Popular Post Reimar Posted February 21, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted February 21, 2019 Well my first sale today netted me 40% of the sale price. One positive: Alamy gave me the push to spread out to other sites. In the end I expect I'll at least double my income. Thanks Alamy. 2 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 I'm sitting at 0% today. Have to admit that I'm not looking forward to seeing that first 40% sale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stipe Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 14 minutes ago, John Mitchell said: Have to admit that I'm not looking forward to seeing that first 40% sale. Well, if it's a few bucks sale you'll not notice the difference that much 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starsphinx Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 24 minutes ago, stipe said: Well, if it's a few bucks sale you'll not notice the difference that much My only sales through Alamy so far have been for under $5 - of which I get $1 for each of them (distributor) so you are absolutely right I will not notice the difference on any more of those lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.Chapman Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 6 hours ago, Reimar said: One positive: Alamy gave me the push to spread out to other sites. In the end I expect I'll at least double my income. Thanks Alamy. Same here. Not their smartest move IMHO. Mark 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_rabe Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 I think I'll be a mix moving forward. I have another agency that accepts editorial, so they will get first dibs on some (some will only ever go straight on here) For content on here, I am going to experiment with a mix of RF and RM - all editorial as RM. But any content I put as RF, I don't think I will mark as exclusive. And those RF files will find a broader distribution, probably including micro, so losing a little on them won't make much difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 As far as 50% goes there is a slight change. When the price totalled odd pennies the contributor used to get the odd penny. Now it seems that alamy get the odd penny. I am not quibbling about this just that it is an interesting point. Allan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Quist Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Allan Bell said: As far as 50% goes there is a slight change. When the price totalled odd pennies the contributor used to get the odd penny. Now it seems that alamy get the odd penny. I am not quibbling about this just that it is an interesting point. Allan Many a little makes a mickle. Last time Alamy changed this when it came up in the forums. Niels Edited February 22, 2019 by Niels Quist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 Just now, Niels Quist said: Many a little makes a mickle. Last time Alamy changed that when it came up in the forums. Niels I thought it was "Many a mickle makes a muckle". Allan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starsphinx Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 14 hours ago, M.Chapman said: Same here. Not their smartest move IMHO. Mark Here too - and I agree not the smartest move 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Quist Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 (edited) 8 minutes ago, Allan Bell said: I thought it was "Many a mickle makes a muckle". Allan Obviously this has changed from the time of my old dictionary - seems to be various editions of the saying, thanks. I am only Danish, so "mange bække små gør en stor å." Edited February 22, 2019 by Niels Quist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 31 minutes ago, Niels Quist said: mange bække små gør en stor å. Google translates this to "many bays small make a great oh" Thanks Niels and please let me say you are not "only Danish", you are Danish. Allan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Morrison Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 1 hour ago, Allan Bell said: I thought it was "Many a mickle makes a muckle". Allan True... but have you seen the mickle/muckle exchange rate lately? No wonder money's so tight right now... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Robinson Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 (edited) It's certainly worth going through to check for those exclusive images. I had one today for $119 which I had managed to get round to, so I got the 50% Edited February 22, 2019 by Phil Robinson 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andremichel Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 On 21/02/2019 at 14:56, Reimar said: Well my first sale today netted me 40% of the sale price. One positive: Alamy gave me the push to spread out to other sites. In the end I expect I'll at least double my income. Thanks Alamy. If you avoid microstock, are there many other non exclusive traditional stock libraries out there that are successful? I have struggled in the past to find good ones, with the ones I joined being rather disappointing so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reimar Posted February 22, 2019 Author Share Posted February 22, 2019 16 minutes ago, andremichel said: If you avoid microstock, are there many other non exclusive traditional stock libraries out there that are successful? I have struggled in the past to find good ones, with the ones I joined being rather disappointing so far. My experience is the same. So I'm going MS, much as I hate the idea. The one site I started with looks like it will match my Alamy income in short course. As an aside, now that Alamy