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Quick heads up for Alamy contributors having Alamy QC failure paranoia. I’ve been alerted to some great examples of Soft & Lacking Definition failures from Alamy QC over at andysmee’s blog here where he explains each type of failure with good 100% crops so you can see exactly what is being failed. […]
photo credit: C.P.Storm
Following yesterdays controversial decision by Alamy to sell RM images for as little as 60p today Alamy CEO James West has announced an opt-out period for those seemingly locked into Novel Use participation until April 2009:
Tags: Alamy, limited use, microstock, novel use, Photography Business, RF, rights managed, RM, royalty free, Stock Photography
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I predict a riot. Alamy appear to have gone all microstock on us today. No, seriously. No, don’t look at your calendar - its not April 1st.
So just WTF (as teenagers say in text speak) is going on over there?
Tags: Alamy, licenses, limited use, microstock, novel use, Photography […]
photo credit: Gaetan Lee
OK so you’ve discovered your Alamy Rank and where your work sits in the grand scheme of things. You want to get off page 45 so you can get some views, zooms and increase your CTR. You want sales of course! Fed up with languishing in the […]
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So you’re underway with selling stock photography on Alamy. You’re getting some views and some zooms so you’ll have an Alamy Rank. How do you know what your Alamy Rank is ? How can you improve it?
PP shows you how to easily compare your Alamy Rank to […]
photo credit: Buster Butterfield McLeod
Another common cry and cause of much angst and grumbling is Alamy Rank. Just what is it about search positions on Alamy that get contributors so hot under the collar? Is it weighted against photographers and for Agencies or vice-versa? Is it possible to work out your Alamy […]
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Delving deeper into the meat and bones of the rather handy Alamy Measures tool PP explains the individual Pseudonym screen, what the columns on this screen mean and how to read them.
Tags: Alamy, Alamy Measures, Photography Business, Statistics, Stock Photography
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Those of you contributing to the Alamy stock library may have started exploring the Alamy Measures screens and may be confused by all the talk on forums about CTR and what it means.
This mini-tutorial is for you.
Tags: Alamy, Alamy Measures, Photography Business, Statistics, Stock Photography
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Here’s a small tutorial on how to effectively delete an image off Alamy straightaway. If you submit to the Alamy stock library you’ll be aware that when you request an image to be deleted you have to wait a full six months for that image to completely disappear from the […]
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Hoo boy….
There’s one “L” of a debate :) going on over at the Alamy stock photography forums (link to the debate at the bottom of this post). It seems that some contributors are placing the same image at two separate libraries with a simultaneous RM and RF license.
They are placing the […]
