Author Topic: Just made Alamy and SX (Read 3790 times)

strikerx98 · « **on:** February 12, 2008, 14:00 »

After serveral unsuccessful attemps I've finally been accepted at both Alamy and StockXpert. Guess I will be uploading the rest of the day!!! Happy to finally make it.

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Danicek · « **Reply #1 on:** February 12, 2008, 14:37 »

Congrats... Let us know how are things going, especially at Alamy, since most of us are in StockXpert.

ParisEye · « **Reply #2 on:** February 12, 2008, 14:59 »

With Alamy, beware. There can be a long wait before your next approval. And one refusal among all you load up to then will signify the refusal of everything.

I am currently waiting for the approval of four uploading (i.e. around 20 photos). I don't dare to upload more. I have been waiting for their approval since jan 20 (some are waiting since beginning of january).

My advice would be, for a beginner like me, to get approved (4 pictures), then to upload progressively in order to understand their way of thinking/deciding.

Unless you can upload tens or thousand of pictures each day (which is not my case).

PecoFoto · « **Reply #3 on:** February 12, 2008, 15:59 »

Alamy usually review your first submission within 7 days, after that it can take up to a month.

After you've been accepted I think its best to upload as many as you can otherwise it will take you months to build up your portfolio.

They hope to review submissions within 48 hours soon but then I think they will check each image rather than the odd one as they do now.

Mormegil · « **Reply #4 on:** February 15, 2008, 14:26 »

What do you guys upload to Alamy?

I got accepted a few months ago, and am still trying to decide what to put up.

I understand you can upload non-exclusively there, but it seems like bad form to put the same image up on Alamy as other microstock sites. It also seems like a bad idea, since the buyer can change their mind and get a refund, if they decide to license your image at a IS or some other place.

What I've tried doing so far is putting my "best" images on Alamy, while putting the other good images on the non-exclusive microstocks.

Only 50 images so far, and as expected no sales yet.

I'm just not sure which is a better investment for my images. I understand the best images on Alamy make $16 per image per year. That's about double or tripple what my average is with all my images (admittadly, a lot of crappy ones) combining from 5 micros. If $16 is best, I wonder what average is.

PecoFoto · « **Reply #5 on:** February 15, 2008, 17:08 »

Quote from: Mormegil on February 15, 2008, 14:26

I understand you can upload non-exclusively there, but it seems like bad form to put the same image up on Alamy as other microstock sites.

I think it goes on but Alamy make no attempt to stop this happening and in any case I don't think they could. I personally only upload editorial style travel images and sell them as Rights Managed.

Alamy sells the majority of their images to the editorial market, mainly to the big publishers who have accounts with them. These publishers are less likely to buy Royalty Free images from Alamy as they would be to expensive.

They have a smaller share of the commercial market which is mainly RF. So if you have commercial images set them as RF and editorial as RM. They don't inspect images for content only technical quality, that way buyers can find images on Alamy that they cant find anywhere else. They now have over 11 million images online!

Mormegil · « **Reply #6 on:** February 15, 2008, 17:42 »

Thanks for the advice.

Up until recently, the only place for me to put up editorials was SS with some newsworthy stuff up onto Scoopt/Getty (no sales on Scoopt). Now I'm on Alamy and DS has opened up editorials. So it's been a little bit a dillema.

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