How I Made My First $10K Selling Stock Footage

How do you get people towards your stock footage? What I’m really asking is how do you market your footage on sites like shutterstock so people see it

Hi, where do you recomend to upload the content?

Where did you sell these footage?

Congrats bro.. I hav stock images in dreamstime...footages soon

Whenever i want to get back into stock, I remember one dreadful thing: metadata. Anyway, why people grade stuff is beyond me. I would never puchase anything but log or raw. For rec709, yeah, i would pay 26cents, thats fair enough lol

Please share the website and guide to sell our footages
thank you

How about AI Generative Footage next years ?

do you upload your stuff on blackbox?

idiotic click bait content farm

Thank you for the honesty, great advice and just overall great personality, man!

Which sites to upload this content though ? list some amazing ones ?

Which website do you use to upload and sell your footage

Thanks for describing the process/reality of stock footage... While you are filming on a project you are automatically generating stock - so worth a try! And suggestions as to stock footage agencies that you upload to/recommend??

You have great energy! Love it… ❤

Just bought my first drone, and this video was super useful. Thanks for sharing!!!

On what sites do you work for?

Good educative video Jacob! I'm at 600 clips and earn about 20-70$ a month, have to keep grinding ;)

Great Information but could you please tell me where to sell these stock footages, any website could you recommend.

Fire brother, thanks a lot!

Creating stock footage is definitely a grind but it does pay off in the long run!

What ist this "BB" website the comments are talking about? I need to know please :)

This dude made an eleven-and-a-half-minute video about everything anyone could have guessed without asking...

could you plz tell me which camera you use to make those videos..

You got my like with "$700-$800 is enough for rusty to by whatever he wants"
Got an outloud chuckle from me

Super motivated to try this out now, on national try something new day! Thanks Jacob! I’ve subscribed!

Thanks for the tips and inspiration! 🥰

Very motivating! What stock agency are you using?

Gotta focus on putting out animated stock footage more this yea. Thanks for the inspiration!

nice. how do you color grade your videos? You go for more of a neutral look or what?

I enjoyed this video. You do a great job. Do you have other videos about stock footage. ?

I’m glad you are not one of those people telling everyone that it’s easy money. I average just under $600 a month on BB. I started as a complete beginner. I do believe that anyone can do it if they put in the work and stick to it. Best of luck to you.

perfect!

this really great content! i lives in newyork. How well cityscape or city lifestyle video sell? any idea?

So I can upload content I shoot to my social medias even though I plan to put them up for stock footage sites?

24p, 25p, 30p, 48p or 60p ..
which frame rate is more suitable?

I think the term gambling has a bad reputation. We all end up gambling somewhere down the line but we usually mask it with the term risk. I think gambling time might be even more dangerous than gambling money as long as you are okay with the amount you might lose and are not gonna put yourself in debt or serious trouble. There is and always be money to made but time is priceless. Nonetheless great video!

Really good stuff here. I've only got about 350 clips up so far and I've made a little bit, but in my opinion the biggest thing is whether or not you actually enjoy creating/uploading/tagging footage, especially early on. Because for a while you definitely won't make much if any money. So you have to actually enjoy it and truly believe that long term it does pay off.

Thanks for the informative content! Any suggestion on how to curate your collections in terms of length of clip etc ... ?

Will AI kill stock footage?😱

Funny how the Pareto distribution bites everyone.

A lot of work for a long-term goal. You got my vote. You could have the best clips or photos but, they only float to the top as you keep contributing.

Where do you sell your footage?

I like your critical thinking of the down sites. would you still recommend black box after one year of use? I am starting now, mostly animals and landscapes. But I am not sure if I should go to black box or single distributer.

I rarely sub, at least not for first time but your style and personality is likeable!

Thanks Jacob.. you're inspired me

Warm regards

Where are you selling it tho? Thinking about creating my own shopify store and doing that way vs selling it to big stock or other parties.

That information was great, thanks for being honest. What type of camera I can use (I have a Sony a7IV) and what’s a good frame rate for stock footage. Log or Raw?

What stock sites did u sell on may I ask?