Please bring back top sellers of the week/month

As a lot of us have ended up week after week without sales, can Pond5 please bring back the top sellers of the week and month? It might inspire some of us to see there are contributors able to make an income from stock. Then if we don't see any top sales of the week, we will know the agency is in big trouble!

Yeah! You know I thought it really sucked when they took that away. The current way of expressing similar information is basically useless. It was inspiring, fun, and useful information.

Hey folks. The Contributor Portal has a Data & Trends page where you can see the best sellers each month (but not weekly), and you can see the top search terms:

https://contributor.pond5.com/data-trends/footage/

In other words, you were not listening.

Again.

That page is useless.

Sorry I had just come in from snow shoveling exercise and was amped.

What I mean, specifically, is that the information in the old page actually gave us information as to how many and how much. Not just popularity contest info.

Also, the keywords "popular search terms" really don't make sense. If there is to be a list, it should have more information, like ACTUAL searches. There is no way in hell buyers come to P5 and search for "aerial" by itself. Or "4K" for that matter. What are the search strings used?

The old page layout was a lot easier to get info from than what is available now, Ryan.

Personally I am grateful that bestselling files can keep generating an income for the creators and not serve as master files for endless copies. If you want to share sales results, everyone can do that in the sales threads. This way, it is by choice of the artist.

Well that's one way to look at it, and likely the base negative version, but frankly for me I used that information to see if files did NOT sell ... in other words, when I'd get an idea to do some kind of clip that took more time or money to pull off, I'd look to see if there were already similar clips/ideas, and more often than not I'd NOT do the clip because I saw that A) there were already lots of them, B) they weren't selling much, and C) many of them were loads better than I had resources or skill to top.

If we were just wanting to copy something, all we'd have to do is "any search" or "no search" and sort by popular.

Wish I could say some of my bestselling files kept generating income ... sadly, nothing. But that's for another topic, eh?

The best would be to give every artist the choice. Some will want to display individual sales, others do not. Just like we can choose to show total sales on our bio.

But to force to give sales info away from artist who did not consent to this, I think it is wrong.

Perhaps ask pond5 to give artist the choice.

But copycat portfolios are a huge problem. They are very efficient and make a lot of money, because they save all the time looking for an in demand niche.

I‘d rather they look elsewhere.

Guess we both have a different view of what data is Ryan. And this (https://contributor.pond5.com/data-trends/footage/) doesn't even compare to what it was in the past. Besides that, both the Contributor Portal and Blog suck just as bad as the Old News-letter Splash.