Earnings at Alamy
Alamy is a more stock site that used to have a complex upload process involving resizing the images to a much larger file size. Earlier this year, they dropped that requirement and so I have been adding new images in parallel to the normal sites. Alamy’s great advantage is that you can sell images as being licensed for a particular use, which tends to cost more (and earn more) than rights free stock sites. Last month I sold this image of Pistyll Rhaeadr waterfall in Wales on Alamy for $52.00. In August I sold this photo of Washington Cathedral for $32.00. The waterfall was licensed for an inside page in a UK national newspaper – but I never managed to find out which one! A prize for anyone finding it!
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Hi, how you doing? I am uploading/submitting hard to Alamy lately but I am placing all into RF, I have seen you have tons of RM but you have the same pictures as RF on microstock agencies.. can we do that? I believe we cannot, thanks
Doing good, thanks. I have seen a few sales at Alamy recently. Some RM, some RF. Most of my RM ones are images that I uploaded in the early days when the terms and conditions did not exclude having an image RM at Alamy, but RF in other places. At some point in the past year they changed the contributor agreement to remove that option, but as far as I know, there was no requirement to change the status of existing files (in fact, there is no way to change the license of a file). The ones I upload now are set as RF, although it does not seem to be possible to set editorial type images as anything other than RM. Pretty strange!
Had two sales at Zoonar last month for $31!
Steve