'Revenue Generated' instead of 'Number of Sales'

Yeah I see what your saying with that Physics

As you remember 1 1/2 years ago I dropped 2,500 clips to $15 and left them there for over six months. The number of sales did not increase to make up the difference in pricing them at $50, not even close. Then last Aug the algorithm changed and sales just kinda stopped like a light switch being flipped. At that point I raised the prices back and was able to at least stabilize at a lower profit through the "bad or lower number of sales" year that followed. From my test on slow selling stock, low prices did not increase number of sales. For many bottom sellers who are happy at a couple hundred a month and sell at $10 they just don't know. Sad part is seeing great quality at such low prices, that is what hurts everyone. Crap at $10 doesn't hurt anyone. I've talked to many artists who were at that low cost price, they are happy that they are not at $10 anymore ;)

Agree 100%

Yeah I think buyers buy on needs with footage, any abstract looping background might be fine, or any of a group of them, but with footage they have a set thing in mind, and allot of times they will pay more for that thing. Pricing footage below a certain point seems kind of pointless... Plus you don't sell it as often from my experience. A CG background you could sell a bunch of times, a clip of a waterfall your lucky to sell only a few times... Sure some footage you see sell allot but it's more rare I think.

I agree. I don't think people creating a a presentation or commercial for a client, are going to buy the 'discount clip' most of the time. I think that those clips sell primarily to very low budget productions, as in high school projects and the likes. That being said, those 'discount clips' that usually are bad quality, make it to the front of the number of sales list. That makes the overall quality of the stock here look bad to me. It also makes the higher quality stuff harder to find.

I am almost inclined to agree that displaying number of sales is counterproductive. I kind of like the way SS does it. If you have a clip sell it gains a search priority as popular clip. If it continues to sell, it remains a priority or it slowly fades back to a lower priority. This allows people a chance to get to the top, rather than just having the one uploaded in 2006, thus having more time for sales, to have priority.