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Permalink Comments (48)14 January 2008 at 12:38 by James AllsworthPosted under News
As many of you know, Alamy held a contributor event back on the 23rd of November that was recorded. We are now happy to present the video, for all of you who were unable to attend.
We came away from the afternoon feeling very positive - we hope the next event proves as successful.
The recording has been uploaded using Google Video. If you have any playback issues please visit the Google Video Help Center for support.
have just watched the Part 2 Q&A session - very informative! Thanks.
It's nice to put some faces to names. Lots of information towards understanding many things. Every little bit helps. Thank you for taking the time and effort to put this together for us. Don
Brill!!
Great, Alamy!! Thanks, Frank
This online video is an excellent means of disseminating information for those of us throughout the world unable to attend the actual meeting. Well done!
Thanks for making the next best thing to being there the same as being there. Question about commercial sales now vs. future, which I hope will be responded to somewhere if not here: Now: I offer only nonreleased images but occasionally get sizable commercial sales for which buyer assumes consequences Future: can this still happen or will I be locked out of commercial sales? If not completely locked out, I will certainly not be part of a "safe" commercial subset collection & therefore can expect reduced commercial sales...?
Many thanks indeed for making this available Alamy.
Great overall contributor event from both sides of the floor. Thank you Alamy for making the video available to members who could not make the event, due to work/client commitments.
Thank you for posting these videos, many of the points raised have given me a great deal of encouragement for the future of Alamy and my future as a contributor.
great insight and information,very helpful as i am building my stock with you thanks Nick
COOL!
great to have a video report of the day. i can rewind and pause, which would not have been possible on the day. thanks alamy!
Very useful and informative. I'd dearly love to help building Alamy profits by getting into the $50,000 per annum bracket.
The video has renewed my faith in Alamy management. A class act. Thank you.
Very interesting, I could not attend the meeting because of distance and cost involved so this was an ideal solution. It was particularly interesting to hear about future developments but was wondering if you were getting feedback on the good and bad parts of Alamy Measures. It would have been very useful to have known about the priorities given eg low for caption,location high for main keywords etc before I had changed my info
It is good to see that many of the points mentioned ad infinitum on the various networks and internet forums where alamy contributers gather to bitch have been listened to and will soon, if they haven`t already, been acted on. With some of the promises you`ve made to make the service and your business look and feel much more professional I think those that are heartily singing of your imminant demise are misguided. This suddenly feels like a business I want to be in again. Many thanks and please, please keep up the good work. Damon
That was just wonderful, thank you very much.
Very good presentation and loads of info. Thanks to all. Almost as good as being there, I assume the tea and biscuits will follow by post?
I've just extracted the audio from the last q&a session and now have a very good 'radio show' that is 7MB rather than 102MB! I'll keep it on my desktop for future reference. Would it be useful to offer something similar on this site?
After watching all of the presentation and Q&A video, I have learned more about Alamy than the Contributor side of the web site has ever told me. This time was very well spent and has given me a much better insight into the new Annotation system and how images are viewed by Buyers at Alamy. The 48 hour QC system is a great move forward and will make contributor's lives much easier. I hope this Blog entry is repeated for the next meeting and many of us cannot attend. As a very small fish in a very large Alamy pond, I feel much more confidence now in what I am doing as a Contributor and can see better ways to do it. Many thanks Alamy for releasing the video on the Blog, it has been invaluable.
Worth the long wait, try using better lighting next time, excellent info, thanks a lot!
Thanks Alamy, I've just watched all the videos and it has been a real help to understanding many issues.
Thank you for a great afternoon's viewing. The future for Alamy looks exciting. I'm motivated!!
Worthwhile and informative.
With such an inspirational CEO I am sure that Alamy will be go from strength to strength and will be the market leader within a few years.
I too found these videos very worthwhile and informative. They answered many questions that I had before I could ask them. One suggestions is to have the PowerPoint (or as PDF) files of the speaks, available as companion to the video.
What a great source of info! Thanks a lot, Alamy. The cameraman, however, should consider himself lucky that he is not subject to Alamy Q.C. (-: Rainer Raffalski
Wonderful presentation, it left me proud to be in this team. Keep up the R&D it helps both Alamy and us.
Wonderful presentation with very useful information presented by two individuals who know what they are doing. Thanks for getting this info out to all of us.
Well done. Thank you
Much appreciated!
Thanks for putting that on line - it is very useful
One thing spoken about was that specialist photographers will get a higher Alamy rank than non-specialists. Given that there are specialists in every aspect of photography it will put people like myself, who supply a broad range of subjects to Alamy, at a disadvantage. Given that Alamy need and want a diverse collection of pictures, surely photographers like myself should not be penalized for providing a variety of pictures. Surely they should be encouraged!
Good training session. Very positive outlook. Glad I decided to sign up.
Thanks to all concerned for making this video available. Lots of useful, relevant information. I was glad to see plenty of time given for Q&A.
Thank you to all involved and particularly to the person or people involved in making the video. Under difficult circumstances in a crowded room with difficult lighting I think it is an excellent job - effectively edited too. Thanks for bringing this valuable meeting to us all.
Professional,friendly,informative, inspirational,and other key words. Good luck for the future
Very interesting and informative viewing many thanks for the work involved.
Great presentation! Very informative! Thanks for posting! I am in the USA and would have never been able to attend such a presentation.
Thanks so much for the presentation: very worthwhile and it was surprising what was learned not only from the first part of each session, but also from the Q&A sessions, given the inherent randomness of the questions. ..... and my mind is thinking: another year before we have this chance again? ..... and I'm wondering if it would be at all feasible to have a Q and A section on the contributors' side so we can have an ongoing dialog. (this is a statement, not a question)
The video and the informations you've shared was great!Thanks for providing that to us!Just a few points 1)I agree with Tony Lilley about penalising contributors with different sort of pictures as we all take the same amount of time in keywording and touching up every single image. Alamy Rank is already there to supervise our picture, it shoud be enough! 2)Please consider the foreign currency bank fee issue (pound versus dollar for Uk sales) as being for 70% editorial sales the income per picture is already quite low.. All the rest was great in my opinion!
RE: Searches and phrases. If phrases are to be used in the future then it would be useful to fix the reading of IPTC fields now. The fields do not recognize the difference between spaces and commas. An entry such as: lawn, fence, white house, Washington D.C., USA loses the significance of the phrases “white house” and “Washington D.C.” I don’t know about other IPTC database tools but mine does not use quotation marks for phrases inside the IPTC Data. Fix IPTC Phrase Reading Please! Soon!
Great presentation, well done.
In the new 'grading' system when a pic gets few/no hits... I have some good pics on Alamy that no one else has, e.g. a rare bird etc, wont be clicked very often but it's there when needed, how does the new system handle such pics ?
I wanted to look through this video again at some key points but there seems to be no way I can move the slider along a few minutes, might be an easy thing to put right for next year? ...and, who was on the video camera !!! Set to auto exposure, most of the time the speakers were in darkness, until the camera adjusted.
For a newbie like me, the videos contain very helpful and interesting informations. Thanks a lot for sharing!
Very informative !
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