KODAKovic Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 (edited) It seems my total revenues on Alamy started to decline as soon as i converted quite all my pics to RF. I only left some pics to RM whose are the ones which sell better at the moment. Anyone experiencing the same? Edited April 2, 2019 by KODAKovic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 Interesting question. I often wonder if buyers don't tend to put more value on RM images given they are something of a novelty these days. I currently have only about 460 images marked as RF, and they seldom sell (most likely due to subject matter). When they do, the licensing terms usually look more like RM than RF ones, so I could probably have left them as RM. It gets confusing... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 For a full year (2015?) I had all my tabletop food as RF. That produced one small sale. All my images are RM now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rico Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 Most of my portfolio is RM (about 96%) A few days ago, I had my first RF sale (the steel drums) for $50. I think it was sold due more to the subject matter rather than it being RF. Just my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 I can see how Alamy's flexible RM licenses might appeal more than straight RF ones to a lot of buyers because they don't have to pay the higher RF prices for large files (Does anyone actually do that any longer?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KODAKovic Posted April 3, 2019 Author Share Posted April 3, 2019 (edited) What is strange to me is that my zooms increased when i changed to RF but sales decreased. My conclusion is that potential buyers were interested to those pics but at the end they didn't buy 'cause RF was not so appealing. Am i wrong? Edited April 3, 2019 by KODAKovic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KODAKovic Posted April 3, 2019 Author Share Posted April 3, 2019 16 minutes ago, David Pimborough said: The sad thing is that often the RF items sell for higher prices. Thats normal , it's the reason because i tried to convert them all to RF but my test failed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 10 hours ago, KODAKovic said: What is strange to me is that my zooms increased when i changed to RF but sales decreased. My conclusion is that potential buyers were interested to those pics but at the end they didn't buy 'cause RF was not so appealing. Am i wrong? Were most of your zoomed RF images "exclusive" to Alamy? If not, I suppose, some buyers could have gone looking for them elsewhere as RF images often get spread around to micros, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KODAKovic Posted April 4, 2019 Author Share Posted April 4, 2019 14 hours ago, John Mitchell said: Were most of your zoomed RF images "exclusive" to Alamy? If not, I suppose, some buyers could have gone looking for them elsewhere as RF images often get spread around to micros, etc. No, these RFs are not exclusive to Alamy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 8 hours ago, KODAKovic said: No, these RFs are not exclusive to Alamy If you see one that has been zoomed on Alamy and then licnsed through another website (e.g. a micro), then that might be a clue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cksisson Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 Thanks for everyone's thoughts on this. I just converted 403 images back to rights-managed. We'll see how it goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KODAKovic Posted May 11, 2019 Author Share Posted May 11, 2019 On 09/04/2019 at 21:02, cksisson said: Thanks for everyone's thoughts on this. I just converted 403 images back to rights-managed. We'll see how it goes. Whenever i did myself, i started to sell "old" $$$ like 105$ RM (today, b&w image) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KWheal Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 I have more RM than RF however easily everyday duplicated I tend to do RF. The other day I had a RF sale for $206 which had it been RM would never had obtained that value kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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