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AlamyMeasures beta 2.0 now live

Permalink Comments (43)20 August 2008 at 09:56 by James West - CEO
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AlamyMeasures beta 2.0 is now live and ready for you to use.

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  1. 20 August 2008 at 15:37 Chris Potter

    Brilliant...thank you Alamy

  2. 20 August 2008 at 15:37 IanMurray

    Looks fantastic, especially the All of Alamy option.

    Well done to all concerned and big THANKS!

    Ian Murray

  3. 20 August 2008 at 15:44 Bettina

    Great Stuff. Thanks.

  4. 20 August 2008 at 15:52 William Robinson

    Going to be very informative
    Many thanks Bill

  5. 20 August 2008 at 15:54 Jaybee

    Great work Alamy - thanks!

  6. 20 August 2008 at 16:06 John hatcher

    Fantastic Alamy. Yet something else to spend my valuable time on but it should be worth it.

  7. 20 August 2008 at 16:10 Ronnie McMillan

    This looks really good. It's going to provide us with a great deal of useful information.

    Many thanks to everyone who put this together.

  8. 20 August 2008 at 16:32 Tony Lilley

    Thanks Alamy, this will be very useful.

  9. 20 August 2008 at 16:39 yograj jadeja

    It looks like a really useful tool, well done Alamy. Thanks.

  10. 20 August 2008 at 16:44 flipside

    If I choose data from yesterday, then order by sales, it shows that there was a single sale.

    If I choose data from yesterday and order by zoom, it shows that there were no zooms.

    If I go to "Your Images" and then click the "My Alamy" bread crumb link, I get "Page cannot be found".

    But it'll be good when it's working.

  11. 20 August 2008 at 16:46 Mark boulton

    Very impressive - well done indeed.

  12. 20 August 2008 at 16:49 David cameron

    Looks great.. But whos buying all the pictures of Monster Trucks!

  13. 20 August 2008 at 17:35 Mike Kipling

    Excellent this is really helpful. Many thanks

  14. 20 August 2008 at 17:54 Philip Bramhill LBIPP

    Helpful, will keep us on our toes.

  15. 20 August 2008 at 17:55 Jim Laws

    An excellent tool which looks to have the potential to be very useful. Well done.

  16. 20 August 2008 at 18:03 Scott hortop

    Good to see my "Total CTR" is now shown - but why also continue to show "Average CTR" when it is the result of a meaningless calculation yielding a deceptive result?

    It makes me wonder how "Average CTR on Alamy is" calculated - hopefully Total Zooms / Total Views for all photographers. But it could also be based on Average CTR in which case it too is meaningless. Can Alamy confirm please?

    Hopefully ranking etc is based on the good numbers rather than the bad? Publishing bad numbers only helps raise doubt on what goes on behind the scenes.

  17. 20 August 2008 at 18:28 Ben plewes

    This is marvelous, thanks for your continued hard work.

  18. 20 August 2008 at 18:57 Emilio ereza

    Great, great, great! Really good idea. Many thanks

  19. 20 August 2008 at 19:31 Tim Oram

    Well done to all involved,glad to see the constant improvements to the contributors which if used properly will give a big improvement to purchasers on this massive collection of images.Here's to a prosperous future! Tim Oram.

  20. 20 August 2008 at 19:43 Mohammed

    Wow this new "measures" is superb, will be a great boon to better key wording.

  21. 20 August 2008 at 20:59 Miguel Angel Muñoz Pellicer

    Good improvement. It will be really helpful.
    Another good step forward.
    THANKS A LOT ALAMY !

  22. 20 August 2008 at 21:18 Darrell Young

    Excellent work, Alamy!

    This is a great new tool, since it allows us to target what buyers are searching for. It helps us to see what results we might have from shooting specific types of photography.

    Thank you for the new tools.

    - Darrell

  23. 20 August 2008 at 21:36 Tony Watson

    Some great news, thanks for the new tools.

  24. 21 August 2008 at 03:13 wim wiskerke

    Looks good.
    It's not perfect though.
    In *all of Alamy* try this search:
    *Keukenhof*
    No searches for the selected period!..
    Now try this:
    *Tulips with a windmill*
    There is the Keukenhof.

  25. 21 August 2008 at 07:14 nicholas frost

    Very well done, although sales still don't show up as views or don't seem to count towards CTR? Sold three images in last 2 weeks and not showing as views.

    Any comments Alamy?

  26. 21 August 2008 at 09:47 John Simmons

    Very Helpful, thanks

  27. 21 August 2008 at 09:50 kevin

    All of Alamy
    "If you are contemplating which images to submit to Alamy, you can use this tool to research how often a subject is requested and how many sales, zooms and views were recorded." (Alamy)

    A search in All of Alamy for the 18 - 20/08/08 reveals a total of 12 sales.

  28. 21 August 2008 at 10:15 JMG

    These searches confirm just how many irrelevant searches are being brought up by the customers because they are not using the search facility correctly ie using lower case for the word and instead of AND, using the word not, instead of NOT to include and exclude search terms. There are many more such problems.

    I suggest a brief, very visible, guide on the search page to show the customers how to get the image they are looking for. Including when, and when not, to use plurals and 'ing' which is even more important now that stemming is turned off.

    The simple search page gives very easy access, but my feeling is too many people are plunging straight in and bypassing the Advanced Search facility and then wondering why their search results are not specific enough!

