Trying to promote my Pond5 clips on my website - Pond5 says they can't help.

We're told to promote our Pond5 clips to increase sales, but we are only given access to links that directly post to social media. That's fairly useless -- if I personally knew big media buyers I would sell to them directly! I'm trying to get wider public exposure, via a Wordpress or any other site.

Pond5 says they cannot do anything to help do that -- which is odd because they already DID do that for facebook, twitter, etc.

Has anyone found code for easily posting messages about your specific clips, or even listing them? Pond5 has a page with code for an embedded Flash player, but it does not work.

You may find some useful information at the following link: https://www.pond5.com/referral#1/search
Personally, if I want to insert a video in a page of my website, I use the html element 'iframe'.
iframe is allowed in HTML5.

If this helps, similar, I have tried to keep up a wordpress blog (free) but it was an overkill to make individual posts, and automated embedded retweet didn't gave any significant views or sales. Social media in general were too crowded for me to promote.

Ended up to just download a low res watermarked clip and reuploading it to Youtube with same title and keywords and just a link to Pond5 sales page in description. After all the biggest video search engine is Youtube. Right?
No particular views or sales and from Youtube though, just some likes (...or dislikes... hahaha!) and minimum engagement.

This is a hack of sorts. You won't find it documented, and P5 may not like it, but it works (for now). It's especially easy if you use the Gutenberg plugin in Wordpress.

Insert an audio block. Select "insert from URL." When prompted for a URL type (or copy/paste) the following:

https://sounds.pond5.com/XXXXXXXXX_prev.m4a

Where 'XXXXXXXXX' is the Pond5-assigned ID of your track (you can find them in Uploads).

(Note: for older 8-digit IDs you need to add a zero before the ID; e. g.
https://sounds.pond5.com/0XXXXXXXX_prev.m4a)

This will create an HTML5 audio tag that points to the watermarked track in the P5 library and embed a player in your page.

For a sample, you can check out this page on my site: https://thisbrucesmith.com/2018/10/25/happy-simple-intro/

Thanks Bruce - super helpful method!!!

As an fyi to others, I've found that with at least one of my tracks, I had to add a 0 before my Pond 5 ID to make it work.

Thanks, RoughCoast, for pointing out something I forgot to mention. Before late last year (2018), the Pond5 ID was an 8-digit number. Around December, the ID count rolled over into 9 digits. To avoid confusion (I think), the tech folks appended a '0' on the beginning of the ID for file-naming purposes. So for older items with 8-digit IDs, you use 0XXXXXXXX, for more recent items XXXXXXXXX. I've edited my original reply to reflect the exception.