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Messages - Tyson Anderson
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« on: May 29, 2018, 14:19 »
My couple hundred photos earn a pretty consistent $20 per month
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« on: May 24, 2018, 16:05 »
I've been filming with the same for certain action angles. Just started filming with them this winter snowboarding. Had a couple sales. They're good for action shots and creative angles but don't really give a cinematic look for some situations.
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« on: May 24, 2018, 16:00 »
Nice. Yeah that was some nice work. A good combination of effects.
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« on: May 23, 2018, 23:59 »
We get low and high priced sales. Marketing and the internet are very complex with each sale being used for something completely different than the last. I guess to me $1.50 sales really don't matter when they're made up by $180 sales. If I'm gonna spend my time doing this to make money, then that has to be the overall goal... making money! Not getting caught up in small stat details. iStock and Shutterstock are both getting lower and lower on some video sales but each month are making more and more money. So why care? I'm having my best month ever at Shutterstock and it's the 23rd. Should I deactivate my portfolio because of a couple $1.50 sales last week?
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« on: May 23, 2018, 23:46 »
I have a couple time-lapse videos that sell very well. It can be an easy transition for a photographer if you shoot raw time-lapses. Similar editing. If you live near a city that can provide a lot of options. Nature time-lapse shots don't sell quite as well for me.
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« on: May 22, 2018, 16:24 »
If you have a database of quality pics and vids then there's money to be made. Not easily though. It'll take a lot of hard work.
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« on: May 03, 2018, 00:21 »
Not sure if this has been answered, but does Wemark read embedded meta data?
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« on: May 03, 2018, 00:08 »
Still uploading but I'm in the same boat with sales. None last month. That's a first with Videoblocks. Might have to do with the rebranding to Storyblocks. They could've lost some SEO or something.
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« on: March 06, 2018, 16:08 »
Unless I'm missing something, it looks like any images on Getty will have more reach across the internet through google. I'm struggling to come up with anything negative about this. Is it just that anything and everything posted on this forum about Getty/iStock gets a couple pages of negative comments assuming they're screwing contributors over.
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« on: March 04, 2018, 20:18 »
Today?? Too much stat checking...not enough shooting, processing, and uploading! Temporary glitch or not, if you see no sales, get to work and quite wasting time talking about it here.
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« on: February 28, 2018, 10:15 »
Sounds like it might just be a temporary thing. Surprisingly, January was my best month ever on Getty. Actually more than double my best month ever. I can't hate on that.
Except if buyers had spent that money on your work anywhere else you would have made more.
True. But I don't buy into the theory that if you pull your portfolio from Getty, the same buyers would go to other agencies to buy your clips. I believe they'll just buy similar clips from someone else on Getty. I'd rather have my clips on both to get farther reach. If a customer is searching Getty, that most likely means they have an account with Getty and having your clips on other sites won't be seen by them.
True, but you must still "hate on that", because you only get 15%, instead of 30% (or more) from other agencies. Even on regular subs you lose 35% if your customers buy from IS instead of SS, let alone on those insulting $0.19 (or much less).
Isn't it something to "hate on"?
If only we could find ways to incentivize IS customers to migrate to better paying agencies (e.g. see the email I posted above)!
I guess there's plenty of stuff one could find to hate on in this industry. I love Videoblocks, but I earned twice as much with iStock/Getty in January. When it really comes down to it, why care about the other details. And customers aren't buying on IS instead of SS, they're buying on IS as well as SS. Completely different customers.
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« on: February 28, 2018, 03:58 »
I would think the overall income would far out way stats like rpd.
You'd think so, but some people won't even upload to some places based things other than overall income... mainly sale price and commission rate... so they never even have an opportunity to find out what overall income that site would bring.
Like my post on Motion Array. Because you get around $3.50 a download, I got the usual comments... cheapening your work, ruining the market, happy to accept pennies etc. But I don't really care how much I get per download, I just care that in my very first week of selling there... I made more than I did in the whole of February on Bigstock Photo, Deposit Photos, Dreamstime, 123RF, Fotolia and probably iStock.
A lot if people aren't interested though. As long as the RPD is acceptable for them, then $100 a month can be good and $500 a month can be bad.
Much wisdom in what you're saying. I originally had thoughts like that about Videohive for selling 4K so low, but now I'm trying to upload there, hoping they approve me to use the beta uploader. I was contacted through email by the guys at Motion Array about contributing there. I responded with a couple basic questions and never heard back. Maybe I'll look into it more. I always appreciate your perspective on things.
