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« on: February 23, 2024, 10:23 »
Anybody found any of your videos on the thief's channel? If you upload many clips to Envato Elements, your videos may be there. The thief is monetizing those videos and is getting paid. Nice!!!
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« on: February 22, 2024, 22:56 »
There are about 200 videos on this channel, but each video is more than 10 clips edited into 5-10 minutes piece. https://www.youtube.com/@freecreativefootagelibrary5492/videosI suspect most if not all were downloaded on Envato Elements unlimited download plan. I don't sell on those unlimited download sites. So, I don't have to worry about it much, but if you sell on those sites, check the videos. You may find multiple videos of yours. If you find your video, file a copyright infringement claim via YouTube. They probably will delete the videos and close the account. Here's what the thief wrote on video description. "CREDIT- We did purshase this footage and we payed for it to help content creators . ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ You can use this footage for your project or commercial purpose even don't ask for any permission. Want to use this footage? Follow Instructions. 1. Subscribe Our Channel (it will be highly appreciated) 2. Download Video And Edit it with your favourite programm 3. STAY HEALTHY" But here's the point. He/she downloaded those clips from unlimited stock sites and created those 5-10 minutes videos with music. That's not illegal. That's actually exactly how stock videos are supposed to be used. So, I'm not sure if YouTube will hear your case and delete those videos. It's just a part of selling your stock videos on unlimited download sites, I guess. So many people will have your clips for free via those who post on YouTube after mass download.
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« on: February 22, 2024, 21:28 »
I can see it happening. I am down to 30-40% which is concerning.
Non-qualified people also have entered the market and have flooded everything with AI.
AI image/video generation should be for licensed professionals only!! 
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« on: February 22, 2024, 15:11 »
(a) change your mindset re: "doomed". No one is "doomed".
(b) Things change. Many people are lazy. For some - "typing" is "work". People like instant gratification. Like SUPER instant. If they have to edit out artifacts, or 'click 3 times' to get an image they like - "ugh" - that is too much work for them.
(c) Sales trends change, sales go up, sales go down, then products are re-purposed and sales go up again.
There are people that like to build/work on their own cars. Then there are people who just like to buy a finished product. Same will be for images & videos.
Your time is never "wasted" - you went in eyes open knowing what the "ai" market was like, and wanted to catch a wave. You still could. Or maybe not. Depends on a whole lot of things.
Yes, I would love to be optimistic, but also got to prepare for the worst too.
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« on: February 22, 2024, 14:54 »
I'm seeing my sales decline in February 3 weeks in a row. I was happy with sales increase due to adding AI generated images, now I'm worried this may come to a crushing end as general population start to generate their own AI images. Anybody can do it. Are you optimistic about everybody and anybody start generating AI images? We may be doomed. All my effort making AI images may end up being wasted after months of good run.
332
« on: February 22, 2024, 12:23 »
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« on: February 22, 2024, 12:07 »
Update. It appears the thief's youtube account is taken down. Victory!!!
https://www.youtube.com/@stockfootagefactory902/videos
A few of us Storyblocks contributors brought it to their attention and along with our own take down requests for our individual clips, Storyblocks issued a take down request for the entire channel. I guess that worked.
Great!! Did you see your clips there?
334
« on: February 22, 2024, 10:31 »
It's very easy to do this using Canva. Because people who download using this method probably just use those iStock clips for free themselves and never get caught, you never know how much damage is done. So, good luck if you still contribute to iStock.
336
« on: February 22, 2024, 10:24 »
Shutterstock doesn't do anything to find those thieves. It's always us contributors finding them and reporting them. It's ridiculous Shutterstock allow this to keep happening for years.
337
« on: February 20, 2024, 12:37 »
Over 500. Oldest are from 12 days ago.
338
« on: February 20, 2024, 11:42 »
Great work finding all these thieves accounts. (Y)
Thanks!!
339
« on: February 20, 2024, 10:22 »
I did inverse image search on some of the thumbnails of stolen clips and found those clips probably were downloaded from Envato Elements' unlimited download.
