Author Archives: VideoStock

Not uploading to Videoblocks because of Dissolve forced high priced stock footage

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About a year ago we planned to try Videoblocks stock agency nevertheless the HD pricing tier is way bellow industry standards. Some contributors reported good income and because there is no agency share, the contributor receives 99% of the income.

Undervaluing your 4K stock footage on iStockphoto / Getty images ?

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Working for iStockphoto / Getty images is like working for exploitative employer. They don’t appreciate your work neither with attitude or payment. Not to mention dumping stock video market price. And this stock agency is doing exactly what we mentioned. Underselling 4K

Istockphoto / Getty Images affecting search results with only specific media

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EDITED: Look at bottom part for update! Worlds worse stock media agency is winning another battle against contributors that don’t like them or don’t anymore upload to their database. We stopped uploading more than a year ago and left stock

Shutterstock number of sales rise but income is lower

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For half a year we tried to upload some photos to Shutterstock to test out the sales with this kinda media. Because we thought that selling a variety of media types would improve our exposure, number of sales and give

Wide collection of horse training and horse health care stock footage

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We aren’t horsing around. We made a lot of interesting and useful horse-related stock footage for wide variety of use. Because we like horses we spend a lot of time around them so it’s not a problem finding new interesting themes

Shutterstock stock footage rejection double standards: Release Not Needed

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After long years in stock footage industry, we’ve received hundreds of different rejection reasons. Some were actually our mistake because we didn’t notice glitches, missing blurs of logos or forgot to attach release forms. But none of them is such

Challenges when making stock footage

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You might think, that making stock footage is simple and you’ll be making hundred new files every day? Well, after many thousands of processed files you can find a suited workflow that could work if you make hundred of new

Panasonic GH5 for video stock footage production?

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We really like that good video equipment is getting smaller and better. The new Panasonic Lumix GH5 will really be the ultimate tool for many stock video contributors. We would be really glad, if we could test it and if

Valentine stock footage is where we bake cookies in shape of hearts

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It’s just a matter of time when vendors start to promote their Valentine goods. If you like Valentine holiday or not, you can’t get away from it. Some time ago we shoot few lovely footage of young boy enjoying baking Valentines cookies.