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Remember Alamy's Revenue Year for calculating our commission begins on 1st July: “Revenue Year” means the 12 month period starting on the 1 July every year and ending 30 June the following calendar year."

10 licences: $54 net. ($135 gross)

I didn't make a sale for six months after starting here, and several hundred photos, and that was back in 2009 when there were many magnitudes fewer photos on Alamy.

After my shocking January, things could (almost) only get better, and happily they did: 10 sales and 1 infringement ($116/46) thanks to Kay Roxby who found a book with many unreported images, total $249/$100 net.

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Why can't they change it? Do they need to recruit more able programmers? It's not objectively 'normal', many places require payment upfront, and that doesn't necessarily lead to more refunds.

Dire: 5 sales, $42 gross, $17 net.

and thanks for this one too!

Thanks again, Bryan. I've only just seen this. I hope they captioned the photo more accurately than they did the last timethey used it, which was a 'work of creative fiction'.

Hey, WaSo - absolutely 😍 your Wallcreeper photos. That's my current #1 wish bird. I had a thought: as you are in Germany, maybe it would be worth your while to include the German vernacular names for species? I mean, as well as the English vernacular and scientific Latin names, of course. Then if a German buyer was specifically looking for a particular species specificially photographed in Germany (write Deutschland too!), they wouldn't need to search in English.

For sure I uploaded very little in 2020, but actually I haven't uploaded much since August this year because I've been discouraged by lack of sales and my 'other place' is doing better, though of course worse than in the past ... I almost never upload Live News as there's hardly any out in the boonies where I live, and the local papers don't pay for photos, so my new files don't tend to outsell old ones. In fact, apart from repeat uses via the small fee/high sales outlets, most of my sales are one-off sales of older files.

Wow, your chart shows a very steady trajectory - mine are all over the place, especially revenue. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/420ic91s1nso3tm95ga8p/Alamy-charts-to-2023.jpg?rlkey=apserkju8ll28dqiz6vu09vmm&dl=0 (I've forgotten yet again how to get a photo to show directly without a dropbox link. At one time, I remember you could drag and drop, but that doesn't appear to work now ...) If I get time, I'll do my own chart of net revenue, as that's the important one, but I fear it will be very depressing.

9 sales, $123/$45. However one of these was a $20 gross PU sale of a photo of a medicine box, which I'd forgotten to opt out of PU when I uploaded it, so that will surely be refunded. 2023 is my second top selling year (2022 was higher). Net income second lowest (2022 was lower) because in previous years when the gross was lower, our percentage was higher. So ... better than last year. Oh well.

Nice photos, as said already, but you have irrelevant keywords in lots of your files. You should almost always only keyword what you can see in the image. For example, you have a nice, tight portrait of a seal with a defocussed background #2TCMY6W. However, you have many keywords which can't be seen in the image, e.g. beach, beachy, beachside, coast, deserted, intertidal zone, littoral zone, mudflats, mudflat, sandy, sea, seacoast, seashore, shallow water zone, shore, shoreline, social, tidal flats, tide zone, unpeopled, wash margin. All of these may be relevant to where you shot the photo, but if someone types in, for example, deserted coast, or 'sea', do you think they want to see a seal profile? Many of these would be relevant in a wider shot, of course. Your photos are good, but you're not doing yourself, or all of us, any favours if you spam keywords. I can't imagine any other agencies appreciate the irrelevant keywords either. (Could it be a problem of either batch keywording a group of images to save time, then not going through them individually? Or using a 'keywording tool'?) Luckily on Alamy, unlike my 'other place', we can go in and edit our files after submission. Good luck, you've got few enough images up so far that it wouldn't be too onerous a task for the long, dark nights.

Ah, sorry, I misinterpreted what you wrote. I interpreted it as an infringement of Alamy's T&C, i.e. "pay for what you use" rather than an infringement of your copyright, e.g. by lifting your file from a legitimate buyer, or from Alamy with a watermark.