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Alamy usually has a turnaround of c1-2 days. If it gets up to a week, it usually means you've had a rejection.
I know nothing of Zoonar, so can't answer that specifically.
Note that if a sale is made through an Alamy 'agent' you get 40% rather than 60%. I'm guessing, but don't know, that this would apply to Zoonar.

Zoonar doesn't simply transfer all photos to a partner agency like Alamy. First we have to check the image quality and the image metadata. For Alamy we have to assign so called essential keywords and main keywords as well as some additional information (number of people visible, release information, etc.). This work is done by our editorial staff and this takes time. As a photographer you have the option the release all your images for a partner and you don't have that much work. We pay out 60% of the net revenues which we get from Alamy. That's a fair deal.
 
Currently there are 300,000 images supplied for Alamy which are waiting for an editorial check. Therefore it takes time before new images may be approved. After transmitting the images we have to wait for the final approval from Alamy. Alamy may reject an uploaded batch but luckily this didn't happen as our editorial staff works very thoroughly.
 
The Zoonar partner management offers you the the option to supply your images with only one click to different partners, e.g. AGE, Photolibrary, DDPI, Picturemaxx or Fotofinder and we will add new partners in the near future. Our goal is to build up an international distribution network with 15-20 partners. It will always take time before the images are online at a partner's site but that's usual in the photo business.

Perhaps it's a silly question, but why not just sell through Alamy directly? Although you have one more agency to upload to, you then get to keep all the royalty Alamy pays (60% is what I get - I think that's standard).

That`s only one side. The other is:

Agencies like Zoonar have no or not much rejections, we have a good search rank (especially at Alamy important) because we put in different photos with different licences and styles and we put the photos to 10-20 partners and you just have to work (keywording) once. We also did the work for essential keywords, the work for submitting, translating, and the work for additional informations (at alamy: how many people, kind of photo (cutout, photo, illustration) and so far). So if you don`t have much time or very many photos it CAN be much more efficient to use a distributor like zoonar. With 60% comission we are one of the best paying distributors on the market. We also do the german manual (!) translations for free, so you also will have sales at picturemaxx, DDP, Strandperle and other Zoonar-Partners. One handicap i have to admit is, that we need many time to put in photos into the all partner databases and search engines. But this is normal and not only Zoonars fault, because the partners need many time to release new photos. After 4-7 months photographers they use the whole partner network will have good earnings.

We can fix the scroll-down process and make it easier, but we cannot change the release process because this must be fit with the german law. But there are automatic buttons down at the "manage pictures" area. Did you see them? You can mark a partner and photos will be automatically release to the quality check and keywording process...

That is not correct: We take 40% from the Rest 60%... That means that the Photographers gets 36%

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First Question: That`s okay, try it out directly at Alamy.
Second: If you once have accepted the terms of trade you cannot revoke this. That´s normal for a law agreement. You can delete every photo at the partner sites (after six months), but the terms of trade are still accepted. And you don`t need to release new photos to allready accepted partners. To accept the terms of trade just means that you are ABLE to release photos. Not that you HAVE TO release some photos. It is your decision which photos do you release to which partners. That`s an important feature at the Zoonar partner management !

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Any news on the image transfering to Alamy? I've had pictures waiting since may 2010......

I guess if there is 2 of the same image on Alamy it will depend on which one the buyer pic, as they will have different reference numbers.

I don't know how it works with Zoonar as I don't contribute to them, but I do contribute to other traditional agencies that also supply Alamy.  Essentially, it is up to you to let the supplying agency know that you are also a contrbutor to Alamy so that images won't be duplicated.

It doesn't make sense to have two of the same image, from an agency, on Alamy....first, it could potentially harm your rank, and second, if the wrong image is chosen, then you miss out on the difference in commission and a boost in rank when your image is licensed.