Stock Footage News
By Gary Isaacson for www.worlclips.tv
2011
Nov 12
We are making some more changes at www.WorldClips.TV
We make no claim to be wizards in the obscure world of search engine alchemy. We produce beautiful video and offer it as free stock footage. That's good enough for us, but because there seems to be an understanding gap between our world and the search engine world, we have been bunched with stock footage companies that offer "royalty-free" clips, which of course anyone in our world knows are anything but free. We're tired of trying to explain it, so we've hired a company that speaks search enginese. They have us making lots of changes to make us easier for Google and others to read. As it turns out, the changes turned out looking pretty good, though I miss the Flash montage. Apparently Google doesn't like Flash any more than Apple. Oh well, I'm not too old to change, though I sure miss the 20th century. Television used to be the most fun a producer could have with his clothes on. The internet, not so much. Hope you like the changes and the faster loading speed.
Yes, there’s something very different about our website. In addition to our own advertisers, we have joined Google AdSense. I had my reservations about turning over control of any part of my website, but what Google does is amazing. They are not putting up unrelated or embarrassing ads, rather, they seem to have perfect pitch. The pitches they are putting up are perfect. Glad I took the chance and you guys can help me provide more free video clips by clicking through to the ads Google is putting up. Thanks, Gary
July 29
When you try anything new there is a learning curve. We have learned we should have gone with Google from the beginning of our ad-supported business model. What a pleasure it is to deal with such a sane and simple system. Our visitors get less clutter, instant access to other websites that are offering video clips and we are seeing our rankings rise (along with our revenue). So use any of the 5000 clips on our site then click through to the other sites and pick up free clips from them. We don't see them as competitors. They have the same mission as we, to bring high quality stock footage video clips to our users for free. Your click throughs help you, help us and help the other free stock footage sites. So after you've browsed all our stuff and you still can't find that perfect shot (I know, hard to believe) click through to the other guys.
June 14
I know, I don’t write as often as I should.
Actually, I am writing a lot. I am now a regular contributor to www.Newsblaze.com and I’m about to start the third installment of my thiller/comedy series of novels featuring TV guru and part-time CIA operative Alec Timken. WorldClips users will get all the inside video industry jokes I throw in just to amuse myself. My Amazon author page is at
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias=digital-text&field-keywords=Gary+Isaacson&x=0&y=0
So what else is new? The best stuff is our rankings have come flying back after an incident that we still don’t fully understand turned our beloved www.WorldClips.TV into a porn site for nearly two weeks. It’s kinda funny now, but at the time, it really did hurt our rankings.
Last month, we scored an all-time high on www.ranking.com 31,017
We also got our porn-shaken TrustGauge rating back to a 5.
We still have some distance to go. All of the websites ahead of us in search may call themselves “free stock footage”, but they’re not. Giving out one free clip a week and calling yourselves a “free stock footage” website is pretty lame.
www.WorldClips.TV is the one place you need to go for 5000 free stock footage clips, all the time, no gimmicks.
March 8
Hate to make excuses, but boy did having us presented to be a porn site gateway for 20% of the month
hurt us. We thought we had been hacked. Finally got to the bottom of the problem. Thank you enom,
you bastards.
Anyway, as my great-grandmother used to say, "Vat Vas, Vas." I'm sure we will pop back up to the
top rankings now that the problem has been fixed. Besides, rankings don't matter to you our users, our
recent tracking shows you're back. As a free stock footage website, we are unique and unsurpassed,
as a porn site, apparently not so much.
OK, I’m blowing our own horn again. The latest data from ranking.com (the only ranking service that
seems to have a clue what they are doing) had us at a record high for the company, 37,693! This has
been achieved despite all the search engines not having the the correct text describing our website
since we converted to an advertiser-sponsored FREE content download website. We keep trying to
alert them, but no luck so far. They still call us a royalty-free website, not a FREE website. Big
difference. We attribute our success to our customers who are spreading the word to their friends.
We thank you all.
www.WorldClips.TV remains the only totally FREE stock footage download website.
Keep checking in to see what’s new and please click through to our advertisers. They are the ones
who make this business model work and keep all our great content FREE for you.
I write novels as you already know. You may find this story interesting. It appears a couple guys
hacked an IGT slot model and got away with over half a million before being caught. The concept of
a slot programming hack was the principle plot point for my 2007 novel “Game Over”.
