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@ 20 November 2009 at 09:51 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
AlamyUpload is the tool you use to upload images to Alamy. You may experience occasional problems of lost connections or delays whilst using this service, we are aware of this issue and we are working on a solution. More...
@ 13 November 2009 at 14:18 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
Earth Day Network is seeking your help to create an official poster for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day an event that will reach over 1 billion people in more than 180 countries. More...
@ 13 November 2009 at 11:16 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
Fast media magazine, an online site dedicated to our industry and associated media stories, is asking for feedback from photographers. More...
@ 3 November 2009 at 12:58 by James West - CEO
Q3 2009 results reflect what we hope is the bottom of the downturn. More...
@ 7 October 2009 at 12:27 by QC Team
The Quality Control (QC) team see images from a vast range of digital cameras. In our recent 'Alamy Recommended Digital Camera List' blog we listed our recommended cameras. We have now compiled a list of cameras which will never produce images of the required standard to pass QC. More...
@ 17 September 2009 at 15:16 by James Allsworth
On Tuesday (15th September) we discovered a computer virus had infected some of our servers. It quickly became clear that it was a particularly virulent strain and that we would have to take drastic measures to contain it and decontaminate our servers and workstations. More...
@ 16 September 2009 at 12:36 by James Allsworth
We are currently experiencing technical problems here at Alamy. A number of areas of the site may be effected, ranging from AlamyUpload to Manage Images. More...
@ 9 September 2009 at 09:36 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
We have made some additional improvements to Manage Images. More...
@ 26 August 2009 at 10:59 by Alexandra Bortkiewicz
I will be attending the Visa Pour L'Image photojournalism festival for a few days from Wednesday September 2nd to Sunday September 6th. More...
@ 25 August 2009 at 14:16 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
UPDATED 10/09/09: We have updated this blog post. More...
@ 18 August 2009 at 11:21 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
We are in the process of rolling out a change to our system which will allow us to extract date information embedded in contributors' images. More...
@ 6 August 2009 at 09:04 by James West - Alamy CEO
Our latest quarterly results show that the recession has most definitely hit our revenue figures this year. More...
@ 5 August 2009 at 10:45 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
You may have noticed some additions to the Alamy homepage, including links through to some of our contributors. More...
@ 5 August 2009 at 09:59 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
Alamy's 'Find a Photographer' service is now live. This is a free service that puts picture buyers in touch with photographers. More...
@ 31 July 2009 at 09:44 by James Allsworth
Sticking with our approach of regular development and updates to Manage Images, version 2.2 is just about ready to be released next week. More...
@ 29 July 2009 at 10:02 by James Allsworth
You may have noticed that as from today we have a new mouse-over image preview feature available on the search results. More...
@ 7 July 2009 at 16:58 by QC Team
The average amount of time from upload to Quality Control (QC) outcome an Alamy Contributor waits is 37 hours. At Alamy we are proud of our quick turnaround times and being able to get contributor's submissions onto the site and ready for purchase quickly. More...
@ 1 June 2009 at 15:11 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
Quick on the heels of our roll out of Manage Images 2.0 to all contributors we are pleased to announce a new improved version, Manage Images v2.1 More...
@ 15 May 2009 at 15:09 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
Alamy will shortly be launching a free service to put picture buyers in touch with photographers. More...
@ 8 May 2009 at 14:37 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
Further to our previous blogs regarding our plans with UK newspapers we have now made an opt-out page available via a link in 'My Alamy'. More...
@ 7 May 2009 at 10:33 by James West - CEO
Our NYC office in Brooklyn opened in February and the sales team have been out on the road and on the phones getting to know their new customers. More...
@ 6 May 2009 at 13:31 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
I'm pleased to announce that the revamp of annotation tools (called Manage Images v2.0) has today been rolled out to a further 6000 Alamy contributors. More...
