Now, Depositphotos is not only a website for purchasing and selling photos or images but also videos and footages. The development of this site and of course market’s demands has made this company moves to a more extended sector of online marketing. With the addition of this new “goods” into their library, this company has started to move from a stock photo agency into stock multimedia agency. Although the number of videos available on Depositphotos now is not more than vector images, illustrations, and stock textures and backgrounds, this kind of media will get higher and higher demands as time goes by.
Starting in 2012, Depositphotos updated their website with a feature for getting videos or footages with the same system of purchasing images. For the videographers who want to make money from this kind of sale could also upload their videos into this website. Just like every images uploaded into Depositphotos’s database, the videos are also selected and carefully chosen to ensure quality before they are sold. The basic requirements for the stock videos and footages are having minimum resolution of 320×240 pixels and maximum 1920×1080 pixels (Full HD); having length between 3 until 60 seconds; and having maximum 1000 MB (1 GB) file size. Besides that, the accepted filetypes in this websites are ASF, AVI, DV, FLV, MOV, MPEG/MPG, and WMV. You should also think about the sound of the video because sound can only be accepted if it is part of the scene (ambient sounds, voices). The video must NOT contain any audio track not owned by the video contributor.
If you want to become a video contributor in this site, you must have a Seller Account which is different from your Buyer account. For the first time, your seller account (whether it is for contributing images or videos) will undergo an examination phase. After you upload 3 examination videos, your work will be analyzed by the administrators to decide whether you are accepted as contributor or not. If you pass the examination, you will be able to access all the site’s features and upload more videos.
The process for uploading video is also as easy as uploading images. You can do it by drag and drop interface in your dashboard or upload it via FTP. Once uploaded, you can always check your sales and statistics in the dashboard menu.
Actually, selling videos or footages in Depositphotos is more profitable than selling images. The fees which are given for the video contributors are significantly higher than images contributors. This fact reflects that the demand for high quality videos is quite high nowadays. So it is a great chance for the video makers and producers to get more income by selling their works in this website. The comparison of image and video contributor’s royalties is shown below.
From that image, it could be seen clearly that the royalties paid for stock video are a lot higher than the Depositphotos stock photos. The price is quite reasonable, as video needs more complicated process and preparation until it is finished.
If you are a video artist, you have to try to sell some of your good works here and make some cash for it. Give it a try!