Sally Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 Great. 51 sales since I started on Alamy in March 2017. 39 of them in 2018. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stipe Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 6 hours ago, Joseph Clemson said: Then, as Allan notes, Alamy made another change to the search engine in May 2018 which returned it largely to the state it was in 2017. Interesting. I lost this thing. Where's the post about it? Stefano Barcelona photographer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 Still amazingly consistent: 2014 = 57 2015 = 63 2016 = 57 2017 = 64 2018 June x 2 = 56 iPhone sales = 69 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Clemson Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 15 minutes ago, stipe said: Interesting. I lost this thing. Where's the post about it? Stefano Barcelona photographer Jeff Greenberg speculated that there had been a change in the search engine on April 30th in ranking shake-up of some sort. I didn't comment on that thread at the time but I looked at my benchmark searches and concurred that something had changed as my images were appearing in noticeably different (mostly lower) positions. That thread didn't really take off and the discussion fizzled out. At the end of May there was further speculation about a reduction in the number of zooms some contributors were getting, based on the notion that a pause in submitting affected the zooms a contributor gets. That notion didn't seem to hold much water but I did add a comment in that thread that I thought the reduction in zooms being experienced may be linked to the search engine change Jeff had noticed some weeks earlier. Looking at my Alamy measures data now I can see a clear pattern where I was getting below Alamy average CTR (and my own previous average CTR) throughout 2017, followed by a massive boost in views, zooms and sales which took my CTR well above average, and which lasted until early May 2018. Whatever change had been made in late 2017 was reversed in early May 2018 and since then my views, zooms and sales have become almost non-existent. It presumably follows that if my own zooms etc have declined then others will have had the opposite experience (assuming Alamy's overall sales have remained the same or better). The reports of varying experience I'm seeing seem to bear that out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.Chapman Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 Jan - Jun 2017 : 26 sales for $456 net (average number of images on sale ~ 2,900) Jan - Jun 2018 : 33 sales for $470 net (average number of images on sale ~ 3,700) Pleased to be up on last year , but sales revenue per image on sale appear to going down . I shouldn't be too pessimistic though as I've added quite a lot of images recently, so they haven't had much time to sell (or to be reported as sales). Hopefully some will appear as sales in the second half of 2018. Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foreign Export Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 well don't know what's going on this year both sales and income are way down on last year, and even the year before hopefully the second half of this year will claw that back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 2018 slightly ahead on both sales and income however last year 2017 was way down on 2016. still time to improve 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Morrison Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 2018 exactly the same as 2017 for number of sales (ie sales from Jan-June 2018 exactly half of the whole of 2017). Revenue: a few percentage points down... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokie Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 Sales 55% of 2017 Revenue 62% of 2017 2017 sales Jan. - June: 78 2018 sales Jan. - June: 89, +14% 7% more images so far added this year. John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broad Norfolk Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 Last year was a record year for me in terms of sales. So far this year the first six months are equal to the same period last year volume wise. Revenue is, however, down. Still uploading! Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marb Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 July is looking to be just as dead as June for me. Stopped uploading. No point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 9 minutes ago, Marb said: July is looking to be just as dead as June for me. Stopped uploading. No point. The first working day is a bit early to write off a whole month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCat Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 I hope you aren't offended, Marb, but you do remind me of this character from Lil" Abner comics.... Paulette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Hatton Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 First four months of the year I was doing really well 13 sales from 2000 images then everything just stopped zooms and sales! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 5 hours ago, NYCat said: I hope you aren't offended, Marb, but you do remind me of this character from Lil" Abner comics.... Paulette Forgot that one! I was too busy envying Daisy May’s figure! Or is it Daisy Mae? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Ventura Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 1 hour ago, Betty LaRue said: Forgot that one! I was too busy envying Daisy May’s figure! Or is it Daisy Mae? And there is always Eeyore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Kuta Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 2018 sales are 62% of 2017 total. 2018 revenue is 87% of 2017 total. So, am in good shape for late-year slump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Nelson Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 2018 sales - 6 2018 revenue - $310 No sales in 2017 - I didn't upload images until September. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 18 hours ago, Michael Ventura said: And there is always Eeyore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokie Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 On 02/07/2018 at 17:36, Marb said: July is looking to be just as dead as June for me. Stopped uploading. No point. Cheer up Marb, the sun is still shining!! John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 On 02/07/2018 at 17:36, Marb said: July is looking to be just as dead as June for me. Stopped uploading. No point. I've just had a sale on my very first Alamy image from 2009- from my QC submission. Give it a chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSnapper Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 5 hours ago, Stokie said: Cheer up Marb, the sun is still shining!! ....and do some weather live news photos. Easy pickings, relatively, and happening all over the UK so no special access needed km Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 On 7/1/2018 at 06:19, Inchiquin said: Steady progress year on year. Best year yet by far in terms of number of sales. Alan Me too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 57 minutes ago, Ed Rooney said: Me too. Ed, you deserve it and I daresay you kinda need it at the moment as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marb Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 On 04/07/2018 at 10:20, Stokie said: Cheer up Marb, the sun is still shining!! John. I hate this constant, relentless hot weather. Far too much and drying up my plants. Can’t keep up with the watering. We need rain. still no sale. I genuinely can’t be bothered to pick up my camera, especially in this heat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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