Author Topic: My VideoBlocks sales are about 1/5 of Shutterstock or Pond5 sales right now. (Read 54786 times)

helloitsme · « **on:** September 26, 2015, 10:56 »

How about yours?

It's in terms of the royalty income I get, not the number of sales.

It has been growing slowly for the last few months. I hope VB sales will grow to 1/2 the Shutterstock or Pond5 sales in a year or so. It already surpassed the best month of Dissolve sales.

PinHead · « **Reply #1 on:** September 26, 2015, 11:39 »

For the first time videoblocks has surpassed Shutterstock and P5 in september

and the differences are huge. But maybe I had better luck, who knows !?

Ronib · « **Reply #2 on:** September 26, 2015, 11:48 »

I hope videoblocks will be number one agency. They know how to pay the contributors and hope shutterstock will learn from them alittlebit

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helloitsme · « **Reply #3 on:** September 26, 2015, 11:56 »

Quote from: Suliman Razvan on September 26, 2015, 11:39

For the first time videoblocks has surpassed Shutterstock and P5 in september and the differences are huge. But maybe I had better luck, who knows !?

Wow! That's so fast!

cobalt · « **Reply #4 on:** September 26, 2015, 13:05 »

not a single sale.

ccbcc · « **Reply #5 on:** September 26, 2015, 13:29 »

No sales this month, no sales in august.

gcrook · « **Reply #6 on:** September 26, 2015, 13:58 »

Commissions are not THAT great especially if you get taxed 30% which seems to be the norm for me.If not,its very good, at p5,and maybe a bit better.But still WAY more than everyone else in either case..
Number of sales is very good, might even surpass p5 for this month but certainly not ss or even ds (propably).

Having said that has anyone here who gets taxed for usa sales noticed anything out of the ordinary?

cobalt · « **Reply #7 on:** September 28, 2015, 05:59 »

I got a sale! Now I am curious and will upload more.

gcrook · « **Reply #8 on:** September 28, 2015, 14:05 »

About the taxation i just found out that indeed there is an issue in the front end (dashboard doesn't always display the deducted tax in a sale) hence the payout differences.
They said they are working to fix this.

Konstantin Sutyagin · « **Reply #9 on:** September 28, 2015, 14:56 »

It's my first month, but it looks promising. Earnings are comparable to about 3-4 days at Shutterstock so far (videos only).

helloitsme · « **Reply #10 on:** September 29, 2015, 20:07 »

Quote from: Konstantin Sutyagin on September 28, 2015, 14:56

It's my first month, but it looks promising. Earnings are comparable to about 3-4 days at Shutterstock so far (videos only).

VideoBlocks is a legit stock agency. So far, everybody likes them!

KnowYourOnions · « **Reply #11 on:** September 30, 2015, 04:25 »

Quote from: helloitsme on September 29, 2015, 20:07

Quote from: Konstantin Sutyagin on September 28, 2015, 14:56
It's my first month, but it looks promising. Earnings are comparable to about 3-4 days at Shutterstock so far (videos only).

VideoBlocks is a legit stock agency. So far, everybody likes them!

AND VideoBlocks CEO sounds legit too.... I am reading only nice thing about this young capable man.

http://www.fastcompany.com/3050539/how-i-get-it-done/how-taking-off-in-an-rv-saved-this-ceos-sanity-and-his-business

videostocker · « **Reply #12 on:** September 30, 2015, 04:59 »

I've started to upload clips to Videoblocks, but the problem the have now is review times, it's really long and they apologize due to the saturation of reviews they have right now (I've received a kindly email from them).

Hope the get out of this situation soon.

ShadySue · « **Reply #13 on:** September 30, 2015, 06:21 »

Quote from: helloitsme on September 29, 2015, 20:07

Quote from: Konstantin Sutyagin on September 28, 2015, 14:56
It's my first month, but it looks promising. Earnings are comparable to about 3-4 days at Shutterstock so far (videos only).

VideoBlocks is a legit stock agency. So far, everybody likes them!

But not so much their sister photo operation: http://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/graphicstock-are-you-insane/msg432554/?topicseen#new

KnowYourOnions · « **Reply #14 on:** September 30, 2015, 06:44 »

Quote from: ShadySue on September 30, 2015, 06:21

Quote from: helloitsme on September 29, 2015, 20:07
Quote from: Konstantin Sutyagin on September 28, 2015, 14:56
It's my first month, but it looks promising. Earnings are comparable to about 3-4 days at Shutterstock so far (videos only).

