Creative marketing agencies are an important part of stock footage industry. If there were no creative agencies working with stock media for their clients it would be a big problem for contributors.  There are millions of video promotions worldwide made from stock

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