Article about my book.
http://www.nogalesinternational.com/articles/2011/02/03/scvsun/news/doc4d497bcde6f40616518063.txt
2010
Dec 23
You guys really have our server humming. More downloads this month than ever before. We would love to post links to some of your work that use our WorldClips. Just let us know your link addresses to your videos on-line by writing us at support@worldclips.tv In the subject line put “Video Links”. Of course you can plug your production company as well as show off your creative genius. It pays to advertise, fortunately for us.
Dec 15
Judging by our continuing climb in the rankings, obviously, you guys are figuring out the difference between real “free stock footage” and “royalty-free stock footage”. Maybe you should explain it to Yahoo and BING. Google updates their search more often and apparently someone there understands a modicum of the difference. Still, it is odd that none of the search engines have their information correct in this industry.
There is no www.autosforfree.com The search engines would know that’s absurd. In our realm of stock footage, they don’t get it.
Let me clear it up for any search engine employee reading this. “Royalty-free stock footage” means rights cleared, but hardly free, in fact generally expensive.
There is only one place on the web that offers 5000 stock footage clips, ready to use even in broadcast that are truly “free stock footage”. That’s us and only us at www.WorldClips.TV
Dec 14
Have you seen our rankings lately? I just checked www.ranking.com and we are now 42,212. That's our highest level yet. Thanks for visiting and downloading our free clips. Remember to check out our advertisers, they are your benefactors!
Dec 13
A very unfunny thing happened to us this weekend. We are still gathering all the details, but it looked as if we were taken over by a porn website. Fortunately, we were able to re-establish our site and are back offering thousands of stock footage clips from all over the world, but no porn.
Oct 7
Have you seen www.WorldClips.TV lately? Man do we have great advertisers. So if
you love our FREE clips, please give our benefactors a click. Not only do we have
the best video equipment and software providers on the web available, but we also
have some of the best travel providers represented. See a place you like from our
videos, then book your trip to that great location right from our website. Try it!
Oct 1
Our rankings are still climbing. Now we're 51,999 on www.ranking.com And
we’ve added many high profile advertising names to our website. Adobe,
MacMall, BestBuy, B&H Photo and NewEgg are just the beginning. Now you
can click and buy video production products and services from the best names
in our industry.
And if you like to travel (and who doesn’t?), soon we will have banners from
some of the best travel providers in the business. Why look at a photos from
a travel book and pay 20 bucks when you could download everything you want
to see on video absolutely free? Those great travel offers will be available in
the next week or so.
Aug 8
All good things come to those who wait...with a great new service. We have been hoping to
crack the top 100,000 websites in the world and the new facts are out on ranking.com We
are now at 62,890 ! Thanks to all of our thousands of new users.
Regards,
Gary
Oh, by the way, my new novel "Crude Customs" is now on Amazon Kindle. Sorry, no discounts for WorldClips users. www.FlyingFishBooks.com and download from Amazon Kindle
May 31
Pretty memorable Memorial day. February Webtrends were finally posted and we now have more unique visitors to www.WorldClips.TV than most video trade magazines have circulation for their magazines. Advertisers are paying ten times our rate card. Try to go to an advertiser website by pressing on a magazine display ad. With us, one click and you're there.
We also know how valuable our free clips can be for web designers. We're getting the word out.
Best Regards,
Gary
April 19
You guys are knocking us out! Our traffic has spiked so much we overloaded our bandwidth this past weekend. We are back up after making the adjustments. Sorry about the inconvenience of our growing pains. Thanks for your visits and I hope you are enjoying your free downloads (and keep checking out our advertiser links, they pay the bills around here!) Regards, Gary
March 11
Wow! www.WorldClips.TV is up 200,000 places on www.ranking.com in one month! Don't think
we can keep climbing at that rate, but we really appreciate all our new users who have
discovered we weren't kidding. It's true. All 5000 of our broadcast quality video clips from
50 world locations can really be yours by direct download totally FREE! We feel like Sally
Field's after winning her first Oscar. "You like us, you really like us!" Let us know if you win
any awards using our clips and we'll spread the word. Good luck!
Thanks and best regards,
Gary
February 1
www.WorldClips.TV - Now its FREE!
WorldClips.TV is 11 years old, the parent company Isaacson Communications, Inc. is 33 years old ...
so how can we claim to be New? Simple, we have reinvented ourselves and maybe with it, the
way millions of people will use stock footage.
Those old enough to remember, know that before there was television,
radio shows were sponsored by advertisers. “Call for Philip Morris!”
Anyone? Before HBO brought pay for programming to cable TV, all content
was sponsored by advertisers.
