In regard to pricing, based on my own testing, I haven't seen any difference in number of sales between pricing at $49 or $79 for HD clips or $119 or $199 on 4k clips.  So, I keep my $79/HD and $199/4k clips.  Different contributors with different content may have different results of course.  But I feel comfortable with my price to maximize my revenue on Pond5.  REUTERS' clips on Pond5 is priced at $199 for digital only and $1199 for all media even if it's HD only.

I just compared the effect of Adobe Stock video subscription on my video portfolio.  Before the video sub started, my revenue per video clip sale was about $31.  Now it's about $12.  About 65% or 2/3 of video sales are cheap video subs now.  Only 10% are full price $28 royalty sale.  4K sales are also down significantly from 10% of video sales before video sub started to only 1-2% now.  After they started the video sub, I deleted about 15% of clips that didn't sell well on Adobe Stock but sold well on Pond5 and moved them to Pond5 exclusive.  After that move and video sub rollout, number of video sales increased only by 15% or so on Adobe Stock.  Total revenue from video sales decreased by nearly 50%.  Every time I see "$2.80" video sales, it's depressing.  That only makes me think how much I could've made on Pond5.  So, seeing my average royalty now is only about $12, I decided to delete most of my clips on Adobe Stock unless they are selling at least 5x more than on Pond5.  By moving those clips to Pond5 exclusive, my royalty on Pond5 will instantly increase by 50% because of 60% royalty on Pond5 exclusive vs 40% on non exclusive.  My HD price on Pond5 is $79.  So, 50% increase in royalty (60%/40%) results in about $16 increase that's bigger than $12 average royalty on Adobe Stock.  Also what I was afraid of was big buyers who used to buy on Pond5 at full price taking advantage of Adobe Stock subscription and buying everything cheap.  So, I deleted most of my best selling clips on Adobe Stock too if similar clips are selling well on Pond5.  I may eventually delete all my video clips from Adobe Stock depending on how things go.  At Pond5, I get more 4k sales and premium license sales.  It's a good feeling to see my products aren't given away for 1/10 the price I want to sell for.  Adobe Stock did the video sub to expand its customer base and compete against cheap low quality stock video sites, but I see they only expanded their customer base by a little.  They're just giving away our clips for pennies instead.  That's not good for me.  My new upload will be to Pond5 exclusive only.  When they announced the video sub 1 year ago, I thought it would be a matter of time they would end up like Shutterstock, but that time has come now for me.  Adobe Stock video sub was a little better than Shutterstock because they excluded 4k clips, but 4k sales are almost non-existent now on Adobe Stock.  So, I just got to a point I felt like I needed to take this bold move and see what happens moving forward.

I just calculated my average royalty revenue per a clip sale on Pond5 Exclusive account in March 2023 excluding GPP, Enterprise Custom sale and Subscription earning.  It's about $58 per a clip sale.  That's $46 more than $12 average on Adobe Stock now.  My price on Pond5 are $79/HD and $199/4k.  About 10% of my sales were in 4k.  Also about 25% of my Pond5 exclusive sales were either "Custom License" or "Premium License" that were above the price I set.  I've been on Pond5 since 2011.  I know and understand some contributors don't do well on Pond5 somehow and do better on other sites.  So, I understand my case doesn't always apply to others.  But if you are established on Pond5 and price your clips at the same level as I do, I don't see any benefit keep selling on Adobe Stock any more.  If you sell your clips for less than $50/HD and $100/4k, you probably don't want to delete your clips on Adobe Stock.  So, this is not for everybody.

Quote from: blvdone on August 25, 2022, 13:57

..... My stuff is mostly crap.

I think that explains your 10 cent problem

Yup.

Quote from: blvdone on August 25, 2022, 12:18

I had occasional high price sales yesterday too.  No, I'm not bragging.  2 on demand photo sales that's nearly 30x most photo sales.

4 nice photo sales that just kicked-in today, making those 10c subs look like background noise.

That's nice!!  What the size of your portfolio?  I have about 7,000 photos and videos are turned off.

