I used the tool for quite few uploads now, but I am concerned about the renaming of the file names. Sometimes its kind of 4894jhf03483jf40.mov, sometimes its the correct one, uploaded to the tool.

Arent those cryptic names bad for the search on some portals?

Thank you
BR
Björn

lowest was 4,20$, highest was 40,99$ on Shutterstock

erm...just got the first payment mail from shutterstock...which is somewhat strange. I only earned about 59 bucks and the payment mail says the payout was calculated to 118$.....

Is it a little gift ?
should I "complain"? anyone experiences this before?

okay i will consider adding more relevant keywords maybe that helps.
at the moment all my available content is tagged anyway.... the topic will come up again for lots of videos in January '18 after a big journey... can't wait to shoot and upload more

received mine on the 16th - PayPal.

has anyone signed up for this already? how is the process?

how do you find out where your pics were used?

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maybe you sholud consider also Pond5 for Videos
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ah sure, forgot to Name Pond5, ist my best agency love to Price my Clips myself

to recap my first two month of microstock, the speculations by some of you were quite right. The first three weeks I had a lot of sales, 81 sales in 3 weeks, then february it dropped to 28 for the whole month (only SS figures). So new pictures are def. pushed.
Overall, I earned 140$ in the first month, and in february only 90$ - (114 and 74$ of those with Video - and I have 2,5 times more photos online than videos)
- concluded from that, putting effort in the photo section isn't worth it at all and I will focus on Video.
Hope to see more sales coming with the last added Videos and doubling my Portfolio...

apart from that - I submit to Adobe stock - SS - VB and ME at the Moment... considering PIXTA and 123rf for Video as well .... any experiences for with footage sales recently there? those agencys have at least a decent pricing... not like VH.

Are you using Mac or Win? You can spedify the title, description and the keywords before exporting in Final Cut Pro X pretty convenient (only SS can't read These meta texts....crap uploader...)

Quote from: Tror on February 24, 2017, 13:01

Quote from: skysense on February 24, 2017, 12:42
Yep, that 30% tax is totally not cool, and i have it on all sites for clips sales in America.

Entrepreneurs should stop setting up companies in the USA. At least when speaking of crowdsourced and online based models. Just so much complications, obligations and privacy issues.

Yeah I'm from germany and have the 0% tax partnership...whatever.. but need to pay the taxes here then greedy governments ..:/

I had my first sale on VB yesterday ) (Yehu! even though the 30% tax were applied, the commission is fantastic) After the sale I checked my tax form and got the notification of opting in for the Enterprise sales program. Got no email.

I got a mail the last days from videoblocks, offering to download any video for free the next 7 days (would lead into a Membership if not cancelled)
maybe thats the reason?

thanks
I hope it has also to do with Quality and not only new Content will be interesting to see how this evolves...at the Moment I still have 4-5 DLs per day, hope to keep those at least
even though I hope Video would be selling more often, 0,25c per Image is ridiculous. I wonder how one can make a living out of it....

Thank you for your replies so far
I just dont like to put so many keywords because if I have for example a fireplace video,
I just add "fireplace, chimney, fire,warm, burning, wood, flames"
I mean whats the point in putting 30or more keywords for this simple scene? The buyer will look after those words if he wants a fireplace.... not "romantic" or sth. Like that...
And I save time
Got in 9 days 41 sales now, my aim of 1$ a day is still realistic )

Btw. I got a video sale on Adobe Stock a few minutes ago,
Got 9€ commission... how is that possible!? I thought its 35% of the 59.99? Any experiences?


//edit: ah I got it, it's because of a lower resolution sold, I guess.

And another question... I will upload my asia related stuff (from indonesia, Bhutan, cambodia etc) to motion elements, do you think its a good idea?

For travel photos, which agency do you recommend besides SS?
Yeah I wont produce more images than the 300 I had on my HD so far,  only after the next journey in july and november :/

Hm okay... than I understand why I get sales when newbies are ranked "higher"...
Thank you anyway I will not take that for granted and plan the next trip to get more photos and video

Btw only 1 sale yesterday

Yes I'm very happy with it, but I hope I can keep that momentum and sales will continue

high Quality stuff...don't know Just the Images and Videos I make during travelling. When I compare it to some other Pictures, those typically stock photographs I think, who . will buy my images?

my ss Portfolio at the moment: https://www.shutterstock.com/de/g/travfi

and my VB Portfolio https://www.videoblocks.com/portfolio/Travfi?page=1

Hello
I just started to get into the microstock Business since the first of January and uploaded pretty much everything i found on my HD i consider useable ... started with videoblocks (very disappointing...), Pond5, Adobe stock and Shutterstock.

After I made 4 sales on pond5 I started uploading photos to shutterstock 5 days ago and I'm pretty happy about 23 sales (even though 0.25$ is ridiculous for an Image....considering the effort... I'm happy to have the Images already taken...I could never imagine "produce" an Image for a quarter per sale...)
Anyway, I have now about 100images and ~80videos, mostly travel related online and still about 200files left for submitting.

As of now I hope the sales do not drop to Zero after I have uploaded everything...or is this most likely to happen? Should I Keep the Images and only upload 2-3 a day or everything as fast as possible?

Next step would be submitting on Adobe Stock and then I hope to achieve my goal of 1-2$ per day No big ambitions but a nice little extra Money... especially when a vid is sold I'm really happy the mail always comes at 1:44 at night, so earning money while sleeping is a convenient feeling

A few questions which came up for me the last days:
Is sunday generally a bad day due to the lack of Business buyers?

Do you all use PayPal for payouts? Got a 103USD payout from pond5, with currency Exchange rate and fees, I only got 93euros... 5 euros "lost" maybe bank wire would be better?

I keyword everything manually and new for each of the 4 sites I upload to... Do you think uploading travel/nature Videos to Shutterstock is worth the effort? Or is it mainly a photo Website and I could save the time?

Do you promote your portfolio somehow?

I like the Business of a Little passive income which pays maybe my car insure...but...it is so unpredictable...how do you - the ones who make a living of it - handle this uncertainty?

thank you for all your help so far I've read a lot of threads the last weeks and this Forum is very helpful and friendly.

best regards!

I also had a sale with 10% Discount, there might be some Discount/coupon codes around. luckily only happened once