I have quite a few videos I shot in military airshows during 2017-2020.
Almost no rejections along the way.
In the past 2 years I had many of my clips rejected in both Shutterstock and Adobe due to intellectual property issues,
and sometimes I had agencies require property release from the airshow itself.
Does anyone here has some experience with this subject?
Is obtaining a release from a large airshow (like the Paris one for example) even an option?

Started uploading my video collection there to give it a try...
As of now have 1,000 clips there.
Many of them get many views (into the hundreds) - but zero sales so far.

Any video contributor making any money there??

Just trying to understand my situation -
Went through my statistics for the past 365 days -
I have an average of around 50 item views per day, and around 0.5 sales per day.
What's other people's numbers here?
I'm pricing my clips pretty high so wondering whether these prices might scare off buyers...

Still can't figure it out.
All of my portfolio is presented in the "essential" collection.
none of my clips are in the "signeture" collection.
I'm trying to be as objective as I can here... some of the clips in the Signeture collection are indeed very good, at least as good as mine.
but some are, well, much much worse.

So -  What's the deal here?
Am I missing something?

As in every November, this week the sales are almost gone- It's Thanksgiving time.
Now - unlike Christmas or Easter - Thanksgiving is celebrated only in the US and Canada.
Which brings up the question - how dominant is the US media market in the Stock footage (and stock images generally) comparing to the rest of the world.
I see my statistics in Getty - The US buyers account to more than 70% of my sales.

** I shoot almost only video - but i'd like to hear from my still photographers friends here what's their imput on this...**

What's your take on this data?

Just submitted a batch of videos of a crop duster over a cotton field. Nothing special. No logos on the plane. Pretty straight forward. Got the videos back for revision with a request for a property release. Now... Can't really understand if these clowns want a property release for the crop duster or the cotton field. Dear lord... Is there no limit to the incompetence of iStock reviewers???

I was just browsing through the new "collections" part of the StoryBlocks site.
Came accross the "Medical Stock footage" collection.
Since I have many medical clips I wanted to see whether one (or more) of them were included in the collection.
To my great surprise I saw that out of around 80 clips un the collection - almost 30 are from the same contributors, same shoots, and sometimes slight variations of the same shots!!

Judge of your self:  https://www.videoblocks.com/collections/medical-stock-footage?page=2

Now I know there are thousends (if not tens of thousends) of great medical stock clips out there in Storyblocks.
How on earth did they curate such a misrable collection???
I sent them a mail - no response yet.

could they be curating only best sellers? (and by that promoting them even more...)
Could they be favoring some contributors over others?

What . ?

So this question relates to both video (which I do mostly) and pictures. Obviously some of our images are becoming good sellers right away - just a matter of uploading the right content at the right time I guess. But I have read some threads claiming that on most agencies content gets higher ranking as time goes by (again - assuming the content is of good quality). In my portfolio most sales originate from files uploaded on 2016. On one hand I was thinking my new files aren't selling. But should I just wait for the new clips to "kick in"? What's your experience?

Both Fotolia and Shutterstock rejected a batch I shot of military aircraft and helicopters due to intellectual property infringement. I have quite a few videos like these which are selling well from last year. Anyone had their pictures / videos rejected too for this reason?
Obviously this is absurd... So from now on nobody will be able to buy images of aircrafts for commercial use?

In the past few days, someone is buying my clips like crazy in Fotolia. I've had sales spike before, but this Something really unusual. All purchases are 4K, all kids of subjects...
Now the question is whether to report this to Fotolia and let them know, and ask them to look into it. It is not my fault if someone is hacking their agency... But someone else might ask for a refund eventually....
I might lose thousands of dollars on the other hand 🙄
Has anyone had something like this before???

So - it might come out as a stupid question - but I truly do not understand something very fundamental:

As far as video goes - What's the difference between iStock and Getty??


If getty is supposed to be the "Premium" agancy, how come when I search for clips with the same keywords like my clips in iStock,  find clips that are much much lower quality selling for absurd prices ($575 for this??: http://www.gettyimages.com/license/516315545) but my clips do not show up?

What am I missing here???

As contributors, what are the tools at our disposal for doing market research?
i.e. - statistics of how many times content was searched in agancies, popularity of images or clips (with view and download count) and so on.

Are there any tools out there like the sales tools (StockAgent, Microstockr) but for research? (Not keyword research)
And what information is shared by the sites?

Thanks