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Messages - alijaber
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« on: December 24, 2024, 08:13 »
One of your videos was 1 min and 5 sec... make your videos between 10 and 20 seconds, then you will have much smaller files, most buyers use few seconds from your clip.
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« on: December 24, 2024, 04:16 »
Just passed the $1k income for December 2024 which at this time of year with summer slump and all in Australia, is a really good outcome to finish the year on. December and January are my slowest months of the year. The other good result from this is that there were no unusually high $$$ sales, just better regular $$ sales.
Even Shutterstock did a lot better in Dec 24 compared to Dec 23 with a 58% increase on earnings for the month (though the 2024 calendar year is still way down) and an RPD of $4.21 in 24 vs $2.11 in 23.
This marks 11 months of 2024 (Feb to Dec) where I made over $1k for the month.
Looking at my sales numbers, I have sales of around 1280$ monthly. BUT the true money I receive is less: 30% tax withhold at StoryBlocks, 30% tax withhold on all US sales at SS, among those all the sales that are higher than 100$, 30% tax withhold on US sales at AS. Also, there is a 3$ deduction on every payment at Payoneer (I have 5 payments each month). After that, I have 6% fee to be able to withdraw the money from Payoneer. So, from the 1280$ sales, I'll get 1000$ to 1050$ as a max  .
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« on: December 17, 2024, 10:37 »
Highest video sale: 56$ on Dec 2023
Highest photo sale: 18.48 on Aug 2023
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« on: December 15, 2024, 11:24 »
A sale of around $900 is an incredible figure. It's astonishing. Are these videos Editorial or Commercial?
Mine was editorial... Also, I had 2 editorial video sales of 117$ each this month (the highest sales for me this year)
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« on: December 13, 2024, 04:18 »
A video sale in June 2023: 942$
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« on: November 03, 2024, 23:01 »
This year is better than 2023 for me, with an average of around 250$ per month (no new files uploaded, but I've transferred more videos to my exclusive account).
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« on: August 04, 2024, 03:16 »
... as I was not uploading there for 4 years now, I can see constant drop in sale numbers... but, if there are some `benefits` from not uploading, I can see when something changes drastically... SS have experimented with pricing or with `richer` customers during that period and at the end of the month... or some kind of postponed reports were triggered then...
Come to think of it, I did get another $43.61 video sale on 29/07. While not a huge sales commission, it's still quite decent for stock these days and as you mention, it occurred toward the end of the month.
I had my 76$ video sale on 24/07...
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« on: July 18, 2024, 05:47 »
3 video sales for 40 cents, 47 cents and 1.40 usd ...that will motivate to go and edit files immediately...
I recommend that you concentrate on photos with Istock, video sales are similar to photos, so why the hassle? in my case: 18 video sales for 15$, sales are between 0.03$ and 1.75$.
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« on: July 18, 2024, 03:20 »
Im left in the dirt. Each year I clear about $1500. This year to date Im at $145. Trajectory is $290. Something changed when SS bought them. I know there are swings in any business, but this pattern is repeatable for almost seven months. I think thats enough to conclude that P5 is now dead for me, like RF 123 was.
It doesnt seem to matter that they can price my content for peanuts, even then Im not getting any sales..and the few times I do they are image sales not vids.
Very dissappointing.
Pond5 is doing good for me this year, last year I made 2378$, this year till today 1960$ (147$ sold today). It depends on luck in my case, as I have some unique editorial clips, but it's a very specific niche.
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« on: July 09, 2024, 10:31 »
I got it early this month
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« on: June 29, 2024, 10:51 »
Usually I'm anywhere between 4000 and 7000. This week is bad in number of downloads, but luckily some good video sales...
Those are great results and a reminder that for absolute money video is probably superior to images.
May I ask how large your port is?
