Nigel Roberson Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 Ive recently had some sales where the buyer hasnt zoomed them. I find that strange because I assume they would want to see it for inspection etc. Maybe its normal, anyway ide rather have sales than zooms so cant grumble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 Nigel, most of my sales are of images that have not been zoomed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thyrsis Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 Q. What is Alamy Measures?A. Alamy Measures is a feature we have that tracks the search habits of a core set of customers. It records searches, visits, views, sales and zooms. You can find this tool in My Alamy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 49 minutes ago, Thyrsis said: Q. What is Alamy Measures?A. Alamy Measures is a feature we have that tracks the search habits of a core set of customers. It records searches, visits, views, sales and zooms. You can find this tool in My Alamy. Sales without recorded zooms are proof of this in my book, because I can't see how you could license an image without zooming it even if you wanted to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Roberson Posted August 22, 2019 Author Share Posted August 22, 2019 11 minutes ago, spacecadet said: Sales without recorded zooms are proof of this in my book, because I can't see how you could license an image without zooming it even if you wanted to. I havent ever tied to buy a photo on Alamy. I see what you mean its impossible to get the price etc and the use without a zoom. Maybe some of those who enjoy the discounted buying regime can but my last sale was a simple private use only. There again some of the private use only sales look very suspicious to me. Not the typical photo an individual would want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanDavidson Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 Live News pictures are not zoomed, the Sales team sent pictures out to clients who have specific needs, IQ sales and so on. I think I have a sales ratio of 75% not zoomed to 25% zoomed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 Images that have been saved to a lightbox and get zoomed from within that lightbox are apparently not registered as zooms. Also all images that have been searched by their Alamy ref ## get filtered out. Previously there were long lists of just ref ## every day. Including ones that were zoomed from the ref #. So my guess is that the filter cleans the zooms as well. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb photos Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 5 hours ago, Ed Rooney said: Nigel, most of my sales are of images that have not been zoomed. Same here. I wish my zooms did become sales. Last month had most images from a set that was originally a live news upload zoomed, and one image zoomed twice, never had that before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thyrsis Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 (edited) 13 hours ago, sb photos said: Same here. I wish my zooms did become sales. Last month had most images from a set that was originally a live news upload zoomed, and one image zoomed twice, never had that before. Last month we had an image zoomed 4 times before it sold for a travel brochure. Edited August 23, 2019 by Thyrsis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert M Estall Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 A continuing trickle of zooms gives you that warm feeling that some people are at least taking a closer look and there may be a few sales coming. But the sales will as likely come from non-zoomed images. Interesting, but we're never going to know all the details. At some agencies, one has no idea at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Roberson Posted August 24, 2019 Author Share Posted August 24, 2019 Thanks guys for your feedback. The mysteries of Stock continue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokie Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 Out of my last 12 sales only 1 was zoomed. John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 1 minute ago, Stokie said: Out of my last 12 sales only 1 was zoomed. John. So few of my sales are zoomed I don't even bother checking anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomicchemist Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 Less than 10% of all my sales have been zoomed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meanderingemu Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 curious about the reverse now, do you get much sales from zoom? obviously I'm new, but so far none of my zooms have sold, is that standard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 This will sound like I’m lying. I’m not lying. The majority of my last sales (past 3 months) were zoomed. And the licenses came fairly soon after the zoom. A few within a couple to 4 days. I hesitated to post this. This isn’t the norm, though. Usually it’s like others here are reporting. Knocking on wood. Betty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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