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Trading statement

Due to recent volatility in the currency exchange markets, the Alamy quarterly report has been updated to display gross sales figures in the three largest currencies we do business in. This provides a better indication of what is happening to our sales figures without the additional complication of exchange rate fluctuations.
Quarterly sales 2007 - 2009
Revenue information 2007 2008 2009
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1
Revenue USD (000's) 6,866 7,132 7,506 2,461 2,626 2,937 2,750 2,390 2,351
Revenue Euro (000's)       736 753 776 717 658 565
Revenue GBP (000's)       2,078 2,237 2,189 2,439 2,109 1,887
Quarterly image and revenue split, 2007 - 2009
Contributor information 2007 2008 2009
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1
% Revenue - photographers 51 53 54 54 56 55 56 56 56
% Revenue - agencies 49 47 46 46 44 45 44 44 44
Percentage revenue information, 2007 - 2009
Percentage revenue information 2007 2008 2009
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1
Av. no. images sold per transaction - credit card 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.8 1.8 1.8 1.9 1.8
Av. no. images sold per transaction - account 3.6 3.7 3.8 4.1 3.9 4.3 4.5 4.8 4.6
% Revenue - RF 34 31 33 31 33 32 29 28 29
% Revenue - RM 66 69 67 69 67 68 71 72 71
% of images sold - RF 27 24 26 24 26 22 21 19 20
% of images sold - RM 73 76 74 76 74 78 79 81 80
% Images sold - credit card 13 11 11 10 9 8 7 7 6
% Images sold - account 87 89 89 90 91 92 93 93 94
% Revenue - credit card 18 17 16 15 15 14 12 12 10
% Revenue - account 82 84 84 85 85 86 88 88 90
% Revenue - editorial licenses 73 77 74 76 76 73 78 77 81
% Revenue - commercial licenses 27 23 26 24 24 27 22 23 19
Average pricing information USD, 2007 - 2009
Average pricing information USD 2007 2008 2009
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1
RF image - credit card 246 250 257 276 262 278 296 262 242
RM image - credit card 240 254 272 227 253 254 214 205 182
RF image - account 211 209 214 205 207 231 182 181 161
RM image - account 149 149 152 152 144 137 131 111 102
RM image - editorial use 130 131 133 129 126 116 117 98 94
RM image - commercial use 378 355 393 350 371 383 384 308 234
All RM images 155 155 159 156 149 142 135 116 105
All RF images 222 220 226 221 219 242 200 193 172
Please note that the average pricing information is shown in US dollars (USD).
The decline in average price has been exaggerated in this report by the weakening of the UK pound (GBP) against the US dollar between Q2 2008 and Q1 2009