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Pond5 / Pond5 sales picking up in March 2024
« on: March 20, 2024, 19:56 »
I'm seeing my Pond5 sales picking up really well this month. Anyone else having similar results?

Really good to see this with various problems and slowing sales on some other agencies in recent months. Hopefully will see continued sustainable lift in sales on Pond5.

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Was going to say this is a hypothetical but the way things are heading it might not be too far off.

So you once made hundreds or thousands of dollars each month on Shutterstock but now making $100 a month is an exceptionally good month.

Yet Shutterstock still reports huge profits - by far the main coming from its data licensing program and AI generations. You can opt out but can you really trust that?

What will you do with your portfolio?

1) Nothing, will continue to upload like I've always done.

2) Keep it up but no longer upload.

3) Disable the port.

4) Close the account.



 

   

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Shutterstock.com / Happy Reset!
« on: December 31, 2023, 09:02 »
Just want to wish everyone and every subber contributor a very happy reset.

May you be excited and incentivized on happy reset day.  :)


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iStockPhoto.com / August 2023 statements are in early
« on: September 15, 2023, 20:13 »
Went to look at content statistics and nothing there so figure to check royalties and August is there already. Not a bad or great month, pretty average as per the chart....

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iStockPhoto.com / July 2023 financial statements are in
« on: August 15, 2023, 16:32 »
Overall good month, my best month ever on iStock to date beating my previous BME in March 2023 by 78 cents (aka 0.78$)  ;D

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iStockPhoto.com / May 2023 Earnings
« on: June 15, 2023, 17:03 »
Well that's an early arrival. Second best month with an RPD of $2.08 for photos and video combined.

Considering about 112 video licences sold in May (and 30+ images) it's really not a great result overall. Would think video sales would bring up the RPD more. 

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iStockPhoto.com / February 2023 Earnings Statement
« on: March 20, 2023, 13:22 »
A BME in February 2023 with an RPD of $2.46 for stills and video combined. Just as well given a very slow month everywhere else in March so far for mine.

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iStockPhoto.com / January 2023 earnings statement
« on: February 17, 2023, 15:32 »
A BME in January 2023 with an RPD of $2.49 for images and video combined.

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iStockPhoto.com / November earnings statement are in
« on: December 16, 2022, 14:09 »
Fourth best month overall with $1.69 RPD for photos and video combined. This is a lower RPD compared to recent months. So not a bad month but not great either.

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Pond5 / Reported sale outside of usual reporting cycle
« on: December 06, 2022, 15:27 »
My Pond5 sales always report once a day at 10.39am AEST or 11.39am AEDT. However, for the first time I've seen a sale dropped in at 1.45 am AEDT. Not complaining, it's just unusual. Maybe all my customers are typically from my area of the world so sales always happen within the usual hours in the reporting cycle. And the commission was pretty good at $58.86. Anyone else have sales report more than once a day?

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iStockPhoto.com / September sales statement in
« on: October 19, 2022, 17:56 »
Second best month but RPD down to $1.63 in September vs $2.97 in August (which incidentally was my BME on iStock).

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iStockPhoto.com / May statements are in
« on: June 17, 2022, 03:16 »
While my earnings were a tad over double the earnings in April, and over 12x that of May 2021, the downloads report suggested it would of been much more. Even so, May 2022 is my 4th best earnings overall on iStock.

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iStockPhoto.com / April statements are in
« on: May 18, 2022, 17:29 »
Bit of a surprise really as the download information came in late this month. But anyway, not a great month in April. Better than the last two Aprils though.

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I usually don't care much about finding my images in the media and online. Seen quite a few just doing a desktop search. But occasionally I find something that feels really quite cool. Watching television this morning and on comes an ad on Channel 7 about the final showdown debate of contending political party leaders here in Oz with the federal elections coming up later this month. I wasn't able to find the ad online so just took a recording of the tv screen on my phone. The clip goes for barely 1 second at the 8 second mark. Was an aerial drone hyperlapse of Parliament House I did over a year ago. Same clip appeared on a Sky News Australia ad last year. Linked to the Youtube upload below. Sorry for poor quality. Anyone else find your content in the media which you feel proud to see?   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBt0V8LRpNU 

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iStockPhoto.com / March Statements are in
« on: April 18, 2022, 20:54 »
Second best month ever for a $2.70 RPD overall.  8)

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Shutterstock.com / Pending and Reviewed Disappeared?
« on: March 10, 2022, 05:30 »
Just seen my pending and reviewed images and videos on SStock have disappeared? Probably a system glitch. Has this happened to anyone else?

ETA 1: They just reappeared - minus an uploaded video.

ETA 2: The uploaded video has just reappeared. Yay! \O/

Okay back to regular programming. 

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I been contacted three times this past week by a rep from Vecteezy telling me they love my work and portfolio (blush) and to apply with them to become a contributor. I don't have any vectors but have photos and videos which I see they sell on the site.

Anyone a contributor on Vecteezy and can share your experience? Thanks.

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VideoBlocks / Is Storyblocks worth uploading video to?
« on: March 01, 2021, 06:15 »
Have 380 clips, mainly aerial drone.

Example earnings per download? Frequency of downloads? Port size?

Thanks

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Alamy.com / How to close port at Alamy?
« on: February 10, 2021, 00:39 »

How do I close my port at Alamy?

Had one sale there since March 2020. I don't want my images left on their site.

Thanks
Steve

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Pond5 / Sudden massive pile on of views on P5
« on: January 18, 2021, 01:50 »
Anyone else have a sudden surge of views on Pond5?

I usually get between 2 and 9 views a day, occasionally going into the teens which is often accompanied by a sale. In this case, I had a massive number of views over a period of a couple of days with one day being 110 views and then the following day 341 views (see attachment). Then the days thereafter - nothing, no sales and views dropped back to normal numbers. Really strange! 






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General Stock Discussion / Sales falling everywhere
« on: June 26, 2020, 23:06 »
It's not just Subberstock but seems like sales dls and dollars falling on other sites too. I guess it reflects the current world economy situation. What's it like for others?

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Adobe Stock / Adobe Stock Contributor Down?
« on: June 25, 2020, 17:22 »

I just get white screen on tablet and PC.

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Dreamstime.com / Worth uploading footage to Dreamstime?
« on: May 30, 2020, 03:20 »
Thinking of other platforms to upload footage given the SS saga. My vids are already on Adobe Stock and Pond 5.

So is it worth uploading vids to Dreamstime?

Thanks
 

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