@ 1 May 2009 at 10:33 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
We are shortly going to be further demoting the significance of the 'description field' in our search engine. We had previously reduced its significance but feel now is the time to give it zero relevance. This means that words in the description field will not be searchable. More...
@ 22 April 2009 at 15:22 by James Allsworth
We're happy to announce that the zooms data that was missing from 04/04/09 to 12/04/09 has now been reinstated, and some small features have been added to AlamyMeasures taking it up to version 2.1. More...
@ 21 April 2009 at 17:32 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
I'm pleased to announce that following our successful trial with a further 250 contributors, the revamp of annotation tools (called Manage Images v2.0) has today been rolled out to a further 1000 Alamy contributors. More...
@ 9 April 2009 at 14:35 by Ben Gray
We have previously blogged about ensuring all images submitted to us have the correct permissions More...
@ 9 April 2009 at 09:15 by James Allsworth
You may have noticed that zooms are not being displayed within AlamyMeasures. More...
@ 7 April 2009 at 16:38 by QC Team
Last month we emailed 93 contributors about their poor QC history. This email worked as we had intended and we saw an improvement in the work from a majority of these contributors. Unfortunately we didn’t see a noticeable improvement in some contributor’s submissions which resulted in 29 contributors having their online upload privilege removed for 30 days. More...
@ 1 April 2009 at 09:32 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
The Alamy blog and forum have been modified More...
@ 30 March 2009 at 14:07 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
I'm pleased to announce that following our successful trial with 10 contributors, the long awaited revamp of annotation tools (called Manage Images v2.0) has today been rolled out to a further 50 Alamy contributors. More...
@ 20 March 2009 at 15:45 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
In response to some of the comments received, we wanted to make our position clear on Rights Managed (L or RP) images. A newspaper downloading a Rights Managed image will only be able to use the image once. More...
@ 19 March 2009 at 17:42 by James West - Alamy CEO
Thank you for all of your thoughtful emails and comments on the blog. It's been very interesting to read your various perspectives and I appreciate your support in helping us find a workable solution. More...
@ 18 March 2009 at 17:45 by James West - Alamy CEO
We have seen some dramatic declines with some of our newspaper customers this quarter, ranging from 30% to 70% down year on year. I would like to share some thoughts with you on how we can reverse this trend. More...
@ 10 March 2009 at 11:02 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
As there are no longer any fees associated with your payments from Alamy, there hasn't been a better time to opt to be paid by funds transfer. More...
@ 6 March 2009 at 15:32 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
We need to undertake some essential maintenance during the morning of Sunday the 8th of March. The work is scheduled to run from 3.00am GMT (UK time) through until 11.00am GMT but we cannot guarantee that it will not take longer. More...
@ 4 March 2009 at 17:05 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
UPDATED 16TH March: The search engine will update later today and changes will be reflected tomorrow More...
@ 2 March 2009 at 11:44 by James West - CEO
We've got a lot of work to do before the commercial section of the Alamy site is something we can aggressively market. We knew this from the outset - sticking something on your homepage does not constitute a sales and marketing plan. You have to go out and sell it, tell your customers about it, etc. More...
@ 25 February 2009 at 15:38 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
The images in the Alamy collection are split between those where the images have gone through the new Annotation screens (we call these ‘New Annotation’) and those keyworded before we brought in the additional questions in Sept 07 (‘Old Annotation’). More...
@ 19 February 2009 at 17:15 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
An AlamyRank is calculated for each pseudonym. All images within a pseudonym are assigned this rank. More...
@ 17 February 2009 at 17:48 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
I'd like to reiterate our position with regards to the content in the Commercial Collection. More...
@ 13 February 2009 at 17:40 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
We will shortly be updating the Alamy website with some new search features. These include options to search by date and number of people, plus a separate collection of images aimed at advertising and design customers called the 'Commercial Collection'.
