State of My Union

January has been a long month for me…  I managed to create 81 new animations and I added several new stock sites to my rotation.  You can read more of the details on my MicroStock Blog.

It was too cold outside to shoot any footage, so I spent all my free time learning more about Cinema [...]

Being successful in Microstock Footage game

My good friend Jake Hellbach wrote an excellent article on the Shutterstock forum about some of the keys to his success in the stock footage business, which you should definitely read.  Besides being extremely talented, Jake is a pretty modest guy.  He really doesn’t like to use the word “successful”, although I think he has [...]

Pond5 adds Music and Sound Effects

This is going to be an interesting experiment…  But a welcome one.  I am a former high school band geek and “I got the music in me”, so I’m working on some stuff.

Got my first music clip accepted: http://bit.ly/2QQe0v

Stock Footage Sales 2009

Okay, I have 22 clips which are common between Pond5, RevoStock and ShutterStock and have been online for 6 months or more on each site.  Over the past 6 months Pond5 has outsold RevoStock nearly 12:1.  RevoStock has outsold ShutterStock a little over 3:1.  Why?

Pond5 only rejects clips for technical reasons, they do no pass [...]