Tagging & Pricing Your Files

Editing Your Uploads

To edit your uploads, log in to your account, get to your dashboard, and click on "UPLOADS."

You'll observe an "EDIT" button next to each item yous've uploaded. Clicking this will take you to the "Edit Item" page, where you tin can update your metadata (run across fields below for each media type). You can besides update the title, clarification, keywords and cost from "My Uploads" by clicking on each of these fields.

Footage metadata

      • Championship (required)
      • Clarification (optional)
      • Keywords (required)
      • Camera model or software used (optional)
      • Engagement Created (optional)
      • Location City (optional)
      • State (optional)
      • Image Credit (optional) – name of creative person/copyright owner
      • Pricing (required)

Adding Titles

In the "Title" field, enter a precise and descriptive title, 40-eighty characters long, in English. (e.g. "African Oystercatcher Bird Feeding in Estuary, Eats Worm, 4K").

If y'all're adding a title for editorial content, please utilise the following format:
Metropolis, Country – Calendar month/DAY/Twelvemonth: Factual clarification of the prototype content (eastward.grand. "PRAGUE, Czechia – 05/11/2017: Runners at Prague City Half Marathon"). So roll down to "Curator Notes" and exit a notation for the curator indicating that the clip should be marked Editorial Use Only.

Setting Your Cost

You have the freedom to set your own prices for your media, and you'll earn an industry-leading committee on all sales.

If you're unsure about how to price your files, yous can change the Pricing Method to "Allow POND5 Ready MY PRICE" and we'll take care of it for you. Y'all can always modify the prices later on if you lot want to experiment with different toll points.

Selecting Keywords

You can add up to 50 keywords to draw each uploaded file (the minimum is 5), but you'll reach the all-time level of performance with 10-20 descriptive and precise keywords. Blazon in a search word to add together a keyword and select information technology from the drib-down carte du jour or hit "Enter" to add information technology.

Using Car-Tagging

Pond5 uses image-recognition software that can generate keywords automatically for your uploaded media. Please review all auto-generated keywords and remove any that don't apply.

Note: You can disable Automatically Suggested Keywords on your Preferences page.

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Preparing Titles

Proficient titles are an incredibly effective means of gaining traffic to your content, and thus, a not bad way of increasing your sales. In social club to get the most of your titles and to have your items approved, follow these tips:

  • Utilize descriptive titles. Giving your content engaging, unique, descriptive titles greatly improves the likelihood of it being seen. For case, the title "African Oystercatcher Bird Feeding in Estuary, Eats Worm, 4K" identifies the precise species of animal, the activity that it's engaged in, where the footage was shot, and the quality of the footage. This is much more than enticing, interesting, and unique than a video simply titled "Bird in the Water," which would get far less traffic.
  • Each item should have a unique title. We understand that this can be difficult with a lot of items showing the same content, but slight variances and using synonyms will allow more content to stand out in the search results.
  • Be precise. Proceed it readable, concise, and to the indicate.
  • Stick to the ideal length. This is xl-60 characters (maximum is 80 characters).
  • Use English language titles. Follow this dominion unless yous're referring to particular places or objects with names that are more likely to exist searched for in their native language.
  • Editorial video/photo titles need an editorial caption. The format for this is: CITY, COUNTRY – Month/Solar day/Year: Factual description of the image content.

Things to avoid:

  • Do not use any number codes in your titles. You tin keep track of your items in the My Uploads surface area under the "Tech Data" tab, so numbering clips for personal reference are not necessary. (Case of incorrect titles: Pink Flamingo 001, Pink Flamingo 002, etc.)
  • Practise non utilize file extensions. These include .mov or .jpg and should non be a role of your titles.
  • Exercise not echo one word several times. This does not help your items in the search results; in fact, it does the opposite.
  • Spelling mistakes. We are not spellchecking your title, description, and keywords (yet), so please make sure your spelling is right. A uncomplicated, free spellchecking tool similar Grammarly can work wonders.

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Preparing Keywords

Keywords are words that are used as identifiers or labels for your media files. You can add up to 50 keywords to describe each uploaded file. The better you keyword your files with useful information, the easier information technology is for buyers to find and purchase them. The minimum is 5 keywords, but you'll reach the best performance with x-twenty descriptive keywords.

Don't use "spam" keywords hoping for improve search results, as irrelevant tags will damage your clip functioning. Trying to game the organisation by filling your keywords or clip titles with popular search terms unrelated to your media will actually cause your files to sink in the search ranking.

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Preparing Model and Property Releases

Model and belongings releases are required for all media to be sold every bit cleared for commercial employ. Model and/or holding releases may not be necessary for media intended for editorial apply (see below).

Model Release

  • Required for each recognizable individual
  • Required for recognizable voices
  • Must include a recognizable photo of the model that is not a frame grab of the model from the item submission itself

Belongings Release

  • Required if a recognizable landmark, building, or property appears in the piece of work
  • Required if copyrighted music/sounds are in an audio rails
  • Required if media contains trademarks, logos, or brands

You lot tin can find our standard Model Release hither and our Property Release here. It is not required that you utilize our releases for the media you upload, but if you use a different release, it must comprise essentially the same information.

