Category: Alamy
News
Alamy releases quarterly figures
Alamy has released detailed information about the numbers of images added to its collection, the percentage break-downs between RF and RM revenue and images sold, and the average pricing information for the two licensing models. The company made public figures from the first half of 2004 to the first quarter of 2006. In several cases the numbers reveal surprising trends, at least for Alamy, if not for the industry in general. Highlights of these numbers include the following:
Features
iView Multimedia introduces Alamy Wizard
Alamy has teamed up with iView Multimedia to create Alamy Wizard, a plug-in for iView's MediaPro software. iView MediaPro is a digital asset management & cataloging solution for photographers and creative professionals. It enables you to quickly and easily import, organize, search, annotate, repurpose and archive all of your digital images. The new Alamy Wizard is designed to ease the process of submitting images according to the specific parameters required by Alamy. iView is offering their digital asset management software to Alamy photographers for $169.15, a 15% discount off the regular price of $199. Click here for more details.
News
Alamy has grown to 4 Million images
Alamy has proudly announced that its image collection has
grown to more than 4 million images. Alamy’s collection is made up of both Rights-Managed (RM)
and Royalty-Free (RF) images from more than 5500 photographers and 340 agencies from around
the world. Alamy claims to have uploaded an average of 200,000 images a month
with more than 2 million images in 2005. The rapid growth can likely be
attributed to Alamy’s great reputation among artists including
Alamy’s use of technology to provide artists with
access to real-time sales data. Click here to
view the original press release. Click here to visit the AlamyPro user group
for contributing photographers.
News
Alamy now storing images in New York City
Alamy has announced plans to begin storing images in various locations around the US. Starting in December a copy of the entire 3.8 million image catalog will begin serving North American customers from New York City. This move has been implemented in order to shave precious seconds off the time required to return search results. The time to return search results is expected to be half of the time of results served from Alamy’s main office in London.
Click here for the press release.
