What Should Shutterstock Stock Agency Fix/Upgrade in 2018
As a stock footage video production we are very dependent on the sales of our clips. And because the Shutterstock agency is one of our biggest source of income, it is important to have some insight of what is being
Pond5 Removing The Referral Program Is Disappointing
There are few reasons why we resent Pond5 for removing the referral program. It is useless to point out that the biggest markets (Amazon, bhphoto, aliexpress etc..) in the world are working on referral programs to attract more customers, while
iStockPhoto/Getty Images Returns The Stock Footage Statistics via ESP
It has been about 9 months since we wrote about the removal of statistics from iStockPhoto/Getty Images. And since then we only had some slight info of past sales from Microstockr Pro. In last days of September, they finally added some files
April 2017 favorite video stock footage files sold via all stock agencies
This year April was a real joke from all stock footage agencies. Way different than March 2017. It rarely happens that agencies switch their roles as a primary and secondary income source. This time it was the first time that Pond5 ($1453) exceeded
5 Reasons Why We Promote Stock Footage from Pond5
Just to clarify, we aren’t promoting our Pond5 stock footage because they anyhow give us any benefits or exclusivity. We don’t receive anything more than anyone else selling on Pond5. And that is 50% income commissions. We are promoting Pond5 even
Why doesn’t Shutterstock support Payoneer payment method for contributors? It DOES now!
Because Shutterstock doesn’t support Payoneer we are throwing hundreds of earned Euros monthly away thanks to Skrill absurd high fees. This lost money isn’t just few bucks, but more than hundred Euros every month because of transaction fee, bad currency conversion rate
Shutterstock new prices for “high volume” sales is an answer to price wars
Not that long time ago we were writing that stock footage prices will go lower and lower because of many contributors stupid decision selling their works on low priced agencies. Because other agencies want to be competitive against such dumping prices
Shutterstock stock video agency should pay 50% commisions to contributors
We are in tough times when anybody can start their own stock video agency, collect contributors and sell visual works to potential buyers. There are many agencies just not worth mentioning, some even vanished with our earned money (remember Revostock?)
Best stock video agencies for footage sales
There are many video stock agencies that offer stock footage as part of their portfolio. There are even more stock photo agencies, that even don’t offer video clips. But when narrowing down profitable best stock video agencies, we only come