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@ 13 February 2009 at 14:19 by James Allsworth
We'd like to give you an update of where we are up to regarding the new annotation tools. You'll be pleased to hear we are on the home stretch now, with the beta version currently being tested by a group of 10 contributors. More...
@ 4 February 2009 at 10:45 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
We wanted to give you all an update on the progress of our US office. More...
@ 3 February 2009 at 09:08 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
Looking back over the last year and following up on feedback received at our contributor event in November, we wanted to share some figures with you. In 2008 we made sales of $31.5M, of this we paid out a total of $20.8M to our contributors. More...
@ 2 February 2009 at 10:32 by Patrick Ashby and Rob Singer - QC team
As a follow up to the "New QC procedures as a result of persistent failures" blog (July 2008), we are now going to start freezing online upload privileges for a period of 30 days for those contributors who continually fail QC. More...
@ 29 January 2009 at 10:01 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
AlamyUpload is now available again. More...
@ 19 January 2009 at 21:41 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
We have been informed by our ISP to expect some connection problems from Monday 19th 22:00 to Tuesday 20th 09:00 GMT whilst they carry out essential maintenance. More...
@ 16 January 2009 at 16:53 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
We have experienced a number of power cuts today and as a result contributors may be experiencing problems with online uploading. More...
@ 8 January 2009 at 11:01 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
We wanted to remind you that the changes to the Alamy contract formally announced on 26th November 2008 will come into effect on 10th January 2009. More...
@ 26 November 2008 at 13:43 by James Allsworth
Alamy held a contributor event on the 7th of November in London and we are now happy to present the video, for all of you who were unable to make it there in person. More...
@ 26 November 2008 at 09:29 by Alan Capel -Head of Content
We have made some changes to Alamy’s Contributor Contract and as per our terms we are giving contributors 45 days notice of these changes. More...
@ 13 November 2008 at 10:56 by Alan Capel -Head of Content
To avoid any potential problems with our Distribution network selling restricted images, we have removed all restricted images from the Distribution pool. More...
@ 12 November 2008 at 15:43 by Alan Capel -Head of Content
Alamy has teamed up with rights licensing experts Copyright Clearance Center to help create a revolutionary new way for corporations to access pre-licensed images for internal business uses. More...
@ 20 October 2008 at 12:45 by Alan Capel -Head of Content
We experienced some technical difficulties over the weekend More...
@ 1 October 2008 at 11:46 by James Allsworth
We are pleased to announce that Alamy will be holding another London based contributor event on Friday November 7th 2008. More...
@ 29 September 2008 at 13:09 by James West - CEO
Thank you for your feedback on our plans to increase the Alamy percentage split and to open an office in the US. More...
@ 24 September 2008 at 10:39 by James West - CEO
This is to give you advance notice that our royalty percentage will be increasing by 5% in early 2009 for direct and distributor sales. The change applies to all images from all our contributors, regardless of which commission structure you are on. We're making this change to fund a shift in strategy for the company which, I believe, will lead to a significant increase in gross payments to our contributors. We're starting by opening a dedicated sales office in the USA. More...
@ 16 September 2008 at 15:38 by James Allsworth
Alamy CEO James West was recently interviewed on BBC Radio Oxford. More...
@ 4 September 2008 at 11:11 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
We have been working on some changes to the Alamy site to further increase security. More...
@ 1 September 2008 at 12:52 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
We have released a new feature for customers which allows them to set file size preferences. More...
@ 1 September 2008 at 12:42 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
In the past we were disappointed to have to turn away some attractive collections which did not meet with our QC requirements. More...
@ 27 August 2008 at 11:32 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
The Alamy website will unfortunately be unavailable during Sunday 31st August because we need to carry out some essential maintenance and update elements of the site. More...
@ 20 August 2008 at 09:56 by James West - CEO
AlamyMeasures beta 2.0 is now live and ready for you to use. More...
