IKuzmin Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 2 hours ago, Doc said: Wildlife images are among the most difficult to sell as there are a lot of extremely good professional wildlife photographers selling on Alamy ...And tons of retired folks who are happy to supply their safari and birdfeeder images for free elsewhere 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sultanpepa Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 (edited) Very frustrated and disappointed. 15 for $86 gross. Don't know where I go from here. 🤔 Worst monthly revenue in over a year. Edited March 1 by Sultanpepa 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve F Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 10 minutes ago, IKuzmin said: Steve, it seems to me that you confuse return per image (RPI) with return per sale. The RPI is the net divided by the number images in the portfolio. Because you spend time/effort creating the image, including taking it, editing, keywording, submitting… And it is better to calculate RPI per a year, given all monthly fluctuations which greatly change the miserable values per month. It's just the nature of my portfolio that I tend to sell a lot of images for the size of portfolio, but return per sale is often a lot lower than for other contributors. But yes, guess the RPI is the best metric. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKuzmin Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 4 minutes ago, Steve F said: It's just the nature of my portfolio that I tend to sell a lot of images for the size of portfolio, but return per sale is often a lot lower than for other contributors. I remember from 2023, when I tried to calculate roughly RPI for different contributors posting their annual totals here, you were very good compared to many. And as I said, eventually a good number of cheap sales increased the RPI. It is just a matter of a peace of mind that some of us block "cheap" distribution options. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jansos Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 30 for $419. Highest $$$. Lowest $. Average $14. If I could convert the smaller ones into mid -> high $$, I would be happy but you have to take the rough with the smooth! 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Scheuern Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Not a great month. Just 3 for a total of $45.23. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.Chapman Posted March 1 Author Share Posted March 1 Surprise - Another sale just popped into Feb, so revised nos for me are 10 sales, $255 gross, $102 net. 😀 I'm pleased with that. Mark 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 27 for $640 gross. Average. Plus $252 infringements. Thank you Alamy! There are many more out there! wim 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdCoffee Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 3 for $16 .. so very low sale prices ☹️ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StokeCreative Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 9 for $195. More monthly sales than usual but lower RPI. Its been a while since I've had a $$$ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brasilnut Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Nothing special at $57 net on 9 sales. Had a nice sale which was unfortunately refunded on the following day. Have started calculating how my overall port is performing and the above corresponds to just 1/3 of a cent per image on average, ouch. Full monthly earnings report here for all agencies 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jeffrey Isaac Greenberg Posted March 1 Popular Post Share Posted March 1 ah, Leap Month in Leap Year 2024; $5779 gross, 118 items by far best $$ in (11) most recent months thanks to (18) $179 gross in single day... sadly, don't expect repeat of this month 'til... hi dee hi, hi dee ho 🎵 🎵 🎵 🎵 Leap Year 2028 4 years to go... regards jg 5 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwakeling Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 8 hours ago, Doc said: Don't be disheartened - you have some very good images in your collection. 1. When I search for Baby giraffe your older two images come up on page 1 and page 3 of the search. That is because you have the phrase "baby giraffe" in both the keywords and the caption. This helps image placement. In your more recent images "baby giraffe" as a two word phrase does not appear in the caption. 2. Make sure important search terms are super-tags in your keywords 3. Wildlife images are among the most difficult to sell as there are a lot of extremely good professional wildlife photographers selling on Alamy 4. "baby" , although it should appear in the keywords is not the best way to keyword these images - The most important keyword I believe, is "young" and you haven't got this in your keywords or captions at all. Good luck! Kumar Thanks for the advice. The majority of my portfolio is made up of underwater shots, which is not quite as competitive as baby giraffes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vpics Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 (edited) 42 sales for $1323. Two sales for $$$. Edited March 1 by vpics 5 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abiyoyo Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 14 sales for $222 plus $75 Other income 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Nelson Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 4 sales for $54.22 gross. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Richmond Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 21 licenses for $635 gross plus an infringement for $51. 49 zooms for CTR of 0.91. Not a bad month. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokie Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 Distinctly average! 13 sales for $244. Lowest; $1.59: Highest; $63.19 (although a distributor sale). Views and zooms average as well. John. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariaJ Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 My worst on alamy in a long time - no sales! However 1 tiny sale on their sunsetting site. I also found an image of mine in the Telegraph last month but no invoice yet. March must be better! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nacke Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Feb. was just OK, more than ten and a nice xxx fee for an infringement. I would like to see Alamy putting a premium for fees on very rare or hard to get images? but I've written and talked about that enough. Chuck 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 On 05/03/2024 at 01:28, Chuck Nacke said: a premium for fees on very rare or hard to get images A premium is when you get $18 instead of 18¢😀 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nacke Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 On 07/03/2024 at 05:39, spacecadet said: A premium is when you get $18 instead of 18¢😀 Not in my book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 10 hours ago, Chuck Nacke said: Not in my book. Me neither, but Alamy sent me these extra pages so I just glued them in the back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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