If you check the site traffic, it will tell you the story. Getty has a number of collections too. So their business is surely much larger than Alamy's. But just because that is so does not mean to say that your image sell better on Getty. Do a little research of their collections and see what is there and how your own portfolio fits it.... just my 0.02 cents.
According to Wikipedia, Getty Images has an archive of about 70 million photos, mostly through acquiring a number of other stock agencies. Alamy has an archive of about 17 million images, and is based in the U.K, not the U.S.A. Corbis (owned by Bill Gates) is the other major player in the field (100 million images), having acquired most of the stock agencies not snapped up by Getty.
According to Wikipedia, Getty Images has an archive of about 70 million photos, mostly through acquiring a number of other stock agencies. Alamy has an archive of about 17 million images, and is based in the U.K, not the U.S.A. Corbis (owned by Bill Gates) is the other major player in the field (100 million images), having acquired most of the stock agencies not snapped up by Getty.
The agencies which have been consolidated into Getty and Corbis (including the Bettmann Archive have photo (film) collections going back nearly 150 years.
Getty is the king of stock. The reason people here always talk about Alamy is because that is the agency which everyone submits to. The reason everyone submits to Alamy is because they can.
If a stock photographer COULD upload to Getty they would! Getty is very tough to get into while Alamy will basically allow anyone to submit as long as you are able to follow their submission requirements. Alamy is considered an 'open collection'. They don't reject images because they think they won't sell or are poor artistic quality - they only reject because of poor file quality.
Getty on the other hand is VERY strict in their rejections. You could send them 100 images and only get 2 accepted.
I still have'nt done the submission test for Alamy, but I got 105 images into Getty. Was zero sales for the first four months (my images were not keyworded by getty as yet). Now I'm averaging $120 in sales a month and its increasing. The best thing I like about them is I dont even have to keyword.
Getty is exclusive, we cannot sell the images uploaded there on any other site. The images that sell are'nt regular stock type stuff like somebody talking on a cellphone. Stuff that sell are more in depth concept stuff that seem to tell a story.
Getty is exclusive, we cannot sell the images uploaded there on any other site. The images that sell are'nt regular stock type stuff like somebody talking on a cellphone. Stuff that sell are more in depth concept stuff that seem to tell a story.
Which collection are you submitting to? Did you have to pay to get in?
Getty is exclusive, we cannot sell the images uploaded there on any other site. The images that sell are'nt regular stock type stuff like somebody talking on a cellphone. Stuff that sell are more in depth concept stuff that seem to tell a story.
Which collection are you submitting to?
ahh so i guess its better for more targetted selling
Getty is exclusive, we cannot sell the images uploaded there on any other site. The images that sell are'nt regular stock type stuff like somebody talking on a cellphone. Stuff that sell are more in depth concept stuff that seem to tell a story.
Which collection are you submitting to? Did you have to pay to get in?
Uhmm imho...you should NEVER have to pay to get in with a stock site. I am readying images for Alamy submission, and certainly they nor Fotolia, the microstock site where I still sell the occasional image, have ever asked for payment to join.
Of course I could be completely wrong. Others? What say you? Has a stock site ever charged you for the privilege of uploading your images for them to sell?
Getty is exclusive, we cannot sell the images uploaded there on any other site. The images that sell are'nt regular stock type stuff like somebody talking on a cellphone. Stuff that sell are more in depth concept stuff that seem to tell a story.
Which collection are you submitting to? Did you have to pay to get in?
The collection I submit to is GETTY/FLICKR, we dont pay to submit. I was invited when some of my images were selected on FLICKR by GETTY. As Kobba stated, there are other houses that other getty submitters can pay to sell their images.
Getty is exclusive, we cannot sell the images uploaded there on any other site. The images that sell are'nt regular stock type stuff like somebody talking on a cellphone. Stuff that sell are more in depth concept stuff that seem to tell a story.
Which collection are you submitting to? Did you have to pay to get in?
The collection I submit to is GETTY/FLICKR, we dont pay to submit. I was invited when some of my images were selected on FLICKR by GETTY. As Kobba stated, there are other houses that other getty submitters can pay to sell their images.
You have to submit the images via flickr by sending to a getty private group pool. They have to select from the uploads and review the images. This type of submissions process is a bit tedious, but their working on a smoother workflow.
A few months ago, Getty Images sent me an email saying they were interested in five of my images for their collection. A few weeks later, they invited 5 more. The first four (one I couldn't add because it was a street candid for which I had no release - they're VERY strict about that), have just been posted for sale, and they're processing the next batch. It IS a slow and tedious process, and I don't know if they will sell, but it certainly did a lot for my confidence.
If you get a request from Getty for a photo on Flickr can you remove it from Alamy once it has been uploaded?
To the best of my knowledge, you can delete any file from Alamy at any time, without having to give a reason. But yeah, if it's meant to be for exclusive use - and those big macrostock agencies seem to insist on exclusivity - then you better be pretty sure you don't have the same image up on competing sites!
