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leaf:
I just checked on alamy and they have added to their alamy measures tools.  Check this page out

http://www.alamy.com/Customersearch/Customersearchhistory.aspx

Not only do they now have your own personal alamy measures to find out what people are searching for and what images of yours turn up (and much more) but they also have the info for ALL of alamy, which means you can see which are the most popular search terms, how many sales that term has, views.. etc. etc...   very nice.

litifeta:
wish they would accept me as a contributor.

Adeptris:
Yeah it is a great insight as to how buyers search, not all buyers are part of measures only some selected buyers and the Alamy research team view and add to lightboxes which they sent to customers, these are not recorded.

The column that is missing is the number of images returned by a search, this is not views, they are related to the number of pages the buyer looked at, often over 100 pages at 102 thumbnails.

But for research it can be of use, look at the low views and then do a proper search.

Another thing Microsite contributors will need to factor in is that 76% of sales are editorial, and 78% RM images, but this is not so relevent as RM is often cheaper than RF.

David 

PaulieWalnuts:
Yep, it's pretty cool but I'm not sure how useful it is. I went through a ton of it and came to the conclusion there's no pattern to what people are buying. It's a crapshoot. This matches what their contributors say about needing a few thousand images of a variety subjects because you never know what will sell.

Megabyzus:
Hm. Interesting to see that the number of views has nothing to do with the number of sales:
"Russia" has 46,957 and 0 sales, while "Orkney Island Doug Blane" has 17 views and 3 sales.

So it doesn't really matter how many views an image gets when it comes to sales.

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