4K screen resolution will probably be big enough to be selling for many years.  Will be interesting to see how virtual reality takes off.  Will there be stock sites selling 360x180� panoramas?

From the Alamy blog interview with Keith Morris, the example Alamy provided on this forum: "After selling $250k worth of stock photography online with Alamy recently�" Keith has 27,000 files and that $250,000 in sales is total sales, based on the sentence in quotes, not his percentage after Alamy takes out their cut. After taking out Alamy's cut wouldn't Keith's average return per image per year be around 50 cents?  That doesn't sound that great to me. My percentage on Alamy isn't that much lower than Keith's and my images are mediocre at best. (By the way, I think Keith's images are pretty good, definitely has some beautiful stuff, this is not meant to disparage Keith in any way.)

I have fared much better on istock alone than on Alamy. I submit to Alamy, but I've never had great success relative to the micros collectively or istock and Shutter Stock alone. My RPI is best with Getty but I have less than 200 images with them. My sales with Alamy mirror the micro stock poll results to the right.

Though I was wrong about the duplicate keywords (although I'm sure that information was correct many years ago) I think it still holds true that your images and pseudonym needs time to percolate up in the search results, however I wouldn't expect anything too great from Alamy.

You have to factor in that alamy don't reject on non-technical grounds, other sites might reject half of those images for things like similars or LCV.  Perhaps he could make more money with the microstock sites but I find uploading editorial and the sort of images that no longer sell on the micros to just alamy saves time and its great to have a source of income that isn't microstock.

I still wonder why the bigger sites haven't just copied the Canva USP?  Its obviously very popular with designers, so why are sites like SS just letting them take their business?  Maybe they think Canva is too small but isn't that where the traditional sites went wrong when microstock started?  If Canva had played this right, I think they could be huge by now but they are still doing quite well despite trying to shoot themselves in the foot.

Quote from: Alamy on July 31, 2015, 05:36

Quote from: pkphotos on July 30, 2015, 11:55

There is no such thing as success on Alamy.

Definitely not true

One example: http://www.alamy.com/blog/selling-stock-photos-online-with-alamy-250k-and-counting

Some do better than others, that's true, but we've paid out over $140million to photographers since we began, with many photographers getting healthy payouts month after month.

Cheers

Alamy

One off successes do not represent the population. If you randomly sampled the population of Alamy contributors I think you would see completely different story, more like mediocracy at best. Sure, some do better than others, but those are the exception, not the rule.

If you look in their forum, there's quite a lot of people doing reasonably well with alamy.  When I was earning very little, that gave me the motivation to carry on uploading and now its starting to pay off.

4 months is no time at all, give it a year and you should be seeing regular sales.

I didn't notice the sign in at the top.  Hope you are better soon Laurin.

An android app that could be used to submit to Stockimo would be great.  No idea why alamy are dragging their feet on developing it, they should know that the best photographers use android

Alamy have been quite good for selling my microstock portfolio.  Some buyers don't care about price, sometimes alamy is cheaper than some of the microstock sites and they have a licence that's more like buying an EL on the micros.

Same here, I get regular sales with zazzle and I haven't put much work in to it.  Sold nothing with FAA over 2 years and I put much more effort in to that.  I have sold with other print on demand sites like redbubble, so I have no idea why I couldn't sell a thing with FAA.

Quote from: cobalt on July 17, 2015, 09:37

just walk through any normal office or business. How many doctors, plumbers, accountants,physiotherapist,restaurants etc...have adobe products installed?

Ever fewer businesses are buying stock photos anyhow vs the 2001 - 2009 boom. And the market is massively over supplied. Hence profits continue to fall. The same as many companies no longer actively maintain websites.

Adobe can afford to see this not as a business but as added value bolted on to an existing software service.

Really?  I see nothing but stock photos everywhere.  We might be getting less money but that doesn't mean the sites are selling less.

I still think an advertising agency is more likely to buy an image from SS than FT because FT spent years losing contributors that have great portfolios on SS.  So buyers are far more likely to find what they want on SS.  Maybe that will change in the future but I think it will take some time for adobe to turn around FT.  I doubt SS will just sit back and watch adobe try to grab its image buyers.

Would be good to get someone from videoblocks to comment about why some people aren't getting a payout.  Until that is cleared up, I think a lot of us wont want to upload our portfolios.

A lot of us did support them as much as we could but they decided to stop accepting new images.  They could easily of had a 20 images a week upload limit and that would of made it better for buyers and contributors.  Now I am more wary of them because not accepting new images for such a long time makes absolutely no sense to me.