Vloggi logo
  • Case Study page
  • Blog
  • Free eBooks
  • FAQs
  • Help Center
Menu
  • Case Study page
  • Blog
  • Free eBooks
  • FAQs
  • Help Center
  • Features
  • Uses
    • Video messages
    • Communities
    • Video advocacy campaigns
    • Video Testimonials
    • Video Contests
    • Event videos
  • Pricing
  • Success Stories
  • About
  • Resources
    • Blog
    • Case Studies
    • Free eBooks
    • FAQs
Menu
  • Features
  • Uses
    • Video messages
    • Communities
    • Video advocacy campaigns
    • Video Testimonials
    • Video Contests
    • Event videos
  • Pricing
  • Success Stories
  • About
  • Resources
    • Blog
    • Case Studies
    • Free eBooks
    • FAQs
GET STARTED
Login

Why Travel Bloggers Need a Side Hustle & Where to Find One?

Why Travel Bloggers Need a Side Hustle & Where to Find One?

cine souk vlogger
Written by Justin Wastnage
on May 22, 2017

A recent survey from the Professional Travel Bloggers' Association revealed what everyone in travel blogging already knew: That too few people are making any serious money from their work.

The survey, What Travel Bloggers REALLY Charge, took in the responses from 120 working travel bloggers. It found that for most supplement poor paying, but reliable travel writing with a host of other, more ephemeral roles such as brand ambassadorships, social media curation and even modelling.

Ciné Souk surveyed its own roster of freelance filmmakers in March to understand the pay expectations of an Australian working travel journalist. The target earning of A$450 per day (US$375) is roughly in line with the PTBA's own survey. 

Yet unlike staff travel journalists, whose ranks are rapidly depleting, nearly half the freelance travel bloggers surveyed by PBTA do not charge to go on a trip where all expenses are paid. Instead, they have to rely on resale of their tales or other sponsorship options. 

Digital influencer agencies are also gaining a foothold in the new gig economy.  Of the US$2000 often charged by bloggers to spruik a brand, roughly 15-25% is creamed off by talent agencies. 

Worse still, follower fatigue has set-in. Fashion bloggers are being asked to prove their followers are real, a trend that will flow on to travel. 

In the old days travel journalists used to supplement their income through photography sales. Instagram kinda killed that, prompting the shift to Instagram sponsored content. 

Video footage sales are still lucrative, but the effort required to shoot, edit and upload good video is still a barrier for many. There are only 5% as many travel videographers as there are bloggers.

So that's why we created Vloggi, the world easiest video blog publishing tool. The simple interface captures, combines and captions video into 10-second montages. These then either stand alone as stock footage for re-sale or form the building blocks of a longer, themed video blogs. 

Unlike stock video libraries, however, Vloggi is commissionable. We're working with around 150 tourism boards and travel industry companies on assignments that utilise Vloggi's power to create unique mosaics of travel video content from a single trip. 

Our aim is to create a new income stream for travel bloggers, writers and photographers. We want vlogging to be so easy that you can do it alongside your existing commitments. 

We have 200 founding filmmakers so far and we're now opening up our register to our next wave of vloggers.

Launching in June, we're capping our registered user base at 1000 for beta testing phase. 

Want to read similar posts?

Read our tips on how to maximise user-generated video in your content marketing strategy

Downloading from YouTube illegal

Downloading and re-using user-generated video – what marketers need to know

Justin Wastnage June 16, 2022

Video marketing is booming. 2022 saw a 22% increase in digital marketing over the year before, and much of this is using user-generated or influencer

Read more »
Vloggi video contests

How brands are replacing repurposing with video contests in 2022

Justin Wastnage June 1, 2022

In today’s social media-centered world, almost every marketing team has a user-generated content strategy. Or is planning one. This is chiefly because UGC is so

Read more »
Media release - new Vloggi strategic investor plus revenue growth

Media release: Vloggi secures ex-Atlassian as investor, 212% revenue growth, hits project milestone

David Binning May 27, 2022

New strategic investor commits to Vloggi’s scale-up plan as video submission platform records record 3-month revenue growth and project milestone Launched in 2021, Vloggi saw

Read more »

Keep up to date

Subscribe to the Vloggi newsletter to get video campaign marketing tips, product updates and news.

ABOUT US
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Investor information
  • Media releases
  • Media coverage
  • Affiliate program
Menu
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Investor information
  • Media releases
  • Media coverage
  • Affiliate program
Vloggi Resources
  • Case Study page
  • Blog
  • Free eBooks
  • FAQs
  • Help Center
Menu
  • Case Study page
  • Blog
  • Free eBooks
  • FAQs
  • Help Center
VLOGGI platform features
  • Vloggi Integrate – API video automation
  • Video Branding
  • Collect Video Submissions
  • Build a Content Library
  • Social Proof
Menu
  • Vloggi Integrate – API video automation
  • Video Branding
  • Collect Video Submissions
  • Build a Content Library
  • Social Proof
contact us

[email protected]


11 York St, Sydney AU-2000

Twitter Facebook-f Linkedin Instagram
Vloggi logo

Copyright © 2022 Vloggi Pty Ltd. All rights reserved.
Vloggi® is a registered trademark of Ciné Souk Pty Ltd