Iain Masterton Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 PA now have over 5 million images on Alamy Current, new images are also included. Could this be game over for Alamy news photographers? PA certainly making the most of the new distribution channel https://www.alamy.com/search/imageresults.aspx?cid=SJWL6R98P7CYWW45RLQZPYU8XQ7FSKGQKZAWVETMSFYJSVQN9ZEZB59579ZXFJCF&name=PA%2bImages&st=12&mode=0&comp=1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geogphotos Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 (edited) At first sight it looks more like PA news images that are being moved into secondary editorial stock after their critical news value has passed. If so, it is not game over for Alamy News photographers. Edited June 15, 2020 by geogphotos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb photos Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 3 hours ago, geogphotos said: At first sight it looks more like PA news images that are being moved into secondary editorial stock after their critical news value has passed. If so, it is not game over for Alamy News photographers. PA images also likely to be no threat to stock photographers if the first image in Iain's link, image 2C02JTC taken 11/06/20, is anything to go by. It has just 2 tags, Floyd and Police. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Masterton Posted June 15, 2020 Author Share Posted June 15, 2020 Ok thanks chaps. Apparently PA content through Alamy is blocked to UK newspapers and magazines at present Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meanderingemu Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 3 hours ago, sb photos said: PA images also likely to be no threat to stock photographers if the first image in Iain's link, image 2C02JTC taken 11/06/20, is anything to go by. It has just 2 tags, Floyd and Police. interesting. thought you needed at least 5 KW to be available Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 12 minutes ago, meanderingemu said: interesting. thought you needed at least 5 KW to be available Five keywords seems to be the maximum for most of their images. Anyway, they won't be much of a threat, even as stock images, to those of us living outside the UK. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meanderingemu Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 4 minutes ago, John Mitchell said: Five keywords seems to be the maximum for most of their images. Anyway, they won't be much of a threat, even as stock images, to those of us living outside the UK. thanks. yeah, and i don't think i'll be making it to the other side of the Atlantic anytime soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanDavidson Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 16 hours ago, sb photos said: PA images also likely to be no threat to stock photographers if the first image in Iain's link, image 2C02JTC taken 11/06/20, is anything to go by. It has just 2 tags, Floyd and Police. My experience with PA photographers is that they file direct from the camera using voice captions, to a picture desk in, I think, Poland. Thus I can understand the lack of keywords. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meanderingemu Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 37 minutes ago, LawrensonPhoto said: Not live news how would these be still Live News? All of them are days or months old.... Is PA getting preferential treatment in Live News, allowed to have older images? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colblimp Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 23 minutes ago, meanderingemu said: how would these be still Live News? All of them are days or months old.... Is PA getting preferential treatment in Live News, allowed to have older images? After the 48 hours of Live News, the images immediately go on sale as stock, with or without keywords. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meanderingemu Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Colblimp said: After the 48 hours of Live News, the images immediately go on sale as stock, with or without keywords. ok thanks. I always assumed since i saw a Red dot for not having KW that they would not. good to know, as i always fussed to go add 5 KWs Edited June 16, 2020 by meanderingemu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colblimp Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 3 minutes ago, LawrensonPhoto said: Talking of keywords, I just had a zoom from a 3 keyword pic 😎 I can beat that - I had a $$$ sale appear today with just two keywords - covid19 and covid 19. Go figure. 🤣 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vpics Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 I can't see any pics from the link Iain posted. Maybe it's because I'm outside the UK? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meanderingemu Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 (edited) 21 hours ago, vpics said: I can't see any pics from the link Iain posted. Maybe it's because I'm outside the UK? 19 hours ago, LawrensonPhoto said: Really!?, there is nearly 5.2M images i see them from Canada, but setting my VPN to Germany it does appear like the images are blocked,and get no image from the link Added: No image either in France, Nor Japan. But see them in USA. Edited June 20, 2020 by meanderingemu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 All 5,200,568 are visible in the Lowlands over here. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shearwater Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 All 5Million can be seen from Spain too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnie5 Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 PA Media is part of PA Media Group Limited,[1] a private company with 26 shareholders, most of whom are national and regional newspaper publishers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PA_Media Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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