Let's all help drive traffic to P5 while making more money!

I have been doing some expirimenting and here is what I am now doing, actively. I figured out a way to sell more clips and actually drive traffic to P5

So I have created a couple of demo segments of "Royalty Free Stock Footage by the clip" for the likes of

YouTube (links to one of my vids) and http://www.revver.com/video/833281/stock-footage-by-the-clip/.

Now here is the cool thing, on Revver, you get paid for having people watch the clip. So you could potentially get some "double dipping" out of that process. Just make sure that any links you make to take people back to P5 have your referrer stuff in them. That way you could almost "triple dip" - Get paid for showing a seqment, get paid for referring and then finally get paid for selling a clip!

Not only can this show how to use our goodies by example, but it is part of the SEO/SEM principles that work. (Google ratings etc..) - Linking back to P5 can only help drive more traffic, increase the search rating adn make us all more profitable.

The Pond5 logos were given to me for this use by Pond5 - all you need to do is ask.

Yahoo!, Ah I mean Yicrosoft, ah, no, I mean woopie! :)

I am submitting videos to Youtube since a year and a half or so. 25 in total, location / event based, and got some 200.000 views there, though more than half of it goes actually for one video alone http://www.youtube.com/user/globetrotter68

Nice demo and good idea, principally. But it´s very difficult to draw atention to your vids if they do not have a clear subject.

My suggestion regarding this matter is
-for P5: Create short demo reels with the best clips of a kind (after asking their owners for permission of course), e.g. best of traffic timelapse, underwater, space animations, plants timelapse, animals, mountains and glaciers... and so on and put a link to P5 in the comment. A popular video can gain page ranks of 3 or better, thus improving "Googles view of P5" as well, apart from the possible buyers or potential new submitters that will come here and have a look.

For P5 submitters: Same story, if you have enough footage of a certain kind (e.g. a city, some sports you like, your cloud timelapses...), place short videos on YT and other sites and mention in the description that you sell stock footage at....

As for the sites that let you earn money, like Metacafe or Revver: Unless you show some naked b..ps, Brittney falling drunk from the chair or "how to" (turn you washing machine into a sports car), you gonna have a hard time to earn reasonable money there. But again, the promotion effect for your stock clips might be worth it to place videos there, just don´t expect a boost in sales.

Cheers,
Stefan

agree, I guess YouTube is good for exposure and revver for, maybe, earning via their pay per view system and sharing. metacafe generates also high amount sof views, but not really high enough to earn something (for the average submitter, so not really so different from youtube). I do hope revver will continue, got sold recently and apparently had some problems but still up and running for now..

so how did you manage to get this referral stuff to work via revver? thanks a lot for input!

In reg to stefgo's notes: You are correct in regards to volume of views and such. However, since the vids are tagged with "stock footage" etc, it would be a common assumtion that the ones that do look at the vids are interested or searching for exactly that sort of thing. I would rather have 20 "qualified views" than 100,000 useless views.

I don't think it should all depend on P5 to do the marketing this way. Each one of us has a specialty (and some not so much) that they should flaunt. For example, I shoot a lot of lightning - lightning footage seems to get the attention of viewers on YouTube like crazy. So why not leverage just that? I do and it works.

My take is simple, every little bit helps. and if traffic comes to P5 and buys, we all win.

Most of the stock footage vids on these various sites are selling entire libs. But rarely do you see an ad for "By the clip". This is what sets this apart. Of course that is just my opinion. :)

In reg to mosjo's notes: With Revver you simply sign up, submit and wait for their curation process. I have had everything go through without problem. The first round takes a few days because they want to make sure you own the footage. (Copyright confirmation etc..) - But once that is done, they process your vids within a day or so. I suppose they build a simple trust relationship and "assume" that if you pass the first rounds, they simply trust you.

Granted it's not much of an earnings, but hey it's fun to see some cents building up. Call it "gravy" for what it's worth. My intent is not to get rich off of such a site, but simply to get the word out. The payback is when your referrer and sales kick in on the P5 side.

So you are saying basically the same: You like lighting shots so you will make a video of that theme, rouse attention and bring some possible buyers to P5. Others will do the same with shots from a certain locations, others with plant/flower timelapses, others with underwater stuff...Hopefully. That would be good.

All I wanted to state is that, according to my experience with web videos, personals demo reels of unrelated shots are normally not worth the time -from a business point of view- if the only underlying theme of the video is "my stock clips". However, if somebody has FUN mixing very different shots together, (s)he should also do it. You never know. Maybe you find such a creative way to combine traffic timelapses with glaciers and giraffes that your vid turns out to be a real hammer. Nothing is impossible.

As for now, I´d say that subject based demo reels run by P5 would be the best way to gain visitors, but every little contribution from submitters helps.

Greetings,
Stefan

Thats cool! I didn't even know about revver... Ive got some bizarre videos that just say.... WTF?!?! Like some of my highly intelligent friends playing gasoline tennis (flamming tennis ball dipped in gas.)

Maybe I could also make some long cool CG sequence post it on revver and sell off segments of it on p5.

Or Maybe I could just post videos of my sweeeet car:
http://i31.tinypic.com/xohc8p.jpg
Yeah,,,, thats my car :P

Boy, if that car doesn't look like Barbie's toy car my sister use to play with.

At first I thought, what an awful thing to do to a Testarossa until I found it was a Photoshop thing.
Still a bad thing to do to a Testarossa but nice piece of photoshop.
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/vehicles/hello-kitty-ferrari-the-original-029909.php

Jake is obviously jealous of my awesome car.

Well at least its better than Tom Bennett's "Free Candy" van:
http://i28.tinypic.com/2vm7gk3.jpg

and we all know what happened to Marcus's last car,,, after his escapade with Paris Hilton:
http://i28.tinypic.com/1247ub5.jpg

Everone knows Klipper drives the batmobile to work (of course) with the rap music all the way up

And I saw Dana Tower flying around New York in his token jetpack, I was sure it was him.
(He killed off all of his clones years ago)


Your welcome for the info...
~Mark Holmberg (Expirt Speller)

I am jelous that I didn't think of it first. LOL

I love the free candy van. What a great stock photo is that! Man, the concepts in that photo....All demented of course.

Jake