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« on: September 20, 2018, 21:36 »
Do they sell well? They look too artsy for stock video.
127
« on: September 20, 2018, 21:33 »
If anybody are selling there. It looks too artsy.
128
« on: September 16, 2018, 09:43 »
Just found my code I received in mid-August in my emails and registered the code on Adobe CC site. Thanks Adobe. This is a good move by them.
129
« on: September 03, 2018, 19:50 »
New clips at Pond5 have always taken a lot longer to get off the mark than SS.
OK, that gives me hope. Thanks.
130
« on: September 03, 2018, 07:06 »
If you are not a videographer, you shouldn't start doing videos. It's already crowded here.
131
« on: September 03, 2018, 06:59 »
I checked my sales on Pond5 from new items I uploaded this year or the recent months, but they rarely are getting views/sales. Fotolia is even doing better on newer items than Pond5. Is it just me? Maybe I got to think harder about what to shoot. Or maybe it takes time on Pond5 because they may not push new items like Shutterstock and Fotolia?
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« on: August 13, 2018, 11:10 »
I seem to be doing something fundamentally wrong on pond5. I've had some video sales but NEVER an image sale, never, not even once. My stuff sells well on SS, iStock, Fotolia and even 123rf. What am i doing wrong on Pond5?
https://www.pond5.com/artist/amlanmathur
Photos rarely sell on Pond5. So, you are not alone.
133
« on: August 12, 2018, 09:09 »
So, two months after the original post, how many people pulled their ports?
I did. You should too.
134
« on: August 12, 2018, 09:05 »
Just got a mail from Dissolve- that since my clips are solf for $49 on other sites (they obviously point to VB)
they are adjusting the prices on my HD versions to match the same price.
I wrote to them that the $49 price reflects a price for subscribers who pay a monthly fee.
Without that fee the price is the same ($79)
am i missing something or are they wrong??
Just get out of Dissolve. It's not worth doing business with them. They treat creators like POS.
135
« on: August 12, 2018, 09:03 »
Does that mean Dissolve will need to update it's HD prices back to $79 for all those who sell both on VB and dissolve??
Forget about Dissolve. People are nasty there. Bad people to do business with. I'll never go back.
136
« on: August 12, 2018, 09:01 »
Too late. I deleted all my files there.
137
« on: August 08, 2018, 12:20 »
She signed a model release. She got free photos from professional photographer. She shouldn't be complaining. Can she read English or whatever language was on model release she signed? Stop blaming the photog.
138
« on: July 30, 2018, 09:54 »
Try increasing to 500 clips first and keep adding more clips consistently. Only like 15% of my videos ever sell.
139
« on: July 28, 2018, 22:40 »
Yes, focus on stock photos. Stock video is very inefficient.
140
« on: July 19, 2018, 18:10 »
It's possible to earn $100 selling images on shutterstock per month. I earn approximately $30. 
How many images have you online at shutterstock?
Few, around 3.000 images.
You should be earning $300/month for 3,000 images.
141
« on: July 19, 2018, 06:46 »
We as contributors/creators are in control of how much we should get per sales, not them. We can do this by simply deleting our works from sites that don't respect us. So easy!!
142
« on: July 16, 2018, 20:55 »
Dear Employees,
We are proud to announce that we will be reducing your salary by half to better serve you. 
143
« on: July 16, 2018, 19:53 »
Sadly, I don't think their sales will increase. Honestly, their curation sucks. It's a bad algorithm or whatever, when you search for keywords, great clips don't come up that often. A lot of garbage clips show up on the first page for some reason. By cutting our commission by half, it's likely that it'll result in us getting half the money we used to get, that's all. Also, maybe they are not good with big buyers. Without big productions and TV stations buying from them, their sales may not increase. I am likely to pull out all my clips by August 1st at this point if they don't increase our share to 70% or higher.
