Hi All,

 This entire year each month is getting better and better at Getty RM/RF. I have not added anything but some motion clips in over a year and I just had one of our biggest months in two years. Sales are growing rapidly I sure hope it continues. Does anyone else see their Macro work increasing in sales? Love to hear if you have.
 This past 2 months in Micro my sales have dropped for the first time since I joined. I hope that doesn't continue.

Best,
Jonathan

 SJ,

 Thanks for the feedBack, I am asking as many people as I know to try and guesstimate if this is me or an overall trend at Getty starting to show positive growth. I like the higher sales but I would much rather here that everyone is seeing growth that would be a good thing as they kind of set the sales scale in Macro for all other agencies as well. If Getty does well it seems that soon all the Macro agencies start to pick up along side them.

Best,
Jonathan

I only have a couple dozen images there so that's probably not the best gauge. I'd say it's more holding steady for me but I'm planning to start uploading more.

Congrats Zeus,

 That looks like a text my son would send  Congrats!

Best,
Jonathan

Hi Lisa,

 Thanks for the incouragement but I don't think it's me

Temporarily its the usual up and down, in the RM its been the same for the last 15 years,  summer is coming and theres a last surge for images before people are off for hollidays ( lasting about 2 months).
I see the same amount of sales but possibly at higher price per image.

Jonathan, I'm not in macro market, but I would like to be there.
Can you, please, tell us does it matter in which Getty collection  your images are. I see that Yuri's pictures are in Cultura collections. Does it perform better than, let's say, the one with Istock exclusive images? Is there a difference between Cultura, Blend, ImageSurce etc. performance in Getty search?
Thanks!

Gettys main-RM collection, Stones-ImageBank,  thats where the real money lies.

Hi Lagercreek,

 Yuri is under the Cultura collection because it is a third party company owned by myself and 20 other photographer from Europe that Yuri is  contributor to. He is not contributing to Getty but to a third party agency like Cultura or all the others they have. It is represented by Getty but it is also represented by over 100 different agencies around the world. I mentioned this a few times that sometimes the best way to get into a Getty or Corbis is through a third party agency. These are agencies within themselves with a board of directors and owners and contributors.
 I have work in Stone, Image bank I actually have work I think in all of Getty's RM collections. Stone is eye candy but it is definitely not the biggest money as a single collection. That was years ago when Tony built it and Getty first bought it, things have changed a great deal. My Stone and my Image Bank don't do any better than my other RM work at Getty, it has far more to do with the image than the collection.
 The one way to tell what Getty wants to push is to pull up a page of RM with a single key word. Then count the number of slots each collection get on that first page of 60 images. Stone has a high count therefore they have more exposure and do well in sales, Image bank has a lot but so does Iconica and other collections owned by Getty. The third party agencies since they are not " wholly owned " have smaller placements, some don't get an image until the second or third page depending on their sell through rate the size of the collection and a few more factors. jockeying for slots on the front page is a very big part of a collection sales and success, third party or otherwise.
 It really isn't the collection because buyers don't shop by collection they shop by Key word. I hope this helps. Third party agencies are a great way to enter the big agencies. Talk directly with the Third Party like Cultura or Blend or Tetra or my new agency Spaces there are several of them, these are all third party agencies represented by hundreds of distributors across the globe. Hope this helps. Multi distributional is another option in certain third party RM collections at Getty and Corbis.

Best,
Jonathan