blvdone, uploading videos only to pond5, in my opinion, is a very bad idea.

There is evidence that buyers shop around agencies for the lowest price.  Why compete with yourself on different platforms that are all too eager to offer buyers the lowest price?

The Press Release also has in the last paragraph:

"Vecteezy is one of the fastest growing stock photography marketplaces globally, with millions of vectors, stock photos, and stock videos that are free and safe for personal or commercial use."

Does this imply that SS assets could have the potential to be available free on Vecteezy - even if only a select subset?

Zero sales so far this year.

What are you referring to - video or photos, or?

Apparently Alamy opened the opt-out window for China distributor sales for a contributor with very low sales commissions based on the below statement that was  posted in their Forum very recently today.  Alamy's Forum has reports from numerous other contributors that have recently experienced the same

Unclear if China distribution opt-out is also currently open to other contributors with recent very low sales commissions from their China distributor sales.


"We're aware that the sales you have seen through distribution have been quite lower than normal � this is because of a deal we have made with the distributor in China to secure business away from competitors in that specific market area. This was for images in accounts that were signed up for both Distribution in China and Novel use.

We realise that once the commission has been taken into account, it has meant that the amount owed to you is very small. Therefore, we�re giving you the option to opt out of distribution in China and/or novel use early to avoid any future low sales. If you wish to opt-out of distribution in China, and novel use now (before April) please let us know."

Just take a look at how much the top 20 on P5 meant to SS when buying the site.

SS/P5 did not want to p.o. the big contributors - likely the big aggregators and agencies with 10s-100s thousands of assets on P5 and thus more leverage.

That Top 20 likely has a different P5 contract compared to the rest of the contributors.

Unmentioned in this thread is the agencies on-going marketing to attract new creators.

Siren-song advertising to "Make money in your spare time with your camera!" and "create residual income that keeps on paying!" etc.   

New and unwary creators eagerly sign up in droves with enticing visions and expectations of easy money to join the agency-created gravy train fairy-tale. 

They upload new material to replenish agencies with "fresh" content - some of it good some not.  Regardless it feeds the agencies libraries as they continue to attract new creators to replace the ones who've grown disillusioned with "penny stock" creator payments.

There is Always a higher level of greed with stock agencies

Stock agencies are "for profit" businesses. Nothing wrong with being in business for profit.  Greed is part of increasing business stockholder value, and executive/staff and asset creator/supplier compensation. It's a major driver of their business models.  Greed no doubt plays it's part - as it does in many aspects of business and life.

It's become glaringly obvious in recent years that stock agencies organic growth has stagnated.

That's why agencies consolidate and gobble up competitors, spread and share creator assets across competing platforms, and drive asset pricing down with subscription and bundled asset schemes to untenable levels for asset creators.  All attempts to grab more market share.

It's apparently the only methods they have left to drive growth in the industry.

I just go by the zooms because hopefuly sales will follow and recently had a lot more as my alamy port aproached 1000 images.

I have a slightly larger sized Alamy portfolio and have been a contributor for a number of years.

It's been my experience for some time that the majority of my image sales by far drop in seemingly at random and have not been zoomed prior to sale.

What does that mean?
 

Videos can still be sold on Adobe Stock via Pond5's Global Partner Program can't they? I'm not sure if that is still going.

Under P5's most recent contributor contract changes the GPP program is still alive and now cannot be opt'ed out of as previously.

So could assume all P5 videos maybe even Exclusives can now be licensed thru their GPP's including AS until P5 makes it clear otherwise.