VideoBlocks is a legit stock agency. So far, everybody likes them!

But not so much their sister photo operation: http://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/graphicstock-are-you-insane/msg432554/?topicseen#new

Eh...Nothing last forever. Enjoy while it last!

PeterChigmaroff · « **Reply #15 on:** September 30, 2015, 09:22 »

It's amazing how similar we are to gazing animals. No sooner is a new source of "green" discovered by the herd, than the majority of them take off in that direction to get their share. Never stopping to think about what they're tramping on along the way.

ShadySue · « **Reply #16 on:** September 30, 2015, 09:34 »

Quote from: Zeus on September 30, 2015, 09:22

It's amazing how similar we are to gazing animals. No sooner is a new source of "green" discovered by the herd, than the majority of them take off in that direction to get their share. Never stopping to think about what they're tramping on along the way.

"The triumph of hope over experience" Samuel Johnson

gcrook · « **Reply #17 on:** September 30, 2015, 10:02 »

Could we at least agree on the simple fact that there are those who despite their choise to join an agency are -and will remain- sceptical all the way and want to discuss about it?
Yeah right, i just noticed a tumbling bush blown by the wind rolling across a street in El Paso.
I mean, on one hand i see complete repudiation without any willingness to negotiate or discuss this, and on the other hand people who blindly cheer on overlooking facts and other issues,to the point that they shamelessly advertise agencies like they are the s*** without even realising it.

My sales there have been very good so far.Do i at least have the right to NOT feel enthusiastic about it and start spreading thumbs up to everyone cheering them on?
If anything im honestly not going to get any satisfaction off of people disowning them,say after a year if (god forbid) something "weird" happens (like to usually does) ,but i would like to know that certain issues have been discussed in public before hand.Isn't this the only thing we can and should be doing anyways?

Guess not huh?Who said the internet is for discussion anyway?

KB · « **Reply #18 on:** September 30, 2015, 12:53 »

Quote from: gcrook on September 30, 2015, 10:02

My sales there have been very good so far.Do i at least have the right to NOT feel enthusiastic about it and start spreading thumbs up to everyone cheering them on?

You absolutely do; the internet is a free country.

Just as any of us can complain a year from now how we haven't had a sale on VideoBlocks in, like, forever, because suddenly there's 2,000,000 other clips competing with ours. I have no idea how that could happen, though ....

PeterChigmaroff · « **Reply #19 on:** September 30, 2015, 13:00 »

Quote from: KB on September 30, 2015, 12:53

Quote from: gcrook on September 30, 2015, 10:02
My sales there have been very good so far.Do i at least have the right to NOT feel enthusiastic about it and start spreading thumbs up to everyone cheering them on?
You absolutely do; the internet is a free country.

Just as any of us can complain a year from now how we haven't had a sale on VideoBlocks in, like, forever, because suddenly there's 2,000,000 other clips competing with ours. I have no idea how that could happen, though ....

But hey, there will be that new guy on the block, ClipSchlock, who is selling for $29 and offering 60% that is making good sales.

gcrook · « **Reply #20 on:** September 30, 2015, 13:15 »

Looks like that the only counter argument is to only upload at p5 and ss.
SS prices are what they are and i suppose that everyone who is being sarcastic and all about this is uploading at p5 with the same prices regardless?
Because i can only accept this from those who do,and my experience says that there aren't any.
Let alone that this implies that these 2 agencies are holier than holy and everything else is a kind of scam,which is far from the truth.I can personally accept them as a lesser evil at most,which explains why everyone is uploading everywhere else as well,because everything is -apparently- very subjective.
Both of these agencies in their own way have devaluated stock even more than everyone else,but hey let's not let argumentative discussion get in the way of a good punch line.

PeterChigmaroff · « **Reply #21 on:** October 01, 2015, 09:00 »

I admit I am very opinionated on these matters.

helloitsme · « **Reply #22 on:** July 03, 2017, 22:03 »

About 1/3 to 1/2 of SS these days roughly.

Mantis · « **Reply #23 on:** July 03, 2017, 22:14 »

Vb is on, off, on, off, on, off

helloitsme · « **Reply #24 on:** July 03, 2017, 22:21 »

Yes, not consistent like others yet.

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