Financially fine, ethically not Pond5 teamed up with generative ai databases without explicit consent from their artists. I do not trust them as a business. Their financial practices have been fine, but I cannot trust a marketplace for artists that will team up with genAI projects without prior consent from the artists on the platform.

I hope to be able to sell my video work… I hope to be able to sell my video work on Pond5 so that I can earn additional income for my daughter who is going to college. Thanks.

P.R.O. are not worth the hassle Great service in general, love it! For the music part, it is hard to search for music, as defined in the system. It's also hard to get into the cart when you have a subscription, where it's the easiest place you can store the songs you want to download. Finally, for the P.R.O. songs, the Youtube AdRev system is very quick to flag a problem (in the 20-30 minutes typically), but the "will quickly resolve" can take actual DAYS, leading to delays to publish or demonetization (my first P.R.O. purchase got demonetized on Monday 6:30AM, and as of Tuesday 10:30PM, it's still not resolved - remember, I purchased the license for that piece of music!). My first experience with P.R.O. purchase will probably be the last due to that, unless they all use their "AdRev tag" system, and it's not possible to know which song has this available until purchase. So I will never take P.R.O. songs for BGM anymore. Too bad because they are great artists and I'm all for artists receiving their fair share (hence me using a service such as Pond5 in the first place)

It helped greatly to download the two… It helped greatly to download the two clips with the pond 5 logo bug so that I could test it with music and sound effects to see if would work in the time slot that I had for it. It was easy and straight forward to purchase and upgraded the film right away. Just what I needed!

been using pond 5 for 4 years now and… been using pond 5 for 4 years now and it's by far the best platform for video content creators on the net