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Messages - thirdbornentertainment
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« on: October 16, 2023, 13:32 »
Bad month for me. P5 i got snake eyes. Very unusual. DP Iusually get $50-60, I got $20. SS way down. Normal is $250 and I managed $125. IS was actually up about $50 over the same month last year.
My pond5 has had 1 sale in 7 weeks. Very unusual as well. My average is 200/month
Here we are half way through October and my P5 sales are still dead. Zip in September and zip in Oct so far. I typically have 8-9 sales in that 6-week span.
Any idea as to why? These guys have been my top earner since I started 8 years ago.
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« on: October 10, 2023, 16:41 »
Bad month for me. P5 i got snake eyes. Very unusual. DP Iusually get $50-60, I got $20. SS way down. Normal is $250 and I managed $125. IS was actually up about $50 over the same month last year.
My pond5 has had 1 sale in 7 weeks. Very unusual as well. My average is 200/month
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« on: September 29, 2023, 15:02 »
istock is your best video agency? As a non exclusive?
that is the first time I read that.
maybe I should upload some videos to them.
I uploaded my port of 2400 clips, about 1000 of them approved but its bringing me $150/month now. About the same time I got my clips uploaded to gettys the slump began at pond5. I'm sure its a coincidence but I do love me a good conspiracy theory.
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« on: September 28, 2023, 14:34 »
I went 6 weeks without a sale, and had one since. I noticed this trend started after I uploaded to gettys, although I'm not sure there is any correlation between the 2.
Has anyone else had a bad few months at pond 5? This has never happened since I started in 2016
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« on: September 10, 2022, 18:09 »
Sold a clip today! I made a whopping $2.52! Thanks Adobe, this is really paying off!
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« on: July 21, 2022, 20:38 »
Wasn't the adobe rep on here a year ago saying how the small sales were "glitches" in the system? Looks like I just sold 4 clips for $2.50 each, quite the glitch I must say!
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« on: March 12, 2022, 14:41 »
Fine with this as well... 60% of my income comes from sites that only offer unlimited subscriptions. Take Storyblocks for example... my best year with them prior to them going back to 100% subscription was $2500, and last year I made $8500 with them. Probably helped by all the contributors leaving as they assumed their earnings would be decimated... so thanks for that!
an interesting point. might as well go down with the ship
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« on: March 11, 2022, 19:18 »
Let me know if you have any questions, I will be around all day though please know that I'm traveling tomorrow (Thursday) through Monday so my response time during this date range will almost definitely be delayed. Thanks in advance for your patience.
Against what others are saying, I'm actually ok with this. Subscription sales work well for me and probably my biggest source of income.
What I'd like to know is if there is a way we can see what is selling under this new model. The AS system really isn't great at reporting sales in a meaningful way. The daily best seller doesn't really help, as I can't see how much I made that day in total and there doesn't seem to be any simple way to just see all daily sales, AS is all about graphs and that's not helpful. Shutterstock actually does it best with the instant update and breakdown per licence type.
Can we get some kind of way to track the success of this new subscription model?
Do you get paid by the word to shill for subscription model companies? Ask any pro how Istock or Shutterstock worked out for them with subs. Either you are new, or the first videographer to ever make more money from subs than regular royalties.
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« on: March 10, 2022, 14:35 »
Sadly this may be the only play left. At least we know why Pond5 will have the highest quality footage. I'm sure after a few years of crap submissions Adobe will have to up the rates again to sucker in more shooters to give them quality footage. For the time being i'll use my dji pocket gimbal and mavic mini drone to produce garbage for them. Pond5 will get all of my timelapse and Red Camera footage. Sorry Adobe, you dropped the ball.
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« on: March 09, 2022, 21:59 »
Good to hear. I look forward to the increased sales. Matter of fact, my portfolio at istock and shutterstock have done 10x better since they started paying us pennies.
Serious question, what do you think the end result will be with regards to quality of footage?
I suspect many will submit garbage footage with little to no effort to help offset the lower pay.
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« on: June 12, 2021, 00:50 »
So far... 40% more per month than in 2021 which is surprising as although I've been uploading more content, I wouldn't have thought it was enough to make a significant increase in income, more just enough to stem the inevitable decrease in earnings over time when you're not uploading anything or just uploading 'a bit'. Hopefully it lasts.
Did you travel back in time from 2022? lol 
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« on: May 18, 2021, 13:16 »
Seriously the noise rejection is very bad. The only website refuse my video. I use Davinci resolve with lot of setting to avoid that but sometime they refuse. Any idea what to do ?
Imagine still uploading to shitterstock in 2021. You must be new to stock.
