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« Reply #125 on: April 02, 2016, 03:09 »
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In my case last time Alamy earns more (net) than SS so no reason to put false results in the poll. Btw, huge number of Alamy contributors do not visit this forum at all. If they did, the result would be even more surprising for microstockers ;)


« Reply #126 on: April 02, 2016, 04:27 »
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Those Alamy results are totally false. I am with several agencies and know the capabilities of Alamy. Compared to most agencies they severely under perform. Someone is entering false data on Alamy for whatever reason.

Alamy has currently 110 votes in this poll (Shutterstock 169, Istock 132 to put it into perspective).
Must be a lot of "someones" working together to skew the results.

Good point, however knowing the performance of my own Alamy account over several years, as well as observing the contributor monthly reported earnings string on the Alamy forum (over a long period of time), I still find these results barely credible. They were for so long middle tier and within the last couple of months they're suddenly near the top. I'm sure many people are as dubious as I am.
Lots of people in the Alamy forum say they earn more than I would think the average microstocker here makes on any individual site.  So I'm not that surprised by Alamy doing so well.  My RM portfolio isn't that big compared to many other contributors and I can see that people with 5,000 images could make more than all but SS.  With the Alamy review system, it isn't hard to have a much bigger portfolio there than the micros.

dpimborough

« Reply #127 on: April 02, 2016, 11:26 »
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and Stocksy has 14 votes with a rating of 388.6 much higher than any of these other agencies but you don't see anyone decrying those results now do you?

There are a lot more people on Alamy so it gets included in the ratings and the rates are better than any of the micros.

All you need are a few Alamy sales to overtake the peanut shops like SS/iS/FT  etc.

ShadySue

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« Reply #128 on: April 02, 2016, 11:57 »
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All you need are a few Alamy sales to overtake the peanut shops like SS/iS/FT  etc.
Ha, maybe, maybe not ~
Yesterday I got one dl each on iS and Alamy, and iS is $5.44 ahead for April.  ;D
The Alamy cheap RM sale ($2.81 net) was for a pic of a subject for which I have the only pic on Alamy, and there are none on iS / SS / Ft / DT / Getty. Still, the buyer's discount counts for more than the rarity of the subject (as it does more or less everywhere  :().

« Reply #129 on: April 02, 2016, 15:00 »
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Alamy passed shutterstock.

Not suspicious at all. Lol.

« Reply #130 on: April 02, 2016, 15:10 »
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Also, can I put something as RM on Alamy if it was previously RF in other agencies (but was removed from everywhere else except Alamy since then)?
Yes, but if it sold previously as RF, you need to make notes of that, in case the very unlikely event happens that someone wants exclusive rights and you'd need to reveal that fact. From what I've read, that's relatively very rare on Alamy, but happens sometimes.
Thank you Sue!

So what do you think, which license sells better / higher on Alamy - RF or RM? 

ShadySue

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« Reply #131 on: April 02, 2016, 15:15 »
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Also, can I put something as RM on Alamy if it was previously RF in other agencies (but was removed from everywhere else except Alamy since then)?
Yes, but if it sold previously as RF, you need to make notes of that, in case the very unlikely event happens that someone wants exclusive rights and you'd need to reveal that fact. From what I've read, that's relatively very rare on Alamy, but happens sometimes.
Thank you Sue!

So what do you think, which license sells better / higher on Alamy - RF or RM?
Sorry, no idea. I only sell RM there.

« Reply #132 on: April 02, 2016, 15:57 »
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They have a lot of hybrid licenses so the results for both RM and RF can be pretty similar.
RF used to be a lot higher back a few years ago, but now they seem to be pretty close.

« Reply #133 on: April 02, 2016, 18:31 »
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Alamy passed shutterstock.

Not suspicious at all. Lol.

A complete and utter joke with zero credibility

« Reply #134 on: April 05, 2016, 08:24 »
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Alamy has passed istock this morning in the poll. It did the other day too but yesterday sank down again. this is exciting.

GeoffK

« Reply #135 on: April 07, 2016, 10:26 »
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I would be very suspicious of the poll, you only have to look at the published figures for Alamy V SS et all to see that RPI is a long way behind at Alamy. Naturally that does not take in to account rank which is probably the most important factor with Alamy....it takes time to bed in new accounts and work your way up the greasy pole.

Saying that, Alamy have been very very good to me in the past for secondary editorial, for commercial images they still rank well down the order for trad agencies/aggregators - Getty, Masterfile et al..





 

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