Quote from: Freedom on October 04, 2015, 13:11

Quote from: pkphotos on October 04, 2015, 13:01

video sales fluctuate a lot, however 1 sale a month off 500 clips would suggest you are shooting the wrong subject matter or else other people are offering better clips on the same subject matter

I have a wide range of subject matters. Given what I read from another thread, I realize that my prices may not be competitive enough. But I am not going to compete with people who sell for $5 or $10. I'd rather focus on unique contents.

I wasn't talking about price, I was talking about clip quality. With any subject that's already been shot, we all need to look at the opposition to see if our own clips are of the same standard or better. People who shoot normal (non-action) footage on a GOPRO for example will generally struggle to compete with the same footage shot on a quality DLSR or video camera. I personally have a minimum price of $59 on P5.

Good points. Although some of my footages were from the lattest GoPro, most were shot with quality DSLRs.

video sales fluctuate a lot, however 1 sale a month off 500 clips would suggest you are shooting the wrong subject matter or else other people are offering better clips on the same subject matter

I have a wide range of subject matters. Given what I read from another thread, I realize that my prices may not be competitive enough. But I am not going to compete with people who sell for $5 or $10. I'd rather focus on unique contents.

I would reduce the size and upload to YouTube or Vimeo, and view from there.

New CEO may bring some changes. It can be good or bad. I am not very hopeful because Klein is still her boss.

Let's hope she will not harm our earnings even more by increasing short term profit for her boss. In the long run, it will not do Getty much good either as it has been proven.

Micsmt, don't worry too much about what other people think, just continue to do what you think it's right. Eventually you will find your own path.

Your photos are not that bad, you've got the idea. You will have to refine your execution in lighting, composition and post processing. You cannot please everyone, if you can please yourself and more and more buyers, you are successful.

Yesterday's masters may not produce masterpieces today. Today's newbies may become a master one day, that's a fact. We all had snapshots, that's a part of the learning process. Keep at it. Best of luck!

I agree Alamy sales are picking up, but still far behind IS. But I have a lot more images on IS.

I wonder if you have more images on IS or Alamy.

For a while, I was doing better with editorial pics sold on iStock, and indeed what little I'm still selling there as credit sales is predominatly editorial images uploaded in 2011 (not since!).
However, Alamy has been picking up a bit for me, and currently my August sales and $$ are better there than iS. This morning I got a repeat sale in, a great advantage of RM. I've got one particular file which has resold several times, each resale for a small amount, but adding up to a decent total. I wonder how many micro/RF buyers tot up all uses to make sure an EL isn't needed for cumulative prints.
On the downside, in July, I got a small value distributor sale, reported as used on June 1st. I googled it and it was legitimately used much earlier, and several copies of the article, in various online locations and various languages were already up dating back to April. Not sure how to chase them up with DCMA irrelevant (neither Alamy, I, nor the offenders being in the US) and the language barrier ... Thinking about it. 

They started as a promising fine art site, now they try very hard to become a Walmart by selling all kinds of rubbishes. Ironically my sales are way down comparing to last year, and I rarely see sales of phone cases, bags, etc.

Only 1 sale in early July.

I am sharing your pain. If we don't take control of our sales, agencies, be it iStock or SS, will not hesitate to devalue our work as long as they have unlimited supply of images.

Exclusive contents is only valuable when an agency is selling them as such. My sales are so bad these days that I don't even look at the numbers anymore.

I am not going to leave IS for SS either. However, I am not uploading any unique images to IS anymore.

Don't know if it is just me, but whenever a site announce they have new partners and new revenue sources, my sales tend to drop.

FAA did well for me last year, but this year my sales are declining. People used to buy the biggest size a lot, now they only buy medium sizes.

Quote from: Freedom on July 16, 2015, 17:14

Alamy said I can make 20+ claims.

Does this figure only apply to sales in certain years? I have never claimed it before. Can retroactive claims be made?

You can't make retroactived claims as such, but eligible publications always count, so books/mags eligible this year are eligible next year and so on.

Got it. Thanks!

How much will one get for each sale?