3rd BMY but low rpd ($1.62); worst October ever (since 2007).

The worst of it is that not only do Alamy not penalise "trusted" buyers for not reporting uses/re-uses, but they don't charge then what they should have paid at the time, but the current price, which IME at least is always lower. So there's no incentive for them to be honest.

Of course, Alamy has been nobbled by micro editorial, but that shouldn't affect Live News.

Hello. I'm kind of new in Adobe and I did my first sale today . But it was a 0.2 sale. I have only had lowest sales in iStock lol. Is it normal? I thought, since they are VERY picky with pictures, they had a better payment per subscription download. I thought it was like 0.31 or something. Should I ask them?

Ask them if you want, or do your own research and find out for yourself.

According to their royalties page, if you're a White (ranking below Bronze) and the file is XS, it would cost one credit, which I see as being 1 Euro, and you get 20%. So if in the US a credit is $1 and you're White (ranking), 20c would be correct.
https://eu.fotolia.com/Info/Contributors/Royalties

Quote from: Mastermis on November 14, 2018, 03:19

This is a very valuable information. I was shocked to find here.

Yes you like that phrase, you posted it twice in different threads to say :

"This is a very valuable information. I was shocked to find here."

Why is that?

It's a common pattern of those posting the required minimum of posts before they can spam us, as you know!

Am I the only one that has no idea what these numbers mean?  Clearly not the number of people on each agency, since I think we only have entire people, not decimal portions of them...? 

The number of votes is whole numbers!

I am still very new at this and just learning the ropes.  Could you give me an explanation for the difference between Editorial and Commercial.  I have read some descriptions, but I still don't get it.  If you sell a photos and some used it , that seems like it is one in the same.  How does it being marked Editorial make it different? Thanks.

Editorial files can only be used editorially, for example in a newspaper, magazine or textbook, guide book etc.
Commercial files can be used commercially, for example to advertise goods or services.

Sometimes it can be up to the agency, for example iS specifically doesn't (or at least didn't used to) allow editorial files to be used in advertorials, Alamy seems to allow that.

The thing is that someone wanting a rare image probably won't look at micro first (partly because of so many poor identification and too much spamming), but the agencies which specialise in e.g. rare wildlife usually have requirements including a large initial submission and the promise of 'so many' images to be submitted per month or per quarter; they don't usually (none that I know of, but there must be many I haven't even heard of, I mean the ones who are named in nature publications I read) take one 'odd' photo, even of a very rare creature.

Thanks! Interesting results for North America.  About 75% of the photographers make less $40,000 which I consider the 'bare' minimum  to make a full time living.

Presumably that's why the conclusion is "the business of stock photography has become more of a part-time, supplementary source of income and no longer a viable career."

And again, the results just says 'income', I can't remember if that was specifed in the survey as 'gross income', 'gross pre-tax income', 'net pre-tax income' or 'net take-home income'.

i have a photo of dubai who was in first line in a search of more than 75000 image of dubai ...it sells everyday ..near 1000 sales, now slipped already in 2 page...and clearly not sold for the last days...thanks shuttestock. now i understand the lost of sales of last days...good job ss

Again, that's just SS replicating what iS did a few years back. I had some of my iS best-sellers disappear without trace overnight, went from the top line of best match search to below page 100.

Voter suppression continues, I see. 

Vote? For who?

I think he's talking to USians, who have some sort of 'mid-term' vote today AIUI.

Quote from: Uncle Pete on November 02, 2018, 09:42

Quote from: christiano on October 31, 2018, 08:17

Hi,  i had a sale (31-10-2018) that appears in microstockr but not on the site of Alamy... is it normal?

Where does Microstocker get the data? From Alamy, so what you are saying is logically impossible. Doesn't mean it's not true, but since the reports come from Alamy, how would Microstocker see this and not you? 

DACS US the transfer fee is high, I'd rather just let AL do the work.

Good question, no idea how microstockr could see ... but I can say that Alamy updated the information at the end of the day while microstockr had displayed the sale in the morning, the same day ...

So Sammy's reply #1 was correct.