Quote from: sharpshot on June 10, 2013, 15:44

All the info is there if you look for it.  Find a contributor with a portfolio similar to what you think you can produce on Pond5 and see how many downloads they get.  Just like stills, it's a bit pointless asking other people how much they sell if their portfolio is nothing like yours.

For me, my footage portfolio isn't as commercial as my stills portfolio.  It took 300 clips to average 1 sale a month but I'm sure if I really wanted to, I could do much better.  Footage has been a bit of fun and I haven't worked hard at it yet.

Great tip! This is exact the info what I was looking for. I did not realize that pond5 showed sales and upload date! I know all I need to know know.  Thanks! 

Ciao, I can't find the sales and upload date on Pond5.
Could you point me the link please

Ciao,
I just disabled the sale of my photos (around 3,000) and my videos (around 600).
Although my portfolio is very small, I hope to be able to help give a little shake to the SS leadership.

Quote from: peuceta on June 06, 2020, 10:21

The links work but you can't download the image. Click the download button and you'll see a message "There was an issue with your request. Please try again, or Contact us if you need further assistance"

This just isn't an issue. There is no need to delete images - disabling the portfolio works

Can you tell me if it will be sufficient to rehabilitate the sale for the recovery of the portfolio?
Obviously if there were positive news for us collaborators from SS

I am not sure I understand the question.

If the question is whether you can turn your images back on again and resume sales, I did that once before in 2011 after I returned to being independent following 3 years as an iStock exclusive. It worked fine then, and I assume it does not, but my portfolio is currently "off" so I haven't tested it in 2020
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OK! Grazie

* they were very fast !!!!
In about 3 hours they examined 61 of my photos (poor !!!) dating back to my approach to the microstock world, and they rejected about 50% of them.
It would be completely unlikely that any of those accepted could ever be downloaded unless some customer pushed by a compulsion due to the cost of a subscription select it.
However, sales continue at $ 0.10 ~ $ 0.14.
I wait a few more days before unplugging.
But what a disappointment SS !!!!!!!!

But in my opinion the idea of sending my photos with which I started making microstock, the majority of which are invalid, together with some duplicate photos if it were practiced by many would put SS in difficulty.
At worst they are selling photos for which 10 cents could be a good price

I am still baffled by the brutal application of a new payment system unilaterally adopted by SS and I am also frustrated to see the really poor payment of the 10 cents applied in the majority of sales in this part of the month.
I am tempted to suspend sales and / or cancel the account.
For now I will just not upload new images and videos.
From what I have read there is no possibility to cancel all your work with a single click.
I therefore developed this strategy that can allow me to give SS at least a little annoyance without compromising a possible resumption of uploads in case there was an improvement in the payment system for us collaborators.
In concrete terms, therefore:
- (maybe!) I only upload new editorial material (because Adobe doesn't accept it);
- I start to upload the oldest photos that I have and which are of poor quality.
By uploading old photos (some of which are already in my portfolio) I hope to annoy their recruiters who will have to take the trouble to examine and possibly accept photos that had previously been discarded,
I realize that all this can only tickle SS also because my portfolio is not very significant, but it is all that I now feel I can do.

(Sorry I don't speak English but I speak Italian. I used an online translator)