I had occasional high price sales yesterday too.  No, I'm not bragging.  2 on demand photo sales that's nearly 30x most photo sales.

Quote from: Roscoe on August 18, 2022, 09:49

 Hard work beats talent (if talent doesn't work hard)

From my personal experience, with microstock, sheer luck beats talent and hard work. Might not have been the case when the selection of images was more limited, but now with millions of images for competition, it's mostly a matter of luck to have the right image at the right time displayed somewhere.

This one sold for around $100:
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/orange-industrial-transportable-dumpster-container-1668704380

I  still have some images where I put lots of work into where I seem to have been able to produce something that is in high demand and the images sold hundreds of times. But even "hundreds of times" can, in worse case scenario, still mean like $50 only. For me it's rarely the images that are in high demand and sell in large quantities that bring in the money. It's the ocassional high amount sales that make the difference between a good month and a bad month on Shutterstock and these, at least for me, are often really random. I really can't attribute having earned $100 from a very random photo of a very random industrial dumpster, that took me literally 3 seconds to take, 0 seconds to post-process and under 10 seconds to keyword to "hard work" or "talent". Anyone who follows the minimum image quality standards of Shutterstock could have made, uploaded and sold an image like this. All it needed was luck.

That's a beautiful photo!!!   Nobody shoots a dumpster like that!!

I have zero clip for subscription, but somehow got subscription earnings posted.  It's strange.

Occasional high-priced sale made today:

Is it for video or photo?
You have some talent for sure.

Turned my photo port back on yesterday and just got a $2.29 on demand sale!!!  I can get a slice of plain pizza with nothing extra on it maybe!!  Because of that 1 on demand sale, my RPD just jumped from 10 cents ish to respectable 32 cents!!!  Shutterstock rocks!!  Easy money.  Get rich quick!!

Quote from: blvdone on August 16, 2022, 06:26

Anybody making more from videos on Adobe Stock because of video subs?

Earnings is same as previous year with regular upload of new video files, but last month downloads increased by 4 times and earnings increased by 2.25 times comparing with July 2021.

Wow, that's nice!!  How many clips do you have?

Occasional high-priced sales made today:

Wow.  Nice!!!  You can retire now.

Quote from: blvdone on August 14, 2022, 13:37

Quote from: Chinni on August 14, 2022, 11:05

Quote from: blvdone on August 14, 2022, 09:54

Quote from: Chinni on August 13, 2022, 07:34

Shutterstock Video sales 2022:
Total sales(videos) - 491
$150+                  -     1 sale
$125+                  -     2 sales
$100+                  -     7 sales
$75+                    -     8 sales
$50+                    -     5 sales
$0.25                   -    26 sales         

What about other 400+ video sales prices?  How many are below $10 and $5?

Below 5$    -  236 sales
Below 10$  -    52 sales

and the total avg is around $13.

Thank you for the detailed number.  60% of video sales now are cheap subs and the average sale price for all video sales is only $13?   That's horrible.  Unlike Adobe Stock's video sub, Shutterstock's video subs are for 4k clips as well.  I sell most of my 4k clips for $199 on Pond5.  So, I'll get about $120 on my exclusive account and $80 on my non-exclusive account.  I don't miss selling my videos on Shutterstock.  I don't think I'm losing any revenue because I don't sell videos on Shutterstock now.  Some big buyers know my portfolio.  If they have a choice, they'll take advantage of Shutterstock video sub.  Historically, average video sale price on Shutterstock was in $25-30 range before video subs began.  In 2019, it was constantly over $30 per video sale.  I just checked my earnings reports in the past.

Pond5 is not performing well for me, Just earned $500 in 2022 with 21 sales, which is less than my single month earnings on Shutterstock.

I prefer 60-70 sales a month with an avg of $13, instead of 2-3 sales month with an avg of $25.


My last 2 sales on Pond5 ( GPP slaes) were $1.92  & $1.12

Those GPP were Pond5 clips on Adobe Stock sold via video sub.  That was horrible.