Hi All,
A post from @videostocker about two years ago inspired me to get into stock footage in the first place, so I thought it would be appropriate to share in a similar way.
I started selling roughly 18 months ago on Shutterstock, Pond5 and Videoblocks. (with a few clips on dissolve and fotolia that never started selling like the other agencies).
For about six months I only had around 50 clips at each agency, then around 300, finally growing to around 750 for the last six months.
I've earned close to $8,200 with rough percentages of that coming from the agencies below:
Agency Clips sold Earnings percentageShutterstock 170 sales 57%
Pond5 45 sales 36% of earnings
Videoblocks 10 sales 6%
Dissolve 1 sales <1%
According to stockperformer this puts me roughly in the middle of the pack. Not sure how it stacks up to everyone else's first year and change and would love to hear more.
Here is a link to my port on P5, any feedback / critique is appreciated:
https://www.pond5.com/artist/stockbynumbers#1/2063