I must admit I have been very very lucky at Alamy 3,470 successful submission without any rejections. Unfortunately I had my first failed image when I had probably my biggest queue of nearly 600 images (3.75 GB uploaded between 13th and 26th of November) whilst on the road all rejected.

Not too impressed with this site no sales since the beginning of October despite dutifully disambiguating all my files.

Let me figure this out... you had 600 images rejected? One thing about Alamy is that sales come very slowly, but seeing hundreds of dollars for a sale can sometimes make up for it.

8 months for 50 images for your first sale isn't really all that bad.  If you put it into the numbers perspective, 50 barely registers as the overall percent of their 10+ million images. 

Keep on submitting.  I just had my first sale.  Only started seriously submitting a few months ago, but that got delayed, again, and now I'm back up.  My first sale was $144.  I don't care how you swing it, that's better than micro =)

I must admit, I don't know how I feel about zero tolerance yet.  Nothing to really discourage someone from uploading 6000 images, having one fail, and simply reuploading the 5999 plus any new shots.. and repeating over and over until they finally pass. 

Hopefully Alamy eventually gets enough talented reviewers to go the way Shutterstock managed with individual image review within days of uploading.

Please forgive my ignorance ... why isn't "Alamy" listed on the Big6 list off to the right?

Mark

Is that the same as "Rights managed" ?

Is it the top dock for it type of site?

Mark

Micro's give this drip feed of downloads.  It's an oddity to go a day without at least a few downloads with a strong portfolio.  Alamy, not the case.  You get far far far fewer downloads per month.  The trade off is that one sale at Alamy is usually the equivalent of hundreds at a micro. 

I would venture a guess that if all of the top micro contributers were all with macro sites such as Alamy and the like, it would certainly be the greater income source.  It certainly has been for me, and I barely have anything up there yet.

Hi folks!
Can you plz help me with this Alamy stuff!!?? Can u upload same images to Alamy thats already on others microstocks? I really try to understand their "contract" ,but I do need help.
Bye the way...have the best new years  night in a lifetime....
/lena

Why would  you? Just another avenue to sell your stuff, that's why! Unless you are exclusive somewhere, or a very well known photographer, someone is probably never going to find your work on two different websites. Just don't post the same photos as RF and RM.

In reality, many people try to sell their RF on micros and RM on Alamy...

I must admit I have been very very lucky at Alamy 3,470 successful submission without any rejections. Unfortunately I had my first failed image when I had probably my biggest queue of nearly 600 images (3.75 GB uploaded between 13th and 26th of November) whilst on the road all rejected.

Not too impressed with this site no sales since the beginning of October despite dutifully disambiguating all my files.

You should edit your collection, since the amount of images you have should account for at least 3-4 sales a month.  I have seen many posts about the number of images on line and the number of sales and the average shooter should expect a sale per 1000 images on line.  A specialized collection will sell more, with quality being very important.  Also the keywording has to be good (there is no disambiguating) and avoid having too many images of a same theme.

I started uploading in August with a big pause in october and mid november, 800 images on line and a sale a month (the first one in november and the second in december).  The return is more than my 1200 images at SS combined, that sell quite well.  Both sales are RM, by the way.  I will focusing on Alamy and PhotoShelter Collection for the next four to six months since the return promises to be far more than returns at micros without the usual problems with reviewers.

Yes, only as RF though. If someone wants to pay the extra money why not try...

(I had someone pay $200 for an image they could've bought for a couple of dollars)