Alamy Measures Stats September 2008

September was a quiet month for me, with two weeks away from work, shooting in Japan (also known as a holiday to my fiancée). So I have loads to upload, my first 66 pictures from Japan go live tonight, I have to admit I may have taken too many pictures this time! Here is my view of Alamy for the month of September: Proportion of searches for: 1 word = 15% , average of 14.52 pages viewed 2 words = 57% , average of 15.18 pages viewed 3 words = 22% , average of 6.47 pages viewed 4 words = 5% , average of 4.57 pages viewed 5+ words = 2% , average of 12.68 pages viewed Total number of pictures at end of month: 272 Number of sales for month: 0 Average number of my pictures viewed matching query: 2.32 Total average CTR for searches in which my images appeared: 1.19% My CTR: 1.41%

Ludlow Castle tower from inside, Ludlow, UK

Proportion of searches for: 6 letter words 18.78% 5 letter words 15.92% 4 letter words 14.69% 7 letter words 13.27% 3 letter words 9.39% 8 letter words 9.39% 9 letter words 7.55% 2 letter words 5.31% 10 letter words 2.86% 11 letter words 2.04% 15 letter words 0.61% 12 letter words 0.20% Most popular words (top 5 in each position ignoring "and"): First word: christmas table father john credit Second word: christmas mountain lewis crunch Claus Third word: UK street house england christmas Fourth word: UK BINS amsterdam summer hummingbird Most popular subjects: london: (children OR family) christmas: (star OR angel OR cards OR garland) woman: (ATM OR balloons) UK: (motorway OR housewife OR football ground OR restaurant inside) recycling: (bin OR tip) plastic: (clothes OR recycling) beer: (festival OR making) baby: (stroller OR money) south: (africa: (bush OR marina OR winter) OR west trains) children playing: (outside summer OR street uk) 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: christmas, compass, computer, iphone, "piggy bank" by number of sales: "orkney islands doug blane", "persian gulf sunset", "superstock woman dancing", vaccine, "MAI CHAU VIETNAM" by number of zooms: "antique market", scorpion, "ARCTIC FOXES", "Kimberley, Australia", "victoria falls" I'm quite excited by the results this month but that might be because I was dreading writing up another month because of the lack of sales. However, my CTR is above the Alamy average and some of my images are starting to get view in categories where sales are more likely. My Christmas images are appearing in searches - this is a little late in the year I reckon, but bodes well for next year. I have some images of people which are getting views since I've moved towards a more editorial look to my pictures, this is in spite of not having keyworded the Reading Festival properly yet (I have until next summer!). The Alamy data is interesting, clearly this is the month for Christmas searches, the credit crunch is predictably sparking an interest in piggy bank images (go to the microstocks, folks!), and "compass" perhaps leads to editorial about the direction of the world's finances. Andy