It's not started yet. Well unless you were in the trail which I wasn't.

All my other clips were invited to the new revenue sharing part of the library!

Happy with getting 100% commission, average earnings of just under $300 a month from a pretty new agency that was easy enough to upload all my existing stuff to, and a $1000 payment for 50 of my clips that had average earnings of around $2.50 a year?* Yeah, I was pretty happy with that deal.

*The 50 clips I let them have were my 50 lowest sellers, and only had about six sales in the previous two years combined. 

No, haven't gone exclusive. Volume seems to be slightly higher than before, which is helping to cancel out the drop in commission. Although to be fair, my sales do fluctuate quite a bit, so it might take a while to know for certain if it's having an effect or not.

It was less than $10 a month before the marketplace came along, but there were still plenty of people willing to pay $49 for a HD clip. Those days are gone unfortunately.

Richard Pryor hacked into his workplace's computer and siphoned off all the fractions of pennies that the workforce earned but we're never actually paid... because they couldn't pay out less than a cent. Good idea! 

So that's what that does?! Eleven years using AE and I never knew! I click it all the time when I accidentally miss 'composition settings' in the dropdown, but as nothing seemed to happen, I never knew what it did! Thanks!

Yeah, I completely agree.... sales are now like the occasional tumbleweed rolling along a deserted town. Just that "went totally to subscription model" doesn't sound like you were commenting on the sales, like you were commenting on some change to the business that (for example) shutdown the marketplace. I mean they may have well as, as that's what it feels like from the amount of sales these days, but the marketplace still exists and sales can/do happen.

Can't remember the exact number (it's on the site somewhere but can't remember where to find it either), but it's either 90 or 95% of sales at Pond5 are HD or 720p... and the other 5 to 10% are 4K. So not having any 4K in your portfolio isn't going to make much difference to your sales right now. Just having 'a few more clips' or 'slightly better quality clips' would result in a HD producer making more than a 4K producer.

However, I'm pretty sure that 5 to 10% will increase over time, so you're just future-proofing what you're shooting... so you don't have to go out, buy a 4K camera and shoot your entire portfolio again if and when 4K is the bigger seller. 

I'm with Pauws99... not rude, just a tiny bit blunt and completely false. Although it could be a cunning ploy to dissuade would-be competition!

And once one single stolen image is found in a portfolio, the whole port should come down and the contributor banned, not just the stolen image.

Completely agree with you on that one.

Well it isn't their content (the agencies), and in some of the instances you've mentioned, it isn't your content either... so it's kind of understandable that nothing can be done. Surely you'd be the first to complain if you had some of your content removed by a DMCA submitted by some random person who isn't even the copyright owner?

Sure the setup isn't ideal, with plenty of shortfalls and loopholes, but I'm not sure what else you would suggest? Other than the agencies hiring teams of investigators at great cost for minimal, if any, return.

And if they did all this investigation stuff/research rather than just doing the minimum with regards to DMCA action (removing or not removing content based on the info/actions of the two parties... wouldn't they then not even be doing the minimum with regards to DMCA action?   

Just went to dashboard and statistics, changed the range to 365 days and divided the amount by 365.