Post positive results for 2020...

[Marvin McAbee 54]

Sales not good but $115 payout helps.

[Sally 1,531]

My CTR has risen above 0.6 for the first time ever. 😁

[Alex Ramsay 562]

17 hours ago, Sally said:

My CTR has risen above 0.6 for the first time ever. 😁

 

I never know, when people mention their CTR, exactly what they are referring to. Is it their total for the rolling year, or their average (if more than one pseudonym)? Or is it either total or average for the rolling month? It makes quite a difference as to which figure you choose.

 

Alex

[Sally 1,531]

20 hours ago, Alex Ramsay said:

 

I never know, when people mention their CTR, exactly what they are referring to. Is it their total for the rolling year, or their average (if more than one pseudonym)? Or is it either total or average for the rolling month? It makes quite a difference as to which figure you choose.

 

Alex

I meant the CTR showing on the monthly graph.

[meanderingemu 760]

2 hours ago, LawrensonPhoto said:

I would have thought with the amount of sales you have had it would be much higher!

In comparison if you are talking about April CTR, mine was 1.04

 

 

 

Live News don't have an input into CTR, until after they hit the main stock side, and then the descriptions may get a few more false results, so I can see why the CTR of a successful Live News could lead to interesting results, depending on number of images per submissions.... 

Edited May 6 by meanderingemu

[Sally 1,531]

10 hours ago, LawrensonPhoto said:

I would have thought with the amount of sales you have had it would be much higher!

In comparison if you are talking about April CTR, mine was 1.04

 

Yes, my CTR is stubbornly low despite a lot of work culling tags to make them as specific as possible. But I have noticed my images appearing relatively high up on search terms. I think the kernel must be in Alamys’ comment that CTR is only a part of the overall ranking.

And my CTR has since dropped below 0.60 anyway. I’ve long since given up worrying about it.

[Sally 1,531]

8 hours ago, meanderingemu said:

 

 

Live News don't have an input into CTR, until after they hit the main stock side, and then the descriptions may get a few more false results

Which is why I always try to edit the captions of Live News images to be only relevant to what a particular image shows.

[Foreign Export 292]

Nice $175 sale today - COVID 19 image

[Fahd Khan 22]

4 sales in this month (May 2020) so far. Unusual for me as I am used to get a sale after couple of months.

 

Khan.

[Doc 1,897]

18 zooms today. 😀

 

Kumar

[Bill Allsopp 104]

Total CTR is currently twice the Alamy average, three sales this month for a total of $$$ and if (but it's a big if) sales continue at the level achieved so far this year I might end the year 20% up on last year.

[Bill Allsopp 104]

On 18/05/2020 at 14:09, Doc said:

18 zooms today. 😀

 

Kumar

Wow!

[Stokie 729]

Just had a low $$$ sale pop up!

 

I've 6 sales this month and the lowest of those is $30 with an average of $54.50, when I usually average about $25.

 

My Revenue total so far this month is the best for 10 months - with 10 days still to go!!

 

John.

[Colblimp 1,903]

1 hour ago, Stokie said:

Just had a low $$$ sale pop up!

 

I've 6 sales this month and the lowest of those is $30 with an average of $54.50, when I usually average about $25.

 

My Revenue total so far this month is the best for 10 months - with 10 days still to go!!

 

John.

Well done, great news!  Gives me hope. 👍

[Stokie 729]

19 minutes ago, Colblimp said:

Well done, great news!  Gives me hope. 👍

 

Thanks, gives me hope too!

 

John.

[MizBrown 297]

A sale reported in April of last year was finally paid for and I'll be getting a payout around the first week in June.  Fish photos, which seem to be low three figures the two times I've sold those.

 

[Bill Allsopp 104]

On 23/01/2020 at 21:22, Abiyoyo said:

Just now one for $635

 

Distributed, but still very nice. Hopefully not refunded as it happened this month with one at $165 changed to $65 few weeks later.

 

Country: Japan
Usage: Direct mail and brochures
Media: Travel brochures
Print run: up to 20,000
Placement: Inside
Image Size: Full area
Start: 01 December 2019
End: 01 December 2020
Japan, Travel brochures

 

 

Nice!

[Abiyoyo 1,116]

2 hours ago, Bill Allsopp said:

Nice!

Thanks Bill. The same image was reused/resold the following month for nearly half, by the same buyer I think so, and finally in March by  another half. Not too bad. 

[Regis 118]

A small achievement for many of you, but still giving me hope.

Today I had my first zoom since February.

Had sales since Feb, but not a single zoom, and my CTR was sliding down down down...

Hopefully this will slow the sliding.

 

[gvallee 2,918]

7 minutes ago, Regis said:

A small achievement for many of you, but still giving me hope.

Today I had my first zoom since February.

Had sales since Feb, but not a single zoom, and my CTR was sliding down down down...

Hopefully this will slow the sliding.

 

 

Sorry everyone, pls switch off. Regis, I'm in Darwin. You suggested we could meet. I'm all for it. How can we get in touch? 

[Regis 118]

10 minutes ago, gvallee said:

 

Sorry everyone, pls switch off. Regis, I'm in Darwin. You suggested we could meet. I'm all for it. How can we get in touch? 

 

In about 30 minutes I am going to the city for an ice cream.

Are you in the city?

[Regis 118]

13 minutes ago, gvallee said:

 

Sorry everyone, pls switch off. Regis, I'm in Darwin. You suggested we could meet. I'm all for it. How can we get in touch? 

 

If too short notice, we could try to catch up tomorrow afternoon, if you don't already have other plans?

[gvallee 2,918]

3 minutes ago, Regis said:

 

If too short notice, we could try to catch up tomorrow afternoon, if you don't already have other plans?

 

I did not mean so quickly!! I'm actually at Douglas Daly but will be in Darwin in the next few days. Given the distances in Oz, me saying I'm in Darwin sounded right. LOL!!.

Can you e-mail me at genvallee33 at gmail dot com?

[Regis 118]

3 minutes ago, gvallee said:

 

I did not mean so quickly!! I'm actually at Douglas Daly but will be in Darwin in the next few days. Given the distances in Oz, me saying I'm in Darwin sounded right. LOL!!.

Can you e-mail me at genvallee33 at gmail dot com?

 

🤣

Ok,

No worries.

Don't freeze on the way up here.

(It is unusually cold for us up here now. 20 degrees Celsius just right now. And this morning I turned the heater on in my car for the first time in years)

 

[Gnans 141]

3 hours ago, Regis said:

It is unusually cold for us up here now. 20 degrees Celsius just right now

 

It's the same 20 degree celsius here in UK and we call it Summer 🙂