David eastley Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 Following my best year ever last year and a solid 18 sales in January I have yet to make a single sale this month. Views are ok, zooms are down CTR is dire. Anyone else struggling or is it just my turn for a bad month. I am aware that sales can be quite volatile at times but nothing after 2 weeks is almost unknown for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Ventura Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 My sales numbers are good but under performing with the pricing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jansos Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 21 minutes ago, David eastley said: Following my best year ever last year and a solid 18 sales in January I have yet to make a single sale this month. Views are ok, zooms are down CTR is dire. Anyone else struggling or is it just my turn for a bad month. I am aware that sales can be quite volatile at times but nothing after 2 weeks is almost unknown for me Zooms and CTR are well below normal (<.50) and sales a bit on the low side. Early days yet, don't want to be too pessimistic but ask me again in 10 days! ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 Mine would be dire except for a known printed article in October, using 4 images from a set. Just now reported 4 months later when I was about to send an email inquiring about. That said, the prices were dismal at $13 each, my share $5 something. For a set that easily illustrates a haunting article, I would think they’d have brought a higher amount. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 (edited) Sales numbers and zooms are on track this month but decidedly unexciting prices -- all in the $ to low $$ range so far. I don't envy anyone just starting out. It's brutal out there. Good luck. Edited February 15, 2022 by John Mitchell 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avpics Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 Zooms up (or just getting up to date after the IT stuff) but sales very, very scarce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Celluloid Hero Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 You're not alone, I had a rubbish start to 2021 and 2022 both in terms of numbers of sales and revenue.😟 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Nelson Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 January and February have been my slowest months since I joined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nacke Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 (edited) 12 hours ago, David eastley said: Following my best year ever last year and a solid 18 sales in January I have yet to make a single sale this month. Views are ok, zooms are down CTR is dire. Anyone else struggling or is it just my turn for a bad month. I am aware that sales can be quite volatile at times but nothing after 2 weeks is almost unknown for me David, Feb 2022 has been slow for me, only three licenses as of 15/02... Not too concerned, the last six months have been very good and last year was the most licenses in my ten years, but fees are lower than I would like to see. Chuck Edited February 16, 2022 by Chuck Nacke grammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan Pritchard Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 So far, eleven sales for $167. Average $15.18. Way below my all-time average. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CandyAppleRed Images Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 Strange the way these things go. In 2020 and 2021 I had shockingly bad starts to the year but this year is numerically my best ever start with 12 to date (5 Jan, 7 Feb). I didn't get to 12 until July last year. It is almost pushing me to start uploading again. At least until the next $0.89 sale comes in! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meanderingemu Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 i'm struggling, mainly because though there is a stream of licences coming, in last three months I only have ONE above Alamy's so called average, and that was a reprocessing of a licence that was cancelled from October. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 I am struggling from lack of sales too. If this keeps up and I am demoted to 20% of income from my images I will have to remove my port from alamy as it will not be worth staying on. Allan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 So far in February sales numbers are acceptable but prices are not Kumar 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Richards Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 Things are slow with just one tiddler so far this month. Getting plenty of views and have noticed what may be a few promising zooms. Only halfway through the month so staying optimistic for the time being. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve F Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 Really slow month, only 3 so far (18 in Jan). Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted February 17, 2022 Share Posted February 17, 2022 (edited) 10 hours ago, Doc said: So far in February sales numbers are acceptable but prices are not Kumar I get the impression that Alamy is increasingly wooing editorial websites with bulk deals. This is good in a way because it seems that images that have been lying around gathering dust are being looked at and licensed. However, prices are really low, in the $ and low $ categories for the most part. Edited February 17, 2022 by John Mitchell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David eastley Posted February 17, 2022 Author Share Posted February 17, 2022 Finally had a couple of sales today one mid $$ one low $$, lets hope thinks accelerate for the rest of the month 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aphperspective Posted February 17, 2022 Share Posted February 17, 2022 If live news licences remain at these tiny levels I can foresee some contributors maintaining their licence number of sales levels but by the end of the year falling under the $250 threshold. Dropping down to 20% its not even worth carrying on. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlMillerPhotos Posted February 17, 2022 Share Posted February 17, 2022 On 15/02/2022 at 07:04, David eastley said: Following my best year ever last year and a solid 18 sales in January I have yet to make a single sale this month. Views are ok, zooms are down CTR is dire. Anyone else struggling or is it just my turn for a bad month. I am aware that sales can be quite volatile at times but nothing after 2 weeks is almost unknown for me My best year was in 2018. In spite of having 50% more images uploaded than I did then, my sales have dropped each year since. I've had 0 sales so far this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Gaffen Posted February 18, 2022 Share Posted February 18, 2022 (edited) Yes, after a record year in 2021, this year has, so far gone badly, with low sales numbers combined with ridiculously low micro stock prices too! Edited February 18, 2022 by John Gaffen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sally Posted February 18, 2022 Share Posted February 18, 2022 On 15/02/2022 at 16:43, Alexander Hog said: I am one of those people starting out for over a year and a half of uploading off and on I agree with you it is going to be rough Forgive me for a suggestion - just glanced at the first two pages of our portfolio and don’t think there is a single person in any of them. Empty streets mostly. Photos with people are, I think, more likely to be used editorially. Mind you….I don’t need the competition….😏 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Lowe Posted February 18, 2022 Share Posted February 18, 2022 On 15/02/2022 at 16:43, Alexander Hog said: I am one of those people starting out for over a year and a half of uploading off and on I agree with you it is going to be rough Also check your spelling, you have 'centaury' on 2HM1CHT and 2HJ951C - should be 'centuary'. Also on 2HJ951C you have 'Ninetieth' instead of 'Nineteenth'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Lowe Posted February 18, 2022 Share Posted February 18, 2022 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Alexander Hog said: I have been shouted at in the past and some were deleted as they asked me to do...... One of the advantages of having a camera with duplicate SD cards. It's happened to me a couple of times so I go through the motions of deleting but of course I've still got the images on the second card...😉 Edited February 18, 2022 by Vincent Lowe Spelling 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted February 18, 2022 Share Posted February 18, 2022 I am having a decent month, if one considers the “new normal” and chooses selective amnesia of the prices of yesteryear. My CTR is 81. Good. Sales, so far 8 for $184, with only two of them decent prices of $$$ and mid $$. 4 others at a bit over low $$. Two $. My zooms have well over doubled at 23. I assume they are back to normal now and Alamy has completed the work in that area. Y’all hang in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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