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Let’s talk about RevoStock

Dave Navarro — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:20:36 +0000

Back in mid November I was sent an email from the owner of another microstock related web site. In this email was the results of a survey taken from 44 RevoStock producers with 1000 stock footage clips or more in their portfolios. I knew from my own experience that RevoStock sales were WAY down, [...]

Falling out of love…

Dave Navarro — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:16:25 +0000

The very first MicroStock agency that I signed with was Pond5. Their process was (and is) simple, just sign up and start uploading. If your files are not total crap, they approve them and (hopefully) you start selling. What’s (mostly) great is that they don’t pass judgment on what might sell, they leave that [...]

RevoStock responds…

Dave Navarro — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:52:39 +0000

I tweeted this morning about yesterday’s blog post “February News” and Craig L., the owner of RevoStock took issue with a number of things I said… So, let’s set the record straight.

His first comment was with regard to my claim that their Google ranking was below ClipCanvas and the Envato Marketplace. I have [...]

February News

Dave Navarro — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:21:52 +0000

As I had mentioned in an earlier post, without iSyndica around to give me reports, having to gather up all of the data myself from all the sites is a major pain-in-the-ass. But I’m working on it and will catch up with everything over the coming week.

Here in Kansas it’s been a long [...]

October 2010 Sales Report

Dave Navarro — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:43:09 +0000

October was a very welcome month with mostly higher sales across the board. Pond5 led with a new “Best Month Ever” in both number of clips sold and sales dollars. The only real bummer was the whole iSyndica thing… especially when it came time to gather the data for this months report. Ugh!

October [...]

Batten down the hatches

Dave Navarro — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:30:39 +0000

In my little corner of the world, the weather is starting to turn colder and we’re getting more frequent storms. Shooting footage and photos outdoor starts to become less of an option. So, I’m spending every good day out shooting new stuff and every bad day preparing for a long winter inside.

Fortunately, my [...]

Pond5 adds After Effects Projects to product sales

Dave Navarro — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:04:31 +0000

Pond5 made a big announcement on Wednesday that they are now selling After Effects projects. This is after adding Audio files (music and sound effects) earlier in the year. Pond5 takes another huge leap towards being a “one-stop shop” for Video production.

The process is fairly simple, you just upload a ZIP file with [...]

June 2010 Sales Report

Dave Navarro — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:12:51 +0000

I HATE THE SUMMER SLUMP! My clip sales are way down overall, even on Pond5, and my revenue per clip is also down. RevoStock is actually up a little bit. I didn’t submit nearly as many clips in June as I should have, but I did manage to produce a lot more. It’s just [...]

Mid June Update

Dave Navarro — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:18:53 +0000

Well, a little after mid-June, but better late than never…

The “summer slump” has officially arrived and sales are down all over the place. I’ve had zero sales at ClipCanvas and MediaStock this month. ShutterStock sales are down 80% from last month. And Pond5 sales are down nearly 30% from last month. The only [...]

May 2010 Sales Report

Dave Navarro — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:12:28 +0000

May was a surprising month with sales doing very well for the first 10 or 12 days, then slowing down considerably and finally making a steady charge the last week for an overall up month. I didn’t get as much uploaded as I would have liked, but I finally did break the 1000 clips [...]