Alamy Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 A quick little factoid for you all: On average, being fully opted into the distribution scheme boosts your overall revenue on Alamy by 20%. With this in mind we'd always recommend opting in as it's a way of maximising your selling potential on Alamy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Todd Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 Thanks Phil. I opted to select all for the next 6 mo. and see how it goes. I've also opted in until April for Japan, Australia & USA as an experiment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 A quick little factoid for you all: On average, being fully opted into the distribution scheme boosts your overall revenue on Alamy by 20%. With this in mind we'd always recommend opting in as it's a way of maximising your selling potential on Alamy. That is a really encouraging number! I wish we could say the same for the newspaper *scheme*. Or can we? wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alamy Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 A quick little factoid for you all: On average, being fully opted into the distribution scheme boosts your overall revenue on Alamy by 20%. With this in mind we'd always recommend opting in as it's a way of maximising your selling potential on Alamy. That is a really encouraging number! I wish we could say the same for the newspaper *scheme*. Or can we? wim I can't share average figures for the newspaper scheme however, you should think of it this way: The newspaper scheme is UK only The UK is our second biggest market Sales into the newspaper industry is one is one of our major revenue sources Over 98% of photographers are opted IN This all means that if you are not opted in, you're effectively in the 2% who are removing a major potential revenue stream from their Alamy portfolio. We'd therefore highly recommend opting in. James A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imagery by Charly Posted September 5, 2013 Author Share Posted September 5, 2013 Well I'll see how the Distribution sales go, although with being new won't be many I suspect. Yet I'm still leery about the newspaper scheme and w/o numbers, there's no incentive to change my mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 A quick little factoid for you all: On average, being fully opted into the distribution scheme boosts your overall revenue on Alamy by 20%. With this in mind we'd always recommend opting in as it's a way of maximising your selling potential on Alamy. That is a really encouraging number! I wish we could say the same for the newspaper *scheme*. Or can we? wim I can't share average figures for the newspaper scheme however, you should think of it this way: The newspaper scheme is UK only The UK is our second biggest market Sales into the newspaper industry is one is one of our major revenue sources Over 98% of photographers are opted IN This all means that if you are not opted in, you're effectively in the 2% who are removing a major potential revenue stream from their Alamy portfolio. We'd therefore highly recommend opting in. James A I have been in from the start, thank you James! - But not a large supplier. Not the biggest contributor to begin with ;-) Is it true that those clients that are in the scheme, are unable to see images from contributors who are not in the scheme? And did the total amount that the clients in the scheme spend, go up after the scheme was introduced, or has it largely remained the same? (For whatever reason, like recession or elasticity of price or market.) wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alamy Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 A quick little factoid for you all: On average, being fully opted into the distribution scheme boosts your overall revenue on Alamy by 20%. With this in mind we'd always recommend opting in as it's a way of maximising your selling potential on Alamy. That is a really encouraging number! I wish we could say the same for the newspaper *scheme*. Or can we? wim I can't share average figures for the newspaper scheme however, you should think of it this way: The newspaper scheme is UK only The UK is our second biggest market Sales into the newspaper industry is one is one of our major revenue sources Over 98% of photographers are opted IN This all means that if you are not opted in, you're effectively in the 2% who are removing a major potential revenue stream from their Alamy portfolio. We'd therefore highly recommend opting in. James A I have been in from the start, thank you James! - But not a large supplier. Not the biggest contributor to begin with ;-) Is it true that those clients that are in the scheme, are unable to see images from contributors who are not in the scheme? And did the total amount that the clients in the scheme spend, go up after the scheme was introduced, or has it largely remained the same? (For whatever reason, like recession or elasticity of price or market.) wim I can't discuss expenditure stats of the scheme for confidentiality reasons I'm afraid. To answer your other question, if you're a client that's in the scheme and you're logged into the site you will only see images in the search results that are opted in. Cheers James A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 James, thank you! You did answer all my questions ;-) wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Todd Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 I can't share average figures for the newspaper scheme however, you should think of it this way: The newspaper scheme is UK only The UK is our second biggest market Sales into the newspaper industry is one is one of our major revenue sources Over 98% of photographers are opted IN This all means that if you are not opted in, you're effectively in the 2% who are removing a major potential revenue stream from their Alamy portfolio. We'd therefore highly recommend opting in. James A I think it's a major revenue stream for Alamy but not for individual photographers. A few $6 sales a month isn't a major revenue stream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imagery by Charly Posted September 5, 2013 Author Share Posted September 5, 2013 I think it's a major revenue stream for Alamy but not for individual photographers. A few $6 sales a month isn't a major revenue stream. It's reading posts like this Alex and from other threads that has me opted out from the beginning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 Ah: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood? ;-) wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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