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Messages - blvdone
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« on: September 14, 2024, 11:42 »
best week of the year! 
Congrats!! I got the best week of the year too!!
Thank you!
Well,this is what I can call a solid income!Congratulations to you!
Thank you!!
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« on: September 14, 2024, 04:59 »
best week of the year!
Congrats!! I got the best week of the year too!!
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« on: September 12, 2024, 10:39 »
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« on: September 12, 2024, 10:38 »
Dipped a little today from 395 to 419. Lifetime at 481.
Stats are for 3.5 days.
Nice!! I need to double my sales to get from 1,100 to 400. I wonder how many sales 100th rank has per week.
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« on: September 12, 2024, 09:12 »
I believe/am pretty sure your 'lifetime' rank is simply the # of downloads you've had. If you go 'down' - it means other people start selling more than you and change your rank. If you go up, then it means you've sold more (# downloads) relative to other people.
If blv has a "lifetime" ranking of 1540, I'd guess the #'s in front of that were either $100k or $200k, correct? 
$5 million.
Are you serious? Or... just joking? (I 'spose it could be POSSIBLE to be $5 million, but don't know)... what is the 'real' #?
Do you really expect people will tell you how much money they make when asked? 
Yes. Most do.
Come on, post your number like many of us do here. This is my week so far.
Wow , congratulations on the numbers. Any tips for newbie ? I do only real photos at the moment.
AI photos are more effcient to mass produce in short amount of time. But it's already super-saturated. So, try to find theme with not many available images. If you go with saturated themes, your images probably won't be seen getting pushed back many pages down. So, find your own niche and don't try to imitate "bestsellers" too much. It can be a complete waste of time and disappointment.
Thanks, would you say focusing on real photos is a waste of time ? Or doing Ai at the moment is the best option?
Do both.
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« on: September 12, 2024, 07:36 »
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« on: September 12, 2024, 06:13 »
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« on: September 12, 2024, 06:10 »
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« on: September 12, 2024, 05:46 »
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« on: September 11, 2024, 19:37 »
I believe/am pretty sure your 'lifetime' rank is simply the # of downloads you've had. If you go 'down' - it means other people start selling more than you and change your rank. If you go up, then it means you've sold more (# downloads) relative to other people.
If blv has a "lifetime" ranking of 1540, I'd guess the #'s in front of that were either $100k or $200k, correct?
$5 million.
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« on: September 11, 2024, 08:05 »
Well done blv, you certainly know what you are doing.
I am currently slipping down. Looks like autumn will not be good for me. But entirely my fault, didn't do enough for the season and not enough independent content. My people images are slow sellers, inspite of research. They probably need more time, most have just been online for less than 4 months.
Thank you!! Before I started uploading AI images, my position was 1,670 or so. I moved up thanks to AI images I uploaded a year ago.
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« on: September 10, 2024, 15:23 »
I had 9 sales on Pond5 for yesterday's report totaling nearly $1,000 royalty. That's what I love about Pond5. Although sales have been inconsistent on Pond5 this year, they still deliver occasionally. I'm all exclusive on Pond5 and get 60% royalty on my videos. My RPD was over $100/clip for yesterday's report. On Adobe Stock, Shutterstock and other subscription sites, you only get less than $10/clip for a sale now. That's sad. Yes, buyers pay $149/HD if they can't find the same clip on Adobe Stock, Shutterstock or other subscription or unlimited download sites. They save money using sub and unlimited sites, and spend the rest of their budget on Pond5 for the clips they couldn't find on other sites. Until a few years ago, all stock video buyers used to pay per clip for decent price. So, it's nothing new for them to pay decent price for clips especially for big budget project, production and companies.
Congrats! happy for you! I havent made any sales in pond5 since a year ago. I do this out of love really Im not succesful although I treat adobe stock as work and upload regularly.
Thank you!! Good luck to you!!
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« on: September 10, 2024, 13:58 »
Lifetime achievement award.
Lifetime ranking position.
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« on: September 09, 2024, 21:22 »
But we only have 2 choices. To stay with Pond5 or to be out of it.
Pond5 is far better than any others for me. So, I still have my faith in them that they'll do the right things. So, I'm not really worried here.
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« on: September 09, 2024, 21:16 »
Actually, "Enterprise Custom License" has been there since before the Shutterstock buyout, but price wasn't this low. So, I hope it's a very limited license, but when I had $35/4k clip Enterprise License sales in 2021, I complained to Pond5 for clarification and got answer from Greg. Here's his reply.
