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Problem is Pond5 is months behind on inspections! trust me I have called them. I was banking on SS-Pond5-IS-Getty to be enough but it hasn't worked that way and I don't want to spend my savings while I try to get my clips online.

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I think recovering IS exclusive earnings within the first 3 weeks is not realistic. But if you are making 500-700 in the first month with SS, thats impressive.

I think people say it could take up to 6 months to a year to get your $$ back, but you probably know that.

True enough but I have to decided if I want to spend more time shooting or loading and keywording

You could try just uploading to Pond5 and raise your prices a bit.  I see people selling for nice prices there and with the 50% commission, it should make up for less sales than you were getting with istock.  I put everything on Pond5 first because they sell so much better than the other sites for me.  The slow review time is a pain but the sales make up for it.  My video portfolio isn't great, I'm sure any serious contributor can do very well there.

Quote from: jjneff on October 23, 2013, 11:52

True enough but I have to decided if I want to spend more time shooting or loading and keywording

That was a quick decision, looks like you are exclusive again already?

Maybe he kept exclusivity in one of his media (?)
However, I agree with others; I don't think that either becoming indie or becoming exclusive, or for that matter judging a new site, should be judged in less than 6 months.

It looks like he is exclusive for video.

Oh, right; no "90 day reinstatement waiting period"?

3 weeks doesn't seem long enough to me, but maybe IS made him an offer he couldn't refuse?

I thought SS had a lock in period now?  Perhaps that doesn't apply to video clips?  Going non-exclusive and back to exclusive in 3 weeks can't be much fun.  At least it will shorten the Pond5 queue

the question is how expensive they can be to produce?

Quote from: luissantos84 on October 25, 2013, 13:55

the question is how expensive they can be to produce?

My question would be how much could I make buying other people's good quality work. I think I would like to curate a collection like that.

ETA: I guess we should be able to make a good estimate of how much they should be generating based on our own sales at the same distributor. Good manners prevents me from speculating.

don't think that many photographers are willing to sell their pictures rights for 50$ unless they were significantly lower than that to produce

50$ is much less than 1 sale at OFFSET or 2 or 3 at Stocksy

of course there are but I believe the most aren't willing to sell their hard work for 50$ and never "use" it again