Acceptable formats of signed releases:

  • JPG
  • PDF
  • Medico
  • TIF

Note: Release files must be at least 5KB in size.

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Attaching Model and Property Releases

At that place are 2 steps in assuring you have appropriate releases on Pond5 – upload your release and adhere the release you uploaded to your media.

Uploading Releases Via Browser

  • Log into your account > Hover cursor over account avatar > Click on Uploads > Releases

Uploading Releases Via FTP

  • Log into the FTP every bit y'all ordinarily would when you upload media.
  • Create a root directory releases, if you lot practice not see one already there already

  • Elevate and drop your release files within the HTML5 uploader surface area or inside the releases folder of the FTP.

Release files are commonly small file sizes, so the upload will finish almost instantly.

After you've uploaded the attachments, they will hover in your FTP releases folder for typically 2-10 minutes, depending on the FTP server load.

When the upload is finished, you should meet the files that uploaded successfully in your Releases page.

Attaching Releases To Files

When your releases are uploaded and registered by the database, you can and then adhere them to your files.

  • Log into your business relationship > Hover cursor over business relationship avatar > Click on Uploads
  • Select the file the release volition exist applied to
  • Scroll downward to Deportment:
  • Cull attach release from the drop-downward
  • Select the respective release from the drop-downwards menu
    • If your list of releases is besides long to ringlet through in the drop-downwardly, but type the first few letters of the release filename in the Filter field and hit Update. Then select the relevant release file from the drib-down menu and
  • Click Execute
  • A pop-upwardly confirmation window will announced if the attachment of your release file(s) is successful

Checking Attached Releases

You can verify how many releases are fastened to your prune(s) past refreshing the Uploads folio.

  • Find Prune Details tab
  • Under the Attachments column the number next to the attachment icon indicates how many releases take been associated with your clip.
  • To bank check which release is attached to a specific clip, hover cursor over the number adjacent to attachment icon and click. A list of the release filenames volition display.

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Pricing

You have the liberty to set your own prices for your media, and yous'll earn an industry-leading commission on all sales.

For pricing recommendations, please visit our Data & Trends section.

If you prefer that Pond5 handle your pricing, you can change the Pricing Method on your Uploads page to "Permit POND5 SET MY PRICE" and we'll price your content to optimize sales.

When you lot get a sale, we will notify you lot via email, and one time your balance reaches the payout limit, we will issue payment via the payout method selected in your business relationship. Payouts are processed on the 15th of every month.

Best Practices:

Nosotros recommend that one time y'all prepare a price for your content and start making sales, to keep your content at the original price you've set up. Our data shows that increasing your price after making sales really lessens the chance to make echo sales.

If you are a Non-Exclusive video contributor, we ask that you lot abide by the guidelines in our Contributor Agreement and not price your content higher than the standard market rate on competing marketplaces ($79 for Hd and $179 for 4K).

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Setting Thumbnail Image

To ready the thumbnail for your file, select the media file(s) to alter on yourUploads page by checking the box(es).

From theDeportment dropdown, selectChange Thumbnail

From the lightbox, select the desired imaged and hitSubmit

OR

From the edit detail page find theThumbnail sectionand click on the image desired.

When you are finished with your edits, clickSalvageorSave And Submit For Review.

Note: It might take up to 24 hours for you to run into bodily changes on the site due to caching.

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Sending Files to Curation

Saving Changes and Submitting for Review

Once all of the information is added to your file on the "Edit Item" folio, you can salvage information technology and send it to our curators for review.

  • If you only want to save your edits and ship your item for review later on, but click "SAVE CHANGES."
  • If you want to relieve your edits and ship your particular for review right away, click "Salve AND SUBMIT FOR REVIEW."

Annotation: If your edits volition not save or you receive an error, you may be missing a required field. Delight make sure that all the required fields are filled in.

To transport multiple items for a review in a batch:

Get to My Uploads page and mark all the items you want to send for review, then scroll down to "Deportment" at the bottom of the folio, choose "SUBMIT" and click "EXECUTE" .

Once you've sent your media for review, the status of your upload will alter to "Pending Review" .

Your file is then added to our curator queue for review. Our review system sorts uploads by order of submission. Please give our curators time to advisedly review your uploads. Review time may vary depending on media type, the size of your submission, and the number of submissions ahead of yous.

After your submission has been reviewed, you'll receive an email with information on the curation results. Your files will be either accustomed, returned to you for edits, or rejected with an explanation as to why. You can likewise find these details on your Uploads page next to each item, and use filters to sort by different statuses.

Notation: It may take upward to 24 hours to run into your accepted files online in the Pond5 market.

Rejected Files

Our curators base their assessment of files on many dissimilar factors. For example, our curators may decide that the content is besides depression-quality, or that our library already has also many like files. You lot will always receive a message from our curators regarding the reason for any rejected files.

