Andreas

28 gross

Let Alamy do the job - even a small business is, well, a business. And basic copyright knowledge is usually existent.

VW factory , Wolfsburg. Usage: Commercial Standard, Commercial Standard License for single project use, worldwide all media. Allowed usage: commercial website and social media, internal business use, pitch presentations. Start: 01 October 2024 Duration: In perpetuity mid $$

same as above ... two more and I order a coffee ...

Personal use, Bildpaket für eigennutzung Media: All media Start: 01 August 2024 End: 01 August 2025 3$ gross ...... #&%

Marketing package, low $$$ standard price. Checking this post from time to time, store fronts, signposts and similar sell better than my drone shots. But drone shots are much more fun.

Country: Japan Usage: Editorial Media: Book, print and/or e-book Print run: up to 5,000 Even though I opted out of distribution in April this year, a distribution sale leaving me a share of ~24%. Positive: drone pictures start selling. Worth the effort - probably not.

Additional note: I ran a test 'Norway Hardangerfjord' where I have a large portfolio of waterfalls, apple farms, boats, snowy mountains, drone shots .... Eleven pictures of my portfolio on the first two pages is ok - but, ten of the pics have only one subject, the Hardanger bridge. Diversity is overrated ........

Changing the sort order to newest changes the result, sure -but if a customer uses just the default search option the offered selection shows mainly old pictures. And prefers the rare ones, which does not make much sense. Rainy day, dull, take a photo - Alamy shows it first. Alamy ran some tests with AI ... not sure what the status is. In my example above, the first 4 pages showed 45 pictures of the marble caves, a rock formation in a lake. A lot of them overexposed, dull color, not really appealing. I wonder if the decreasing sales reported e.g. in the 'how was your .... ' section are caused by limitations of the search.

I just checked how pictures from my last travel to Chile are listed, search term example 'Chile Carretera Austral' (major road in Patagonia), All types, sort by relevant. I travelled to Chile earlier in 2017, in 2023 I concentrated on drone shots. On the first 4 pages I found 18 of my Chile files, only 6 new ones created 2023. My first drone shots of 2023 show up on page 13, 18, 19 - one each. Most drone shots uploaded March-May, > 200. I was quite lucky with the weather the first weeks, made a couple of good shots. Looks like Alamy search follows the 'Oldies are Goldies' logic. And, if a subject is rare within a photographers collection, prefer it. Which is somehow meaningless - if the weather is good a photographer shoots as much as possible, different angles, different times of day. If the weather is bad, its not a day to shoot much for stock. Question: do you notice similar behavior ? Oldies are Goldies, rare is beautiful ?

Not worth to mention - 3 sales for 28 gross, slow year overall. Looks like a dead business.

Hi, since 2-3 days I have issues to upload small number of images (40-50). Upload starts, but runs for an hour uploading only a couple of pictures. I use firefox on win 10 pro. Internet connection test works perfect. Anybody else having this issue ? I would contact Alamy, but as its weekend I try my luck here.

Web & social media, $

Country: Worldwide Usage: Single company - multiple use editorial only Industry sector: Media, design & publishing Start: 12 February 2024 Duration: Unlimited Mid $$ This friendly guy now finishes his bachelor ... time flies Picture sold from time to time

I started the survey but quit, reasons: - they want information about competing agencies I deliver to (how alamy compares with regard to number of sales/revunue/earning per image). Thats nothing I want to share. - I dont expect any changes based on this survey. One major change thats requested by contributors - and market standard - is not to give hi res images for 10 $. All major agencies I know sell in different sizes, the Alamy model invites for abuse, de-motivating. - they ask for information they have (if I answer correctly with my email adresss used for communication): how long I'm with Alamy, upload frequency, commission model. Its an easy task for a database anaylist, first year on school, to combine this information. More precise than based on contributors memory. But main reason is the 2. one.