Alamy Lowering Royalty To 40%

Posted on 12/4/2018 by Jim Pickerell | Printable Version | Comments (2)

Alamy has announced that early next year they will be lowering the royalty rate from 50% to 40%. Early in January they will send all contributors an official announcement signaling the beginning of the standard 45-day notice period before a new contract change goes into effect. The new royalty rate is expected to take effect in February 2019.

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Tibor Bognar Posted Dec 8, 2018
I can confirm that the average prices charged by Alamy are still much higher than Getty’s. However it's disappointing to see that they are lowering the royalty. They might be short of money, but the contributors are even more so!
Alamy has a lot of outstanding work in their collection but also a lot of junk - the result of not editing at all for content, but only checking technical criteria. The poor clients have to wade through 155 million random images in order to find something! The best thing they could do to make life easier for buyers is to make a very severely selected special collection of the very best images only. I wish... they probably don't have the resources to do this or the conviction that it would be desirable!

Douglas Peebles Posted Dec 27, 2018
The big agencies care about photographers the same way McDonalds cares about cows.

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