www.videvo.net

What kind of site is this, where does the video come from and how much does it pay the authors?

if you scroll down on the page, you will find "Copyright �2023 Freepik Company S.L. All rights reserved."

if you click on the clip it brings you to istock site.....so those are clips that istock sells through videvo....

if you click on the clip it brings you to istock site.....so those are clips that istock sells through videvo....

No, in my case it leads to Vivedo's subscription page, as it is a "Premium" download, just like Freepik, their owner.

Wow, the site has Rick Ray's collection, it's a huge editorial collection that worth millions, and you can download it for pennies:

https://www.videvo.net/author/rick-ray/#rs=detail-author

The same for the BlaxBoxGuild collection:

https://www.videvo.net/author/blackboxguild/#rs=detail-author

So, upload videos to Videvo? 

Hehe, actually I'll most likely subscribe to the site, I produce a lot of documentaries and I need a lot of such editorial clips, as there is no editorials at envato elements, while Storyblocks doesn't have the mentioned editorial collections.

I can see my files via Blackbox are already there!

Blackbox is a great distribution partner. next year will be the year for video, this year was for learning ai.

If every thing is free.  What is the upside for a contributor?  What is the return per download? 

So far it looks like a reason to avoid Blackbox.

It's kind of like envato elements, where you get $0.02-$0.03 per downloaded video, for 'unlimited downloads'. It seems most of the subscription video sites provide that kind of return.

One "technique" some less then scrupulous "contributors" will use on some of those sites, its create a separate membership and then start downloading their own assets, to inflate their sales, because the "money" is divided up between contributors based on individual_downloads/total_downloads * contributor_revenue_pool. (Reason "contributors" is in quotes, is because sometimes those same people will steal other peoples content and upload as their own as well). Some sites have taken measures to prevent that, others aren't as quick.