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Greg87901 20 Nov 2024 13:51
Any tips or tricks to get my footage selling?

Thank you in advance
JHDT_Productions 20 Nov 2024 14:11
Here are my tips. Others may have input.
You have 13 videos. I guess you're new at stock in general?
1) Shoot hundreds or thousands of videos. Its a numbers game these days.

2) Of course you need quality but it needs to be a lot of videos in your portfolio to see consistent sales.

3)Shoot diverse subjects, I see you shoot drone video. That in itself has a lot of competition. Branch out and shoot model released people doing things. Don't only shoot editorial. Of course that sells but your customer base is smaller.

4) please don't get caught in this exclusive thing. The all your eggs in one basket holds true for this industry as well. And since I've been doing this since 2007 I can say, I've never seen proof that buyers look for exclusive videos. They look for what they want and buy it. And If I were exclusive I'd be making about 25% of what I do now.

5) Get a time machine, The time to make a lot of money in stock was years ago. Sorry, that was tongue in cheek comment.....
Greg87901 21 Nov 2024 13:07
THank you JHDT, just a hobby at this point.
shaman777 13 Jan 2025 07:01
Hello,
Greg87901, I am practically a newbie in this business. I have been on P5 since 2020 - 123 Videos, 15 photos, 7 illustrations, 3 Tracks. Not many sales, but from experience I can say - for videos to sell you need to:
1. The video must be clear and detailed.
2. The title, description and keywords are correctly composed
3. Upload new videos as often as possible (for me this can be difficult, but this is one of the key points in selling videos)
4. Communicate more on the forum, create your own topic with your videos, talk about your videos and you will definitely be noticed.
Good luck to you.
P.S.
As an example, I give my video, which had several sales.
Webevision 16 Jan 2025 10:41
Just to add. Make sure you un-tick the Dataset box in your account preferences.

It basically allows AI to suck your images into it's brain to regurgitate as something else. Paying you a fraction of what it’s worth.