5 Tips to EARN MORE MONEY with STOCK FOOTAGE

I’m closing in on $20,000 on Blackbox - just passed $19,000. I started with no experience and I’m an older guy. If I can do it, anyone can. Not easy, but a good way to pay for equipment and related expenses.

hei @jevendoves! I like your videos alot. Would still recommend black box or going solo? I will start out but I am not quite sure which one will be better on the long run. thank you for your opinion! Greetings from a Swiss guy living in Brazil

Thank you for taking the time to make this video. I so appreciate it more then you would ever know. You are amazing. Thank you so much.

265 videos sold out of several thousands? This is not a good percentage... Though it could be due to factors other than keywording.

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Frankly speaking, having keyworded more than 6.000 clips, 265 sales is pretty poor in my opinion. It's 4,4 %

really useful

Ive wanted to do this for yrs, I have shots I think are good - This video was super, thank you! Im so new I need to learn what sites to actually upload the footage itself ( popular sites) and also how to PROTECT it, like put a water mark across them all, so ppl dont just download a weak screenshot or somn ? ok, thansk Ill check out your links that you mentioned too. I have a good sense of the 5 tips your guest shared and maybe I could even work with blackbox to become a keyword person for someone too

Excellent video, thanks for sharing 🙌

New!

Thanks so much for this.

this was great, I'm a beginner at this so that helped a lot

I start selling my drone footage. Thank you for advices!

So do you use Blackbox as well as Artgrid? I saw another video where you said you upload footage to Artgrid so just wondering which one you think is better?

Awesome video, very useful tips. Thanks buddy well done!

Thank you, will definitely give it a try

over 6000 clips key worded and 265 sales sound pretty low to me

You think it is still usefull to upload to blackbox now, because there are a lot of stockfootage clips already?

I have been declined 2 times for my application to BlackBox... What do you recommend?

Love those excellent, concrete, real-world tips! Great video!

Victoria secret's for key wording! :) Great tips. Thanks Victoria and Jeven.

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What's the best camera to use and to start doing stock footage?

I need to think about selling some of my video as stock footage. Thanks for all this great information.

The stock video model is seriously dwindling. Getty images introduced their premium access and it absolutely killed videos. At this point you wonder if it's even worth it.

Hmmmm....🤔 I never even thought of selling stock footage. Thanks for sharing this with us Jeven, and 👍 for your partner

Great tip! I would have wished to get tip on the color grading as well.

hang on.... she keyworded 6,000 clips and only 265 sales. that doesn't sound like a lot.... am i missing something? also you lose 15% of your sale to blackbox already. You're now losing another percentage paying for someone to write your keywords and descriptions. This sounds like you're screwing yourself.... can't you write your own keywords and descriptions?

Great information, short and to the point..completely understandable. I've been a still shooter for some time and I'll use the tips for keywording my still work as well. I believe that's been part of my issue with only making 2 sales (of the same photo incidentally) from the dozens of photos I've put up. I also know I should upload more.. when Victoria said she'd keyworded thousands and sold 265 I'm like "Wow.. I need to upload more.." I ALMOST got bummed but instead I got hopeful. Anyway, I could go on for a while but y'all have better things to do than read my raving.. Thanks Jeven, Thanks Victoria (I subscribed by the way)

I dont have any idea what is stock footage. Bit I will do some research.

Thank you both! Very useful tips. But, @Victoria Lauren Smith, what do you think about the order of each keyword? Does that matter? e.i. who, what, where, when, how OR how, where, what, when, who?

My main problem is getting first sales. I have a couple of clips on Blackbox, which has been there for about 5-6 months without a sale. I did the description and keywords, so I wonder if I did something wrong

this is something I want to try. I have a decent amount of 4k footage from the past 3+ years.

I have already uploaded over 50 clips now and I don’t know if that’s enough or not but haven’t gotten any sales yet and yeh I have been copy and pasting the metadata over and over again with slight changes but yeh after hearing these tips I’ll try again with these tips in mind thank you!

Nice hat Jeven. 🐼👍🏽

Yes, I'm a Blackboxer and I've sold 6 clips so far. It's been an enjoyable ride for footage that otherwise just sits on my hard drives.

Great video with excellent tips!

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Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Victoria very helpful. I’ve been uploading to black box for 6 months now and yet to make a sale!!!!! Not sure where I’m going wrong. Can send you a link to some of the footage I’m uploading for your feedback...

Aaah Blackbox is my fave. Such an amazing opportunity 😍 I’m about to do my “one year on blackbox” update as it’s coming up soon! And thanks Victoria for so many great tips

Thanks a bunch Jeven! I am selling stock footage on both Shutterstock and Blackbox. Still fairly new to it so trying them both out and seeing which is better and where this leads me. I'm pretty sure I will always use Blackbox though. Its pretty awesome. I have around 50 seperate clips on each uploaded but I'm going through 4 months of shooting cutting it up before I archive it so am only about 1/4 of the way maybe an 1/8th lol through. Then I got more plans. But thanks for throwing a video put in this direction. I already know those tips, but they definitely are helpful. Btw I am on Blackbox cause of one of your earlier videos lol. Thanks buddy.

Victoria is the best. 👍👍👍

Thanks great...

The thing that I'm struggling the most with stock footage is every platform has different formats, different csv file upload and metadata requirements. It became a bit frustrating after a while that I would have to render 4 different formats for 4 different stock platforms. and then adjust all keywords for various platforms... It started consuming so much time that I stopped it... I would really like to get some insight on which platforms to stick to to sell stock and if there are format that are unanimously supported by all platforms.
thanks

Thank you. ✌️

Question: Do you process your clips at all before uploading or do you sell the clip as it was when it came out of the camera? I never know whether or not to upload in h.264 or what...

🎉🎉Yes yes🎉🎉

Great tips Jovey. I haven’t considered selling stock footage but maybe I should start.