"Hi,
I had to check with Sales on the deal - it's a large return Enterprise customer with a very high overall spend ($70K). They have a negotiated bulk flat rate price in exchange for the high spend.
All custom enterprise deals can be different and this is definitely one of the most extreme I've seen in terms of price points. While it's not possible to "opt out" of enterprise deals, every deal is governed by a price constriction and I guess at your new 4K price you just fit into the constriction for this particular customer. These are always "behind the curtain" for the big customer of course.
Let me know if that makes sense.
Best,"
So, it was not a limited use license at the time. If SS/Pond5 sold our clips for $5 for a big buyer for standard license, that's a bad deal for us. So, I just hope it's a very limited use license. Some Global Market sales are ridiculously low price too at $22.50 for HD. I think they should get rid of those cheap Global partners.
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« on: September 09, 2024, 10:39 »
Probably a very limited use or one-time streaming license. I had 4 of those yesterday, but not worried. Many sales above $149/HD for custom or premium license. They aren't that stupid to give out the same license for $5.
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« on: September 08, 2024, 05:56 »
Had the best week of the year and since last October on Pond5 despite Monday was a holiday in the US. Hope this will continue.
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« on: September 07, 2024, 19:15 »
Today I got my shelf one big sale on pond 5
An 80 dollar sale
Maybe not that big but ir was something and not 50 cents
I ve been sending my videos to ss but now Im back to pond 5
Oh Im exclusive there also
Congrats!! Yes, Pond5 Exclusive is the way to go now for stock videos.
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« on: September 07, 2024, 19:14 »
Yes, I'm happy not seeing those $25/HD $27/4K clips from some top high quality producers who somehow decided to sell their clips for pennies. Most of them are now priced at $149 as they should be. There was nothing good for Pond5 and us contributors to allow those el cheapo prices for several years. That was the pure race to the bottom by Pond5. Horrible move. I'm glad they corrected their failure that hurt us all in the industry. September and October are the best months of the year. So, I hope we'll have decent months before slowing down in Nov and Dec.
Congrats on your sales! Well done.
Still in drought here - no sale since early Jan.
As for the low price producers - despite P5's recent change to a tiered system - there's still a lot of quality footage being offered in the "Standard footage" tier for $39 for both HD/4K! IMO - those are directly competing with similar footage in the "Premium footage" $149 HD/4K tier.
How does that work?? What determines in which tier footage is placed?
Thanks!! Most of the $25/HD $27/4K clips I used to see from quality producers are now $149/HD or 4K. Yes, I see some $39/HD or 4K clips with the new 2 tier system, but I'm happy most of those $25/HD $27/4K clips are not $149. That's good for all of us including those contributors who used to price their clips dirt cheap.
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« on: September 07, 2024, 16:06 »
3826 images 
This is actually a very useful info. This ranking of 37,400th puts 1,100th at least in top 3%. Probably it's more like 1,000th is top 2%. I think there are 50,000 contributors out there at least.
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« on: September 06, 2024, 22:21 »
Nice! I'm only at $1K for the month so far on all my agencies, and you hit that in one day!
It is rare to have $1k sale in 1 day, but it's possible if you have many clips. $1k so far from all agencies isn't bad either. That's $5k/month pace.
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« on: September 06, 2024, 19:16 »
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« on: September 06, 2024, 17:51 »
Congratulations and well done!
Thank you!!
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« on: September 06, 2024, 15:11 »
I had 9 sales on Pond5 for yesterday's report totaling nearly $1,000 royalty. That's what I love about Pond5. Although sales have been inconsistent on Pond5 this year, they still deliver occasionally. I'm all exclusive on Pond5 and get 60% royalty on my videos. My RPD was over $100/clip for yesterday's report. On Adobe Stock, Shutterstock and other subscription sites, you only get less than $10/clip for a sale now. That's sad. Yes, buyers pay $149/HD if they can't find the same clip on Adobe Stock, Shutterstock or other subscription or unlimited download sites. They save money using sub and unlimited sites, and spend the rest of their budget on Pond5 for the clips they couldn't find on other sites. Until a few years ago, all stock video buyers used to pay per clip for decent price. So, it's nothing new for them to pay decent price for clips especially for big budget project, production and companies.
Impressive!! Congradulations Blv
Thank you!!
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