Alamy go all ‘microstock’ with ‘Limited Use’ scheme

photo credit: rastafabi
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 [...]

Five practical tips to help increase your Alamy Rank

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 [...]

“BHZ” and how to measure or find your Alamy Rank

photo credit: Jef Poskanzer
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 [...]

Alamy Rank: what it is and why it matters

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 [...]

Is the stock photography bubble about to burst in 2008?

photo credit: Jeff Kubina
Doom mongers and naysayers have been predicting the collapse of the stock photography industry almost as long as Nostradamus has been predicting the end of the world.

So who is right?

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