My images have been stagnant for months but sitting $1 under a payout-Why?

[krutopimages]

My images have been stagnant for months but sitting $1 under a payout?....am I being paranoid? I have had whole batches of images knocked back because one image had a reason not to pass QC. The waiting time to resubmit other images or others from the initial batch is frustrating. My main line of work has been corporate industrial, quite often areas of construction offshore etc. that only I have been able to access. I am considering dropping submissions to Alamy because Adobe stock has marketed hundreds of my images....Alamy seems to stagnate instead of accepting all suitable images the whole bath or 2or3 batches all get knocked back!

My wife is a children's book illustrator has submitted over 700 images since February and not one has failed QC...had a sale in the first week of March. ....but nothin has been paid to her account as paid. Is Alamy having problems? I mean is Alamy accepting images taking sales but not passing on financial reward to contributors? Although I started with Alamy over 10 years ago....I have had nothing to do with them for many years, this QC system is why.

Edited April 11 by krutopimages

[IanDavidson]

With respect, with 186 images you are not going to get sales.  There is nothing wrong with Alamy.  It is now owned by The Press Association.  In terms of QC, those are the rules.  If you don’t like them there are many other stock agencies.  Many thousands of Alamy contributors operate under these QC rules that have been around for a long time….

Edited April 11 by IanDavidson

[NYCat]

14 hours ago, krutopimages said:

My images have been stagnant for months but sitting $1 under a payout?....am I being paranoid? I have had whole batches of images knocked back because one image had a reason not to pass QC. The waiting time to resubmit other images or others from the initial batch is frustrating. My main line of work has been corporate industrial, quite often areas of construction offshore etc. that only I have been able to access. I am considering dropping submissions to Alamy because Adobe stock has marketed hundreds of my images....Alamy seems to stagnate instead of accepting all suitable images the whole bath or 2or3 batches all get knocked back!

My wife is a children's book illustrator has submitted over 700 images since February and not one has failed QC...had a sale in the first week of March. ....but nothin has been paid to her account as paid. Is Alamy having problems? I mean is Alamy accepting images taking sales but not passing on financial reward to contributors? Although I started with Alamy over 10 years ago....I have had nothing to do with them for many years, this QC system is why.

 It is my understanding that other agencies don't report a sale until after it has cleared. Alamy reports them right away and there is a lag before they get paid and pass on our share. They suggest that if a sale hasn't cleared in 3 months we should contact them. I usually wait 4 months. The distributor sales take longer to clear.

 

Paulette

[wiskerke]

Could it be keywords? Or just the subjects? Study the searches in which your images come up and assess the competition.

Also check if there is any interest at all in your subjects. Even with some great images, if there are no takers, you're screwed.

You do know how to use AoA or All of Alamy in full? (Many instructions on this forum.)

No searches for Loi Yang mine for a whole year. Only a handful for open pit. Yours are not included in the 1,225 results btw. Why s that? Missing keywords? Blocking sales in Europe?

The caption of 2GY4421 says: A huge dredger extracts coal from the open cut mine at Yallourn power station in the Latrobe Valley Victoria, Australia. There's no dredger in the image.

So have a good look at your captions and keywords and be aware of the differences between UK and US (or global) English. And check out on AoA what clients are looking for when they are searching your locations or your subjects. And which keywords they are using.

And then who knows, if you are selling your images at Adobe, you've found your market is there and not here.

 

wim