    And as for the spelling and typing errors! What an insight. :-)

  29. 21 August 2008 at 10:44 Alexei fateev

    Thank you for that very useful tool.

    I would like, however, to draw your attention to the fact that when narrowing down search results with entering keywords in "Search Term" box, you will get a subset of search requests that just start with entered keyword, not containing it, i.e. if keyword "architecture" was entered, then you'll get just requests like "architecture ...", and not something like "Barcelona architecture".

    I believe it is not very difficult to fix that.

  30. 21 August 2008 at 11:42 Paul Williams

    Fantastic new tool. I think it will help everyone which in turn will help Alamy.

    Thanks

    PAul

  31. 21 August 2008 at 13:14 wim wiskerke

    I was looking at the searches that yesterday got a CTR of 100.00
    Not all results are correct.
    Try this:
    *luosto*
    1 0 1 1 100.00
    Indicating there is only 1 picture that gets 1 zoom, hence a CTR of 100.00
    In reality there are 107 pictures with that keyword.
    Try:
    *packed onto train*
    1 0 1 1 100.00
    Again indicating there is one picture with 1 zoom. In reality there are 11 pix.
    *frozen spinach* in reality 14 pix.

    There is something wrong here.
    Considering the importance of the CTR for my ranking, I don't like that.

  32. 21 August 2008 at 13:59 JP

    A good set of tools, Nice though if it could pick up on all sales against a particular image on a historical basis - as an option

  33. 21 August 2008 at 14:20 wim wiskerke

    @JP

    This has been implemented:
    In Pseudonym Summary choose the date range (not further back than March 2007) and click on the Your Sales results.

    A really useful function!

  34. 21 August 2008 at 15:50 wim wiskerke

    @JP

    You are right, that there remains some room for improvement. Like filtering for 1 image. Now you have to go down the list. No problem with 50 sales total but a pita for the contributors who sell that on a monthly basis.
    What I would like here:
    An option for ranking within the results, like alphabetically, or chronologically.
    An option for further filtering, like on * never viewed*; *never zoomed* or *viewed but never zoomed*.

    In the *Customer search activity - all of Alamy*:
    it would be really nice if the results were clickable. Like the zooms and the sales! This is asking for a lot, I know ;-)

  35. 21 August 2008 at 16:06 kevin

    Comment # 27. Myself

    Just watched the video which explains the low sales search return. Perhaps a figure not to give too much importance to.



  36. 24 August 2008 at 08:45 Kathy de witt

    This new expanded measures is a welcome ray of sunshine! and makes up for the total disappearance of the tool earlier in the week. Thank You Alamy!

    Re: post 31

    Wim - Isn't the reason there is only one zoom for luosto is that the client knew exactly which image they were searching for?

    I think it is interesting how many of my sales listed haven't been zoomed on a particular search which could mean they were searched and selected at an earlier time and the client is returning to make a purchase??

    Kathy deWitt

  37. 24 August 2008 at 16:43 Samantha Nundy

    This is very welcome and helps contributors feel they are part of a company that is transparent and works with them. Yes I do appreciate this new tool too like everyone else. It makes one hopeful for more good news, like 'no more tediously repetitive keywording'. Now this would be very very very newsworthy. Just a modern bog standard image management system will do the trick of bulk keywording, so that shouldn't be long in coming. Yes, yes seems sarcastic, true, but Nundy here has worked with several picture libraries and agencies where this is normal...c'est le norme! and peeved to be still plodwording at Alamy.
    Mind you - the forum might crash under the 'bulk' of soooo many thankyous and hurrahs and three cheers and general carousing...mayhem in fact, excitement, panic, tears of joy...and fear, even trepidation at the endless horizon of possibility, of time saved -- of time galore to keyword more images and then more and more....oh how overwhelming...THAT would be. In the meantime, am well thrilled with the new tool.
    Nundy

  38. 25 August 2008 at 17:48 wim wiskerke

    @ Kathy
    The problem is that the zoom got a CTR of 100.00. With 1 zoom this means 1 view.
    This only happens when there is only one picture with this keyword.
    In reality there were 107 pictures. So even with a page set to view only 12 pictures at one time this meant *at least 12* views.

  39. 27 August 2008 at 12:45 malone_mark

    Having been playing for while the following improvement strikes me: Another column of 'total images'.

    I am trying to use 'all alamy' to find gaps in the collection. I see a search that returned 10 views. Clearly this is because the searcher had set 10 views per page and not gone beyond page one. But I cannot easily tell if there were actually a dozen or a thousand images found. A 'total images' column will show the searches that really only returned a few (but >10) images, showing us the gaps that need filling.

  40. 28 August 2008 at 08:20 Bernard O'Kane

    It's potentialy a great tool, but yesterday's results for all of Alamy (available this morning) show no sales and no zooms, so something is wrong (I hope!).

  41. 29 August 2008 at 11:55 dov makabaw

    A step in the right direction with much more information to play with.

    Got no views yesterday and none in Alamy total so assume system overslept. Hope so!


  42. 24 September 2008 at 17:32 tiger darson

    my only complaint about these videos is that the audio's recorded way too low - i have to crank up my volume to hear what's being said and then remember to crank it back down afterwards so the next sound my computer makes doesn't blow my head off (i hate it when that happens).

    as for the video itself, it was informative - thank you. so when and where are you going to conduct your hiring for the new New York office? :)

  43. 30 December 2008 at 00:25 Peter culley

    Great to see a company 'thinking' with a big picture point of view.

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