I thought this had been fixed but all my new uploads were defaulted for the free section again today and I had to change it.  Are they ever going to fix this?

Quote from: MircoV on May 17, 2016, 07:57

I dont get what is the advantage for the one that doctors Alamy up??? Then SS also could be doctored. All other agencies including low earners have chance to be doctored. Why only Alamy you think? For me it is simple. Alamy is doing well for many and those are voting here. There are here some people reporting alamy beating SS. If you dont get many sales then it is because you make typucal microstock photos or bad keywording. One thing is sure ... Alamy has great potential.

Incorrect assumption. I started off in macro on slide film long before micro was invented. My photos at Getty outperform my Alamy photos by over 1000%. Therefore I do well at my other macro agency and I do well at all my micro agencies. The only odd one out is Alamy. In fact Alalmy is the only agency where forum members seem to post gross earnings instead of net, probably because once the commission is taken off net looks way less impressive.

You are the one with the incorrect assumption that because you don't do well with Alamy, other people can't do well with them.  I never sold a thing with FAA in two years but that doesn't mean that they aren't a good site for a lot of people.  The same applies to Alamy.

It's a complete myth that Alamy is doing well. I've been a contributor there for ten years and have thousands of photos. In comparison to my other agencies they are low grade performers. The poll is doctored.

Do you really think that because one person can't do well on a site, nobody else is doing well?  The fact is that if you do your research, there are many people doing well with Alamy and if they vote in the poll, it isn't doctored.

I am not participating to the program, but since this bloody thing started sales of clips have totally tanked for practically everybody, from what I read in the different forums.
I knew it was coming: if customers can have 300,000 very good clips covering most subjects for about $6, why on earth should they be buying anywhere else?
The only way forward now is to hope that other agencies will start selling footage at $5 for each clip and hope that this will kill pond 5

If that's the only way forward, I will give up on video.

Do a bit of research and you should see that there are a lot of people making good money with Alamy.  It might only be a tiny fraction of their contributors that make significant earnings but if some of them are now doing the poll, it shouldn't be a surprise to see Alamy at number 2.  If I had spent all my time on Alamy and not the microstock sites, I think my earnings would be higher than SS but I would probably be earning less than all the microstock sites combined.

There's a good tutorial here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8JUKLjZxyE

Here's the link to get informed when the windows beta is out.
https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/windows/

I would think about an Adobe subscription if they made my portfolio on FT visible again

Weren't most of these tiers in the agencies created when individual contributors sales were a lot higher and haven't been lowered to accommodate current days reduced sales?

From what I remember, Istock, BigStock, 123RF and FT all made top tiers that were impossible to reach for any normal human being.  Maybe Yuri and his team and a few others had a chance but for the rest of us, they were taking the Michael.

Last 2 batches 100% accepted and while sales have never been the best there, they are steady.  Funny how we all perceive sites differently, I much prefer CanStockPhoto to some of the more shady sites that have cut commissions and keep changing things that make it harder for us to make money.

I don't believe some of the most experienced people on Pond5 selling for the highest prices would leave their camera on 29.97 because that's the default.  They would probably go through the same process most of us do, trying to find out what's most suitable for stock.  I can see that it doesn't really matter though.

The Ricoh Theta S is good for stills.  Video is low quality but still fun to play with.

When you get one of those big single or other sales on an image that you were thinking of deleting, it puts you off.  I think its a myth that deleting images will improve sales, unfortunately one that I listened to when I was in my early years doing this.  There's so much duff information by some old timers that should be ignored.