Sorry for your bad luck. Sales are normal for me.

I got on the bad list at Alamy. Now all my images are rejected all the time. I was able to get 2000 images approved without much trouble in the first year.  Now not at all............Guess maybe in a year or so maybe i will be back on the good list.

Last year I had 13 sales from my 250 images.  This year, so far, 3.    Apparently some sorts of things just don't sell there any more.

Last year I had 13 sales from my 250 images.  This year, so far, 3.    Apparently some sorts of things just don't sell there any more.

Yeah, like my stuff 

Quote from: Buffalo Bill on November 08, 2014, 21:54

Quote from: stockastic on November 08, 2014, 20:32

Last year I had 13 sales from my 250 images.  This year, so far, 3.    Apparently some sorts of things just don't sell there any more.

Yeah, like my stuff 

How many images do you have on Alamy?  I'm hoping you realize that you're competing with over 50 million.

I keep adding...sales are on par with what I would expect.  I have about 5,050 on their site at the moment.

For what it's worth, 13 images licensed from 250 images is exceptional and out of the ordinary in my experience.

17 sales on 2,700 for 2014- I didn't even bother to check my rating which I am sure is way below average...

they account for about 5% of my overall income - not a huge blow but still sucks to lose the income...

Quote from: mj007 on November 08, 2014, 17:06

I got on the bad list at Alamy. Now all my images are rejected all the time. I was able to get 2000 images approved without much trouble in the first year.  Now not at all............Guess maybe in a year or so maybe i will be back on the good list.

Sorry to hear that- did you write them?

BB good idea . I just sent Alamy a note about my constant rejections. I have about 2000 images on Alamy that actually produce a good income each year . I hope they will start to accepting new images from me as that is the only way to keep my income fluid.   

Alexa rating:

Alamy:  12.335

SS:    217

 

Alamy is very disappointing these days. Especially since I had high hopes for them in the past. 

I got on the bad list at Alamy. Now all my images are rejected all the time. I was able to get 2000 images approved without much trouble in the first year. 

They should fire the responsible person and rework their whole approval process. Even at SS I have very high approval rate. Alamy rejects at random a whole batch. To be honest, I do not mind much if a couple if images, or even a high percentage, gets rejected. Usually reasonable rejections are healthy for a Agency.

The problem is that a whole series of batches gets stuck for a month because one image might have some chromatic aberration somewhere. Well, fine...please reject it. Or even the whole batch - as you state in your conditions. But rejecting not only ONE batch but the uploads of a whole month (usually about 2000 files for me) and full stopping the whole workflow for 28 working days (a considerable percentage of the whole year) is just not constructive. It helps nobody. I shows only a bad attitude. Or the helplessness of the responsible people to deal with a high amount of material coming in on a continuous basis.

We are here for business. Reject what you do not like for whatever reason but keep the objective in mind to build up a competitive library and bring in revenue for yourself and the photographers.

With 4800 images at Alamy my charts look  very similar to ShadySue above.

With 4800 images at Alamy my charts look  very similar to ShadySue above.

So just under $1000 last year and just over $400 this year ? That would be terrible if it was 4800 planned shots carefully processed. But it would be a really good result if it was 4800 mostly out of camera snaps of stuff found and noticed along the route. I think there is a lot of luck with that sort of thing.

Every shot I have sold at Alamy so far was shot off a to-do list. I have lots which were never on a to-do list but they have never sold. That tells me that from now on I would mostly be wasting valuable time processing and keywording random stuff which does not somehow illustrate a likely potential thing. My time would be better spent making lists.

Every shot I have sold at Alamy so far was shot off a to-do list. I have lots which were never on a to-do list but they have never sold. That tells me that from now on I would mostly be wasting valuable time processing and keywording random stuff which does not somehow illustrate a likely potential thing. My time would be better spent making lists.

That's an interesting observation.  I've never shot from a to-do list and I've found that my planned photo shoots of people rarely ever get licensed.  Out of over 5,000 images online, I think I've licensed two images from planned photo shoots at Alamy.

99% of the time, my licensed images are editorial photos - whether it's from a newsworthy event or from something you won't find on the micros.

Having passed the first week of the month last week, I have one image reported as licensed.  My views/zooms for the month are lower than normal and based on searches I've done (I don't use BHZ), it appears I've fallen in rank so maybe there was a re-rank.

The thing that I do find fascinating is how people are ranked.  For some searches I've done, the images that flow to the top are not the best images available - and many are downright awful.  I'll be the first to admit I'm not the best photographer in the world, but I often look to see what the rest of the portfolio has to offer and I'm very surprised the person has achieved that rank.

As for advice to the OP, I would take a look at a few found images threads - you'll see many of the same photographers coming up month after month.  It's a huge clue as to what does get licensed.

Here's my stats so far for the year.  I've written the year off as I don't expect another payout before next January due to timing differences....but it has been a good year comparatively speaking.