I make a maximum of $334 a month from 135 files. So if he sells the same as me per clip, then he might be making $1,157,000 a year. And even if he sells ten times less than me... he's still getting $115,700 a year. Not too shabby!

Quote from: jonbull on February 01, 2017, 08:27

the lesson everything learnt micro stock u can upload everything and earn...don-t be too picky...i upload everything even those file that are made for garbage of my mac...and u know i see sign of increasing download day after day....i never considered video but i-m beginning too. i have many drone footage to upload....i never considered those sellable but i-m too picky and hard with my work, considered the kind of footage sold in pond 5

Will some cheap camera for 1000$ be good for microstock videos, I am not willing to invest 6000$ into the better models?

...if he sells ten times less than me... he's still getting $115,700 a year. Not too shabby!

Artist resources at P5. He prices everything at $199/200 so if he sells a clip it shows up in the list.

And before anyone asks, I also know that he only sold those clips once each, since I am also in that list and know how much you have to sell to be placed there in certain positions.

So, to sum up:

Is he making money? Yes.

Is he making good money compared to the size of his portfolio? No.

Skyworksrf, Ailaimages, viafilms, hotelfoxtrot etc. are the ones actually making lots of money from footage at Pond5.

I remember reading in an interview that hotelfoxtrot often makes around $20-30,000 or so from Pond5 per month. But she also spends $1,000 or so for the production of a handful of clips (NYC aerials for example, helicopter, RED camera, etc.).

Artist resources at P5. He prices everything at $199/200 so if he sells a clip it shows up in the list.

And before anyone asks, I also know that he only sold those clips once each, since I am also in that list and know how much you have to sell to be placed there in certain positions.

So, to sum up:

Is he making money? Yes.

Is he making good money compared to the size of his portfolio? No.

Skyworksrf, Ailaimages, viafilms, hotelfoxtrot etc. are the ones actually making lots of money from footage at Pond5.

I remember reading in an interview that hotelfoxtrot often makes around $20-30,000 or so from Pond5 per month. But she also spends $1,000 or so for the production of a handful of clips (NYC aerials for example, helicopter, RED camera, etc.).

anyway if we look at numbers 20 k with 55000 quality video clip looks like 0,5 dollar per clip at month....well not a great rpc....even for a producer of super clips....so everything returns to the same point...quantity is the real force of micro stock, without giant number of production you can have alla the quality stuff but earning will be low.

Quote from: jonbull on February 01, 2017, 11:51

anyway if we look at numbers 20 k with 55000 quality video clip looks like 0,5 dollar per clip at month....well not a great rpc....even for a producer of super clips....so everything returns to the same point...quantity is the real force of micro stock, without giant number of production you can have alla the quality stuff but earning will be low.

Well, I think her total is probably closer to $60-80,000 per month from all sites. Her clips are in the top on most sites. So maybe $1.5 per clip per month is a realistic figure.

Still not that great since I get around $2 per clip per month and I don't have anything in the corporate/people/aerial categories at all!