meanderingemu

same here, 5 licences in first half, and now zilch, plus zero known/found licences that I am expecting...

one quick thing i notice, you seem to be using a non optimal Caption format for Alamy which may affect your sales here is one example Image ID: 2DB75TB "The Elephant House coffee house at Edinburgh, famous for being one of the places where JK Rowling wrote the Harry Pott" You are not using the full 150 characters allowed, and truncating the end of the description, in this case not getting optimal placement for someone looking for "Harry Potter", Many words i would also consider less likely to be search hits are used in there if you are low on characters. I think this is another weakness of using a same approach for all. Each site has different optimisation process, if the goal is to optimise sale it should lead to an adapted approach.

ok makes sense

OK, i understand that, but you have images uploaded last month, eleven years after joining. this wouldn't be worth my effort to make in a couple of month what you make in a day elsewhere. I know the places that didn't deliver for me i stopped making any upload efforts.

so why do they come here then? this is what i don't get. Why waste time and energy cultivating your images for Alamy's market if it takes you months to make what you do in a day at MS site?

but do we see any evidence of that. I have looked around, and i don't see the huge package deal of images that creates these $0.25 fees being offered by Alamy. Yes there are some 25 images package available but that doesn't get you into MS territory. This is why i am still calling on the @Alamy team to give some clarity where these are coming from. I remember a while ago when they had the deal with a company that was doing some AI testing and this is the only time i remember going sub-Culture prices.

oh course they do, their goal is towards shareholders.

But you can still upload them as stock and you don't get that label, same as with Live News. Using reportage is to avoid QC, so it would require the label.

but still not addressed by @Alamy, so worth adding any new ones that come up.

any specific reason you want to change it? Not sure i understand why it would be an issue.

i guess i misjudge the background to be a glacier on my phone. thanks

in addition to above, I would also include "striation" in KW

nice. didn't need the video so settled on the XT-3. Nice getting the zoom half price. I keep checking around. QUick Note @Simon, two of your "Sunrise with church and river" from Live News on 17th have no captions....

We do see if some of the filters were used: DT, WOP,, etc. i had 5 images all labelled similarly. How could any of these affect the fact client only got to see one? it should have been 0 or 5

which actually brings an issue i noticed recently it's not only about the day before uploads) A client did a search for "National Arts Centre ottawa" and got according to AoA 39 results, client even did it twice probably figuring out this was low, by Capitalizing and then not "Ottawa" (no impact on search). When i do the search there is over 100 images that match that come out. This is not the first such occurrence i've noticed recently. @Alamyin case developers are not aware of this issue. i loss potential sale (only one hit, when i should have 5) but maybe so did Alamy, as sadly you get some false positive due to a couple news event that happened close by

can't remember last cheque is got. Probably final payout from my mom's estate. In fact was talking to someone, i have not got to an ATM once since May.... i think i have a $20 bill somewhere but i've not used cash in so long

you guys still get actual physical cheques? 😉

can see 1551 images for you, so looks like still missing one compared to blue number

took a while but mine are up... still look like it's catching up, over the last hour

in fairness Ottawa has been tropical by its own standards. The -20C is only with windchill factor. I don't think we have had any thing colder so far. The are however expecting Polar vortex impact in February... but the sun light today is lovely, well bundled up it was a nice walk....

curious what are the Size requirement for archival route? do you still need 3000*2000 (or equivalent) ?

Thanks Shannon, actually this is the first acknowledgement of this problem even though we have reported it for months, so it's good to know it is being worked on, much appreciated.

plus you get spring earlier than most of us.... -20C today, but bright sunshine

as i reported in other thread, my blue number has now gone up yesterday, and today, without a new image appearing for sale. I don't remember seeing this before, two updates of server in, but image not appearing..... Elizabeth, when you have a break between locking S****** posts, can you send a note to the server team @Alamy

we shouldn't have to whinge though.... I have 2 sales past their 4 months to clear (one closing on a year), both from the same news organisation, a three letter acronym in the UK. ok so i'm whinging.