Alamy Measures Stats January 2009

It's been a quiet month punctuated by a snowboarding holiday where I shot a few Facebook pictures for my friends, and promptly received news of my work situation changing...for the worse. The credit crunch has bitten and I am now looking for my next contract. You'd think that this would give me an opportunity to go out and shoot some pictures but actually I'd rather practice the guitar in the warmth of my living room and finally finish keywording the last handful of pictures of Japan. I pleased to say that my portfolio on Alamy is getting a healthy number of views, a nice level of zooms and my pseudonyms are settling in nicely. The surprise statistic is that my travel image pseudonym has the best CTR at 3.20% - I was expecting it to be terrible in face of the competition but perhaps they are my best photos after all. Here is my view of Alamy for the month of January: Proportion of searches for: 1 word = 18% , average of 13.04 pages viewed 2 words = 44% , average of 9.57 pages viewed 3 words = 27% , average of 8.57 pages viewed 4 words = 9% , average of 4.45 pages viewed 5+ words = 3% , average of 8.38 pages viewed Total number of pictures at end of month: 512 Proportion of views to pictures: 131.84% Number of sales for month: 0 Average number of my pictures viewed matching query: 2.27 Total average CTR for searches in which my images appeared: 1.27% My CTR: 1.18%

Ema (wishes) on display at Meiji Shrine, Yoyogi Park, Tokyo, Japan

Proportion of searches for: 5 letter words 18.07% 4 letter words 16.47% 3 letter words 15.66% 6 letter words 13.52% 7 letter words 12.45% 8 letter words 6.96% 9 letter words 5.62% 2 letter words 5.09% 10 letter words 4.28% 11 letter words 1.34% 15 letter words 0.40% 12 letter words 0.13% Most popular words (top 5 in each position ignoring "and"): First word: READING off shell green Hiroshima asda Second word: berkshire shop license UK airport amsterdam car town a drink wheel japan festival petrol you Third word: UK south japan not manger Fourth word: africa UK town book is Womad england Fifth word: UK Any position: UK and READING book japan shop berkshire Most popular variations: cape town: (table mountain OR south africa) reading festival: NOT (book OR womad) grand union: (canal OR narrow boat) woman: (money OR drink alcohol)! buckinghamshire: (crime OR police OR public) blue: (recycling OR wheelie bin) book: (pages OR store) recycling: (bin OR facility) beer: (shop OR crates) green: (bins OR management) shell: (station OR petrol) train: (japan OR arriva) castle: (battle OR coombe) In contrast to the stats that I can gather from my own Measures data, here is what the whole of Alamy is searching for: Most popular Alamy searches (top 5 in each position ignoring "alamy" as a search): by number of unique customers searching: cat laptop london "piggy bank" dog by number of sales: "new york lights" handshake barcelona "brooklyn bridge, new york" iphone by number of zooms: "punjab india" mirrorpix dubai baltic "Jurassic Coast"