Reimar

A good month by Alamy standards: 12 sales for $550 gross, $199 net.

Poor. 16 sales for $233 gross/ $82 net. Out of 3 other places, Alamy is now my lowest earner.

Some last minutes sales pulled me from the brink. 14 sales for $338/ $130 net. Considering I'm not shooting anymore - after this, everything is gravy.

Is it true that if I have no restrictions on any of my images, I don't need to do anything? I don't think I ever check "editorial only" since I set images without releases as RM, thinking the sales team will set the customer right depending on usage. Can I leave it at that?

Now that we're working again... This appears to be for AI training. No idea how it's calculated. I would have thought it's based on the size of the collection used by an AI company.

Great idea. If you can name names, we'll know the sources your talking about. I think more of that would be useful here, but as you know - Verboten. As for my June, it's the highest this year (not saying much): 8 sales for $418 gross/$193 net.

I just got $43 for "Novel Use AI payments". Did Alamy sell it's content for AI training?

I had 16 sales for $136 net. Alamy is now my lowest earner.

A particularly disappointing month: 5 sales for $19 net. I'm not submitting images anymore, but still... my income from other sites are 20 times that.

From the CLA site: "A CLA Copyright Licence is required if any of your staff make copies from any of the 16 million-plus print or online publications that CLA represents". I guess I'll just keep going with a couple of hundred websites and leave it at that. Oddly, last year I missed the Part 1 entirely, and got the biggest payout from DACS by a large margin. Go figure.

I'm sure this has been discussed, but I couldn't find anything by searching here. Web uses of images seem to be endless now. I'm up to more than 100 for the last two years (I missed 2022 last year), and I'm getting tired. My question is: is this actually useful? I'm assuming that since DACS asks for web usage, it's taken into account. I doubt anyone has empirical evidence, but does anyone have an in at DACS with someone in the know, with some advice?

Another lack-luster month for me: 13 sales for $201/75. 2023 had sales numbers drop from 393 last year to 226, although sales numbers is still trending upwards for the last 10 years. Revenue on the other hand continues to steadily decline over the long term, with $3K less this year than last. I admit that starting with COVID in 2020, my output has dropped substantially. I wish you all a happy New Year.

This used to be poor, but I guess this is normal for me now: 9 sales for $264/104.

I've never had any problem with withholding tax from stock sites (one exception: agefotostock wanted a certificate, so I got one for Spain). For DACS, I seem to need a new certificate for the UK every 5 or more years. It's free, and not too much hassle, but as pointed out: expect a long lead time. I wish I was as generous as you John. In 2020 I tried to get a lousy 33 pounds back from HMRC, when DACS withheld 10%. I could not contact anyone at HMRC about this via e-mail or snail mail. I then tried an online "self-assessment". Big mistake. Now HMRC believes I owe them yearly income tax forms. I am a Canadian taxpayer, so I'm not going to do that. So far, my fines for not filing are about 2000 pounds. Lovely. I guess I'm never going back to the UK.

Another poor month for me: 13 sales for $192/74. DACS was exceptional this year ($$$$) with more than 4 times my normal amount. Especially surprising since I forgot to put together my usage search results for 2022 in time. Go figure.