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« on: January 21, 2021, 17:09 »
I'm down to 3 agencies, pond5 adobe and dissolve. Earnings last December for my 1500 clip portfolio were over 1k usd. This year I barely cracked 300. I'm getting fewer sales no matter how much I add (quality clips). If you thought 2020 sucked just wait....
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« on: October 06, 2020, 15:33 »
most of my p5 sales are stills, very few video - ranging from $4-40/sale, a few per month
Well for us who produce good work video sales are much higher. What kind of video only sells for $4? Perhaps price your work higher, that is if it is halfway decent.
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« on: September 23, 2020, 18:55 »
The greatest? Not according to snopes.
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« on: September 22, 2020, 14:28 »
Who cares? Shutterstock is literally dead at this point. Why is anyone even contributing there anymore? My P5 sales are through the roof these days
it CAN'T be 'literally' dead if the site is functioning, reviewing and selling! you may not like them but tha's just your opinion.
as far as P5, why should we believe you when you don't show your portfolio or give any context. eg if you sold 1 image last month for $1 and sold another one this month for $2 you'd have a 100% increase in sales!
and Pete - your post & this one show the absurdity here - you give a long, detailed acct of why conspiracies about SS are nonsense when there are much simpler reasons (it's called Occam's Razor), compared with a driveby post with no content
SS is dead. Anything else you care to whine about?
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« on: September 14, 2020, 15:52 »
Who cares? Shutterstock is literally dead at this point. Why is anyone even contributing there anymore? My P5 sales are through the roof these days
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« on: July 27, 2020, 17:39 »
Typically I average about $.70 per download on SS. Since June I have been averaging between $.90 to $1.00 per download. My ODs have been selling over the $2.85 levels plus higher EDs (over $28). Yeah, the dimes on some of my subs suck but it's the final numbers that count. I've already made more this July than last year's July.
3 posts, all ass-kissing to SS. Go away shill. SS is cooked.
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« on: July 09, 2020, 12:20 »
I have decided to delete my content on Shutterstock, not just disable it. Someone wrote a script that can do it for me. One by one would take forever. Can anyone share what that script is and how to use it please?
I have a much easier way, email them and tell them to walk off a bridge. I did and voila, all content is gone!
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« on: July 03, 2020, 13:08 »
So far I am better off with the new price structure of SS, in spite of many 10 to 17 cent sales.
Why should I boycot SS or even close my account? Why not accepting the 10 cent sales? I do, and I dont care what will happen next year, because nobody can forsee the future.
I too am sooooooo much better off. Now that I make $0.67/clip it almost pays for the electricity to charge my camera batteries.
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« on: June 30, 2020, 15:50 »
How can it be dead? There are over 322 million files online. 4 million more than just a few days ago.
Does all this blackout thing help at all? WHO is it that keeps uploading, and WHY do they do it? I'm getting so frustrated here. I don't see Shutterstock losing anything at the moment. The amount of files should be decreasing instead of increasing........
The company valuation is what I look at. Their stock has been steadily dropping since 2014 and will never recover. That to me is a dead company. Let the losers continue to upload to that dumpster fire, I know I won't.
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« on: June 30, 2020, 12:12 »
Why turn off your port? Do you want to reactivate it and have $0.16 clip sales cuz that's where it's at now. Shutterstock is a dead company, just look at their stock! It's a sinking ship and these criminals will squeeze every last drop out of our footage. I deleted mine, well actually Shutterstock did after I told them to kindly jump off a bridge but it worked.
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« on: June 26, 2020, 18:00 »
thanks mate!
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« on: June 25, 2020, 23:55 »
So much for $1.50 sales huh? I'm done with these morons
I want to mass delete my portfolio from this giant steaming turd of a company...any ideas? The only way I found is one by one. (I don't want to just disable, I want 100% out of this dumpster fire)
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« on: May 30, 2020, 22:54 »
Why even bother trying to salvage anything with this company? It's like trying to get an abusive spouse to promise to stop beating you. What is the point? SS is junk and we really don't need them.
I'm not optimistic that we can get changes - Shutterstock is now a big public company with a huge image library - but the reason to try is that they've earned many thousands for lots of us and for a long time were undisputed monthly earnings leader after Getty and the private equity idiots ruined iStock (the first far and away leader in earnings).
At 10 cents a sub download we don't need them, but it isn't June 1st yet and possibly they might be worried enough about noticeable quantities of proven salable content being removed from their library to rethink their cash grab.
I'm going to wait it out and see how my earnings are for the next 6 months. If they continue to get big licenses for me then I'll stay.
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