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Agency Based Discussion => Alamy.com => Topic started by: fintastique on December 07, 2007, 06:54
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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.
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3500 images and no sales in almost two months? How long have you been with them?
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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.
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Yes, very slowly... took me 8 months to get my first sale with a portfolio of about 50 images. I gave up contributing to Alamy for awhile because of the weak sales. I'm now at 3 sales with a portfolio of about 80 images after almost 2 years. I'm going to focus on them again knowing that it is possible to make sales on a very small portfolio.
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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.
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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.
Yep - and that's primarily why I gave up on them...It was encouraging getting the third sale last month. I've had two at over $200 and one at a little over $100. I'll be uploading more knowing that it is possible to find my image out of 10,000,000 images!
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Please forgive my ignorance ... why isn't "Alamy" listed on the Big6 list off to the right?
Mark
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Please forgive my ignorance ... why isn't "Alamy" listed on the Big6 list off to the right?
Mark
because it is a macro stock agency,which is in a different category from micros
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Is that the same as "Rights managed" ?
Is it the top dock for it type of site?
Mark
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Alamy does both RM and RF and is considered a Macrostock site, but because they are the only one that is open to the general masses unlike Getty or Corbis.
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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.
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I would presume that one must upload images to Alamy that are not uploaded anywhere else in order for them to sell for higher prices?
Any suggestions on how to go about this?
What is the application process like at Alamy?
Thanks
Mark
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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
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Sure can, but why would someone buy it for 10 times the price when they could get it for a couple bucks. Separate your work. Upload some here, some there.
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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...
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thanks....now I know (maybe time for alamy)...thanks again people...jiee this forum and its people is so great!!
/lena
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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.
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Can you use images that were previously on the micros and selling well (take them down as possible) for submission to Alamy Portfolio?
Mark
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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)