Hello all

For a few months now I have noticed that the 'To Submit' folder is not working correctly. Especially the display of the media count. Most of the time it is set to '1', although there are much more media in the folder.
And yesterday I noticed for the first time that about 50% of my media in this folder disappeared on the 8th day after uploading. Just as if they had been deleted by the system.
Supposedly they are supposed to disappear only after 21 days. That's how long SS gives us to submit.
Or has the deadline been shortened to 7 days?

Are you guys having the same or similar problems?

Hi all,

I'm still pretty new to the forum. Have only 10 posts.
Yesterday I saw that 2 post of another user disappeared in a thread I opened. I am now having a conversation there with just me.
The thread does show 5 posts from the outside, but when I go into the thread I only see 3 posts, all three from myself.

Also, yesterday a post of mine was not published in another thread.

I am a bit irritated. Is there an explanation for these strange occurrences?

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I've only been really active with Pond5 since the fall of 2020. Exclusive.
And since then I also always registered all my clips for membership. From less than 100 videos in fall 2020 to almost 4000 videos today.
Today all my videos in the Exclusiv portfolio are unlocked for membership.
Since a few days I start filling a new portfolio for non-exclusive videos.

The revenue for videos via membership sales is about the same for me as the regular revenue. But the total fluctuates a lot. Once it was double and once it was only a third of the amount for regular sales, usually a little less.

My portfolio grew, my regular income became more and my income via membership also became more.

I think it is a good thing to offer your media for membership, otherwise you would just be giving money away.
You can't lose anything by joining this program, you can only earn extra. All videos unlocked for membership are always available to non-members as well.

Unfortunately, subscription sales are not visible in the portfolio. But maybe that will come in the future. I didn't know the membership program was so new.
I ask every month by mail for my sold clips in the month before and then I get the item numbers. And what I have earned, I can only see by the payout. There is no more info, but you can actually live well with that.

Those who offer their media at SS know that there is especially much sold via membership. The income of many DL's via membership is only slightly lower than the income of a few DL's via 'On demand' 'Enhanced' and 'Single & Other'. But the two sums are almost identical.

It is similar with Pond5.

Produce highly volume at less costs.

... and have fun with it !