thundercloud

The page(s) of popular tags contain too much information. May I suggest that the page will show only the BIG TEXT items, and all of them on one page, sorted by popularity.

or ... get rid of it completely. Let the artists keyword based on keywords that match their work and not popular words that they think will improve their search priority.

NO NO, keep it!

Less information is to evaluate is NEVER better. Keep it. I scan it from time to time, and got a couple good insights into some of my popular sellers. Anything that puts you in the mind of the buyer, such as a http://www.arcurs.com/keywording/index.php can help you triangulate on accurate and popular keywords.

If the keywords list was eliminated there might be more keyword "theft/plagiarism" issues pop up. Better to keep it the way it is or make it better.

Or how about letting users create their own editable list of keywords. If I have 90 clips from Finland I can have a few keywords in the template but 10 shot smight be snowmobile outside and another 10 a child seeing Father Christmas. If you created your own list of keywords you could tick the ones you wanted - and obviously would delete all the ones you didn't need once a batch of clips was keyworded.

This is irrelevant to the public utility.

After looking at the page, I can't exactly see how the popular tags page could be useful in any practical way I can imagine. Can you? I don't know what criteria are used to get the tags on the page, why some words are BIG (I presume it's the number of use, but compared to what?) I can understand the process in reverse - as in the most used search terms from buyers. That could help video creators choose hot topics. But we don't have that.

Here's something actually useful. A tool like this one at http://www.picniche.com/ describes itself: "You search for a keyword phrase such as 'business man' or 'orange socks' and the search system assesses the sales statistics (demand) for images found relating to that search, along with the competition (supply) for that phrase, and returns a rating indicating the likelihood of making a sale as a result of that keyword phrase on your image."