Is the market dead for composers?
Audionaut
6 Sep 2022 21:49
I started this thread because I wanted to know how the chances are to sell music through pond5.
My personal conclusion after more than a year with at last 77 tracks online: I had very few page views and sold not a single track.
This and the fact that I would only get 0,85 $ for a sold licence (no matter what price I have listed) due to the subscription plan prompted me to leave pond5 and to delete all my tracks from pond5.
My personal conclusion after more than a year with at last 77 tracks online: I had very few page views and sold not a single track.
This and the fact that I would only get 0,85 $ for a sold licence (no matter what price I have listed) due to the subscription plan prompted me to leave pond5 and to delete all my tracks from pond5.
Kirk_Evans
11 Sep 2022 14:03
How depressing...
I just signed up. Looking for advice on how to proceed.
I really enjoy creating music - most of my music is on SoundCloud.
Pond5 seems like a way to hopefully share my music to a wider audience.
Your thoughts?
"My Toes Just Touched The Water" :) (Norah Jones)
I just signed up. Looking for advice on how to proceed.
I really enjoy creating music - most of my music is on SoundCloud.
Pond5 seems like a way to hopefully share my music to a wider audience.
Your thoughts?
"My Toes Just Touched The Water" :) (Norah Jones)
jacky0412
12 Sep 2022 17:28
I suddenly feel that I have lost my creative motivation.
jacky0412
12 Sep 2022 17:29
Is there any other platform that can change the sales of works?
ScoreStudio
21 Sep 2022 08:39
Pre 2019 I used to make many thousands of dollars each month selling music on Pond5. It paid my mortgage for a while.
These days my earnings are a tenth of what I used to make.
Price dumping and more significantly - subscription sites - have pretty much killed the potential to earn a living from RF music.
These days my earnings are a tenth of what I used to make.
Price dumping and more significantly - subscription sites - have pretty much killed the potential to earn a living from RF music.
LastSynth
6 Nov 2023 18:10
Say thank you to Envato. They destroyed the entire market in November 2018 when they launched Elements.
Dark_Side_of_Synth
10 Nov 2023 09:28
The market is dead for everything, everywhere ;)
Dark_Side_of_Synth
10 Nov 2023 09:36
The issue is note even subscription models themselves, but rather the ridiculously LOW prices they have and the inventory one gets access to.
Back in the day (yes, I ain't no spring chicken!), when you subscribed to something (magazines, gym, cinema, TV, etc.), it basically meant having a discount (of varying degrees) compared to buying each time at the regular price, not having basically free access to the whole damn catalogue! And subs weren't super cheap as they are nowadays. They made sense because customers were basically paying in advance, usually for a whole year, at the price of, say 9-10 months, instead of the full 12. It was just a reasonable discount for regular customers.
Back in the day (yes, I ain't no spring chicken!), when you subscribed to something (magazines, gym, cinema, TV, etc.), it basically meant having a discount (of varying degrees) compared to buying each time at the regular price, not having basically free access to the whole damn catalogue! And subs weren't super cheap as they are nowadays. They made sense because customers were basically paying in advance, usually for a whole year, at the price of, say 9-10 months, instead of the full 12. It was just a reasonable discount for regular customers.