How was your April 2019?

[Lisa 9,168]

Good month for me.

Six sales (five Stock plus one iPhone).

Highest sold for $175.

 

[cbimages 347]

The worse month for many years, 3 sales, all direct & non exclusive. Gross $184.37. CTR steady at 0.93.

[M.Chapman 1,024]

Poor month for me.

4 sales for $55 gross $23 net (1 was a distributor sale) from 4,300 images on Alamy.

I got more net revenue from just 200 images I have on a MS site....

 

Mark

 

 

[DDoug 2,795]

Slow. One for $38, direct.

[IanDavidson 142]

This is an interesting topic.  I was going to post my “best month ever” only to note that compared with some of the early posters my results were pretty average....  what is success?  The rule of thumb of one sale per month per thousand images I guess gives some sort of average, but revenue is actually more important.  I sold one photo yesterday for more than the combined value of the previous ten sales.  

 

I was was also thinking about an individual sales and total sales.  I would guess that there is a Pareto distribution with twenty percent of contributors making up eighty per cent of Alamy sales.  And, twenty percent of my portfolio makes up eighty percent of sales.  So, again, what is success?

[MariaJ 305]

Not a very successful month for me, no matter how you define it.  But I did get a whole whack of zooms in the last few days so I'm hoping this time next month will be better.

[Avpics 639]

25 for $515. Not great. Very low values including live news

[Thyrsis 133]

14 hours ago, Robert Convery said:

I had an average month with 24 sales for $382 gross

 

Jan $227  Feb $236  Mar $305 so April is my best month of the year.

 

There were no $$$ sales and my overall revenue is about a third down compared to this time last year.

 

24 sales from a portfolio of 2869 is amazing!

 

[Thyrsis 133]

Duplicate!

 

Edited May 1 by Thyrsis

[Thyrsis 133]

Triplicate! What’s going on!!

 

Edited May 1 by Thyrsis

[Craig Yates 899]

21 for $325. 

 

[VbFolly 192]

10 sales for $212 gross. Average sale price low this month, but number of sales OK.

[DJ Myford 96]

Another month with a last-minute sale, so one for $6.49 gross. If it had been $$ I might have considered starting to upload again, but the trend is still downward.

[Paul Heinrich 32]

Slow! Two sales for $106 gross though views and zooms improved a bit in the last week.

[David eastley 9]

really horrible with just 3 sales   worst month for a long time

[John Richmond 803]

Good for numbers with 35 sales but average prices low to give a total of $667 gross.  Highest $75, lowest $3.76.  1.03 CTR with 75 zooms recorded.  Best month this year so far but the declining prices are increasingly evident.

[Broad Norfolk 130]

Disappointing (again!). Just 4 sales for $$. Mind you, April is not historically a good month for me. Views, zooms, and CTR all down. Onwards and upwards.... 

[Lynne 3,095]

10 hours ago, wiskerke said:

26 for 1195.

 

## 3.5% under 2018 average

$$ 2.5% under 2018 average

 

wim

 

Maybe this will cheer y'all up: Adobe creative test. (via dpreview, PetaPixel)

edit: OTOH these may not: f-stoppers; youtube. Both called The Truth About...

 

Thanks for sharing Wim - Great graphics and enjoyed the test  - I'm 'The Adventurer" 

 

Back on topic - month started off very slowly but ended up with 12 sales - all under $$$ some quite a bit under! - Not a great month, average for now but way under compared to a few years ago!

[RedSnapper 1,041]

83 sales for April....a litte off the long-term average

 

km
portfolio: http://www.artswebwales.com
print sales: http://www.artx.co.uk

weddings: http://www.priodas.com

Edited May 1 by RedSnapper

[vpics 564]

50% of my sales were under $10. And most of those were distributor sales, too.

If it hadn't been for 2 100+ sales, it would've been the worst month (of the last 12).

[BobD 174]

Views, Sales and zooms all average.

However the average price is now getting beyond the pale at just $12.73 gross. Now seriously considering if it is worthwhile staying exclusive to Alamy.

As others have said before these are micro prices without the micro volume.

[Stokie 530]

9 sales for $191, so both below average.

 

Highest £89.

 

Seems like it's been a slow moth for nearly everyone.

 

John.

[Sultanpepa 844]

11 for $172. Zooms and CTR crashed. Yesterday's late sale of $50 was subsequently refunded an hour or two later. Disappointingly it didn't reappear for any other value.

[gvallee 2,127]

Worst month since July 2016 both in terms of numbers and revenue. Arghhhh!!

Last April, I had 25 sales. Divide this by 5 for this year.

[Doc 1,505]

10 hours ago, wiskerke said:

Maybe this will cheer y'all up: Adobe creative test. (via dpreview, PetaPixel)

Wim - entertaining - Innovator for me!

 

This month 72 sales for a gross of $1725; only 2  $$$ sales, best $125

Helped by 8 sales on 29/4 for $43.84 each.

Zooms 236, CTR 0.64

 

First 4 months of this year compared with last year:

 

Views up 3%

Zooms up 12.5%

Sale numbers up 4.1%

Gross revenue down by 7.8% . 

 

Kumar