$50 price cap?

I just did a search on "Madrid" - It was capped at $50. My footage is not searchable. Very sad. I'm Sorry I fell for the Exclusive Program propaganda.

So on the side bar filter under the "collections" section if a buyer selects any of the three choices then the majority of clips will be invisible also. All clips that are not "exclusive", "news & Archival" or "Membership" will not show. A simple and easy accidental way to hide most clips.

Please P5 look at putting another box that says "All Clips" and not assume buyers know that is a default. Most places and web sites where there are choices users believe one of the boxes must be selected . If one of the boxes are selected because they think one must be selected then most are blocked again completely.

Also when doing a hover over on a thumb and the original was 4K DCI it says available in 2K and 4K. No mention of HD. Many buyers are looking specifically for either 4K or HD. 2K sounds like an oddball format and I believe leads to confusion on the part of many buyers. 2K is not a standard like HD, UHD or 4K DCI. SHould all of us who shoot in the 4K DCI also upload clips in HD????

The solution to all of this is having Pond5 set prices for 4k, HD and web, therefore allowing everything to be seen. Or just eliminate the filtering defaults and sow everything unless the buyer selects it.

BTW has 1 sale yesterday so the dry August spell is over in my case. Shold be in sale 8-10 by now.

I've said that for years. This price yourself is killing it here.
To confusing for customers to wade through very similar clips when one is $50 and another is $200
But don't price at $50 which seemed to be their go to price test.

I could understand a streamlining of the pricing here, as long as it's definitely above $50, of course. I'd just feel for the contributors that price up in that upper range, and the exclusives who went all in believing they can price at their will and then have the rug pulled out from under them. Again, hasty choices have been made around here that puts P5 in an awkward position where they're gonna piss someone off no matter what they do, right or wrong.

Meanwhile SB is essentially calling it quits. We're down to 3 reasonable stock companies to sell video through. I'm hoping Pond5 is in a war room figuring this all out and comes back with a well thought out plan.

SB was never a big player in this. Less than 1 million videos? That is absolutely no competition.
Pond5 has 17 million videos so why is this place losing market share? maybe prices are all over the place?
Exclusive prices are sky high because they are only here? Not so much when they are also on all of Pond5's partner sites, including Adobe Stock. Which is pretty weird if you ask me.
The only place it seems exclusive content isn't on is Shutterstock.

The three players are pond5, shutterstock and adobe stock.
Shutterstock is slipping too.

Less than a million or not, SB made me a substantial amount of money in their prime. Beat out SS and Pond5 on many months, even when Pond5 was the sales maker they used to be. They were a huge player to many individual sellers for years. Of course they've been on their deathbed for a while, so at this point in time the loss has already been felt. Was just mentioning it as a rare positive for Pond5 these days, one less factor. Otherwise you're right, fairly irrelevant news.

Exclusive prices CAN be sky high, that's the promise Pond5 made to those sellers, if that's what they believe is the right way to handle their own work. One of the main appeals of Pond5 has always been to set our own prices. All I know is the price caps tests haven't helped me one bit, even though I should theoretically benefit because my clips are under $80. My main point was that price streamlining might be a good idea, albeit an unpopular one. We're all just guessing here.

I also truly don't understand the concept of being "exclusive" to Pond5 and still being made available elsewhere. It does seem more like the "Not on SS Collection".

Overall, my theory is that individual creators are being phased out in favor of catering to the large houses. The short list of the same artist names you repeatedly see on top of search results. I don't think stock companies want to deal with millions of individuals like us with all our opinions and needs. If I had to bet the money I don't make any more on it, I'd say that's where our sales are going these days. People are still buying stock, they didn't just suddenly stop needing content.

Hmm, have again 2 HD sales for $200 each (-25%).
I'm still far behind my monthly cut, but because SS is also very dry in the last weeks, it seems it's not the slider cap which prevent sales. Or maybe i'm only lucky to have the right stuff which someone needed?

„individual creators are being phased out in favor of catering to the large houses”

It is exactly what I see and feel here on Pond5 - unfortunately.

JHDT "Pond5 has 17 million videos so why is this place losing market share? maybe prices are all over the place?"

My impression was never that pricing was an issue, but wildly varying quality. Out of 17 million clips available here how many would you actually consider using?