Southpole Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 All seems a little slow. Does things slow down in the summer no sales a few zooms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Ventura Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 Slow here too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 One distributor sale, my cut $10.00. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Ayers Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 I'm getting loads of SLOW months just recently, no sales and not many views then at the end of the month there's a flurry of activity (a few sales etc. usually). I don't know if anybody can explain this monthly pattern. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 It's not just me then. One $70 for I assume a travel book, but it's a picture I like. I know It's a bit unprofessional for that to make a difference, but there we are. Also it's from a region that had been a bit thin for me, so extra hope there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 Slowish, with only three sales, but one was for $250. Zooms keep trickling in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLSI Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 I've been keeping track of various All of Alamy statistics for many years now, including the number of pages of searches for each month (e.g., from June 1st to 30th, 2015, there were 8,906 pages of searches in AoA). Here's a graph of the averages for each month from 2010 through 2014: December is clearly slow, and January's not great either, but July has been, on average, one of the busiest months. This approach doesn't measure zooms, but I've never seen evidence that AoA CTR fluctuates much month-to-month (though some events, such as upgrading the quality of zoomed images, or switching to a default of 120 views/page, have definitely affected CTR), so I don't see any reason to expect that overall zooms would be down in July (looking at the AoA average, that is; individual contributors will of course see bigger fluctuations). And of course this doesn't measure sales, but I haven't been keeping sales data as long, and it can take sales so long to register that it can be harder to spot trends. In general, it seems reasonable to assume that trends in sales activity will at least roughly follow trends in search and zoom activity. In case the graph doesn't post above, you should be able to see it at https://picasaweb.google.com/109307643701841667101/AlamyStats#6173631693206834018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 I think a lot of licences come in at the end of the month due to deadlines and payment dates mainly by the UK newspapers. The last Friday of the month is usually the big day - this month Friday is also the last day of the month so watch this space!! Kumar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokie Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 One distributor sale, my cut $10.00. I can trump that! My only distributor sale was for $5.42 - so I get $1.63!! John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vpics Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 Painfully slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Robinson Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 Not too bad so far - not many sales but a much better than usual average, no tiny amounts and four in three figures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southpole Posted July 20, 2015 Author Share Posted July 20, 2015 How long has it taking you guys to get 30,000 + images . A lot of hard work well done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 How long has it taking you guys to get 30,000 + images . A lot of hard work well done Did the smart move of starting right away with 15000 images. As I said several times before, if you want to step in the stock business, make sure you have "stock". Cheers, Philippe Philippe, doesn't Arterra represent several photographers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 4 very average sales to date, but zooms well down (50%). Doesn't bode well for future. We're doomed etc ...... Nothing like a good moan to start the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrggt Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Very slow for me. June was quite good but after i have a pretty good month the next is normally a poor. mind you i'm still waiting for payment from a newspaper back in December 2014 so fingers crossed that will come through Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stipe Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Average sales for me, so far, but mostly are distributor sales and this hurts me quite a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regen Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 "Yep, and that was my very first smart move. What's keeping others from doing the same?" Nothing - except I would be uncomfortable with offering a wildlife photographer 50% of most of the fees available thro alamy!- Actually thats 50% of 50%! Good luck to you but its agents selling thro agents and sub agents which helps to bring the prices down and then keep them down. Regen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Average so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Yates Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 6 Sales so far but zooms running at 30% lower than last month. Regards Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vpics Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Last three sales for just over $5. :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Perhaps I'm wrong about this, but there seem to be two types of contributors doing really well on Alamy these days -- ones with tens of thousands of wide-ranging images, and those with relatively small, tightly edited/focused portfolios. The rest of us languish somewhere in between. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Gaffen Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Yes, Quite a slow month for me also, hears hoping for an "endspurt" in the last week of July! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sultanpepa Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 A slow month is the norm for me. A fast month would constitute 4 or 5 images. I never know until the last day of the month which it's going to be. It doesn't stop me checking every day though. So far zooms have been promising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southpole Posted July 21, 2015 Author Share Posted July 21, 2015 Sultanpepa 4 or 5 images a month and I am happy I have similar amount of images as you. So far 2 sales this month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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