This is one more argument not to upload content to sites with unlimited downloads.
Exactly. I've been saying it from the day 1!!!
340
« on: February 19, 2024, 23:47 »
wow, sick.
thanks. insane how these ppl love to steal & resell because they are soooooooooo lazy to do any real work themselves.
3 million views - for 'adsense', if enabled, probably made about $20k from stolen ppls work...
probably not the only one... I'd suggest doing a youtube search for "free" + "stock" + "footage" & variants, and you'll probably find a lot more... this kind of thing tends to be popular in east indian communities (although of course not the only ones that do it) - and usually there are certain "get rich quick" schemes in some forums, which are less than ethical, and sold as "courses"...
Yes, I found the 2 more thieves by just searching channels for "free stock footage". They just keep coming.
341
« on: February 19, 2024, 20:43 »
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« on: February 19, 2024, 20:15 »
344
« on: February 19, 2024, 10:48 »
I personally think a switch was turned off for my portfolio. Adobestock is solid, Pond5 declined but Im amazed that from 7000$ a month at SS up till COVID, and less but still something since COVID has reduced to 280$ 20 days into February. I know for a fact that my portfolio is good, diversified and in demand.
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I'm very impressed that you did $3,000 at this time in February last year.
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« on: February 19, 2024, 10:45 »
20K clips - 280$ so far in February, last year around this time in February it was 3000$+ whats going on?
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I'm scared and shivering.
346
« on: February 19, 2024, 08:00 »
I hope it works out well for you. The stock footage industry is in such a bad state right now (and we can blame SS for that.)
Thank you very much for sharing this with us.
Thats the best idea you could have had, i did the same thing 5 months ago, and i can already see that it was the right move, i already make more than before, because of the higher price i set, and the commission of 60% on my Pond5 Exclusive account.
Best of luck to you, you want regret it.
Great to hear that!!
347
« on: February 18, 2024, 18:07 »
I hope it works out well for you. The stock footage industry is in such a bad state right now (and we can blame SS for that.)
Thanks!!
348
« on: February 18, 2024, 14:14 »
So, I haven't been selling my videos at all on Shutterstock for about 2 years maybe since they started video subs. I had more than 13,000 videos on Shutterstock. Due to low sales on Pond5, I decided to give Shutterstock a try again because I can still be Pond5 exclusive getting 60% royalty even if I sell the same video clips on Shutterstock due to the SS takeover of P5. However, I don't want my 4k clips to be sold for the same cheap price as HD on their video sub plan, so I decided to delete all my 4k clips on Shutterstock. I deleted about 9,000 4k clips today. I have nearly 30k clips on Pond5 Exclusive now. So, for Shutterstock, I only have older clips in HD only. I'll probably decide if I un-publish my videos again on Shutterstock after several months. I hope this move will give me a little more income without negatively affecting my Pond5 income. As for the Adobe Stock, I deleted all my videos last May because of low sales due to video subs. Now they announced they give 4k for the same price as HD on video sub, I would only upload very limited number of HD clips there because I don't want to lose 60% royalty advantage on Pond5 Exclusive. I can't let my P5 royalty cut to 2/3 by uploading to Adobe Stock. It's difficult to navigate this and I don't know the answer honestly but just trying to find the best way to maximize my income. I hope Shutterstock would promote/advertise Pond5 more. They'll make more $$ from higher price sales on Pond5 too. It may become all irrelevant after high quality AI videos, but I'm just trying to survive here. It's getting more and more difficult. Majority of top stock video producers have already quit making new videos in the last few years since SS video sub started.
349
« on: February 18, 2024, 14:03 »
That's impressive you still made $3,500/month just a few month ago with mostly videos on SS.
It was good while it lasted.
But how much is your nosedive is due to royalty % reset everybody loves?
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« on: February 18, 2024, 09:09 »
This is my 6-month trend for SS. Pretty much like a nosedive.
That's impressive you still made $3,500/month just a few month ago with mostly videos on SS.
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