If y'all feel like your files take been rejected for an improper reason, please contact us at back up@pond5.com and include file ID numbers so we can look into the specific files in question.

For more than data on whatever of the topics covered in this mail service, contact Customer Support at back up@pond5.com.

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Downloading a CSV of Uploaded Items

CSV stands for "Comma Separated Value". It's substantially a text file, merely you can use any spreadsheet editor – including Excel, OpenOffice, or Google Docs to edit it.

Download the CSV file.

You can download a CSV file list all your uploaded items.

Log into your account > Hover cursor over account avatar  > Click onUploads >Employ CSV

Click on "Apply CSV".

Identify the type of media you are working with, click the respective tab and click Download CSV.

When you click the Download CSV button, a file with an extension .csv will be downloaded to your reckoner. This is essentially a text file simply you can use Excel or the costlessOpenOffice to work on the data in a spreadsheet mode which is a much simpler way to work with mass data.

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Calculation Metadata in Bulk Using CSV

CSV files allow you to add together metadata to multiple uploads with one master file, saving a significant amount of time. CSV stands for "Comma Separated Value," and these are essentially text files. Y'all can use any spreadsheet editor, including Excel, OpenOffice, or Google Docs to edit them.

You can start from a blank file if you want to prepare your metadata earlier the actual upload of your media to Pond5. Just download our CSV template here.

If yous open the downloaded .csv file in OpenOffice, it will most likely look like a compressed text file with one file per row (1 prune, 1 audio file, etc.) separated by commas. To ready this view:

  • Select all the data by clicking on the column marking (due east.g. Column A) and go to the top bill of fare. Select "Data," and then "TEXT TO COLUMNS." This will pull up a wizard window.
  • Ensure DELIMITED is marked and click "NEXT"
  • Select "COMMA" and click "Cease"

The spreadsheet is laid out and then that the first row is the header/name of the information fields y'all desire to adjust; these column names are completely case insensitive. The remaining rows are one row of information per clip.

Fill the spreadsheet with all/some of the following information:

  • OriginalFilename – This is the filename your file was uploaded equally (with file extension)
  • Title – Add together a descriptive championship with an lxxx graphic symbol limit
  • Description – Add together a clarification with a 200 character limit
  • Keywords – Add x-50 accurate and relevant keywords, separated by commas
  • Urban center, Country – Tell united states of america where was the footage shot
  • Release – State the filename of a release that y'all have already uploaded on Pond5, with extension separated past commas
  • Specifysource – Specify camera model
  • Setpriceforme – Write ane if you want our curators to set the price for you; otherwise, leave the prison cell empty
  • Toll – Prepare the cost for the original size/file in US$
  • Pricelarge – A 4K file will exist automatically downconverted to a Hd version. Hither, you tin set the price for this HD version if yous don't want to use the auto-pricing function
  • Copyright – Country the copyright owner

Notation: Mandatory fields for CSVs are Originalfilename, Title, and Keywords. All other fields are optional.

The general recommendation is to delete from your CSV file all of the columns and rows you lot are non planning to update and go along the file slim. This will assist to avoid errors caused by shifted columns/rows.

Keep a copy of your originally downloaded, unmodified CSV file saved on your computer in case your modifications are not recognized. That way you tin can but utilize the original file to restore the data as it was initially.

When saving a modified CSV file, it's important to pay attention to how information technology's saved. To save a spreadsheet as a CSV using OpenOffice:

  • Go to Menu > FILE > SAVE Every bit > Text CSV (.csv) > Go along CURRENT FORMAT
  • This will open a small pop-upwards window request for details. Verify that the file is being saved as the following:
    • Grapheme fix: Unicode (UTF-8)
    • Field delimeter: , (comma)
    • Text delimeter: " (quotation mark)

Once your metadata CSV is gear up, you can upload it via the APPLY CSV folio.

For more data on anything covered in this post, contact Customer Support at back up@pond5.com.

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Problems with Saving Metadata

Pond5 uses paradigm-recognition software that can generate keywords automatically to your uploaded media.

Nosotros are extremely proud to be the beginning market place to employ innovative Artificial Neural Networks and brand machine-tagging bachelor to you lot. Like the human brain, the more yous use the motorcar-tagging tool the more than efficient and effective information technology becomes.

Using Motorcar-Tagging

  • Navigate to yourUploads page, where y'all can add metadata to your uploaded files
  • Click on theEdit or Needs Edits button, which volition direct you to theEdit Particular page

  • Scroll toKeywordsto find our suggested tags

  • ReviewKeywords
  • To aggrandize, manually remove or add tags
  • Confirm and clickSalvage Changes and Submit for Review

Using Only Your Created Keywords

If yous adopt, you practise have the selection to continue to rely exclusively on the keywords that you create.

  • Apply a CSV file containing only the keywords you have created
  • Edit items straight from yourUploads page before you visit the Edit Item page.
  • Disable the Automatically Suggested Keywords on the My Preferences  page.

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