@ 19 August 2008 at 13:31 by Alexandra Bortkiewicz
I will be attending the Visa Pour L'Image photojournalism festival for a few days from Wednesday September 3rd to Sunday September 7th. More...
@ 15 August 2008 at 16:11 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
Many contributors are quite rightly asking where the new annotation tools are. Specifically the need for bulk tools is becoming more and more critical. We wanted you to know that we have a working prototype in development. More...
@ 13 August 2008 at 16:23 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
We wanted to respond to a number of queries raised on the forum with regards to Reflex Stock selling Alamy images. Reflex Stock are an appointed Alamy distributor for the territory of Ireland. More...
@ 13 August 2008 at 09:31 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
We have been working on changes to our search engine to improve the search results for our customers. We have our own search engine with a dedicated team who work on it. This gives us greater flexibility and allows us to change things more quickly. More...
@ 23 July 2008 at 12:35 by Patrick Ashby - QC team
Alamy has always welcomed diversity of content so we’re happy to accept all types of imagery. It’s for this reason we don’t edit. We do have to check that our clients are going to be happy with the technical quality of the images they buy. The “open-door” policy at Alamy means that we have a broad base of contributors whose work is assessed by Alamy Quality Control (QC) staff. More...
@ 11 July 2008 at 09:30 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
The Limited Use scheme as announced on this blog is now available worldwide. More...
@ 10 July 2008 at 12:14 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
For the next phase of Novel Use we are running a pilot scheme offering limited subscriptions to major corporations. More...
@ 8 July 2008 at 09:35 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
It has quickly become clear that we should be providing greater flexibility to our contributors with regards to Novel Use. We have had feedback from many contributors who see the value in the scheme but do not want to commit their entire Alamy collection to this model. More...
@ 25 June 2008 at 12:30 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
At our contributor event in 2007 we announced that we were aiming to drastically reduce the time it was taking for us to process your images through the Alamy system. Earlier this year we released a number of development and process changes designed to address this very issue. More...
@ 25 June 2008 at 10:49 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
As per our previous blog post we opened a window for contributors who had signed up to Novel Use to opt-out. This opt-out window is now closed. More...
@ 13 June 2008 at 12:26 by Alan Capel - Head of Content
Limited Use will be launched on Sunday. The Alamy web site will unfortunately be unavailable during Sunday 15th June. More...
@ 10 June 2008 at 11:35 by James West - CEO
An opt out has been made available for Novel Use. The opportunity to opt out will be available for two weeks from today. I apologise unreservedly to those of you who feel you have been misled. This was never my intention and it is not the Alamy way of doing things. More...
@ 5 June 2008 at 10:33 by James West - CEO
We are delighted to announce that Limited Use, the first initiative to be released under our Novel Use scheme is ready for launch.
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@ 5 June 2008 at 10:31 by Alan Capel
Alamy have re-introduced watermarking on its comp images, this will tighten security at a time when the industry is seeing more and more small file sizes being used for a variety of uses. More...
@ 19 May 2008 at 12:24 by James Allsworth
We would like to apologise to anyone who had trouble accessing the site over the weekend. The problem has now been fixed and things are back to normal. More...
@ 21 April 2008 at 13:11 by James Allsworth
Thank you to those who have responded to our recent blog post and mail out asking you to change your Alamy password. We know things like this can seem tedious but they are important and we are pleased so many of you have taken the time to do this. More...
@ 14 April 2008 at 15:04 by James Allsworth
Photographytv.tv is a web based photography show made for photographers - and recently they visited our UK office for a look around and a chat. More...
@ 28 March 2008 at 13:04 by Ben Gray
If you haven’t got the time, motivation, linguistic talents or inspiration to keyword your images then why not get someone else to do it for you? More...
@ 11 March 2008 at 14:29 by Alan Capel
There has been some speculation as to whether we were going to be true to our word and reintroduce watermarking on our images. More...
@ 5 March 2008 at 12:09 by Alan Capel
We have recently updated our password system in line with current e-commerce best practice. As a result we need you to change your Alamy password. More...
