If you’re an iStock contributor, you likely got an email from Getty on recently headlined “2023 iStock Exclusive Download Targets and Rate Card” — here’s what it’s all about. In a nutshell, iStock pays different royalty percentages based on the number of downloads you’ve reached during the calendar year.. …

When people ask me what trends to get on with selling stock video, my usual answer is that if you’re shooting for a trend, you’ve already missed it. …

Wow. I just came back and read this again, 5 years after reading it for the first time. If this article was relevant then, it's 1000x more applicable now. Great reminders of the changing roles of production creatives.

… is getting stuck in a rut of being the same person for the next 30 years of my life.

Creativity flows cyclically, like all of life. Spring and summer, bursting with energy and growth and variety. Autumn, which brings maturity and a contemplative sense of depth. And winter, where it is cold and brown and frozen. Then, all over again, comes spring.

I woke up. Where am I? I thought — not surprising, since I definitely didn’t know where I was. The strangest things can happen on 3-hour tour cruises. Anyway, here I was. I sat up (not too quickly, because my leg hurt) and looked in front of me. Sand was…