How To Make Money Selling Stock Videos with 5-Figure Income Passively!



Who Is Suitable To Earn Passive Money Online By Filming Stock Videos.
Do you love travelling? Yes.
Do you love to film your travelling scenes? Yes.
Is filming one of your hobbies? Yes.

The digital world is now full of earning opportunities, tones of it requires huge experience and start-up models. With today numerous method of earning passive income, you may not want to miss this passive income earning by just filming stock videos while you are on vacation or travelling.

There are tons of marketing agency or peoples who are looking to access and buy the stock video or footage from you. Especially the larger company of industrial component by taking the footage turn into their video production for specific advertising, presentation, education or more, can indeed help them saving their time and money without having to shoot it outside themselves to reduce their time and energy.

In fact for you to earn more from selling stock footage, you want to continue reading below and keep in mind that by following these tips, you can gain passive income from this industry by having a general concept and knowing the various industry whom wants the content that they need for their business use.


What Type Of Stock Video To Film As Stock Footage?

You might think about where to find the male or female model for you to film? Don't worry, if you don't have anyone to film, then just include yourself inside the video, and it is totally free, also you do not necessary required to show your face as well, here is how you gonna do it.

1. Wear A Cap and Film.

Wearing a cap is also a very great way to film without showing your face. You can just turn away from camera and walking into a school, unique environment, bye-ing a person and etc. ways you can think about.

2. Filming Hands.

This may sounds like your eye is a GoPro, and by filming your hand by showing that you are working on something, also a great ways to film the footage such as cooking, counting money, exchange item, doing house chores, writing, and tones of situation and can film.

3. Film in a Silhouette footage.

This footage means by filming far away or person with rear dark body and great scenery, a also another great ways to film your models or other people without having to show their face on the footage.

4. Illustration effect.

If you can create effects with a computer illustration software such as galaxy, space, universe, and much more is a great footage that not much people can produce, so ensure you learn this great tools without having to filming with your camera.

5. Film Country Flags.

You can film country flags with slow motion, may local business would like to use this great footage especially when they want to focus on topics about countries of their location, and much more.

6. Public Transportation.

Transportation is an important services, as we often talk about stories of one person going from one place to another, so by utilizing transportation as a subject, you would never go wrong.

7. Drone Video.

Filming videos high up from the sky by using drone is even more unique, since you seldom have tones of people flying drone for this kind of purposes, whereby all people only using drones for hobbies, so you can film jungles with tones of trees, flower garden field, while riding a boats, urban buildings, specific location or new city's hotpot location.

8. Pet Footage.

There are tons of commercial needing the footage of pets especially when they need products and service relating to pets, dogs & cats are especially the most common pets.

9. In car footage.

Shooting side mirror with a bright light of sunset behind is also known as great scene for buyers to purchase since it fits well into their videos making, whenever riding a car back from work and more.

10. Universities.

A great and beautiful scene of universities architecture is very preferable by buyers either you are filming during the day times or night time also works.

11. Doing certain types of workout.

Health and wellness is focusing around healthy foods and fitness, thus many workout filmed for stock videos also not quite sufficient, if you have model or you can film yourself doing certain workouts, that can be a very great footage to sell.

12. Techniques.

By including dynamic movement with stabilization benefits, you can reduce shaky videos since it is not wanted. So remember to use higher frame rate settings while filming videos or by having a gimbal (stabilization camera tools), was certainly great for filming videos with auto stabilization. Ensure your video have natural lighting or using your own lighting accessories without adjusting too much on your ISO exposure in camera, since that can cause blurring of videos, ensure you learn this technique too especially in dark filming location.

If you were able to film using a great camera no matter DSLR or smartphone, filming them in 4K is very desired for tones of company, so ensure you don't miss that opportunities too.


Who Will Buy My Stock Videos or Footage?

This is explain before in our previous post when mentioned who is the buyers of our stock photos. We mentioned that blogger, advertising agency, local media, and marketing departments. With stock footage, only blogger less likely to buy stock videos, since they are more in written form with only images. Thus, 3 of above customer left will be much more your biggest target and they spend most of their money buying stock footage for their companies.

The Best Marketplace To Sell Your Stock Footage.

1. Shutterstock.

For footage that were downloaded gives you 30% earning of buying price received by Shutterstock. When you refer someone to join as footage contributor, you earn 10% of the sale price per downloaded clips.

2. Pond5.

This is known as a leading stock video marketplace that can offer very fair and square split on royalties earnings with a 50/50 split. You will not miss from getting reach out by huge amount of stock video buyers.

3. Adobe Stock.

You get millions of buyers here where the return on your effort is higher when compared to other stock footage marketplace, by offering a 35% commission for stock video that you sell..

4. Storyblocks

In this marketplace when your footage was sold, you will earn with a commission at 50% commission.

5. Blackbox.

By uploading to here, your stock footage will be automatically uploaded into Shutterstock, Pond5, Adobe stock and Storyblocks all at once. However you will expect lower earnings from the stock footage sales. For example, a clip sale at $100, agency will get $60, while you as contributor will get $40, but since Blackbox is getting 15% commission of your $40, then you only left with $34. Don't assume it is low, you get much more time back while your clips were being uploaded to 4 big agencies without having you to upload by yourself, also you get more exposure and more sales will achieve faster than you can expect.

Can we partner up with someone in the community?

Yes, you can partner with an editor/curator only in Blackbox, means that your clips uploaded can be helped by someone to help you process your clips with keywords and more, so both of you can share the earnings. You left with more energy to keep shooting your videos then.

You can also partner up with your partner or a studio owner by splitting the revenue where you film your model/actor/partner or by using the studio of that owner. This let both of you earn more passive income while helping and getting others help.

How Much Money Can Make Selling stock Footage.

My top suggested number 1 winner for selling stock footage at marketplace website which you can make up to as much as $3,000 to 4,000 income per month, 6 figure income is possible now passively.

Why People Fail While Selling Stock Footage?

Most people fail selling stock footage is these issues often happened.

1. No system setting, key-wording simply doing it, give up.

Create a constant system to film and upload constantly so that your profile and footage will be search and found easily.

2. Tones of footage not yet uploaded in hard-drive.

You'll never know what kind of your footage is selling, so just cut as much as possible of footage your clips even you think they don't really sell, you do, don't be sceptical because sometime the most not selling item you think will eventually sell most.

3. Not schedule your upload.

Limit yourself how much you are doing a day, 50 clip editing and keywording a day, will takes you 1-2 hours where the rest of you day should focus on filming your footage or maybe you are working 9-5 while hustling this stock footage passive income.

4. Upload fail with problem.

Keyword sometime may show errors, so that you can deal with error of small numbers such as 50 clips uploaded that can be easily instead tracing the 1000 of videos. Deal with small error to ensure no error, before you increase too much works that slows you down.

5. Upload a constant amount of footage without overloading your time.

You are recommended to upload your footage consistently, but ensure to not overload your time because you may get tired doing this and depression may occurs if you get no result. The result definitely will shown for at least 2 months after your stock videos being uploaded.


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