April 2017 favorite video stock footage files sold via all stock agencies

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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

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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

5 Different 4K 60fps Video Camera Equipment Choices on a Budget

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Technology in video production industry is improving with each year. Videographers are eager to shoot with the best equipment the market offers for least bucks. Investing more than ten thousands of dollars on a camera is a very risky strategy if

Visit Pag island – beautiful summer tourist paradise

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Pag island is located in Croatia and is connected with a small bridge. You can get over with ferry too. Pag island is surrounded with very clean and calm sea, there are so many interesting beaches around that you can’t

5 Reasons Why To Shoot Stock Footage in Nearby Locations

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Video production of stock footage can be very expensive and doesn’t necessarily return the costs. Traveling abroad with planes and ships can even get more expensive if you want to shoot stock footage elsewhere. New environments can get you a

Stock Footage Used as Funny #meme

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It would be strange if stock footage wouldn’t be used for many meme images on social networks. Because stock footage and stock image databases have a big collection of interesting themes, they can be used for many occasions. We found

Upload stock footage with dedicated computer and NAS storage system

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Working with many files, archives and upload process of stock footage to many agencies can be a complicated procedure. But not if you find yourself a system that works anytime and anywhere. We achieved this with dedicated miniature computer and

Uploading process to Shutterstock stock agency is a nightmare

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We are every time scared uploading to Shutterstock because of many problems using their FTP system. It is slow, with many broken files and not uploaded footage. Uploading a set of 100GB takes more days of constant uploading, which doesn’t

Why Our First Video Stock Footage Don’t Sell [Our Experience]

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We started with video stock footage in 2011. And it was extremely hard to shoot anything. Not just because we had very basic handheld video camera, but we didn’t have any idea how to shoot stock video. We even noticed