Sudden unexpected sales bump?

Hi folks,

I mainly write music to picture and haven't really seriously delved into library, but I uploaded four tracks to Pond5 a couple of years ago to see what would happen. For quite a while, there was very little action - about one sale every 3 months, but the last few months things have ramped up quite a bit:

June - 2 licences
July - 3 licences
August - 3 licences
September - 12 licences!

So I'm trying to figure out - was this a fluke, or is there something else going on? I've done literally nothing to promote them, they've just sat there, and I'm at a loss as to why I'm suddenly getting sales. I'm guessing perhaps something in the search algorithm has pushed my tracks up the rankings, but that's just speculation.

Could be just a random spike in sales or the new search system -> https://www.pond5.com/community?forum=854421&thread=71392856

out of interest which track(s) made you the most sales - listening through your four tracks if i was buying i'd go for "Vintage sixties mod rock"

Heya, thanks for the reply. "Vintage sixties mod rock" was indeed the track that saw the vast majority of the action.

Now that I listen to the four tracks, I'm actually a little embarrassed. They were just bashed out, and listening again it's kind of evident that I wasn't really taking the microstock thing very seriously. I suspect that track has done better because that rough & tumble "looseness" is intrinsic to the style.

I suspect it's probably time to kick it up a gear and start taking this a bit more seriously. If instead of four tracks I'd I'd had 40 - or 400 (and presuming the sales scaled accordingly) then September would have been very nice...

Thanks again :)

I find my best selling tracks are the ones which came together quickly, which are often not perfect and have a looseness to them. Sometimes getting serious means spending too much time on a totally polished sound and the creativity is lost ,as that comes in the moment. It's a tricky one, I'd like to write a track a day, but a lot of the time you sit down and no ideas come so that's impossible. To some extent it is a numbers game and generally more tracks will make you more money.
I'd prefer to have less tracks, but more really good ones, which would make more money overall.

Like your "Vintage sixties mod rock" if you had another 10 of those you'd be making far more than having another 40 tracks like your other three which didn't see much action. But in life those 'evergreen' gem tracks don't come by that regularly for me at least.

So just write another ten tracks that sell as well as your VSMR :) Having other people listening to your tracks helps me determine if they are any good, as I find it difficult to understand why what I think is a great track sucks when I upload to say Soundcloud, and another one I think is ok does really well lol :)

hey man, i read this the other day and listened to your mod rock track (which is cool btw!). Anyways I was looking through some of the searches to see where I sat and found your mod rock track sitting at #1 for the search term 'Rock' !! Probably explains your up-tick in sales. thought you'd like to know!

Ahhh, yes that would do it. Thanks for the head up :)

I wonder how long it will last...

the 60s mod rock track stands out among your 4 tracks for sure. Keep it up indeed!