@ 25 February 2008 at 17:20 by Alan Capel
We were recently contacted by a member of the public who had seen himself on an image appearing on Alamy. The gentleman involved was concerned to see that the image was marked as 'Model Release: YES' when he was adamant that he had not signed a release. More...
@ 14 January 2008 at 12:38 by James Allsworth
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. More...
@ 17 December 2007 at 11:28 by Pippa Greig
The Alamy search engine has the ability to interpret keywords in a search and retrieve images that contain variations of the same word. Occasionally this system makes incorrect assumptions about which words to associate with the original search term. More...
@ 14 December 2007 at 16:08 by Pippa Greig
We've made the decision to stop making contributor references searchable on the website (these are the references that we create from your image filenames, by moving the file extensions. e.g. .tif or .jpeg). This change will be reflected when our search engine next updates. More...
@ 10 December 2007 at 15:21 by James Allsworth
We are pleased to announce that as from today we will be displaying larger thumbnails on the search results. More...
@ 7 December 2007 at 15:27 by Pippa Greig
We’re always keen to involve you in the testing of various software, systems and applications designed for use by Alamy contributors. These are usually internally developed tools such as AlamyUpload, the new Annotation fields and AlamyMeasures but may also include third party software that is designed to be compatible with Alamy. More...
@ 6 December 2007 at 09:14 by James West - CEO
Thank you for all of your comments and suggestions on the blog and forum pages. This has been very helpful in enabling us to understand what you would like to see done differently. The good news is that there seems to be quite a lot of consensus about what the key issues are. More...
@ 26 November 2007 at 08:37 by James Allsworth
We’d like to thank all contributors who attended our London event last Friday. Your participation, questions and feedback made for a very encouraging and positive afternoon. More...
@ 9 October 2007 at 14:48 by James Allsworth
We are pleased to announce that Alamy will be holding another London based contributor event in the afternoon of Friday November 23rd 2007. More...
@ 8 October 2007 at 10:00 by James West - CEO
Many thanks to all of our contributing photographers and photo agencies for helping us reach this exciting milestone. To mark the occasion we are giving an extra 10% commission to our contributors for any sales they make today. More...
@ 2 October 2007 at 16:02 by Alan Capel
We are pleased to announce that we have raised the maximum file size accepted through AlamyUpload to 25MB. Please note that this is the compressed file size. More...
@ 24 September 2007 at 16:16 by Alan Capel
We have been reading the feedback on both this blog and on the Alamy Forum and felt it may be helpful to reiterate some of the key points regarding novel use. More...
@ 21 September 2007 at 12:22 by Alan Capel
We are very aware that, with the launch of annotation tools, many of you may be worried about editing your existing collection. We do understand your concern and want to stress that you don’t need to panic. More...
@ 21 September 2007 at 11:56 by Alan Capel
Following our strategy to enhance the search experience for customers by improving annotation (outlined in James West’s article, Keywording for the future), we are delighted to announce the release of annotation tools. More...
@ 20 September 2007 at 14:32 by James Allsworth
On Sunday 23rd September the Alamy website will be offline for essential maintenance. The website, including the AlamyUpload service, will be unavailable from 04:30 am to 10:30 am (BST). More...
@ 19 September 2007 at 13:42 by James West - CEO
Alamy is often approached by organisations requesting licences that fall outside of our standard price model. More...
@ 18 September 2007 at 16:47 by James Allsworth
The technical team at Alamy are busy working on improvements to AlamySearch and in particular version 2 of the Diversity algorithm. More...
@ 6 September 2007 at 14:27 by Pippa Greig
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve finished the roll-out of AlamyUpload. More...
@ 5 September 2007 at 09:43 by James Allsworth
We would like to thank all contributors who have been in touch informing us of unreported usages of Alamy images in UK newspapers. More...
