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Pond5 is a revolutionary new way to
buy and sell stock video footage on
the web. If you are a rights-holder
of quality video content, you are
invited to partner with us in
selling your footage online. This is
an opportunity for film and
video-makers everywhere to earn
money licensing their work for use
by others – simply, quickly and
easily.
• A global marketplace of buyers who will be
able to search for, preview, purchase and
download your footage instantly, online, 24
hours a day.
• A quick and easy workflow: upload your
clips, tag them with info, and earn.
• 50 percent commissions on all sales.
Simple, straightforward and very competitive
in the stock footage industry.
• Monthly payments by check or paypal. As
your clip portfolio grows, this can mean
regular, ongoing income from a relatively
small initial investment of time.
• You set the price for your footage
(currently, the minimum price is $10 per
clip for broadcast-quality footage, and $5
per clip for multimedia-quality footage).
• A non-exclusive contract and complete
control over your work: you retain all
rights to your footage, and can do whatever
you like with it, including sell it
elsewhere or instantly remove it from the
pond5 marketplace.
• Aggressive marketing on your behalf.
Extensive, ongoing campaigns designed to
bring business to your doorstep.
• Realtime data on clip sales, buying
trends, footage requests, and more. All the
information you need to make the most from
your footage.
• An artist-built, artist-friendly community
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We’re looking
for dazzling, amazing, significant,
and staggeringly beautiful motion
content of all categories and
genres, including:
• classic stock: fashion, lifestyle,
sports, and location-based footage
• editorial and news content
• motion graphics, motion
backgrounds, and VJ loops
• archival footage from all eras
Regardless of the style of your
footage, it should be of extremely
high quality. Commercially-oriented
work should be professionally shot
and carefully chosen. Editorial and
archival content should be
informative, powerful, and tagged
with accurate contextual
information. Please use your good
judgement in uploading your clips,
and upload only those clips that are
likely to be commercially viable.
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Put your footage to work for
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Here’s how:
Step 1: Upload your work in
the form of short (5-60 second)
clips. (All footage should adhere to
our footage specifications). You
will need access to a high-speed
internet connection to do this, as
video file sizes are very large.
After you upload your clips, we will
automatically process them, creating
a low-resolution, watermarked
version for previewing, and
extracting all the relevant
technical information (duration,
size, format, etc).
Step 2: Tag your clips with
info, including a description,
keywords, and a price. Using our
intuitive Keyword Assistant, you can
quickly add common keywords to your
clip. Using our Tag Templates, you
can process clips that share common
tags at the same time. When you’re
done, you submit your clips to a
curator for review.
Step 3: Earn. After your clip
has passed the review process, it
will be placed online. Buyers
everywhere will be able to search
for, preview, pay for and download
your content: instantly, online,
24-hours a day.
Each time a clip is purchased, you
will be credited 50% of the price
you have set. Each month, you will
be able to receive your earnings by
check or paypal.
To get
started, you will need to sign-in or
click here to register for a
new account. |
