$3K/Month Passive Income Strategy with Shutterstock and Pond5: How to Monetize Your Photography

Make over $3,000/month in PASSIVE INCOME in 2025. Here’s how I make the bulk of my passive income–how I made my time more efficient, increased my wage per hour, what equipment I use, what shots sell the best, etc..

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The stock photography game has changed drastically in the last 20 years—even the last 3-5 years have seen a massive shift in favor of the stock agencies against producers. Shutterstock is paying as little as $0.10 for photo sales and other agencies are following suit.

But there’s still money in stock media—in video. My average video nets me around $20 vs photos at around $0.30. It’s simple supply and demand. The market is flooded with stock photos when there’s a growing demand for high quality video.

UPDATED VIDEO for 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijf38Hi2mPU

My main company: https://lilassistance.com

7.5 other ways to make PASSIVE INCOME: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL-dS8iYXIo

Camera I film with: https://amzn.to/3ktmdY9
Main lens: https://amzn.to/36Kkjdu

Cheaper camera you can definitely make stock video with: https://amzn.to/3ieCMV2

Family travel channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9g6saB5bvOWeIGGnq8Ecpg

Kid o Click (kid's tech channel): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiL4V-q-IJI4hfH0cFX8DcA

Kids Educational company, Learning Tail: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGrd13BHmWj0AYPPt_twco

00:00 Intro
1:24 What is stock media? (Stock photos, stock videos)
1:50 Why you SHOULD’T do stock photography
4:10 Stock media can help you live in the moment
4:58 It’s all about consistency, like everything else in life
5:39 Quantity over quality—produce more, faster
7:54 Headed to Cambridge for my sister’s graduation
9:00 What equipment do you need to make money?
11:22 What type of shots sell best?
14:02 Film EVERYTHING
15:02 While filming everything, don’t forget to live
16:32 Why I do it
18:07 How much a shoot or clip pays?
19:36 How to bulk edit stock footage
22:04 How to bulk title and keyword Stock videos