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Success stories on Alamy - the $100,000+ club

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Alamy:
Hi Everyone,

As you may (or may not!) know, we do keep an eye on this forum to see what the community has to say about us :)

There is a theme that seem to come up a fair bit: People asking if Alamy is working for others and whether or not people have success with us. With this in mind, we've put together a series of blog posts called the $100k+ club, where we speak to photographers who have made at least $100,000 worth of sales on Alamy. We ask them for a few words about their experience and give them the opportunity to offer some insight to others.

We're up to part three now, and I thought some of you may find the posts interesting so I wanted to highlight them for you here.

- 100k club part 1: http://www.alamy.com/blog/100000-club-one-alamys-top-earning-photographers

- 100k club part 2: http://www.alamy.com/blog/the-100000-club-part-2-alamys-top-earning-photographers

- 100k club part 3: http://www.alamy.com/blog/100000-club-part-3-alamys-top-earning-photographers

Cheers

James Allsworth

hatman12:
Note that whenever Alamy comes here promoting themselves they always refer to 'x amount of sales' which is always the gross amount, never the net amount.  When they say $100,000 what they really mean is gross sales value, which is equivalent to double that of net sales value.  Of course many people have had success with Alamy, but let's get the amount of money right, otherwise it is deliberately misleading.

BaldricksTrousers:
$100k isn't really a very impressive bar to set. It could mean an income of as little as $375 a month over 10 years for the photographer (45% commission on 10k a year/12 months).
Now $100,000 a year would be impressive, as would $1m in total sales, but I suppose 100k sounds impressive to relative newbies.

Shelma1:
Yeah, a million in earnings might be worth hearing about. 100K just tells me people don't make much there compared to Shutterstock.

“I’ve been with Alamy since 2004 and have have done much better than I ever expected, with nearly $700,000 in gross sales in that time.”

If I did my math correctly he's bringing home about $2,000/month-$24,000/year in royalties, which isn't terrible, but it sounds like he's the top of the top at Alamy. So there's no way you can make a living just submitting there. In fact, he goes on to say he has to make money doing other things because he doesn't make enough shooting stock. Depressing.

BaldricksTrousers:

--- Quote from: Shelma1 on January 26, 2018, 08:07 ---
If I did my math correctly he's bringing home about $2,000/month-$24,000/year in royalties, which isn't terrible, but it sounds like he's the top of the top at Alamy. So there's no way you can make a living just submitting there. In fact, he goes on to say he has to make money doing other things because he doesn't make enough shooting stock. Depressing.

--- End quote ---
And he's a top-flight photojournalist, former chief photographer of a British daily paper noted in his day for its excellent photography.

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