The NEW Pond 5!?!?!?

Has anyone heard talk of adding an order page to Pond 5? What if buyers could place an order? Contributors could then wake up in the morning and read the list of orders that the buyer wanted, shoot the video and then upload the footage with a tag or something that would notify the buyer that a new video has been uploaded that matched the buyer's results. This would totally change stock footage. Why do stock websites not do this yet?

Don't believe that buyers will wait 2 weeks and longer till the first clips become reviewed.
At the other end it makes no sense when some hundred contributors each shoot a video for an order while only one will sale.

Already exists ... kind of a long shot/pita

http://www.imagebrief.com/#/

Buckhusen,

I understand your point, but the buyer would not need to have the content reviewed before they received the clip. Reviewing clips would be useful if Pond 5 wanted to keep the website from being cluttered by bad clips. If the buyer were to be the only one see the clip, I would think that a buyer would be able to review the clip by themselves. If the contributor wanted to add the clip to the Pond 5 website later, then they would have to wait the full 2 weeks. With you and Mizamook being avid stock footage contributors, I wonder if this feature would be helpful to you. Of course, it probably would take a really long time before Pond 5 added the feature (it probably would never happen) but I would think that it would be an easy way to improve sales.

MicahCDavis

There is already an entire thread section for buyers to request specific subject. Many Artists keep inputting there footage as some misguided attempt to market. The thread is down below in the forum. It is meant for buyers to request not for Artists to advertise.

" FOOTAGE REQUESTS - can't find the shot you're looking for? ask here"

Video shooting on demand especially for the buyer, ... ok ..., but not with 100 and more competitors.
So i would do this only by personal / official order and contract.

Well the upside of the idea is that even if you choose to shoot something specifically for the buyer (you don't go out of your way ... ), and they don't choose it, you then add that clip(s) to your stock portfolio ... anyone need a clip of week-old pair of baby moose sleeping? Right ... still ...

The problem that I see with the "footage requests" thread that is already in place is:

1) most of the time the customer requests something, then you never hear from them again. Even if people are asking questions. That is very annoying.

2) Submitters continually put things on the thread that the buyer doesn't want even when they specifically ask for something. (even more annoying, and may be why the buyer never comes back)

Buyer: "I need a video of a baby moose sleeping"
Submitter: "I have a video of a large dog playing in my yard, will that work? He isn't sleeping but I could give the dog a valium"

For a request thing to work, you would have to already have the exact video in your portfolio. If you have to shoot something, that should be like Beckhusen said, something between you and the buyer.
Otherwise it would be like a poptent site where you create something along with 100 other people in hopes the buyer picks yours.

But also as Gene said, you could still sell it in your portfolio. As I did with the commercials I shot for some of those poptent things. If I didn't win, I would cut up the commercial and sell as stock.
Which some of those pieces have been pretty lucrative for us.

On that note, maybe a poptent type thing here would work. The buyer would give a guideline of what they want and a budget.
You could shoot it and submit, but again in hopes of being the winner.
But just as Poptent does, the buyer has to have that budget money in the Pond5 account so you know they aren't going to just not show up again.
But these things would have to be in the hundreds of dollars to work.
For just doing a video that would be priced my normal stock price, the shoot wouldn't be worth setting up.

LOL. I love the baby moose analogy. I think that you are on the right track. In actuality, the more this topic is discussed the worse of an idea that it becomes. There are a couple of reasons that it may be a good idea:

Pond 5 would get more of a variety of clips. That way the areas that are not covered in the library would get filled.
Also, I think that it would give contributes ideas for new clips that maybe they hadn't thought of.

To contrast that point though, specific clips of a specific topic would become so prevalent that it would almost get annoying to search for things. Therefore, adding the clips to your uploads, along with everyone else would be kind of pointless unless you were sure that you had one of the best clips out there and even then you wouldn't be sure to get the sale.

My conclusion:
It would be nice to custom order stock footage, but maybe too impractical. Maybe in a perfect world.