My TOP selling stock footage

[@danielle4392]

Hi Nicole, great video, glad to see you're back. thanks !

[@lopezexplora]

Thank you for your teachings Nicole , I don’t have a computer and have lots of time lapse videos on my iPhone can I still upload those directly from my iPhone? Maybe make a video about that if you haven’t? Thank you in advance 🙏

[@hussainwarraich8139]

Thanks Nicole for show your awesome work 👍 Happy new year 🌅

[@NicoleGlass]

Thank you, Happy New Year to you as well!

[@mrDancindave08109]

Did you need a property release for the museum shot? Curious about the process of obtaining that. I live in NYC and would like to get more landmarks in my footage.

[@wendynewing8834]

It is so good to have you back.

[@NicoleGlass]

Aww thanks!

[@steveteare3865]

Always helpful, because you so obviously have a genuine wish to share your knowledge and experience. Thanks! Have a great Christmas Nicole.

[@NicoleGlass]

Thanks Steve! Merry Christmas to you as well! :)

[@FilmshooterOH]

I have just over 1600 clips uploaded and sell between $250-300 per month. It's weird what sells but I do have one clip that has sold well over 50 times earning as low as $1.11 to $195. The funny thing is that clip I should over 8 years ago before I got into stock and I shot it for fun. Keep uploading. It's nice to have some passive income.

[@NicoleGlass]

Yeah the range in prices is interesting. Some people get upset about those $1.11 sales, but over the course of a clip's lifetime you could be earning well into the thousands from it. Keep it up

[@LateBoomer1964]

Merry Christmas Nicole to you, your hubby and the new baby and Happy New Year!

[@NicoleGlass]

Aww thanks so much. Merry Christmas! :)

[@ronyzmiri]

Nicole, so good to see you back) Thanks for lovely video!

[@NicoleGlass]

Sure thing! Glad you enjoyed it:)

[@vibhasrivastava9426]

Great video

[@ericcutler5463]

Awesome video Nicole! Thank you for sharing! Happy Holidays!

[@NicoleGlass]

Thank you Eric, Happy Holidays to you as well:)

[@wendylucid6049]

Merry Christmas to you and baby Daniel x

[@NicoleGlass]

Thank you! Merry Christmas :)

[@DOCATOURS]

Thanx a lot for useful infos, dear Nicole.

[@TimChilders]

Welcome back! Love your channel. Hoping to start uploading some videos of my own in 2022 to a couple of sites. Thanks for the encouragement!

[@NicoleGlass]

Thank you! :) Go for it!

[@digitalkiteaerial]

these sellers for you are great tips for us, thanks!

[@TheZGALa]

Thanks, Nicole!

[@RichardOldroyd]

Great to see you again. Hope your doing well.

[@NicoleGlass]

Thank you!

[@JeevesTCW]

Thanks for sharing this Nicole. I never shoot video to my great cost and this gives me useful ideas should I start. Hope motherhood is treating you well. Rich

[@NicoleGlass]

Thank you Richard! :)

[@markomilojevic8122]

Niiiice, welcome back! 🙌🏼

[@NicoleGlass]

Thanks! :)

[@Richard-kl9bb]

Hi Nicole, was the last video you showed editorial? Just wondering because there are recognizable faces.

[@TheImagistGallery]

Nicole do you limit the length of your videos for these platforms? If so what is the length you like to use?

[@NicoleGlass]

My average is probably around 10 seconds

[@GracefulMusefulQueen-xm3uf]

Hi! thank you for sharing your experience! could you please tell more about uploading photos and videos on the Shutterstock, for example like on the 3:48, or 3:53, where a lot of people are in shot and their faces are well seen? thank you!

[@RucontenidoMX]

Don’t stop making videos please!!!

[@marcusadventures]

What's the best frame rate for stock footage?

[@AvanteAvenue]

Welcome back! Any suggestions for how many videos to upload for first upload? Suggestion for total number to strive for? Thanks for the vid, been thinking about trying this ever since I came across your channel but haven’t yet. New goal for 2022.

[@NicoleGlass]

As many as you can! Best way is to just gradually and continuously upload videos whenever you have new ones. That way you don't get overwhelmed and you slowly start to build a large portfolio. There's no need to put them into the same upload. Strive to have a few hundred videos up and then eventually get into the thousands. Not an overnight process for sure.

[@ContentCreator]

Welcome back... 🤗

[@EdsEverydayAdventures]

Great video. Pond5 and Adobe really did great for me this year with the footage. I don't upload photos much anymore either, I do more print work with the photography. Merry Christmas and Happy New Years!

