BradleyPhoto Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 6 for $180 - not bad 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidhu Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 8 hours ago, Ed Rooney said: Those are some lovely pictures, David. Thanks Edo, much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 10 hours ago, Allan Bell said: Not saying. Allan Who gave me a red arrow for this comment. Don't you know when I am having a bit of fun. The answer to Betty's question will be answered when July is out/finished/done/kaput. Betty knows I was having a bit of fun. We are old comrades. Allan 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meanderingemu Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 4 hours ago, meanderingemu said: not enough to compensate for this: as a side note, my sales did hold up and with few decent licence fee i'm on the "Alamy proclaimed average". But having my biggest sale of the year refund after it had cleared really stung this month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meanderingemu Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 5 minutes ago, Allan Bell said: Who gave me a red arrow for this comment. Don't you know when I am having a bit of fun. The answer to Betty's question will be answered when July is out/finished/done/kaput. Betty knows I was having a bit of fun. We are old comrades. Allan some of the red arrows are a mystery.... i actually got one for making fun of Alamy Green, i guess someone actually like it 🤔 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariaJ Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 4 hours ago, BradleyPhoto said: 6 for $180 - not bad Quite good actually. I also had 6, but for only $65 gross. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sooth Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 (edited) . Edited September 29, 2022 by sooth 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted July 31, 2022 Author Share Posted July 31, 2022 5 hours ago, Allan Bell said: Who gave me a red arrow for this comment. Don't you know when I am having a bit of fun. The answer to Betty's question will be answered when July is out/finished/done/kaput. Betty knows I was having a bit of fun. We are old comrades. Allan Yes we are! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassius Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 Average with 37 sales Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxzoomy Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 27 for $151 gross. So a lot of tiddlers but all sales very welcome. My average CTR has always been very poor (currently at .29) but I seem to be visible despite this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David eastley Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 I used to be a naturally optimistic person but since the re-rank I really don't know what to do. I have gone from dozens of sales to just 3 last month ( grim) at an average of $58 ( good). Views are over 50% down and lets not mention zooms. I have had poor periods in the past but have always bounced back. Not so sure now 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Hyde Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 Lots of low fee sales. 20 for $164 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradleyPhoto Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 10 hours ago, MariaJ said: Quite good actually. I also had 6, but for only $65 gross. Yes - I can't really complain! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanDavidson Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 (edited) 98 sales, not much money…. Edited July 31, 2022 by IanDavidson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brasilnut Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 Disgusting - $18 net on 7 sales. Full monthly stock report for all agencies here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Ventura Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 40 minutes ago, Brasilnut said: Disgusting - $18 net on 7 sales. Full monthly stock report for all agencies here. What’s even more disgusting is that all your other agencies are selling photos, on average, below 1$ a piece. This is the root of the problem. Alamy is being forced to follow suit. Hard to compete with near free. 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Crean Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 6 minutes ago, Michael Ventura said: Alamy is being forced to follow suit. Replace with choosing! They don't have to. Phil 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 Summary for 01 July 2022 to 31 July 2022 ( 7 item(s) totalling $163.23 ) Highest = $109 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Ventura Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 15 minutes ago, Phil Crean said: Replace with choosing! They don't have to. Phil And the buyers can choose where to get the same photos for nearly free. Yes, it’s a life of choices. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Crean Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 (edited) 19 minutes ago, Michael Ventura said: And the buyers can choose where to get the same photos for nearly free. Yes, it’s a life of choices. The problem is Alamy don't value the photos they've got which have unique content, which are not available elsewhere, and for uses which command higher fees elsewhere... And with their recent commission cut have driven people to make images non exclusive... Bad choices by Alamy! Phil Edited July 31, 2022 by Phil Crean 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VbFolly Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 I had 36 for $464 gross/$178 net. I didn't get any $$$ this month - the highest was only $52, and there were lots of tiddlers sadly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanW Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 An improvement on last month, 17 for $365 gross/$141 net, ranging from $4 to $70. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marianne Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 4 hours ago, Phil Crean said: Replace with choosing! They don't have to. Phil Agreed, when Alamy chose to invite/encourage microstockers to put the exact same photos on Alamy as on the micros some years back, prices took a nosedive. Why pay more for the same images? If they had instead kept themselves as a place to find something different, perhaps this would have made it easier to justify consistently higher prices? The marketplace is certainly a very difficult one to compete in, so there would be downward pressure on prices no matter what, but IMHO it seems that Alamy isn't really sure what their USP (unique selling point) is - hence the changes to the website and what seems, at least to me, to be changing from their core editorial, unique image USP to direct competition with the micro scattershot approach. It's a tough market and all stock sites seem to be flailing so Alamy isn't alone, but here, the lower prices are not offset by volume, which is what made the microstock model so successful in the short run, until the low price model became unsustainable. When I see people here with tens of thousands of images netting around $500 or so a month, it's just depressing. And yes, the micros killed the industry and are no longer earning people what they used to, but you can't compete by dropping prices if you don't have the sales volume to make up for low prices. Getting 3 sales a month for $$$ is preferable to 20 sales for $ - that was what attracted most of us to Alamy. July isn't over here in the US yet, but I'm not expecting anything on a Sunday afternoon. 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.Chapman Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 At last, a better month for me - 9 sales for $151 gross, £60 net. Views and zooms both doing much better (double what they were) following the recent rerank. 4,200 views, 34 zooms (up to 29th Jul) 2022 so far vs same period in 2021 2021 to Jul 31 = 74 sales, $1,832 gross, $782 net 2022 to Jul 31 = 54 sales, $754 gross, $286 net A massive drop (although I did delete about 15% of my images when the new contract came in due to contractual concerns over 2D artwork and access restrictions) Mark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brasilnut Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 7 hours ago, Brasilnut said: Disgusting - $18 net on 7 sales. Full monthly stock report for all agencies here. For the record, 9.5% of my total portfolio is exclusive to Alamy (1,300+). Very few sales from that collection and mainly low-priced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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