Quote from: Big Money on May 09, 2025, 18:42

---Old Post Alert---- another one has been created for all the Adobe rejections

It's interesting, though, that people already complained about rejections at Fotolia (now Adobe) almost twenty years ago.

hahaha!  and if you try to say it they'll even insult you! 

The authors are solely to blame for the decline in income on pond5.
1. There has not been a single classic stock that sells videos at high prices for a long time. Adobe is primarily a company that sells software. And the stock in Adobe is just a service for software buyers. Previously, this stock was called Fotolia, but was sold to Adobe. It is possible that the profit of the stock called Adobe is zero or small, but for Adobe it does not matter.
2. Pond5 sold itself because there was not enough profit for the stock to exist.
3. The fault of many authors is that when pond5 tried to open another stock called hyperstock, many began to write on its forum that they would delete their works. Pond5 abandoned the idea that could bring him money to support his classic stock.
Of course, I wrote in support of the stock that it is possible to open a hyperstock, but to take there only those authors who agree, but it is obvious that there were problems with this idea.
4. For a long time, pond5 had a subscription called membership, but then it stopped bringing in income.

The whole problem with classic stocks trying to sell videos at high prices is that there is strong competition from new subscription stocks. Most buyers do not want to pay a fixed price for a video, people need a lot of videos for a small fee. Therefore, unlimited stocks with a fee of $ 16 per month are very popular among buyers.
Yes, there are buyers who need to make their project highly expensive or they have a lot of money, but such buyers are not enough to maintain the profitability of a classic stock.

As for getty, this is not a classic stock. This stock sells videos at very low prices. I think that the main profit of getty is from the sale of photos and videos, which are sold on an exclusive basis.

Authors! Blame only yourself for the bankruptcy of pond5!

As for me, for me pond5 is a place where I can download my videos. This stock gives a normal income from training artificial intelligence.

 

not updating the trend pages is a clear indicator there is nobody left interested in growing the business and sales.

i doubt the demand for video overall has gone down. and there are only 60 million clips over all agencies combined.

pond5 could still be the best video agency if it was promoted properly.

Now we have to wait for what getty will do.

They make plastic filter wrenches in different sizes. Using one doesn't bend your filter ring and gives you just enough purchase to get a stuck filter off. Many years ago I shot a bunch of night images with a polarizing filter on because it was stuck, went to my local camera shop (when those were still around) and got one since then I always keep one in my camera bag.

I've got a large & small plastic one that have lasted many years, but the rubber coated metal ones look even better:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/accessories/Filter-Wrenches-for-Formatt_BF_48_5_CLRSU/616434-REG-99075

Plastic Filter Wrench was one of suggestions at Camera store, tried didn't work.  It was stuck really good. Ring was already bent, basically useless.

But Plastic Wrench is good alternative that might work in lots of cases and probably should be part of standard Camera bag gear.

I think pliers was how I got a filter ring off a lens I dropped. It was not so easy, but I did get it off and the lens was ok. The filter was toast - but the photos taken with a shattered filter were surprisingly good - probably wouldn't pass microstock review at the time though.