Portfolio with over 600 clips and only 5 sales!

Hello,

We are new contributors on POND5 and we are here for a few months.
I wanted to ask about your experience when we talk about selling video footage.

For the time we are contributors, we sold only 5 clips. :)
And I do not think that our footage is that bad.

Here is our portfolio:
https://www.pond5.com/artist/videophilia#1/2063

What could be the reason?

Best Regards,
Videophilia

From my own experience with music audio sales. The search engine appears to always favour newly uploaded material. So the sales results are quite random, compared to a true music library for example. I had sales on first main upload of 20 tracks. Then nothing for months and only recently a sale when I put all prices to a minimum. I have since put back to my preferred price as do not want to encourage this "race to the bottom' in terms of pricing that some contributors and marketplaces are encouraging. It is a very different landscape than when I first created music for media. 500 pounds was the standard just for "demos only" in the mid noughties 00's. Now a full licence can start from 5 pounds for the same piece of music! Crazy times and not sure where it goes from here?

Your portfolio is great. Your prices too low. With 500 clips out of tens of million and five sales in a couple months is really pretty good. Low prices for individuals will never make up in increased volume. It works for an agency with millions but as in individual the volume won't make up for it. Consider raising a little, most of the time P5 will discount it anyway. You have great footage.

just promote it on the instagram twitter etc.its they only way unfo

promoting on instagram or twitter will only bring in new people that want to make easy money which is not case in stock industry...buyers know where to look for a footage and that place is not instagram or twitter...

sebolla74: +1

and where exactly is it sebolla ? still social media is an option if you wanna sell your work.there are other who had sales like that The guy wrote that he doesnt have sales and his stuff is very good

emmanuelvarnas,how long have you been doing this job?? i'm a ten years full time contributor and i know quite well the industry...social media is not an option because buyers don't have the time to look for what they need on instagram,they come straight to sites that sell footages...there is not shortcut in this industry,the only thing that works is produce quality and original content...if this guy with a good quality port doesn't sell is because buyers don't need what he is selling,easy...plus,with 500clips out of millions you can't expect much sales...

I would recommend you consider your titles carefully, since I believe most search algorithms use text. For example, your first clip you have titled: "This Stock Video Shows A Close-Up Of A Male Doctor Or Medical Researcher Wear"

You can delete "This video shows a" since that applies to all videos, and use some more descriptive text. For example, how about: "Close-Up Male Doctor Nurse Researcher wearing face shield and mask PPE personal protective equipment" I'm not sure if that will fit, but you could narrow it down some if necessary.

What I'm saying is that even the best videos cannot be found if the descriptions are not spot on. Also, I do not know how much the Pond5 search engine weights the video title versus the keywords.

Anyway, best of luck and I, too like your portfolio.

Your footage is actually quite good and commercial. P5 has been a little slower in sales the last 2 months with my files. Covid, too much competition,...... In any case a few months is not much time and it takes a while for customers to place what they like in lightboxes and purchase at a later stage.