Pond5 has completely died since May for me (for footage), and I actually panicked and LOWERED my prices... No change so far. I sold regular HD clips for $150, and they were NOT unique or very hard to film.

I think P5 has lost a lot of momentum on the footage side of things, but my music sales are as good as ever and I price much higher than the competition. Maybe my music is more unique but I definitely make more with higher prices.

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On the other hand though, speaking from a buyer's perspective, I need footage sometimes to make simple music videos. I would never ever pay $99 for a single clip as an independent, no chance. I think that's the market Envato is good for - the independent YouTube market who would never even dream of paying $1,000 for a collection of clips.

Interesting thought under the line... Making a music video would cost more thousands of dollars, at least (professionals would charge more than ten thousands). If clips are $99 on stock sites, it would actually be cheaper to make it from stock footage. If we are talking about hobby music videos, sure it's expensive... event $6 would be too much. Just my thought, because I work in both part of video production industry.

And what would you do, if other stock sites start to lower your clips from $79 to $49, because you are under-pricing clips elsewhere? It happened to me.