The towncryer in the Forum probably was sponsored by Roman Meal bread.
Even today, many newspapers and magazines give away text content for
free so as to the sell the advertising around the information.
Good ideas stick around. That business model is still used by today's
search engines. The difference between AdWords on Google and the display
ads in “Poor Richard's Almanac” are technical,not a matter of the business
model.
We are the first stock footage company to give away valuable content so that
we may sell the advertising around the website. And we are among the few who can do it.
ONLY www.WorldClips.TV OWNS all our content.
Most of the big distributors are just middle men who could not giveaway their offering if they wanted to.
Their content belongs to the producers whom they represent and who rightfully expect a percentage
of their sales.
If you've never used stock footage because of cost, the wait is over. Choose from 5000 broadcast
quality QuickTime clips from 50 world locations. They download with ease and import into most
nonlinear editing applications. For you pros who have been paying through the nose for footage,
try free for a change. What have you got to lose?
I know, I don’t write as often as I should.
Actually, I am writing a lot. I am now a regular contributor to www.Newsblaze.com and I’m about to start the third installment of my thiller/comedy series of novels featuring TV guru and part-time CIA operative Alec Timken. WorldClips users will get all the inside video industry jokes I throw in just to amuse myself. My Amazon author page is at
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias=digital-text&field-keywords=Gary+Isaacson&x=0&y=0
So what else is new? The best stuff is our rankings have come flying back after an incident that we still don’t fully understand turned our beloved www.WorldClips.TV into a porn site for nearly two weeks. It’s kinda funny now, but at the time, it really did hurt our rankings.
Last month, we scored an all-time high on www.ranking.com 31,017
We also got our porn-shaken TrustGauge rating back to a 5.
We still have some distance to go. All of the websites ahead of us in search may call themselves “free stock footage”, but they’re not. Giving out one free clip a week and calling yourselves a “free stock footage” website is pretty lame.
www.WorldClips.TV is the one place you need to go for 5000 free stock footage clips, all the time, no gimmicks.
March 8
Hate to make excuses, but boy did having us presented to be a porn site gateway for 20% of the month
hurt us. We thought we had been hacked. Finally got to the bottom of the problem. Thank you enom,
you bastards.
Anyway, as my great-grandmother used to say, "Vat Vas, Vas." I'm sure we will pop back up to the
top rankings now that the problem has been fixed. Besides, rankings don't matter to you our users, our
recent tracking shows you're back. As a free stock footage website, we are unique and unsurpassed,
as a porn site, apparently not so much.
OK, I’m blowing our own horn again. The latest data from ranking.com (the only ranking service that
seems to have a clue what they are doing) had us at a record high for the company, 37,693! This has
been achieved despite all the search engines not having the the correct text describing our website
since we converted to an advertiser-sponsored FREE content download website. We keep trying to
alert them, but no luck so far. They still call us a royalty-free website, not a FREE website. Big
difference. We attribute our success to our customers who are spreading the word to their friends.
We thank you all.
www.WorldClips.TV remains the only totally FREE stock footage download website.
Keep checking in to see what’s new and please click through to our advertisers. They are the ones
who make this business model work and keep all our great content FREE for you.
I write novels as you already know. You may find this story interesting. It appears a couple guys
hacked an IGT slot model and got away with over half a million before being caught. The concept of
a slot programming hack was the principle plot point for my 2007 novel “Game Over”.
Article about my book.
http://www.nogalesinternational.com/articles/2011/02/03/scvsun/news/doc4d497bcde6f40616518063.txt
2010
Dec 23
You guys really have our server humming. More downloads this month than ever before. We would love to post links to some of your work that use our WorldClips. Just let us know your link addresses to your videos on-line by writing us at support@worldclips.tv In the subject line put “Video Links”. Of course you can plug your production company as well as show off your creative genius. It pays to advertise, fortunately for us.
Dec 15
Judging by our continuing climb in the rankings, obviously, you guys are figuring out the difference between real “free stock footage” and “royalty-free stock footage”. Maybe you should explain it to Yahoo and BING. Google updates their search more often and apparently someone there understands a modicum of the difference. Still, it is odd that none of the search engines have their information correct in this industry.
There is no www.autosforfree.com The search engines would know that’s absurd. In our realm of stock footage, they don’t get it.
Let me clear it up for any search engine employee reading this. “Royalty-free stock footage” means rights cleared, but hardly free, in fact generally expensive.
