WHY ALAMY

We sell stock photos, footage, vectors, illustrations and reportage and archival imagery.  We also have a Live News Team, working directly with news outlets to sell news, sports and entertainment images taken in the last 24 hours.

Our customers love us because we have a large and encyclopaedic collection – so we want all of your stock images, mainstream or niche, creative or editorial in style. If you’re looking for ideas on what to send us, check out our Curated Image categories.

Once you start submitting, we want you to continue; we need fresh and up-to-date imagery to keep our collection relevant, exciting and on-trend. We promote the best of our new content on our Fresh Picks page – head over there for some inspiration.

For more information about getting started, check out the links below:

Please note we do not accept AI-generated images on Alamy.

As the world’s largest independent agency for news, stock and footage imagery, we supply thousands of designers, marketing departments, news desks and publishers around the world.

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 distribute our images in most other countries and regions. These teams work with medium to large corporate organisations on enterprise level deals.

We also invest a lot of time and effort as a business in optimising our site for search engines. We’re focused on developing a strong offering for the millions of independent and freelance image buyers around the world that don’t have corporate deals and find their imagery using search engines like Google and Bing.

The average image license fee on Alamy is $30; we deal with a variety of clients so the prices do vary in different industries and countries. Generally, licenses for editorial uses achieve lower average prices than commercial uses – but our editorial clients tend to license stock images more frequently.

Some examples of our average prices:

On the whole, our pricing is significantly above what you see through microstock sites. We don’t offer subscriptions, but we do have enterprise deals for large companies who consistently buy high volumes of images. We also license a lot of imagery directly through the website for the prices advertised. Prices vary depending on the license type and use; to get a better feel for our pricing take a look at our individual image pages for full pricing information.

The industry has changed – it’s hugely competitive and some clients and industries will only deal with a few preferred image vendors, so for some markets, selling stock through an agency like Alamy might be your only route in.

As well as the traditional stock route, there are some additional ways you can make money through Alamy.

If you want to see the full terms and conditions, you can check out the Alamy contributor contract here, but in summary here’s the small print in larger print (basically all the legal wording written in plain English):