Anyone else struggling or is it just me this month

[Avpics]

Yes, August is slow again. Currently 22 licences for a gross of $223, but two images make up $100 of that so the balance are micros.

[Broad Norfolk]

10th August and nothing so far. Pre PA days I worked up to two sales per week, now it's less than two per month and they are all in the $ range!! I winge no further!

[Nick Hatton]

So sorry, but my best month ever🤣

[Steve F]

Also sorry to break the trend! 7 sales so far this month, so fairly good.

 

But fees are pretty bad, only $54 gross.

 

 

[Betty LaRue]

I have yet to receive a license for August. But my zooms are healthy. Are people just looking & stealing? Many of the zooms mine is the only one.

[Michael Ventura]

Slow for me too.  Just two sales.  Zooms are good though.

[John Mitchell]

Good one to report so far with six sales for $406 gross. A $$$ TV license on Aug. 1st got things off to a healthy start. Both June and July were very slow during the first half of the month, but they ended well. Hopefully August isn't going in reverse. 🙃

[Jeffrey Isaac Greenberg]

PAlamy just introduced new licensing scheme.
This may have created lots of busywork for them.
Sometimes departments are shifted to other projects.
Maybe license team is temporarily working on licensing
changes rather than license reporting…?

[Mark Scheuern]

$5 sale on August 1, nothing since. 

[Bryan]

Only 3 licences so far in August and CTR in freefall, well below average,

[Webby]

After a good July....nothing yet.

 

[rickygui]

I hope is not a bear Aug for us all.  13 Aug, today is my birthday, still no sales to be seen. This is the longest stretch since Jan 2024. 

[Chuck Nacke]

On 17/07/2024 at 05:27, Brian Yarvin said:

I'm always struggling!

I'm with you Brian, except Thank God I'm not with you in PA, lived outside of Pittsburg for a few years and I hated it.  I got more speeding tickets in PA than I have in my entire life.

 

Chuck

[Jeffrey Isaac Greenberg]

IMO, for whatever reason(s), there is a backlog of unprocessed licenses;

some day ?soon? numerous contribs on the same day will report a good day;

[Rubens Alarcon]

3 sales so far. Last month started exactly like this and then improved in the second half.

[Alex Ramsay]

Poor, in every sense

 

Alex

[Brian Yarvin]

On 13/08/2024 at 00:31, Chuck Nacke said:

I'm with you Brian, except Thank God I'm not with you in PA, lived outside of Pittsburg for a few years and I hated it.  I got more speeding tickets in PA than I have in my entire life.

 

Chuck

 

Chuck, I've just gotten back from NYC and found this. Let me just say that Lancaster isn't Pittsburgh or even outside of Pittsburgh. I'm fine here.

 

Oh ... I love Pittsburgh too, especially the steps, don't get me wrong. 

 

While I do wish I still lived in NYC, all it takes is one look at housing prices to get me to change my mind.

[rickygui]

After 15 days, finally landed a sale. 

[Dani Como]

On 17/07/2024 at 10:17, David eastley said:

I know numbers fluctuate a lot but half way through July and I have just 1 sale ( $11) and just 2 zooms. Is there a general issue or is it just my turn for a bad month ? It does seem rather terrible.

1 sale for $62 but only 20% to me LOL

Now at August 1 sale for... $1 LOL again

[Sharon]

Only one sale since I advanced to the Gold level way back in March... feeling discouraged!!

[rickygui]

On 18/08/2024 at 11:51, Sharon said:

Only one sale since I advanced to the Gold level way back in March... feeling discouraged!!

Maybe most/some will disagree, but the way I see is a number game, the quality of the image, and how the way captions and keywords are described. If is so easy I think everyone with a decent camera will jumped in to try make a sale. I been through your stage, most of the contributors as well. A few good time will eventually come along if you pushes on.

 

Looking at my sales volume chart, from 2015 -2017 it was a struggle because I wasn't consistently uploading, then 3x the sales picked up plenty in 2019, 2020 was the pandemic and sales went slightly down till 2021. 2022-2023 went up slightly, 2024 shot up twice the volume, BUT, revenue overall isn't catching up as compare to 2022 & 2023. 

 

Do think about it, is it worth your time and effort to do it because the market is really over-saturated. If you are a full time photographer - is managing your business worth more of your time than doing stock images? If you shoot on the weekend for some side income, then definitely a large volume and high quality images are required over long period of time. Capture the type of subject that you are passionate or knowledgeable about, that will hone your skill even sharper.

 

The best pictures I believe are still at your backyard. Steve McCurry also kept going back to the same places over the years as well. 

If you feel discourage, pick up camera and go out to shoot more. Look at the competitors in your area, look at Alamy Measures to help you plan a step ahead. Do a smart keyword planning for a particular subject.

 

I lived in Singapore, land is scarcity, I really have to squeeze my brain juice, I try to shoot differently from my competitors, I look for something really different than what's already shown out there, a different type of genre or topic as well. Living in a tropical, high humidity climate - going out to the sun for long hours is too painful, skin gets burn, sweat way too much that may leads to dehydration or even heat stroke. It is what it is and i have to make adjustment to make it work for me. 

Edited August 19 by rickygui

[Robert M Estall]

18th August and just one pretty UK landscape sale for 5 bucks. That is very weak! Several zooms for images for which I seem to have about the only examples and they usually sell so they may pick things up for me, but it's some time since I've had a good looking set of sales. Gardening is more rewarding these days

Edited August 18 by Robert M Estall

[Sharon]

13 hours ago, rickygui said:

Maybe most/some will disagree, but the way I see is a number game, the quality of the image, and how the way captions and keywords are described. If is so easy I think everyone with a decent camera will jumped in to try make a sale. I been through your stage, most of the contributors as well. A few good time will eventually come along if you pushes on.

 

Looking at my sales volume chart, from 2015 -2017 it was a struggle because I wasn't consistently uploading, then 3x the sales picked up plenty in 2019, 2020 hit the pandemic and it went slightly down to 2021. 2022-2023 went up slightly, 2024 shot up twice the volume, BUT, revenue overall isn't catching up as compare to 2022 & 2023. 

 

Do think about it, is it worth your time and effort to do it because the market is really over-saturated. If you are a full time photographer - is managing your business worth more of your time than doing stock images? If you shoot on the weekend for some side income, then definitely a large volume and high quality images are required over long period of time. Capture the type of subject that you are passionate or knowledgeable about, that will hone your skill even sharper.

 

The best pictures I believe are still at your backyard. Steve McCurry also kept going back to the same places over the years as well. 

If you feel discourage, pick up camera and go out to shoot more. Look at the competitors in your area, look at Alamy Measures to help you plan a step ahead. Do a smart keyword planning for a particular subject.

 

I lived in Singapore, land is scarcity, I really have to squeeze my brain juice, I try to shoot differently from my competitors, I look for something really different than what's already shown out there, a different type of genre or topic as well. Living in a tropical, high humidity climate - going out to the sun for long hours is too painful, skin gets burn, sweat way too much that may leads to dehydration or even heat stroke. It is what it is and i have to make adjustment to make it work for me. 

Thanks for your input @rickygui. I was just grumbling as I was getting more and more sales, then they just seemed to stop, but I will keep at it and see what happens.

[Jeffrey Isaac Greenberg]

Predicting 66-70% of Aug 2024 total sales reporting
activity will appear between tomorrow & end of month…

[rickygui]

3 hours ago, Sharon said:

Thanks for your input @rickygui. I was just grumbling as I was getting more and more sales, then they just seemed to stop, but I will keep at it and see what happens.

Take it easy, more sales will flow in for you.