I went and looked last month when you posted the first notice. The site looks nice. Personally there are too many sites and not much room for someone new to attract buyers. Without buyers, it doesn't matter how good your site is, what you commission is or how great your library is, with the best photographs. No buyers, it's a dead issue.

That's personally, nothing against your trying. I hope you succeed.

I wrote to someone who had footage up there and asked for her experience, but she never replied.

I wonder how your footage price calculator works. I see some old 16mm B&W shots for hundreds of dollars and new stock from names we'd recognize here, for peanuts. I'm kind of mystified by why an old car crash is priced so high?

I do wonder why you didn't just do footage first, since there's much more opportunity in that area. You can always add stills later. I'm looking at it as an identity issue. I mean, why don't you add music and audio, as long as you are diving in. That's supposed to be the largest growth area in the next decade for stock.

If you have a plan that will attract buyers, you're golden. There's no shortage of photos, video, vectors, music or audio to fill the site with quality materials. There's no shortage of artists and contributors. But you have to move the product to make a profit, just like a retail store.

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