There is only one place on the web that offers 5000 stock footage clips, ready to use even in broadcast that are truly “free stock footage”. That’s us and only us at www.WorldClips.TV
Dec 14
Have you seen our rankings lately? I just checked www.ranking.com and we are now 42,212. That's our highest level yet. Thanks for visiting and downloading our free clips. Remember to check out our advertisers, they are your benefactors!
Dec 13
A very unfunny thing happened to us this weekend. We are still gathering all the details, but it looked as if we were taken over by a porn website. Fortunately, we were able to re-establish our site and are back offering thousands of stock footage clips from all over the world, but no porn.
Oct 7
Have you seen www.WorldClips.TV lately? Man do we have great advertisers. So if
you love our FREE clips, please give our benefactors a click. Not only do we have
the best video equipment and software providers on the web available, but we also
have some of the best travel providers represented. See a place you like from our
videos, then book your trip to that great location right from our website. Try it!
Oct 1
Our rankings are still climbing. Now we're 51,999 on www.ranking.com And
we’ve added many high profile advertising names to our website. Adobe,
MacMall, BestBuy, B&H Photo and NewEgg are just the beginning. Now you
can click and buy video production products and services from the best names
in our industry.
And if you like to travel (and who doesn’t?), soon we will have banners from
some of the best travel providers in the business. Why look at a photos from
a travel book and pay 20 bucks when you could download everything you want
to see on video absolutely free? Those great travel offers will be available in
the next week or so.
Aug 8
All good things come to those who wait...with a great new service. We have been hoping to
crack the top 100,000 websites in the world and the new facts are out on ranking.com We
are now at 62,890 ! Thanks to all of our thousands of new users.
Regards,
Gary
Oh, by the way, my new novel "Crude Customs" is now on Amazon Kindle. Sorry, no discounts for WorldClips users. www.FlyingFishBooks.com and download from Amazon Kindle
May 31
Pretty memorable Memorial day. February Webtrends were finally posted and we now have more unique visitors to www.WorldClips.TV than most video trade magazines have circulation for their magazines. Advertisers are paying ten times our rate card. Try to go to an advertiser website by pressing on a magazine display ad. With us, one click and you're there.
We also know how valuable our free clips can be for web designers. We're getting the word out.
Best Regards,
Gary
April 19
You guys are knocking us out! Our traffic has spiked so much we overloaded our bandwidth this past weekend. We are back up after making the adjustments. Sorry about the inconvenience of our growing pains. Thanks for your visits and I hope you are enjoying your free downloads (and keep checking out our advertiser links, they pay the bills around here!) Regards, Gary
March 11
Wow! www.WorldClips.TV is up 200,000 places on www.ranking.com in one month! Don't think
we can keep climbing at that rate, but we really appreciate all our new users who have
discovered we weren't kidding. It's true. All 5000 of our broadcast quality video clips from
50 world locations can really be yours by direct download totally FREE! We feel like Sally
Field's after winning her first Oscar. "You like us, you really like us!" Let us know if you win
any awards using our clips and we'll spread the word. Good luck!
Thanks and best regards,
Gary
February 1
www.WorldClips.TV - Now its FREE!
WorldClips.TV is 11 years old, the parent company Isaacson Communications, Inc. is 33 years old ...
so how can we claim to be New? Simple, we have reinvented ourselves and maybe with it, the
way millions of people will use stock footage.
Those old enough to remember, know that before there was television,
radio shows were sponsored by advertisers. “Call for Philip Morris!”
Anyone? Before HBO brought pay for programming to cable TV, all content
was sponsored by advertisers.
The towncryer in the Forum probably was sponsored by Roman Meal bread.
Even today, many newspapers and magazines give away text content for
free so as to the sell the advertising around the information.
Good ideas stick around. That business model is still used by today's
search engines. The difference between AdWords on Google and the display
ads in “Poor Richard's Almanac” are technical,not a matter of the business
model.
We are the first stock footage company to give away valuable content so that
we may sell the advertising around the website. And we are among the few who can do it.
ONLY www.WorldClips.TV OWNS all our content.
Most of the big distributors are just middle men who could not giveaway their offering if they wanted to.
Their content belongs to the producers whom they represent and who rightfully expect a percentage
of their sales.
If you've never used stock footage because of cost, the wait is over. Choose from 5000 broadcast
quality QuickTime clips from 50 world locations. They download with ease and import into most
nonlinear editing applications. For you pros who have been paying through the nose for footage,
try free for a change. What have you got to lose?
