Patrick Cooper Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 I'm curious about just how large different contributors' ports were when they made their first sales on Alamy. I keep hearing that you need a huge number of images before you can make any sales on this platform. And I guess that's mostly true. For me, I had accumulated 113 photos after several months when I made my first sale here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Quist Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 You cannot really compare. But I may have had about the same number of images on Alamy at the time - in January 2010. An editorial image of a demonstration at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen December 2009. Magazine, print only, duration one month. The total number of images on Alamy was a fraction - and the contributor percentage was 60% of $245 - which was closer to an average price than a high price at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thyrsis Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 June 2001, we had less than 100 images at the time. Sale was for $253. How things have changed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Walker Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 About 200 - got very excited but then a long lean period. 5000 images now and regular sales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vpics Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 I had about 20 pictures on sale - back in 2003. First sale was refunded, but the next ones paid for the new camera outright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan Pritchard Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 I joined Alamy on 18 April 2006 and had my first sale almost exactly one year later on 19 April 2007, for $152.50. At that time I had the grand total of 15 images on sale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlbertSnapper Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 First licences......Back in early 2005, after 5 months and 50 or so photos in the library, I then had two in a month. An $85 and a $350. But that was then, this is now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 I'm still relatively new here. I started uploading in July 2016 and had my first sale with around 200 images in my portfolio in January 2017. It was for a nice $120 and was a good motivator to continue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeCee Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 1st sale on 30th Sept 2003 for $78.41 (1/8th page newspaper use in those days ....) I had 99 images on Alamy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 I got lucky and one of the first ten images that I submitted back in 2007 licensed right away. But that was then, and this is now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptoprocta Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 Whoops, wrong number. It was eight months, I'd need to count all the uploads ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MandyD Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 had about 300 and 6 weeks in I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 I had 53 photos available for sale for about a month before I had my first sale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariaJ Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 Mine was in 2014 with 320 images up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Limb Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 Less than 30 images uploaded and about a month in and my first sales... Alamy then had less than 20 million images - today over 134 million - do the maths! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colblimp Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 My first sale came after 4 months and 400 images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 3 months, about 500. When the same image sold again for the same licence in the same paper 4 years later, the price had fallen 65%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sally Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 4 months after I started uploading in February 2017, with around 800 images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill Morgan Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 I had been on Alamy for 6 months with 653 images with first sale in early 2014. Jill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael_Jacobs Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 I started end of may 2013 and had my first sale in July, so a bit more than a month after my first successful submissions... by then I had 178 photos online. The next sale was January the following year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 Made first sale 18th Feb 2011 with 481 images up. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 From memory I think I had 60 photos up for sale, but it took a while, about a year, after joining. From the database, my first 4 sales were for $42, $320, $400, $341 - those were the days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokie Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 First sale in Sept 2008 with 266 images uploaded from Jan 2007 - so 19 months until my first sale!!! John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 1 hour ago, Stokie said: First sale in Sept 2008 with 266 images uploaded from Jan 2007 - so 19 months until my first sale!!! John. I can beat that John, it was 26 months to my first sale from joining. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDoug Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 Ten months and 650 images online before the first sale, which was refunded, then sold again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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