A $0 sale

[Marb]

So why have Alamy informed me of a sale of $0 . Are they now giving our photos away free ? utter joke. 

[giphotostock]

On 27/07/2022 at 01:13, geogphotos said:

Their major supposedly non-microstock competitor ( the one with by far the larger market share and starts with G ) offers these sort of deals explaining why former bulk Alamy customers have gone elsewhere.

 

These days the "non-microstock" competitor sells mostly at $1 or below level, including sales for $0.05-0.01. Very few are at the $10-$50 level. Last sale for >$100 was in July 2019.

All amounts are NET.

Source: ~230 images on the "non-microstock" competitor site via an aggregator agency.

GI

[geogphotos]

3 hours ago, giphotostock said:

 

These days the "non-microstock" competitor sells mostly at $1 or below level, including sales for $0.05-0.01. Very few are at the $10-$50 level. Last sale for >$100 was in July 2019.

All amounts are NET.

Source: ~230 images on the "non-microstock" competitor site via an aggregator agency.

GI

 

 

Same experience here. But it is important to stress that these special low fees are for media companies on subscription deals not the advertised prices for 'walk in' customers licensing an occasional image. That's where decent fees used to come from, and I suppose those clients now shop elsewhere because there is so much choice.

 

In all the gloom and doom we should recognise that Alamy actually does very well in maintaining clients who pay better fees and in having an average fee much, much higher than the competitors we have referred to in this thread.

Edited July 31, 2022 by geogphotos

[Rebecca Ore]

7 hours ago, geogphotos said:

In all the gloom and doom we should recognise that Alamy actually does very well in maintaining clients who pay better fees and in having an average fee much, much higher than the competitors we have referred to in this thread.

 

The more people see the names of the stock agencies in print or on line, the more likely one agency or another will be what people think about when they look for photos themselves, so the loss leaders do position an agency as being the place that has the photos the big media companies use.  They'll also be the agencies new stock photographers are likely to apply to. 

[Dave Colman]

I have just had my first zero sale, turns out to be 15c so I get 3.  I suppose I can't complain as it's the first one.