OK the subscription is not the Market Place! On EL's you will never make less then $3.50 the drawing card is the site as it is for now. You will never make less then $3.50, if you were on VideoBlocks you might understand the model better sorry if I am not clear on explaining. I will be happy to take a 75cent increase over SS any day. Buyers can DL all they want from the subscription side as that is the perk for subscribing now they will get a chance at the Market Place as well for a reduced cost per image. I Subscribe to VB and search through their sub. first too see if they have a clip that will work if not I go to the Market and Buy a clip for $49.00 of which the artist gets 100% It has been a huge value for me in my business! It is also great that VideoBlocks earned more then SS/Pond5/iStock/Adobe/Dissolve in July now of course not combined but they earned in the hundreds more over each of those!

I mainly do video but shoot a fair amount of stills, only earn hundreds a month on stills but I have become so frustrated with the pricing that I don't load what I could. GraphicStock pricing has me at least smiling about images again. I just wrote a LinkedIn article about this here  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/place-where-artist-wont-starve-john-neff?published=t

# of EL's are decreasing and now I am happy to get $3.50 per sale! They still offer EL's and like I said this works on videoblocks where I have great sales!

I have been looking for a structure like this, I have been asked to apply and have applied. This is the business model of the future for sure. Now I get $3.50 per sale no matter what! I am tired of getting pennies! Now you say how do they make their money? Subscriptions of course, You pay a yearly subscription then you can purchase images at a reduced cost while the artist gets 100% you goal as a business is to keep your subscribers so the larger and better the collection the more likely that will happen. The artist is happy the buyer is happy and the business is happy! I love videoblocks and it is growing month over month, I hope to see it explode as each sale I make either $47.00 or $197.00 works for me! Once accepted to GraphicStock I will not be loading images to anyone else, I find it a waste of time mostly and no reason I can't make a few bucks from each sale!!

Thanks for that! I will test it out for video.

I asked for more lube for future reemings!!

Adobe is playing a good game here, I for one am happy to support them with my video/photo. Keep in mind they are the 800lb. Gorilla not Getty! They treat the artist much better then Getty!!! and they will continue to grow. I love seeing these deals as buyers will go where the content is. I haven't been yanked around on my commissions there and the site is fast and clean with good search results.

Just be sure to assume the position when you hit the exclusive button :-)

Just had that happen to me, got a phone call about doing some video and photo work, he said in the past he paid $20.00 for a photographer to come
in and do head shots for the business. I said well that person won't be me!! sent him my rates and never heard back. Glad because I am done working
for nothing!!!

Thanks!!! So glad to see Adobe in this market and treating the artist with respect. Happy to promote you!

I can not stress enough how being able to pick a thumbnail image for your video is!!! I can't believe all sites don't have this as one of the first things! It will increase sales for all of us.

Same Here!