wiskerke Posted January 6, 2015 Author Share Posted January 6, 2015 I think Alamy have arranged for those of us who sell gazzillion licences but haven't received the email to have Beyonce come around to take us out for a Maoz falaffel with lashings of garlic sauce. Lekkerrrrr.....!!!! I am just wating for her to pop round now. Agencies? Some individual contributors have signed on as an agency for some reason. Beyonce seems to bike around our canals: www.facebook.com/beyonce/photos/a.10153853613495601.1073741882.28940545600/10154017811965601/?type=3&theater Looks more like the Ceintuurbaan to me. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
losdemas Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 The fact that Keith didn't get in the top hundred and I did makes me think the whole thing is meaningless. His sales must be 5-10 times more than mine. Perhaps Alamy just assume he knows he's in the top 3 and don't bother sending the email. More to do with faulty e-mail systems (or databases) which no-one bothers repairing/updating. I'm definitely in the bottom 500, so this particular missive doesn't apply to me, but I don't get (m)any of the regular e-mails that are sent out to 'all' contributors. I spoke with MS about it long ago, but got no practical response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reimar Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 I seem to get one each time (every quarter isn't it?). Perhaps these e-mails are only intended to encourage us whannabees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Willett Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Got it yeah I asked them last time what number but they would not give it to me. Its not like they do not know all this info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokie Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Got it yeah I asked them last time what number but they would not give it to me. Its not like they do not know all this info. It would be interesting to see what number each individual was on the sales list, even below the top 500, might give encouragement to some people to increase their sales rank. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alamy Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 The fact that Keith didn't get in the top hundred and I did makes me think the whole thing is meaningless. His sales must be 5-10 times more than mine. Perhaps Alamy just assume he knows he's in the top 3 and don't bother sending the email. He does get sent the mail but for some reason there seems to be an issue with his mailbox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kebabselector Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Had a parcel today (not opened it yet) that might be My Alamy Wooden Spoon Award (self inflicted though as I'm not really actively doing much photo stuff at the moment!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vpics Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 nope... km LOL. Top 10 I would say. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Todd Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 I've managed to convince myself that I also have problems with my mailbox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin McAbee Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Not Me, but wonder who is #1 or top 50? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 I wonder if anyone with less than 4,000 images is on the 500 best sellers list? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 I wonder if anyone with less than 4,000 images is on the 500 best sellers list? Wim and Ajotte, I believe (see above). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sultanpepa Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 I wonder if there's a top ten e-mail? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSnapper Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 He does get sent the mail but for some reason there seems to be an issue with his mailbox. yep, somehwere in the chain something is getting blocked/bounced i can live with it.. km Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted January 7, 2015 Author Share Posted January 7, 2015 I wonder if anyone with less than 4,000 images is on the 500 best sellers list? I know at least 5 more that have been included in the past. Not all may have been included in the last one. Some may now be over 4000. If I had time enough I would try to find a way to search the forum for top 500. You all probably have found out by now that this forum does not allow you to search for Top 500. Nor for BHZ for that matter. No conspiracy: it's three letter words that are verboten. Why? It's not Dutch. (in Dutch 3 letter words is shorthand for swear words.) wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Convery Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 I'm back in the Top 500 after being dropped last time. My sales aren't great, so people probably need to be in the top fifty to make a reasonable income. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travelshots Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 I assume agencies are not included in this emailling list. ( we are a liitle agency by definition) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dustydingo Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 at the risk of attracting another red arrow (yawn), it is interesting to peruse a thread with a tad more relevance than BHZ, CTR etc etc. Even though we don't know which actual images were licensed, there are some very interesting commonalities in many of the collections of top 500 contributors. dd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted January 8, 2015 Author Share Posted January 8, 2015 at the risk of attracting another red arrow (yawn), it is interesting to peruse a thread with a tad more relevance than BHZ, CTR etc etc. Even though we don't know which actual images were licensed, there are some very interesting commonalities in many of the collections of top 500 contributors. dd Like? wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dustydingo Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 at the risk of attracting another red arrow (yawn), it is interesting to peruse a thread with a tad more relevance than BHZ, CTR etc etc. Even though we don't know which actual images were licensed, there are some very interesting commonalities in many of the collections of top 500 contributors. dd Like? wim Yes, I certainly do. dd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted January 8, 2015 Author Share Posted January 8, 2015 at the risk of attracting another red arrow (yawn), it is interesting to peruse a thread with a tad more relevance than BHZ, CTR etc etc. Even though we don't know which actual images were licensed, there are some very interesting commonalities in many of the collections of top 500 contributors. dd Like? wim Yes, I certainly do. dd ;-) Right. I did not mean the thumbs up one. Thank you Philippe for the translation: Such as? is what I meant. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dustydingo Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 ah, gotcha. well, keeping in mind the commonalities are to my eye only, and I'm basing this on the first few pages of each (so please, it's not a scientific analysis, just one person's impressions), here's some of my thoughts: 1. The most obvious is that blue skies predominate. Very, very few washed out skies. Very very few overcast skies. 2. Street scenes with people predominate (vs street scenes without people) 3. No arty filters evident (actually, little evidence of graded NDs or such either). 4. No faux-HDA 5. RM predominate . . . one or two contributors with highish number of RF, but mostly not. 6. With one or two exceptions, very very few similars. 7. Not as much horizontal/vertical shots of same view as I would have expected, although one or two do it quite often. 8. Most travel-type shots appear to be shot in middle of day, very few shot around dusk or at night (with one or two exceptions) 9. Not as many shots where someone doing something was the actual image as I thought there might be. . . . and so on. Some of this (number 8 for example) indicate gaps in the Alamy portfolio to my mind. dd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted January 8, 2015 Author Share Posted January 8, 2015 ah, gotcha. well, keeping in mind the commonalities are to my eye only, and I'm basing this on the first few pages of each (so please, it's not a scientific analysis, just one person's impressions), here's some of my thoughts: 1. The most obvious is that blue skies predominate. Very, very few washed out skies. Very very few overcast skies. 2. Street scenes with people predominate (vs street scenes without people) 3. No arty filters evident (actually, little evidence of graded NDs or such either). 4. No faux-HDA 5. RM predominate . . . one or two contributors with highish number of RF, but mostly not. 6. With one or two exceptions, very very few similars. 7. Not as much horizontal/vertical shots of same view as I would have expected, although one or two do it quite often. 8. Most travel-type shots appear to be shot in middle of day, very few shot around dusk or at night (with one or two exceptions) 9. Not as many shots where someone doing something was the actual image as I thought there might be. . . . and so on. Some of this (number 8 for example) indicate gaps in the Alamy portfolio to my mind. dd Great observations! This good be an interesting game! What do you spy? wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted January 8, 2015 Author Share Posted January 8, 2015 I just received an email to explain why some may not have received the Top 500 email from MS: The most likely reason that some people who are in the Top 500 are not getting sent emails is that like me at some time in the past I/we opted out of receiving emails from Alamy. I have never received the Top 500 email and the above is what I was told when I asked Alamy about the reason. There you have it: better all check our account settings first. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 Looking back at images that sold last year, I would say that "filling the gaps" is the most important thing (in my case, anyway) at this point. I wish that Alamy had some "auto gap-finder" software that we could download. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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