloads on Youtube (with a minimum 1000 subscribers) and Vimeo (pay service)

Last time I checked both of these services compressed the downloaded videos which is no good for stock video sales. With a few small changes Vimeo could be a great way to sell stock footage directly without a middleman.

Looks like Getty has continued on the path of making themselves less relevant.

@GraphicLeftovers I appreciate your openness and desire to communicate with us. Your one price for every size works great for me and I look forward to uploading to GL again. The only thing I would wish for are some even higher price brackets like $50 or $99. Is that a possibility?

I think if I get outside images rejected  by SS , I am not good enough for Alamy or Getty.

Unbelievably it's much easier from a technical standpoint to get pictures accepted by Getty and Alamy than it is at SS.

Update is already available. I just updated and the crash is fixed. Thank you for the quick response!

iStock can change anything they want to but unless the royalty rates change dramatically I won't be submitting any video to them, period. Unless they've finally wised up (doubtful) any BIG announcement will just be a bunch of fluff.