1500 videos, 6500 images (mostly Ai, created as a hobby by my son). Ai downloads reached 440 on October 2023 and it's decreasing slowly despite the increase in portfolio, this month it's 245 Ai downloads only. Edit: I barely create content for microstock, I sell some archival material that we shoot for our documentaries, and some motion graphics clips that I created for my commercial projects. Among my 1500 video clips, there is 250 motion graphics clips which most of my video sales are coming from. I've created a nice motion graphics clip in After effects for a client, it was looking good. I gave the Ae project to my son and he created 250 clips as variations of that project, I've uploaded those and that collection's income is between 200-300$ per month for the last 18 months. I guess I'm really lucky, I barely do anything for microstock but despite that I got around 1000$ extra income each month. I have some ideas to create additional motion graphics clips, but currently I'm super busy.
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« on: June 29, 2024, 04:09 »
Usually I'm anywhere between 4000 and 7000. This week is bad in number of downloads, but luckily some good video sales...
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« on: June 11, 2024, 02:01 »
Can't register from my country (Lebanon), supported countries are a bit limited.
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« on: April 11, 2024, 16:43 »
Video sales for April:
Pond 5: 2 sales: 255$
SS: 14 sales: 62$
AS: 7 sales: 68$
Videohive: 1 sale: 9$
That's nice on Pond5!! What your portfolio size?
Around 3800 clips, 800 are exclusive. Had 2 sales only: 1 exclusive for 179$, the rest for a non exclusive clip.
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« on: April 11, 2024, 08:22 »
Video sales for April:
Pond 5: 2 sales: 255$
SS: 14 sales: 62$
AS: 7 sales: 68$
Videohive: 1 sale: 9$
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« on: March 29, 2024, 16:33 »
Have you received your February payment?
Yes, a week ago.
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« on: March 21, 2024, 04:44 »
Sales are random at P5, but this year it's somehow stable: Jan 7 sales, Feb 7 sales, March till now 5 sales.
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« on: March 20, 2024, 14:59 »
A good month, no negative sales here...
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« on: March 19, 2024, 02:37 »
Yes, I was surprised as it's Monday the 18th and about the right time for processing.
Hehe, stock agencies will always let you down whenever you expect anything from them.
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« on: February 28, 2024, 03:48 »
I have 3 0.37$ sales today, and 5 yesterday. Looking further, no 0.38$ since 22 Feb, since that day I have a lot of 0.36 and 0.37$ sales. But besides those, I have a lot of 0.25 and 0.26$ sales due to 30% tax withhold on US sales (I can't tell about the higher priced sales), and I have such huge deductions of my stock sales everywhere. The hardest one is on Storyblocks, which is 30% on everything. So, imagine that statement from Storybolcks: Pretax total: 1000$, net total: 700$. I have such numbers everywhere, all the time  .
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« on: February 15, 2024, 13:10 »
I have the same pattern:
January RPD: 0.88
Feb RPD: 0.59
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« on: February 07, 2024, 08:04 »
are anybody recieve payment from shutterstock this month?
usualy 3-5 of the month
but this month no letters no money
Nothing yet, not even the payment e-mail... Maybe another glitch...
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« on: February 03, 2024, 05:41 »
January was my BME on AS, mainly Ai images + average video sales.
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« on: January 30, 2024, 01:37 »
Just curious how people are doing selling AI stock. I've been playing around in MidJourney, having fun, considering trying to sell AI stock but wondering if I've already missed the boat? Are there already so many AI images available that it's not worth the time?
No, you didn't miss the boat. Newly created Ai images do sell well.
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« on: January 29, 2024, 23:35 »
Ive no idea how to switch regions (or what region I'm currently set to) but I just did a test. I searched for three of my photos and I found them without any issues.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page, you'll find it at the left of the black bar. I just tried to search for "Beirut" (the capital city of Lebanon) in videos, using US as a region: 1583 results. Switching to Lebanon as a region: 5 results! So, imagine that: if you are logging AS from Lebanon as a region you will find 5 videos for your own capital, while if you login from US you will find 1583 results!
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