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Quarterly trading statement

Permalink Comments (8)26 April 2007 at 10:51 by James Allsworth
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Our latest quarterly trading figures have been available to view since April 11th, but we thought we’d issue a reminder in case you missed it.

Access to this trading statement is also available through a link under the Useful Information heading within My Alamy.

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  1. 27 April 2007 at 00:09 Phil scalia

    Thanks for the information.
    The continuing trends towards descending RF prices certainly jumps out. Some theorize that the Micros have nibbled away at this market. Interesting to see the increase in percentage of account transactions. What might this infer? As an aside, I'd be curious to know whether there is a difference in average sale, account vs credit card.
    The Trading Statement set me to making some calculations. I currently have 4018 pictures on sale, plus 181 marked for deletion. Of these 4199, 21% (877) are RF. They account for 13% of my sales. However, this may be skewed, as I have not adjusted for the accelerated submissions in the last year (50% of my archive is new since May 2006), and a greater percentage of recent RF. I have recently begun experimenting with travel RF, pictures of oft-photographed landmarks for instance.
    I'm not sure what conclusions to draw, so how these numbers informs my shooting remains to be seen. I am taking a close look at the sorts of subjects that sell as RF. Conventional wisdom perhaps says that more iconic and conceptual photos would do well in this category. Frankly I just don't know; it seems to be a matter of constant vigilance and adaptation.

  2. 29 April 2007 at 14:56 Beate Rud

    Not sure why you conclude that RF prices are descending from the data shown. They do not say anything about this as far as I can see.

  3. 29 April 2007 at 21:42 Phil scalia

    Beate,
    Percentage of RF images sold and percentage of RF revenue both show a steady decline. However, the average price of an RF sale increased from about $200 in 2005 to $215 in 2006, while the average RM sale decreased from $174 to $157. First Q 2007 continues this polarization. In my case this trend would obtain except that my top seven or eight sales have all been RM. It seems that with RF you can make a good sale, but with RM, you can make a fabulous sale.
    In order to get a more accurate picture I should compute the average age of an RF image in my archive, plotted against RF sales per month.

  4. 01 May 2007 at 16:13 John

    Having a mixture of RF and Licenced images it would seem to me that Licensed out perform RF. Especially as editorial useage gets favourable rates on Licensed images anyway.

  5. 02 May 2007 at 20:46 tom

    From what I've seen of the statement the figures are all well and good but for people like me who have only just registered and have very few images on sale currently, these figures have little or no use. Would anyone be willing to give a rough figure on how many sales they have made in relation to images they have for sale?

  6. 10 May 2007 at 09:20 Barrie harwood

    Hi Tom

    All sorts of figures are bandied about (the most common being an average of 1.00 GBP per image on sale per year) but franlly they are ALL meaningless.

    You could have 10,000 photographs on sales of subject matter that nobody wants and not make sale and yet someon else could have a coupl eof hundred well thought out and well keyworded images and make a killing.

    That's the nature of stock photography - you are literally shooting into the unknown

  7. 10 May 2007 at 09:21 Barrie harwood

    Apologies for the typos in my previous posting!

  8. 15 May 2007 at 15:16 Michael

    I have had 9 sales in the past 12 months for a total of US$2000. In the past 12 months, I had an average of 500 images up for sale. The subjects are mostly curent travel and historical (b&W)(public domain U.S. History).

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