Niepce Posted April 4, 2017 Share Posted April 4, 2017 Hello. I am fairly new to Alamy and just had 4 sales till now. I am in the process of updating my entries and optimizing them. Here is one I uploaded recently and I want to ask you what categories would it suit to have a good chance for a sale? Your advice is appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Ashmore Posted April 4, 2017 Share Posted April 4, 2017 4 sales from just 20 images is outstanding! To be honest, i think I would choose "Lifestyle" for this image. I personally treat "lifestyle" as a bit of a catch-all category for any person/life related images that don't seem to fit in any other category. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted April 4, 2017 Share Posted April 4, 2017 Personally, I don't see how choosing categories can influence making sales. If an image doesn't fit neatly into a category, then I don't bother choosing one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Ashmore Posted April 4, 2017 Share Posted April 4, 2017 Personally, I don't see how choosing categories can influence making sales. If an image doesn't fit neatly into a category, then I don't bother choosing one. At the moment, I don't think it does make a difference. I get the impression that it's been added now with some future thinking in mind. I agree that it can just simply be ignored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niepce Posted April 4, 2017 Author Share Posted April 4, 2017 Thanks! I was thinking maybe people searching for photos can do a search or browse according to category... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted April 4, 2017 Share Posted April 4, 2017 Thanks! I was thinking maybe people searching for photos can do a search or browse according to category... Alamy does have a "Browse images by category" section on its homepage, but they appear to be images that have been hand-selected by Alamy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Ashmore Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 Thanks! I was thinking maybe people searching for photos can do a search or browse according to category... Alamy does have a "Browse images by category" section on its homepage, but they appear to be images that have been hand-selected by Alamy. I suspect the aim of adding the category in AIM is to make this "hand selection" easier for the Alamy selection people to do as the contributors then essentially do a first pass. .. but this is just my guess! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 Thanks! I was thinking maybe people searching for photos can do a search or browse according to category... Alamy does have a "Browse images by category" section on its homepage, but they appear to be images that have been hand-selected by Alamy. I suspect the aim of adding the category in AIM is to make this "hand selection" easier for the Alamy selection people to do as the contributors then essentially do a first pass. .. but this is just my guess! Sounds like a good theory to me. We are lending Alamy a hand, so to speak. I wonder how many buyers actually browse by category. It seems like a labour-intensive way of looking for images. It`s usually more efficient to make searches using specific terms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 No idea. I don't use them except for one I did as an optimisation experiment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted April 6, 2017 Share Posted April 6, 2017 Most agencies use categories to showcase what they consider to be their best images. Perhaps Alamy has something else in mind. Guess we'll find out down the road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Robinson Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 There really need to be some sort 'people' category. I have lots of pics of everyday life (another missing one) where that would be the best option. And well-known people too. 'Entertainment and celebrities' doesn't seem right for backbench MPs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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