@ 29 August 2007 at 11:08 by Alexandra Bortkiewicz
I will be attending Visa pour l'Image photo event in Perpignan from September 5th to the 9th. If any contributors are attending this event and would like to arrange a meeting then please email me. More...
@ 15 August 2007 at 10:45 by Alan Capel
On Sunday 12th August some users will have experienced problems connecting to the Alamy website. It seems this was isolated to a small number of US users. More...
@ 14 August 2007 at 11:41 by James Allsworth
It has always been a priority of ours to make sure there is a quick turnaround between receiving your images and getting them online for sale. Rather frustratingly recent times have not been as fast as we would have liked - but we are working on it. More...
@ 2 August 2007 at 17:00 by Alan Capel
We are pleased to announce the launch of the new Alamy search engine! More...
@ 27 July 2007 at 13:58 by Pippa Greig
Apologies first. Over the last couple of days quite a few of you trying to upload images have been having problems with lost connections etc. We think we have traced the problem down to one of our upload servers. We have fixed this but will continue to monitor the situation. More...
@ 6 July 2007 at 11:24 by Pippa Greig
AlamyUpload testing is finished! We’ve tested the system with a group of over 500 Alamy Contributors and are happy with the way the system is working. Many thanks to all of you who helped us with the testing and in particular to those of you who took the time to complete our questionnaire. Your feedback was very useful to us and helped us to fix a few minor problems. More...
@ 19 June 2007 at 16:47 by Pippa Greig
It has always been our ethos to leave editing and quality control to you. The Quality Control process allows us to check this has been done effectively and ensures that the images presented to our clients are of the highest technical quality. More...
@ 19 June 2007 at 16:37 by James Allsworth
Over the years Alamy has been a great supporter of the AOP open so we thought we would tell you how to get involved in this years competition. More...
@ 19 June 2007 at 14:23 by James West - CEO
This article introduces some of the initiatives we are working on to improve the speed and quality of the search experience for the customer and to help our contributors compete. More...
@ 14 June 2007 at 12:02 by Alexandra Bortkiewicz
I will be attending photo festivals in France this Summer - Rencontres d'Arles (July 3rd to July 6th inclusive) and in Perpignan, Visa pour l'Image (September 5th to the 9th). More...
@ 26 April 2007 at 10:51 by James Allsworth
Our latest quarterly trading figures have been available to view since April 11th, but we thought we'd issue a reminder in case you missed it. More...
@ 23 April 2007 at 10:14 by James Allsworth
We are pleased to announce the arrival of the Alamy forum! More...
@ 16 April 2007 at 16:03 by Alan Capel
We are making good progress on the development of AlamyUpload. It’s in beta testing and will be trialled by increasing numbers of contributors in a phased release. Here are some more details. More...
@ 16 April 2007 at 16:00 by Alan Capel
To be ready for AlamyUpload you may wish to check that it will work on your operating system and choice of browser. Here are the minimum requirements. More...
@ 2 April 2007 at 15:53 by James Allsworth
Did you know that you could be missing out on valuable sales each month? More...
@ 21 March 2007 at 15:10 by James Allsworth
We thought you might be interested in this. As 2007 unfolds, the first major ’Landscape Photographer of the Year’ competition is now well under way and entrants have until the end of May to submit their photographs of the British landscape. More...
@ 20 February 2007 at 11:55 by Alan Capel
Try saying that one three times fast - its amazing how many times contributors can get the wrong end of the stick when it comes to the way we work... More...
@ 23 January 2007 at 10:24 by James Allsworth
Since AlamySearch went live in October, we have been bombarded with emails and calls asking about how it works, why it does what it does and what will happen with it in the not too distant future. More...
@ 23 January 2007 at 10:23 by James Allsworth
Welcome to our new blog! We’ll be posting breaking news, event reviews, picture needs and plenty more tips and tricks that we hope you’ll find useful as a contributor to Alamy. More...
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