doesn't even require model releases on file, what a contrast with MS sites that require soooo much information in the uploaded MR that I've mostly given up. My existing MR's are so simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andremichel Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 22 minutes ago, Reimar said: My experience is the same. So I'm going MS, much as I hate the idea. The one site I started with looks like it will match my Alamy income in short course. As an aside, now that Alamy doesn't even require model releases on file, what a contrast with MS sites that require soooo much information in the uploaded MR that I've mostly given up. My existing MR's are so simple. Are all your images RF? Most of mine at RM. I don't talk from experience, but I would have thought just the "Tier 1" MS site would significantly beat your Alamy income all on it's own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Myford Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 (edited) On 21/02/2019 at 21:07, M.Chapman said: Same here. Not their smartest move IMHO. Mark The headline figure on the homepage has continued to fall from 155 million images to 153 million. If they are cracking down on the "agencies" that upload thousands of images and then fail to do any real keywording, so much the better. But if they are losing quality content, which is more likely, then they have shot themselves in the foot. Though that would be consistent with Alamy's apparent desire to drive away their best contributors. Edited February 24, 2019 by DJ Myford 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reimar Posted February 22, 2019 Author Share Posted February 22, 2019 40 minutes ago, andremichel said: Are all your images RF? Most of mine at RM. I don't talk from experience, but I would have thought just the "Tier 1" MS site would significantly beat your Alamy income all on it's own. Many but not all of my images are RF. At this point in time I am not going to worry about RF/RM or commercial/editorial. I have to work withing the guidelines of each site. Yes, Tier 1 is probably the way to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Robinson Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 15 minutes ago, Reimar said: Many but not all of my images are RF. At this point in time I am not going to worry about RF/RM or commercial/editorial. I have to work withing the guidelines of each site. Yes, Tier 1 is probably the way to go. Would that be the Microstock site that feels the need to put a link to the Modern Slavery Act on their homepage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andremichel Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 13 minutes ago, Reimar said: Many but not all of my images are RF. At this point in time I am not going to worry about RF/RM or commercial/editorial. I have to work withing the guidelines of each site. Yes, Tier 1 is probably the way to go. If I was to consider MS, I was just wondering if I can submit my existing RM images (on Alamy and elsewhere) to MS as RF without first changing them to RF on Alamy etc. Or I might just give up on Stock photography altogether. I don't feel particularly motivated currently. Too much work for too little reward. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 I've had two $$$ sales this month, and volume is up during the first two months of 2019, so I'm not planning on making any big changes at the moment. Alamy continues to work well for me. Hopefully the move to more exclusivity will increase sales volume over the next few months. If not, then I imagine that more of us will start re-evaluating our situations. Have to say, though, that despite recent events, my experiences at Alamy remain far better than those at other places I've dealt with. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reimar Posted February 22, 2019 Author Share Posted February 22, 2019 1 hour ago, Phil Robinson said: Would that be the Microstock site that feels the need to put a link to the Modern Slavery Act on their homepage? I don't think so - at least I haven't found that. Or are you pulling my leg? (English humor sometimes escapes me) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Robinson Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 26 minutes ago, Reimar said: I don't think so - at least I haven't found that. Or are you pulling my leg? (English humor sometimes escapes me) Have a look right at the bottom of the page (not 'joking' as such - it is there on the one I looked at. Good use of the phrase 'pulling my leg' from a non-native speaker though!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 (edited) Hopefully I won't get pelted with red arrows for bringing this up. I'm not a fan of the microstock model for still images. However, with all the talk of contributors now submitting to micro agencies, I wonder if Alamy shouldn't consider setting up a "budget collection" of exclusive microstock-like images (RF, non-editorial). The fact that these images would be "exclusive" might (?) give Alamy some leverage in this market and allow them to charge higher prices. I have a fair number of backgrounds, abstracts, pretty flower pics, etc. that I've considered submitting to micros. However, I find the quantity of these types of images on micros to be overwhelming, and I can't see how they would do well there. Rather than having them languish, I'd consider making these exclusive -- for now -- images available (on an opt in/out basis) if Alamy had a low-cost option that paid better than MS. Any thoughts on this? Edited February 22, 2019 by John Mitchell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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