]Well, comparing what percent of its total library a subscription site sells over a year to what percent a non-subscription site sells is certainly worth noting, but is also missing significant relevant info, such as what commission is earned from typical sale for each....

But, more importantly, if a contributor determines an agency is not working out for him, acting on that makes sense, of course.

I can certainly relate, since I now have active files on just 2 images agencies - the other ones were either a waste of time and/or didn't treat contributors in a satisfactory way and/or were no longer a fit for where my photography's going.

(As an aside - Except for those already successful at stock, I no longer see it as something worth working harder and longer and smarter at, in hopes of becoming more successful. Unless one's geography, health, family, skills, time... limit options, better to find less speculative ways to increase one's photography income.)

I think those are automated emails. As soon as you hit a time trigger you will get an email.

Alamy sales have died since July 2013. James changed my mind to call it quits, but this time there is no stopping me. I am still waiting/hoping for when things pick, but seeing the threads on their own forum, I think Alamy has reached the point of implosion. Too many files and they sell nothing.

I have said this a few times before, SS sells their total library 3 times over per year (300%). Alamy only sells 0.87% (!) of their library, and mainly from the live news feed and editorial images that are present in massive over abundance due the spray and pray type of photography.

Jeff Greenberg added 10k files in the last year or so, and his sales graph is still dropping.

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But that first sentence really isn't a FACT, is it?


Ron: "[size=78%]Alamy is in no rush to collect money, since they give it all away to charity anyways. And when they need extra funding to open a new office, they lower the royalties...."[/size]

Two votes down for stating facts. Alamy themselves said they lowered royalties to fund the new office. When you vote down, at least sure its not obvious you vote down the person rather then the comment.

congrats, Ron, and hope to read about your first sales there down the road... lined with lovely yew trees.
- Ann

One of the useful points Gavin Seim makes is to be more specific than to call oneself a photographer - similarly to how rather uninformative it is to refer to oneself simply as a writer - much more meaningful to say one photographs milestone events for clients, or freelances for X magazine....

Meant to submit question about making watermarks more effective, perhaps more informative, but let the deadline pass, alas.

Part 1 was worth watching, so looking forward to video response parts 2 & 3.

No, it's not all generic content.
Perhaps the observation is based on visiting a few pages of a few posters' portfolios?

If one were to look at some random pages from mine, for ex, one could assume all I cover are politicians (or parades or protests or pets or angels or cities or astronauts or vintage cars...) depending on the pages landed on.

I don't think it helps traffic reporting that my homepage = "mydomain.com" -- but separate gallery and image pages  = "mydomain.photoshelter.com/....."

Plus, ever since I added extra tracking code suggested on g.a. site to get more precise traffic reporting, # of visits reported increased, but larger percent show up as 1 page, 0 seconds, new visitor (including times it can't be so).

mtkang - thanks for explaining how to work batch edit - saves a lot of time. How I managed to overlook that feature until now is beyond me.

Quote from: mtkang on March 27, 2013, 05:40

Hi Cobalt,

I find alamy is one of the best submit interface.. there is a batch submit features..just 'manage images' and highlight the thumbnail in same series, 'shift' or 'control' to select mulitple images..and pull to the tab under..

you can then edit them in batch.. I used adobe bridge for my keywords and it import as the third keyword tab..so I usually move them to the 'main keywords' and 'second keywords' tab.

OMG thank you so much.  I had no idea that you could batch assign the attributes.  That will save me so much work.

Ponke, that agency's requirement is surprising since not all MPs are created equally.
Nikon's flagship D4 at 16.2 MP wouldn't make it?!

I am with an agency that excepts nothing less then 50mb uncompressed, which comes down to about 18mp. All I am shooting is panoramas and stitched images for them. Love it.

You were allowed to have Coke (the cola) as a child?! A spoon of coffee in a cup of milk was the most we could hope for. 
Except for that, though, sounds like your mom & mine had very similar takes on food. Unfortunately, I developed sweet tooth anyway

[....]
I probably would have gotten my hand slapped really hard if I had a Twinkie at home. Mom allowed us one of those 6 1/2 oz Cokes a day. (maybe) No canned vegetables ever, frozen or fresh only. Candy, sure, only on holidays. Sick, we'd get half an Aspirin.

And people wonder why I'm such a conservative?     
[....]

I understand how the message behind your vector is meaningful to you.
But, like kisbear, I also live on Long Island, NY, and that area of your map is so off, it might have been better to have skipped LI altogether.
all the best - Ann