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« on: February 27, 2018, 22:35 »
Sounds like it might just be a temporary thing. Surprisingly, January was my best month ever on Getty. Actually more than double my best month ever. I can't hate on that.
Except if buyers had spent that money on your work anywhere else you would have made more.
True. But I don't buy into the theory that if you pull your portfolio from Getty, the same buyers would go to other agencies to buy your clips. I believe they'll just buy similar clips from someone else on Getty. I'd rather have my clips on both to get farther reach. If a customer is searching Getty, that most likely means they have an account with Getty and having your clips on other sites won't be seen by them.
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« on: February 27, 2018, 22:28 »
Oh man, I think this threading is starting to see a diminishing return
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« on: February 27, 2018, 22:13 »
Sounds like it might just be a temporary thing. Surprisingly, January was my best month ever on Getty. Actually more than double my best month ever. I can't hate on that.
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« on: February 27, 2018, 21:58 »
I did some, some years ago and the main sites did except it. I think you have to add a certain keyword and title for what I remember like vertical or something?
I only tried this to test the waters and haven't as yet sold any. To be honest the subject matter wasn't particularly interesting.
I see a lot of it on Stocksy - probably the only place really?
Not sure what video sales are like on stocksy?
Hmm. I guess it might not be a good investment to do whole shoots in this format but maybe just turn the camera sideways for a couple shots here and there to see what happens. I'll check Stocksy, see what they got going on.
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« on: February 27, 2018, 17:54 »
I've recently done some freelance work filming vertically for an app. Kinda annoying to deal with in my opinion, but left me wondering if there's a need for vertical footy in the stock footage industry. Has anyone filmed or submitted any vertical footage for smartphones and apps? Will the top agencies accept this?
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« on: February 27, 2018, 15:59 »
I think the reason any of us like any stock company is how much they make us each month. I would think the overall income would far out way stats like rpd. I MUCH prefer Adobe over SS for video, I make a LOT more on Adobe then SS
This is interesting. I'd love to be in the same boat with ya on this but AS just isn't coming close to SS for me. Pretty much same portfolio.
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« on: February 15, 2018, 22:42 »
I'd just submit your info to IMDB. Couldn't hurt. I did this a few years ago for old video editing and motion graphic credits and they were added to my profile.
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« on: February 06, 2018, 18:46 »
If you go to upload and then choose stock footage from the dropdown, you should have the option to use the old or the new system. If you choose motion graphics from the dropdown then you don't get the option to use the new system.
However, something I've just found out which I wish I knew two years ago... if you select stock footage and go into the new upload page, you can then change the category from stock footage to motion graphics.
If you're still not seeing it on the stock footage option then it might not be activated on your account. I'll try and dig out the email address you need to use to request access. They'll then turn it on for you within a few days.
Here you go: https://envato.formstack.com/forms/new_vh_upload_page
Hey thanks for the info. I'm attempting to give this a try but haven't seen the option. I followed that link and requested the beta uploader but haven't had a response in over a week. Do you remember if it took a while for you?
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« on: February 06, 2018, 16:56 »
I use Easy Release. Works great when the model is right in front of you. Every once in a while I pull a bonehead move and forget to have them sign on the spot. Does anyone know of a way to email a release for people to fill out and sign electronically, then email it back?
I use Easy Release for most of my model releases since it is so convenient to keep in my phone.
Another option is to create a release using Adobe Sign from within the Adobe Stock Contributor portal. That sends an email to your model to click, sends it back to you to click and then it's automatically in your account. It's very easy to use though I'm not sure if it can be used outside of Adobe Stock so check on that before trying it if you need the release for multiple agencies. Some more information can be found here: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/upload-a-model-or-property-release.html
-Mat
Awesome! Thank you Mat. I'll look into that.
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« on: February 06, 2018, 16:22 »
I use Easy Release. Works great when the model is right in front of you. Every once in a while I pull a bonehead move and forget to have them sign on the spot. Does anyone know of a way to email a release for people to fill out and sign electronically, then email it back?
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« on: January 31, 2018, 00:19 »
Ya it's crazy how much better the P4P footage is. I upgraded from Phantom 3 Pro to 4 Pro almost a year ago and have no regrets at all.
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« on: January 30, 2018, 17:36 »
I'm also curious about what price to set clips. My prices are pretty high on Pond5. 4K=$200-300 HD=$100-150 wondering if that would be way to high for Envato.
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« on: January 28, 2018, 18:24 »
Sounds like some major improvement for Envato. Awesome!
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