Thank you for the concerns and criticism.

I think I owe you guys an explanation of how this project came to be.

I believe that the market that deals with the entirety of stock content can be separated into two parts: one that sells extreme high-quality videos for a couple hundreds per clip, and the more commonplace one selling footage of decent quality at decent prices.

Playstock I am envisioning is directed towards amateur stock footage users, YouTubers, filmmakers, and content creators who need footage more affordable, accessible than the existing ones. And the footages we are looking for are widely and commonly-used and can be used for daily contexts, while still qualifying as 'stock'.

We haven't revealed the pricing plan and the royalty on the event page (and in my previous threads) because it is yet to be decided. It will be finalized by the results of the survey, which I have posted repeatedly on this website, asking for your help. We thought that it would be best to reflect your opinions as much as possible, and wanted to use the survey as a chance to connect with the contributors.

As of now we are leaning towards a $100 annual subscription plan of limited downloads (up to 1TB or 20 clips daily).

We are planning to take only 0-5% commission for the sales (excluding service maintenance fee) for the first year, and slowly increase it up to 20% depending on the website's performance.

To clarify, we are not undermining your abilities as a stock creator or disregarding the quality and efforts put into your stock clips because we have opted for such pricing plans. We are simply attempting to broaden the range of stock content users by giving people a chance to experience utilizing stock at an affordable price and hence lowering the threshold of stock content. At the same time, we aim to increase accessibility and promote your previously unsold clips, especially those whose sales were stagnant due to their prices.

For more explanation and details about our service, please refer to the magazine section of our website: https://www.playstock.net/board_detail/5

Otherwise we are always open for enquiries, and can be contacted through [email protected].

Hi everyone, I hope you are well!

I have posted here a couple of times regarding making a new stock video platform. Things have been really pacing up and we are almost ready to launch our website. Before the official launch, we have organized a pre-launch event for you stock video creators. I've shared the event poster from our facebook page and more details are in the link below. I really hope that you guys would participate -- this is a project we've been preparing for a long time in hopes that it would be a step closer to making a better stock video experience for everyone. So please check out our website, and participate in our Upload Bonus event!

Visit our landing page for more details: www.playstock.net/pre-registration

Hi everyone, I hope you are well!

Things have been really pacing up and we are almost ready to launch our website. Before the official launch, we have organized a pre-launch event for you stock video creators. I've shared the event poster from our facebook page and more details are in the link below. I really hope that you guys would participate -- this is a project we've been preparing for a long time in hopes that it would be a step closer to making a better stock video experience for everyone. So please check out our website, and participate in our Upload Bonus event!

Here's our landing page: www.playstock.net/pre-registration

So right now we haven't come to a decision about the commission rate. I am sending out these surveys because I genuinely want to know what works for all of you guys, so I can implement that onto our service. So I'm hoping to get more responses because at the moment we don't have enough data to make an educated decision.

As for the competition bit, you can rest assured that we are working on something, but I can't say too much about it until the official website is launched!

Hi guys, hope you are well. If you haven't seen my older posts, I am making a new stock video website, and have gathered a team to develop a convenient, efficient service for both buyers and sellers. We are almost ready to launch our website and show it to you, but there are still some things to be done. So in the meantime, this is our official Facebook page, where we will be uploading and introducing our stock video assets, creators, share sneak peeks of our website and PRE-UPLOAD event (coming soon!) details, and behind-the-scenes of our team at work. So please check out our fb page, and like our page for support, it would mean so much 😊

Here's our official fb page: https://www.facebook.com/playstockgroup/

This is a link to our survey. Please take this so that we can make a better stock experience for you! 🙌
link: https://bit.ly/3gUEBo0



Shim

Hi guys, hope you are well. We are almost ready to launch our website and show it to you, but there are still some things to be done. So in the meantime, this is our official Facebook page, where we will be uploading and introducing our stock video assets, creators, share sneak peeks of our website and PRE-UPLOAD event (coming soon!) details, and behind-the-scenes of our team at work. So please check out our fb page, and like our page for support, it would mean so much 😊

Here's a link to our FB page:
https://www.facebook.com/playstockgroup/

Here's a link to the survey! Please take this survey so that we can refine your experiences as a stock content seller!
https://bit.ly/3iuk5Ll

I know this may all sound a bit unrealistic right now atm without the website, but please bear with us and give us the benefit of the doubt



Shim

Hi guys,

We are just a couple of months away from launching our brand new website, and we are also organizing (I am posting about this in about two weeks time!) a pre-launch event that could potentially be of great benefit to you guys. But I still need a few more opinions on our survey so we'll have enough data to reflect back onto our website functions. So if there is anything you felt like the existing stock video platforms lack, or your preferences of categories, commission, etc, I'd love to know through our survey. Thanks guys in advance.

https://shim704275.typeform.com/to/IfqshHAv

Hi guys, I'm back. Thanks cascoly, Roger Mitsom and everest and the rest of you guys, your advice has been super helpful. I'll keep that in mind when I set the details for the website. In the meantime, it would be very helpful if you guys fill out this survey. The information you provide here will be beneficial for me to tailor to your needs as a stock creator.
             
Here's the link: https://shim704275.typeform.com/to/IfqshHAv

Hey all,

Thanks for all your comments. I've read each and every one of your doubts, advice, and feedback and all of them would serve helpful in the near future. As you've all mentioned, I am aware this is not a particularly lucrative market to build on, but the team is all figuring it out a way to grasp both buyers and sellers. I realize your biggest concern is that the new website will not gain much sales, and we are coming up with solid marketing strategies that will attract buyers. In the meantime we are gathering all of this information to construct a survey, which we will post within the next week. This will really help us know your needs and reflect that onto our website.