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« on: July 16, 2018, 19:39 »
I think it's dangerous to all of us to let this go unchallenged. This is a massive commission cut. It's also the breaking of a commitment they made to contributors. To allow them to do that to us with no response except indifference and acceptance is not only bad in the short term, it's terrible for the long term. It means they will cut commissions again in the future. And of course other stock companies are watching - if they see that they can massively reduce commissions without any consequences, they may very well follow suit. It doesn't matter if you only have a few or no sales a month there, this is a big move and extremely damaging for us as the suppliers in this industry.
I'd like to hear if others feel the same. There are options we can explore, such as a collaborative response to Storyblocks and their CEO. They're particularly vulnerable to us shutting down our portfolios in protest because for most people they're such a low earner anyway. I think this is a needed time for us to make a stand for the sake of our long-term health and power in the industry.
Agreed completely, how do we go about it. Set up something on change.org, send the CEO some crazy mails, picket . out of them
Glad to see people agreeing that cutting commissions from 100% to 50% is intolerable and a betrayal of Storyblocks' commitment to the contributors it depends on for its existence. Several people saying they will stop uploading to Storyblocks, while some people suggesting that cutting commissions to 75% would be acceptable.
I second the idea of starting an online petition via change.org. Petition would state our grievances and say that signers are pledging to stop uploading content to Storyblocks unless Storyblocks maintains a commission of at least 75% AND makes up the lost 25% in commissions via higher sales.
What do people think of this approach and the terms?
I don't believe at all that cutting our commissions by 50% will be recouped by "driving sales growth" as TJ wrote his email, but if that's the plan then they should be held accountable by us not uploading new content until they've made up the lost 25% in commissions via higher sales. The commission reduction is a stab in the back to contributors who joined because of the good commission structure, and we as the content creators in this industry are long overdue to have some organized response to CEOs who think they can squeeze our paychecks without any consequence.
Just email them that you'll pull out all the clips. That's more effective because it's direct.
145
« on: July 16, 2018, 12:16 »
OK nobody cares?
146
« on: July 16, 2018, 11:11 »
I'm comparing licenses between different agencies. While we get higher commissions for extra value licenses from Shutterstock and Pond5, do we get extra commissions from Videoblocks too? Their pricing chart shows customers have to pay $5,000 per year up front to them for Enterprise License, but I've never seen extra commission on my sales like in SS and P5 occasionally. https://www.videoblocks.com/pricinghttps://www.pond5.com/our-licensesThis may be a bad deal for us. If we don't get any $$ for higher value licenses.
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« on: July 16, 2018, 11:01 »
Hahahahahahahahaah, maybe we should find our old statements about their sketchy business... but noooo, some shitheads from this forum tried to convince us that Videoblocks is a great way to sell files. Here you have it. Now you'll get even less than on SS 
We made good money there for like first 2 years. Did you miss that sitting on the sideline?
And you forgot that such dumping businesses drive other agencies to lower their prices. In every industry.
Income from SS and P5 both kept growing too. Stop crying.
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« on: July 16, 2018, 10:43 »
Hahahahahahahahaah, maybe we should find our old statements about their sketchy business... but noooo, some shitheads from this forum tried to convince us that Videoblocks is a great way to sell files. Here you have it. Now you'll get even less than on SS
We made good money there for like first 2 years. Did you miss that sitting on the sideline?
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« on: July 16, 2018, 10:41 »
The only way I could accept the low $49 price for video was because I was getting 100%. At 50% commission the price for an HD clip is WAY too low. I guess my uploads to VB will have to be cut by 100%. Too bad.
I agree. If they pass us $35 out of $49 for commission, I'll take it, but $25 is unacceptable. I'll say goodbye to them.
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« on: July 16, 2018, 10:34 »
50% of $79 (HD clip price for non-member) is OK, but 50% of $49 (HD clip price for member) is too cheap. They have to raise the membership HD price to like $69. Otherwise, I'll delete all my clips there.
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