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Pond5 / Re: My Pond5 Download Trend
« on: January 23, 2025, 16:23 »
Same here, serious downtrend. I have 1060 videos on Pond5. I uploaded some photos to Shutterstock (about 40 pictures) in 2016. Never checked my account and forgot about it, found out I have $43.00. I didn't care in the past because I was so busy freelancing and didn't need the money. But now, I have a lot of free time, and I'm going to upload my stills. I have a good mix of commercial and editorial footage.
The main thing that gives me anxiety is how many images I have and that it will take a while, maybe a year or more to get ALL of my stills and video on all three platforms: Adobe, Shutterstock and iStock. I have to wait for the Pond5 videos, because I was on an exclusive contract with them, and a lot of that is my best video footage.
I figured that I should enjoy the process, and re-visit the historical moments captured in my editorial footage and appreciate the beauty of the underwater and nature stuff.
I'm still trying to decide whether the underwater stuff should be commercial or editorial, but I feel like editorial on Shutterstock and the same stuff on Adobe and iStock can be sold as commercial. From what I understand, the commercial stuff on Shutterstock CANNOT be used as editorial, so i'll go both ways on separate platforms.
I'm mostly excited and curious as to what footage gets popular, that it will be used as content and that's pretty cool to me. It seems (but I may be wrong) that i'll still be only making a few dollars per month once all is said and done. But, money isn't free so I guess it's worth the effort, lol.
The main thing that gives me anxiety is how many images I have and that it will take a while, maybe a year or more to get ALL of my stills and video on all three platforms: Adobe, Shutterstock and iStock. I have to wait for the Pond5 videos, because I was on an exclusive contract with them, and a lot of that is my best video footage.
I figured that I should enjoy the process, and re-visit the historical moments captured in my editorial footage and appreciate the beauty of the underwater and nature stuff.
I'm still trying to decide whether the underwater stuff should be commercial or editorial, but I feel like editorial on Shutterstock and the same stuff on Adobe and iStock can be sold as commercial. From what I understand, the commercial stuff on Shutterstock CANNOT be used as editorial, so i'll go both ways on separate platforms.
I'm mostly excited and curious as to what footage gets popular, that it will be used as content and that's pretty cool to me. It seems (but I may be wrong) that i'll still be only making a few dollars per month once all is said and done. But, money isn't free so I guess it's worth the effort, lol.