Obviously, like I said, we can't reveal much at this stage. So I know none of these sounds real yet, or even practical, but trust me, you won't be disappointed.

Shim

Ok, thanks guys for specifying how my previous post is spiralling into the no-response hole, so here's an updated version. Will provide tdlr in the end.

I didn't mention this in my previous post, but we started out with a solid plan and some progress has been made so far. Right now we are working on expanding the current scope of categories to suit more needs for both users and contributors and a service that would significantly reduce the amount of time devoted to coming up with keywords and descriptions.

So it's not like 'oh i wanna make a website but idk anything so help' kind of situation. We definitely have something going for sure, it's just that it's still early to say much about it at the moment. But it will be revealed. Soon.

We are focusing on the sellers for now because I believe that only when we provide an ideal platform for the contributors we can then gather a decent number of contributors. The buyers would naturally follow. So gathering buyers and actively promoting our site would be a later step. I mean, what use is the site with buyers when there isn't anything to buy? So I am trying to balance things out here.

To address previous concerns, we are asking for your experiences because we need the most updated opinions. It is also a part of connecting with you guys because we are not based in US / Europe where the stock video market is the biggest. We are also gathering very general info because we are using those to come up with a survey and an interactive event.

So yes, we are pitching a great new stock opportunity, but not just yet. But for now here's what I want to ask first:

How do you choose where to upload? Do you just straight up go for the big ones like Adobe, Pond5 etc, or do you use smaller platforms too? If you do use the smaller websites as well, why did you decide to do so? (eg. Good commission, neat website design, easy uploading process, stuff like that)


TDLR:
1) Making a new Shutterstock but better (hopefully)
2) Need your opinions and feedback along the way
3) Doing market research / survey prep
Q: What's your criteria for choosing where to upload your videos?

Shim

Hi guys,

I got into selling stock footage when I was producing and shooting travel videos for advertising. There were just too many clips I've never gotten to use and I wanted to put them into a different use. I tried out different stock video selling websites, like Shutterstock, Adobe Stock, etc, but there was always one thing that didn't suit my needs and I had to go off looking for another platform. I've been talking to my videographer and developer friends about it and we have decided that we want to create a whole new platform — just like Shutterstock and Pond5, but starting from square one.

For a bit of context, I've always been frustrated at how I had to send my work off to agencies that take majority of the royalties, or doesn't give you the liberty to edit your submission afterwards. The keywording part is always an issue as well, as I've heard from many others. In addition to all these, what prompted the development of this process is the recent boycott at Shutterstock. I noticed that the recent changes are inconvenient and inefficient, most of all it is inconsiderate to the users. This seemed to emphasize a need for a contributor-friendly, contributor-prioritizing space.

The dream is to make a website where it is easy for users to upload, manage and edit their submissions. Something that looks great but is also efficient, where the contributor's interest is the top priority.

I have been scouring through various communities on Reddit, Shutterstock, Microstock, Facebook directed at stock video creators and gathering information about what each website does well or fails. But I would like to ask for your opinions directly. As a stock video contributor using these websites, how has your experience been like? What worked well for you? What were the inconveniences? What improvements should the current stock video websites implement? Any thoughts on the current platform you are using? Price, design, function -- Anything (and by that I do mean absolutely anything!) would be golden.

If carried out well, I think it would potentially be a great push for many of the stock videographers here. We are still in the beginning stage, but your input is absolutely necessary in order for us to create a platform that is 100% suited to your interest and needs. Our goal is to reflect all these upsides and downsides that these current stock video websites have and refine ours with the utmost convenience.

Yours,

Shim   

Hi guys,

I got into selling stock footage when I was producing and shooting travel videos for advertising. There were just too many clips I've never gotten to use and I wanted to put them into a different use. I tried out different stock video selling websites, like Shutterstock, Adobe Stock, etc, but there was always one thing that didn't suit my needs and I had to go off looking for another platform. I've been talking to my videographer and developer friends about it and we have decided that we want to create a whole new platform — just like Shutterstock and Pond5, but starting from square one.

For a bit of context, I've always been frustrated at how I had to send my work off to agencies that take majority of the royalties, or doesn't give you the liberty to edit your submission afterwards. The keywording part is always an issue as well, as I've heard from many others. In addition to all these, what prompted the development of this process is the recent boycott at Shutterstock. I noticed that the recent changes are inconvenient and inefficient, most of all it is inconsiderate to the users. This seemed to emphasize a need for a contributor-friendly, contributor-prioritizing space.

The dream is to make a website where it is easy for users to upload, manage and edit their submissions. Something that looks great but is also efficient, where the contributor's interest is the top priority.

I have been scouring through various communities on Reddit, Shutterstock, Microstock, Facebook directed at stock video creators and gathering information about what each website does well or fails. But I would like to ask for your opinions directly. As a stock video contributor using these websites, how has your experience been like? What worked well for you? What were the inconveniences? What improvements should the current stock video websites implement? Any thoughts on the current platform you are using? Price, design, function -- Anything (and by that I do mean absolutely anything!) would be golden.

If carried out well, I think it would potentially be a great push for many of the stock videographers here. We are still in the beginning stage, but your input is absolutely necessary in order for us to create a platform that is 100% suited to your interest and needs. Our goal is to reflect all these upsides and downsides that these current stock video websites have and refine ours with the utmost convenience.

Yours,

Shim   

Newbie here! Still can't figure out a way to start new threads. Hopefully it will work out!