[@NicoleGlass]

Glad to hear you're doing well with your prints and video footage! Merry Christmas to you as well:)

[@TVidEdit]

Hi Nicole, can I upload the same video on few different places ( Adobe Stock, Shutterstock and Pond5)? btw you are doing great job, very helpful for me as a begginer. Rgds

[@NicoleGlass]

Yes you certainly can! :)

[@baderthephotographer4410]

Thank you Nicole for the good constant tips. I'm more into still stock photography rather than vids, but I was just testing the water by uploading a 4k video on Adobe stock. It was downloaded 3 times so far, but the total earnings of that file was $2.88 !! :( I thought stock footage is more profitable than a still image. Anyways Is that similar at your end?

[@aksesmemory8689]

Akhirnya ada video baru

[@peesukarhu_OFFICIAL]

2:40 could you explain how is this possible? I have thought that you or shutterstock sets the price which is something like 50$ or 100$ depending on the video resolution, but why would someone buy a clip for 1000$? It doesn't make any sense, sounds like a auction for me. If you could open this up, it would be really helpful. Great content by the way!

[@tomask.3983]

I think this might have to do with the licensing. Don´t know anything about it but noticed there are different types of licensing for stock media, depending largely on HOW you want to use it. Maybe some company bought the footage to use it for some purpose not covered by standard och extended licenses and therefore had to pay a custom amount of money.

[@creativeeyepointer]

If possible please explain, what is the purpose for which the buyer download this footages

[@victormultanen1981]

people may use them for documentaries.

[@AnnkurKumar]

Video duration approx for adobe stock.

[@petrub27]

i wonder how you made it like look how much headroom you have in this video...

[@Fye1103]

I have a question? Did they accept video with the sound?

[@maddiem5921]

Thanks for sharing Nicole! Can I ask, with your iPhone videos, do you fix the shutter speed with the 180 rule or do you let the iPhone automate those settings and just hit record?

[@NicoleGlass]

Hi Maddie! I just shoot with the iPhone camera at 4k 60fps and 4k 24fps depending on whether or not I plan to slow the footage down. Other than that I don't change anything on the phone. I'm usually just pulling out the phone if I don't have my camera with me for some reason and I see something worthy of recording.

[@jimmyhinAK]

Hi Nicole welcome back just curious I have never edited a video before only photos. I plan on using my iPhone so what program do you recommend? Thanks in advance and Happy Holidays to you.

[@NicoleGlass]

I use Adobe Premiere Pro but you can use other programs too. (Adobe Rush is easier to learn). You don't have to do much to the footage, usually I'll just remove the audio and slow down the footage if I shot in 60fps.

[@Lucas.Dunn24]

Do you think it is better to sell to these 3 websites or to use BlackBox?

[@BoB-cz9qr]

did you have to provide Model Releases for all those people in the video?

[@NicoleGlass]

Not for editorial photos/videos

[@marceldeno1970]

I what do you film? straight in mp4 in camera or clog3?

[@NicoleGlass]

I film straight in camera, 4k mostly, either 24 or 60 fps depending on the subject

[@dimpap1370]

Are video clips from an iPhone easy accepted? Do you edit them?

[@99.YamanKumar]

2:43 oh my god 🤪🤪🤪 Wow Congratulations 👏

[@rollomotero7646]

Hi Nicole, thank you for sharing your experience. Do you upload your clips with audio or without? Thanks again.

[@NicoleGlass]

Mostly without audio, unless it’s some sort of editorial news clip where the audio is a crucial part of the clip

[@rollomotero7646]

@@NicoleGlass Thanks for taking the time to answer. I'm going to experiment uploading clips with audio on Pond5 to see if there is a difference in sales, but only when it makes sense to the clip, like waves crashing, or a car starting, and of course with a good recorder, not the so-so microphone of the camera. Cheers!

[@animan756]

Just gave me an idea-people shopping at a popular store here. Need to get out of the house. Thanks!

[@NicoleGlass]

Awesome!

[@PSDGuide]

$1000 single download.. you lucky Nicole Glass, my top selling $300 single download..

[@NicoleGlass]

That's pretty good too! As I said.. it only happened once. An outlier

[@aandwonlineshopping]

What is the best way to get your stock videos and photos through the review process and up on market faster?

[@NicoleGlass]

The review process is unfortunately not under our control. Sometimes it takes forever, which is not good when your footage is newsworthy. I have sent Pond5 an e-mail before asking them to expedite the review of some highly newsworthy footage, and they did it almost instantly.

[@CalciFrostHV]

Hey Nicole, what are your suggestions for pricing? Do you price the HD and 4K footage the same on Pond5?

[@andrejapetkovic8031]

are u blind

[@SmartPhoto1]

Nice to see You

[@Primeros1000]

Amazing! I will start uploading lots of drone footage

[@NicoleGlass]

Go for it!

[@kyankuatois]

Hey, thank you for this video :) I'm intrigued, how were you able to sell videos of crowds/people without release forms? Particularly the ones where you can see people's faces. I ask because I'm just about to start uploading content for stock footage, but I was leaving out a lot of great shots due to them featuring people. Thank you in advance for your reply!

