David eastley Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 Anyone else noticed that a few months ago Alamy had 159 million images but today they are down to 152.5 million.That is a big loss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Clemson Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 The subject was discussed briefly in this thread a week or so ago and some possible causes aired, but no definitive explanation was arrived at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 Some individual contributors I know have removed their collection because of the 40/50%, but that would only account for a tiny blip. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 I wonder where Geogphotos (do I have that right?) went. He had a very large collection. What a shame. That said, I support everyone’s choices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 10 minutes ago, Betty LaRue said: I wonder where Geogphotos (do I have that right?) went. He had a very large collection. What a shame. That said, I support everyone’s choices. Afaik his images are still here. Geogphotos & geogphoto. Could be these are awaiting deletion of course. Before he left the forum he did say he was putting an amount (was it 3000 images?) on a certain micro. Maybe Google could find that? wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 1 hour ago, wiskerke said: Afaik his images are still here. Geogphotos & geogphoto. Could be these are awaiting deletion of course. Before he left the forum he did say he was putting an amount (was it 3000 images?) on a certain micro. Maybe Google could find that? wim I'll leave that to you, wim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 I can understand how those with very large, non-exclusive collections must be upset about the commission changes. It means a substantial drop in income for them. However, they probably wouldn't remove their collections after investing so much time and effort. Even if some did, it wouldn't, as wim suggested, make much of a dent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starsphinx Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 So what is making that dent? I mean it is the sort of thing that is going to interest us and which we should perhaps know about as it is likely to have some sort of impact on us. It could be a good impact (if they are cleaning out images which should not have been accepted - unfortunately, there are some) it could be a more negative one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 12 hours ago, David eastley said: Anyone else noticed that a few months ago Alamy had 159 million images but today they are down to 152.5 million.That is a big loss. Today, it's showing 153,460,042 images here in Vancouver, so perhaps we're all seeing different numbers depending on locale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Clemson Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 38 minutes ago, John Mitchell said: Today, it's showing 153,460,042 images here in Vancouver, so perhaps we're all seeing different numbers depending on locale. It's showing the same figure (153,460,042) for me in the UK. I'm not sure when David saw the 152.5 million, I haven't seen it go quite as low as that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 Something to consider is the fact that the image count has always gone up. Since every day new images are being uploaded, yet the overall number is dropping, then for certain more images are being withdrawn or accounts closed than we can tell. Say Alamy has 1000 images (for simplicity sake) We see the number drop by 100 the next day. Total now 900. Yet 75 new images were uploaded during that time. The new number should be 975, (900 + 75) but it’s only 900, so the images dropped weren’t 100, but 175. My brain hurts. I surely got my math wrong! Betty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Douglas Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 9 hours ago, Betty LaRue said: Something to consider is the fact that the image count has always gone up. Since every day new images are being uploaded, yet the overall number is dropping, then for certain more images are being withdrawn or accounts closed than we can tell. Say Alamy has 1000 images (for simplicity sake) We see the number drop by 100 the next day. Total now 900. Yet 75 new images were uploaded during that time. The new number should be 975, (900 + 75) but it’s only 900, so the images dropped weren’t 100, but 175. My brain hurts. I surely got my math wrong! Betty A related question though is why did the number of images go up so much year on year? There are some contributors who have a very streamlined operation and 100% dedication, and can maybe add 10,000 images per year. I don't think my process is particularly inefficient, but getting an additional 2000 new images per year on sale is challenging. And even then, if I was more ruthless with similars the number per year would be lower. I don't believe that the bulk of the increase in images at Alamy over recent years is from contributors taking and uploading new images. So where are the other images coming from? Is it from collections that exist elsewhere and are then uploaded in bulk to Alamy? If it is then large numbers of images can disappear as rapidly as they appeared in the first place. From an Alamy contributor perspective it's not something that I'm concerned about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Quist Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 6 minutes ago, Keith Douglas said: So where are the other images coming from? Is it from collections that exist elsewhere and are then uploaded in bulk to Alamy? If it is then large numbers of images can disappear as rapidly as they appeared in the first place. From an Alamy contributor perspective it's not something that I'm concerned about. Yes, collections, I also think. No, more pleased than concerned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlbertSnapper Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 Some of the bulk uploading by other libraries may have their images removed simply because they have gone out of business. It's not as if returns are healthy is it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 And the Gorilla did insist on exclusivity for a certain sort of images. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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