Where is that part of the success then? Almost everybody on this thread isn't very happy with sales.

Where is that part of the success then? Almost everybody on this thread isn't very happy with sales.

Almost everybody on ANY thread seems not to be happy with sales......I think the Alamy "style" is different to typical Mstock..now if only I could work out what it is........

Where is that part of the success then? Almost everybody on this thread isn't very happy with sales.

Wade through the Alamy forum threads about sales and you can see who is doing well.  Like a lot of sites, most people doing well don't come here to brag about it.  Just 2 RF sales so far this month for me but my cut is almost $70 and that is better than most of the microstock sites.

Sales on Alamy can be reported months later. So September might have been good but we will see the result of that in the coming months.
I had a picture licensed for one use in a single editorial article on 07 November 2015 and the sale appeared in my Alamy account on 13 June 2016.
Let's wait and see...

Quote from: Irina Anosova on October 15, 2016, 12:11

Where is that part of the success then? Almost everybody on this thread isn't very happy with sales.

Wade through the Alamy forum threads about sales and you can see who is doing well.  Like a lot of sites, most people doing well don't come here to brag about it.  Just 2 RF sales so far this month for me but my cut is almost $70 and that is better than most of the microstock sites.

I got about the same amount from 4 sales, this month, but this is worse than most of my other microstock sites 😉.  The poll on the right is close to my reality, except that even 123RF is better than Alamy. Actually it is about 3 times better. 😉

Another example of a stock photo company that's doing well overall, but which has just too many contributors for it to be worthwhile for many of them.

Quote from: Irina Anosova on October 14, 2016, 06:34

Quote from: Alamy on October 14, 2016, 04:46

September 2016 was simply our best sales month ever.

Will you accept video FTP upload soon? Sending HDD seems to be like 1990's.

Also, no 4K...   

I have 1000 videos there and not sold a single clip.  I think Alamy is to late to the party for video.

What's up with their royalty free editorial? Wasn't it supposed to come in September?

Quote from: shiyali on October 23, 2016, 17:22

What's up with their royalty free editorial? Wasn't it supposed to come in September?

I dont think a date was given but does seem to be taking a long time....

They first mentioned that the new tools were "soon" to be released back in March. They then said that they are "in the final stages of testing" these tools" back in September. It seems the have the most stretched definition of "soon" I've ever come across I know it's important to iron out things before releasing them, but first, companies with such potential can mobilize and release new products/tools within relatively short period of time, and secondly, no one can make a perfect bug-less IT product, you have to go through the beta mode and iron it out with the help of users; why wait so long?

4000 images online, and one sale back in July.  Not much success here so far.

On my side around 10k images (vectors) and 39 sales so far in 2016. Not a huge revenue but certainly worth it for me as an illustrator.

Constantly uploading, consistently no sales. Abysmal !!!

Perhaps Alamy buyers don't want your files their style is not typical Microstock

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Quote from: Pauws99 on October 24, 2016, 01:23

Quote from: shiyali on October 23, 2016, 17:22

What's up with their royalty free editorial? Wasn't it supposed to come in September?

I dont think a date was given but does seem to be taking a long time....

They first mentioned that the new tools were "soon" to be released back in March. They then said that they are "in the final stages of testing" these tools" back in September. It seems the have the most stretched definition of "soon" I've ever come across I know it's important to iron out things before releasing them, but first, companies with such potential can mobilize and release new products/tools within relatively short period of time, and secondly, no one can make a perfect bug-less IT product, you have to go through the beta mode and iron it out with the help of users; why wait so long?

And why announcing the news if things are not ready at all? Liars

They are more truthful than most of the sites I use that either keep us in the dark or tell us something good is going to happen only to find it's actually bad news.

Having seen how long it took them to start selling video after they started hinting about it, I no longer think anything is going to happen quickly.  It would be good if they could work faster after hinting about it but I really don't mind.