[@anzaeria]

That would have been editorial footage (no release forms required.)

[@12agora]

Thank you for sharing. Shutterstock always refuse my contents. They are so demanding..

[@jthillerup]

I used to upload in mp4 format and changed to mov (the orig capture mov from iphone). This changed acceptance rate from 10% to 80%. Maybe worth a try…😉

[@NicoleGlass]

Personally what I do when Shutterstock won't accept my clips (when there's nothing wrong with them) is I then upload them to my Pond5 exclusive account. If Shutterstock accepts them, then I'll also upload them to my non-exclusive Pond5 account.

[@parmeshwarlal8520]

Very helpful. Thank you

[@NicoleGlass]

Glad it was helpful!

[@wendybee9160]

When selling a video, how long should the video be?

[@NicoleGlass]

Anywhere from 5 to 60 seconds, but on average mine are around 8-12 seconds or so.

[@sfdgrew354]

Thanks for sharing!

[@NicoleGlass]

You bet!

[@Findingfloraandfauna]

Thanks for sharing information ☺️

[@NicoleGlass]

Sure thing!

[@wonkuklee5799]

I dont understaind this clip that sell for 1000 dollars, why did it sell for this amount, was this the price, can someone explain?

[@kthx1138]

Must've been purchased by a major news network and it was a moment of historical significance that was impossible to recreate.

[@anzaeria]

The type of license dictates the price - ie what the clip is eventually used for.

[@Brause_Market]

isnt it a problem that you show some of the clips here without watermark? people could download the KZbin video? or is that not important to you? again cool video. greetings

[@NicoleGlass]

The quality isn't high enough, so it shouldn't be an issue. And thank you!

[@vanrajkumar1574]

After Long time

[@MagnitudeReviews]

I have a handful of photographs of the Las Vegas airport absolutely empty during the beginning of the pandemic. As well as a handful of photographs of signage/flowers from George Floyd’s memorial in Minneapolis that was shot like maybe a week after his murder. Both of which are just kind of sitting around on my hard drive collecting dust. They were just shot on a Rebel T6 at the time before I upgraded my equipment pretty substantially in the last year and a half. Would those be worth uploading to some stock website? If so, where?

[@LateBoomer1964]

Yes definitely. You have nothing to lose and could make money with them.

[@NicoleGlass]

Definitely. You might want to upload those to Pond5 and Shutterstock. That’s where I notice my editorial video clips doing the best.

[@AB-rg2wq]

Do you often get +$100 for videos on SS?

[@NicoleGlass]

Over time? Yes. For a single download? Not often

[@AB-rg2wq]

@@NicoleGlass And you pretty much only make money from editorial videos right?

[@Suka_Suka_Aje]

Thanks for sharing 👍 New subs here ❤️

[@skycam509]

Hi Nicole, I've been shooting drone photos and video for quite a while and recently realized I could possibly create some passive income by simply uploading footage I already have. (Duh!) I have been searching around for advice on this process, and really enjoy your videos. One thing I don't fully understand is where the line is for needing a model release. I can't imagine that you got model releases from everyone in your BLM video you showed us here. How do you determine when you need them? Thanks a lot for all the great videos!

[@NicoleGlass]

Those are uploaded as editorial clips with more limited uses - not commercial :)

[@skycam509]

@@NicoleGlass Thanks for taking time out of your day to reply. :-)

[@billchivers8925]

Would you say that generally you put all clips/pics on all sites or do you curate which sites get which uploads? Curious if your top seller on one site is also on another site and how the sales compare.

[@NicoleGlass]

A little bit of both. If I have a set of clips from say, a protest, I might decide to put 1 or 2 on all sites and the other 5 on Pond5 exclusive. That's just an example, but I sometimes put clips on my exclusive Pond5 account and sometimes upload them to all platforms. All the clips mentioned in this video, however, are uploaded to all 3 sites I mentioned.

[@MysitcSoul]

Everytime I book a trip to go out, the corona wave comes. For last 2 years things are so. Shifted focus to youtube for now.

[@NicoleGlass]

Yeah, not a great time for trip planning, that's for sure.

[@sharonhaasbroek7464]

What were your top selling photos on Adobe?

[@NicoleGlass]

I was thinking of making that video next:)

[@NicoleGlass]

Just posted

[@danep99]

I attended the BLM protests in central London and the clips I captured are my top sellers on both Pond 5 and Shutterstock. I’m actually surprised how many downloads they’ve had.

[@NicoleGlass]

Yeah, doesn’t surprise me. Sounds like we had similar experiences

[@johnasmat]

Great Nicole .. warm regards to make passive income for our family and future

[@didikpakcoy]

Amazing miss 1000$

[@mixeduh]

Are the BLM videos considered editorial?

[@NicoleGlass]

Most definitely.