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There are loads of reasons why Alamy is a great place to sell your stock imagery, here are just a few of them:

If you’re still not sure, then check out why Alamy is the best place to sell your stock imagery for more info.

We sell imagery to thousands of designers, marketers, publishers and news desks around the world. Image sales vary, customers buy directly online or with support from our customer service teams. Your image could be sold to someone wanting an image on the wall in their office, to an educational publisher wanting an image for a text book, or a corporate company working on a huge global ad campaign.

We have dedicated sales teams in the UK, US, Germany, France and Italy securing and maintaining deals with large corporations, along with a large network of partners who sell our images directly in all other territories.

We sell stock photos, videos, vectors, illustrations and Live News. We have an extensive collection full of every type of image, from everyday stock to niche subjects and locations. Its encyclopaedic nature means it’s a fantastic source of imagery for creative and editorial picture buyers. We want you to send us all of your images, mainstream or specialist, editorial or creative, as long as they are not created by artificial intelligence. If you’re looking for ideas on what to shoot, check out our curated image categories and our fresh picks.

We market Alamy images in lots of different ways. We do targeted e-marketing campaigns to our customers and new business prospects, showcasing our collection. We also promote our agencies and photographers by featuring them on our website.

Our Fresh Picks page showcases amazing new imagery from a range of agencies and photographers.

We promote your images wherever we can as well, including:

Our Online Marketing team also work really hard to get your images and our name out there, including SEO work to appear in Google images and other search engines.

We also believe customer service and good relationships are really important and invest large amounts of effort and time providing an excellent service to image buyers.

Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, as a photographer you have two options available to you to make money from your work:

1. Work directly with clients on commissioned projects

2. Advertise your images with a stock photo agency and get commission for every image sold

Find out more about how the stock industry works in our helpful stock photo industry explained section.

If you already understand the stock business and want to know how to get your images on Alamy, go to our sell images section for all the info you need to get started.

See our step-by-step guide to getting your images online and everything you need to know from uploading your images to managing your metadata.

Yes! We are a non-exclusive agency, so you can sell your stock images on our website and on any other non-exclusive sites. We accept any style of imagery and have a huge range of image buyers sourcing their imagery from us.

As a student, you can sell your images in lots of ways:

We run a fantastic student project aimed at developing new talent and giving you insight into the stock photo industry. We know money is tight so we give you 100% of the commission (on all direct sales) for two years. Find out more over on our student pages. You might also want to check out our helpful stock photo industry explained section.

At the moment, we are partnered with DepositPhoto, DV-archive and represent the PA Media video collection. We are only opening up the video route to other agencies for now but when we do allow individual contributors to submit video we’ll announce it here.

No. We have an ethical position on our approach to AI-generated imagery and are not currently accepting any images created by artificial intelligence. You can read more here, and read also why we champion images made in the real world.