Hit the $50 payout after 48 hours. Not too shabby, but we'll see how it goes moving forward.

and for p5 i set really high prices and i still sell 10-15 clips a month with a price per clip of 300$.

I'll respond to the rest of your reply later, just heading out, but I'm curious how many clips you have in your P5 portoflio?

Ok, so on P5 you have 3000 videos, an average of 12.5 sales a month at $300 per download, giving you a total average of $1875 a month... or $0.625 per video, per month.

I have 273 videos, an average of 22 sales a month at $49 per download, giving me a total average of $550 a month... or $2.01 per video, per month.

What can we draw from that.... probably there's many different ways to skin a cat. You could put your prices down and you'd probably get more sales, I could put my prices up and I'd probably get less sales. The total we come out with at the end of the month probably wouldn't change all that much.

My question for you would be... if you can get $300 for a video on P5, then why would you want to get $79 for a video on Shutterstock. The answer to that is probably exactly the same as if I can get $49 for a video on P5, then why would I want to get a few dollars for a video on Motion Array. And the answer to that is that you're exploring new avenues, looking at all the angles, seeing what works and what doesn't work, appealing to different types of buyers... buyers who may not use P5, and trying to diversify your sales.

This whole 'happy to accept pennies for their work' argument doesn't hold up, and it never has done. It would if we were selling our work outright... one sale per item. But everyone seems to conveniently forget that these things can sell multiple times. Sales price means nothing on its own. Go to the bank manager for a loan, and when they ask your annual income... try saying you get $300 per sale. They'll look at you confused. Sale price is great for your sense of worth and inherent greatness, and for impressing your mum, but taken alone, that's about it. 

The value of your content, how well you are doing, how much physical money you make can only be calculated from three things... the sale price, your percentage cut, and how many sales you get. $300 per sale with a 100% cut is fantastic... but not if you sell one a year. $5 per sale with a 10% cut is terrible... but not if you sell 100,000 a year.

It's the same reason it doesn't cost you $500,000,000 to go and see the latest blockbuster movie. Scorsese, Spielberg, Villeneuve... they're all complete idiots letting people see their films for $10 a pop. Coke and Pepsi.... costs them millions of dollars to get just one can on the shelves... and they're happy to take a dollar a can?! Idiots, they'll be bankrupt before the year is out.   

But still... if people have signed up to Motion Array then they're going to get what they can from Motion Array. In most cases, unless they have nothing at all similar... you're going to accept the best item they have available that meets what you're looking for. You're not going to go to a whole different website, pay for something that's going to cost you money on top of your subscription... just on the off chance that you might find something better than the best thing you already found. Some people might... but I think it's pretty rare. People use the sites they use, and they rarely have time to go to searching all the other sites, that they may or may have not heard of. You must agree with that slightly... I mean, why would people buy your $300 clips over your $79 clips otherwise?

And the thing is... everyone is getting in on this subscription game. Creative Market this year, Envato a couple of years ago, Motion Array a few years ago... all the other places that do subscription sales. This is the way the market is going currently, so it makes sense to want to get a slice of the pie and get in early.

I mean $69 in three days from less than 10% of my portfolio... that's not all that bad. How much do I get per sale? Well that doesn't matter... if you're happy to focus on just the sale price, then I'm happy just to focus on just the total revenue.

4k is not higher prices.
A download is a download at Motion Array. And that means you will get some 3.xx $ for a sale.

It is a estimate.
I had it once that I got several sales a day but my balance decreased about 40$ that day.

I'm assuming it goes on actual numbers, but those actual numbers may alter slightly during the month with new people signing up. But either way, as it's a fixed amount of downloads per membership tier, at a fixed price, it's easy enough to calculate.

As for 4K, you're right... same return, so it just makes it more appealing and more likely to be downloaded.

On $84 now. Have had 19 of my clips approved now... only another 200 to upload! With no noticeable drop in sales anywhere else, I'm hoping this might add another $500+ to my monthly income. I could be wrong though... watch this space!

And you have to feed the beast as it is often new stuff that sells.

And you have to provide a preview video

I've just noticed that I had $91.74 a couple of hours ago, and now I have $91.67 with the same number of downloads, so it does seem to fluctuate based on the actual amounts.

Possibly the same way Artbeats Express do it, although they don't report your number of downloads or earnings until the first day of the following month. The upside is that the numbers are always 'actual' and you know exactly how much you're going to get paid... downside is you don't know how well you're doing until the month is over.

Varies quite a bit. From the 19 clips currently online, I have 26 downloads... one clip has 4 downloads, four clips have 3 downloads, three clips have 2 downloads, four clips have 1 download and seven clips have 0 downloads.

I'd like to try it out with some files (even though zipping my files is a hurdle).

But it says I have to upload a preview video, but I have no idea what resolution or file size is needed.

So yeah, the return per download fluctuates wildly at the beginning of the month depending on the total download figures, and based on what I can tell... it levels out considerably as the month goes on. Like, I've had one sale so far in March and it's showing as $16, whereas my total average for Feb was $3.5385 per download.

So I'm assuming that BlackJacks lost $40 was pretty early on in the month.