Harry Harrison Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 (edited) New Tweet from the Alamy Twitter account: https://twitter.com/alamy/status/1562802967769534469 Links to 10,000 Stxxxxmo images. Goalposts seem to have moved, the Ultimate images have not been promoted as S images before to my knowledge. Clearly there are images that aren't S in the Ultimate Collection though, far more than 10,000, so this is just an S promotion though it's not mentioned in the tweet. S has its own Twitter account. "Stuff yourself with creativity........" Edited August 25, 2022 by Harry Harrison Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avpics Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 (edited) "Meet the Alamy Content team at the NEC Photography Show Connect and network with Alamy and hundreds of other photographers and exhibitors from around the world at The Photography Show. Where: NEC, Birmingham When: 17th - 20th September 2022 We'll be at stand N304 so come along and say hello. You'll be able to ask questions to Contributor Relations, The QC team, News and Infringements team." Edited August 25, 2022 by Avpics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 22 minutes ago, Avpics said: "Meet the Alamy Content team at the NEC Photography Show Connect and network with Alamy and hundreds of other photographers and exhibitors from around the world at The Photography Show. Where: NEC, Birmingham When: 17th - 20th September 2022 We'll be at stand N304 so come along and say hello. You'll be able to ask questions to Contributor Relations, The QC team, News and Infringements team." Had that. Not going. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 1 hour ago, Harry Harrison said: New Tweet from the Alamy Twitter account: https://twitter.com/alamy/status/1562802967769534469 Links to 10,000 Stxxxxmo images. Goalposts seem to have moved, the Ultimate images have not been promoted as S images before to my knowledge. Clearly there are images that aren't S in the Ultimate Collection though, far more than 10,000, so this is just an S promotion though it's not mentioned in the tweet. S has its own Twitter account. "Stuff yourself with creativity........" Not a Twitter so cannot see the item. I'm stuffed anyway. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Harrison Posted August 25, 2022 Author Share Posted August 25, 2022 12 minutes ago, Allan Bell said: Not a Twitter so cannot see the item. You don't have to be on Twitter to see it in fact, but not much to see, this is the link to the 10,000 images anyway: https://www.alamy.com/search/lightbox/4705098.html?utm_campaign=alamy&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 12 minutes ago, Harry Harrison said: You don't have to be on Twitter to see it in fact, but not much to see, this is the link to the 10,000 images anyway: https://www.alamy.com/search/lightbox/4705098.html?utm_campaign=alamy&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter Hm! Looked at first page thanks. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Harrison Posted August 25, 2022 Author Share Posted August 25, 2022 (edited) 8 minutes ago, Allan Bell said: Looked at first page thanks Just 9,900 to go then. Edited August 25, 2022 by Harry Harrison 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 4 hours ago, Harry Harrison said: "Stuff yourself with creativity........" Doesn't sound especially appealing. 🤢 But I'm probably missing something as usual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Richards Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 (edited) 13 hours ago, Allan Bell said: Hm! Looked at first page thanks. Allan Same.... looked at first page. I doubt any of my ‘snaps’ are in there so probably won’t bother looking any further either.🤢 More a buyers thing. Edited August 26, 2022 by Dave Richards Added text Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Harrison Posted August 26, 2022 Author Share Posted August 26, 2022 I doubt a buyer will look through too many pages either but it's an interesting set, or at least the few pages that I've looked at have been. Fascinated at how they might have been chosen to grace the Ultimate Collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marianne Posted August 29, 2022 Share Posted August 29, 2022 Lots of fun beautiful photos. Enjoyed browsing several pages. Was hoping I might spot one of my grid of greatness snaps. Not sure that creativity & stock photos are always the same but I can’t argue with their choices. Lovely work. They’ve sold a few of my more creative ones so I enjoy using the app. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted August 29, 2022 Share Posted August 29, 2022 I've been browsing through the "Uncut" collection. It's my favourite. There are some intriguing images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Harrison Posted August 29, 2022 Author Share Posted August 29, 2022 32 minutes ago, John Mitchell said: I've been browsing through the "Uncut" collection. It's my favourite. There are some intriguing images. Interesting but Uncut are what you might call the Un-chosen ones, the main pool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted August 29, 2022 Share Posted August 29, 2022 2 hours ago, Harry Harrison said: Interesting but Uncut are what you might call the Un-chosen ones, the main pool. Right. I've been looking only at the "curated" images in Uncut, of which there are less than 500 I believe. I still wonder how well these images do sales-wise. Perhaps there is an Alamy that we nothing about, which is quite possible since the forum is a very small sample of contributors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Harrison Posted August 30, 2022 Author Share Posted August 30, 2022 7 hours ago, John Mitchell said: I've been looking only at the "curated" images in Uncut, of which there are less than 500 I believe. Yes, there is a curated selection of around 500 images for each of Ultimate, Vital, Uncut & Foundation so I suppose images chosen for those selections might be expected to sell better. They are in the shop window as it were, but the contents of these particular shops don't seem to reflect the window display. The results that you get by actually searching within those categories do not live up to expectations whenever I've tried it, the images of mine that have been selected for Vital are quite bizarre. Of course 'selected' is maybe the wrong word, with almost 300 million images then this has to be an automated process at the point the images come through QC, Ultimate is the exception, we are told these are hand-picked and indeed the total for Ultimate has barely changed since the makeover. I would think that any buyer will quickly revert to searching in All images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 9 hours ago, Harry Harrison said: Yes, there is a curated selection of around 500 images for each of Ultimate, Vital, Uncut & Foundation so I suppose images chosen for those selections might be expected to sell better. They are in the shop window as it were, but the contents of these particular shops don't seem to reflect the window display. The results that you get by actually searching within those categories do not live up to expectations whenever I've tried it, the images of mine that have been selected for Vital are quite bizarre. Of course 'selected' is maybe the wrong word, with almost 300 million images then this has to be an automated process at the point the images come through QC, Ultimate is the exception, we are told these are hand-picked and indeed the total for Ultimate has barely changed since the makeover. I would think that any buyer will quickly revert to searching in All images. Yes, once you get inside the shop, things change dramatically. Curating 300 million images is basically impossible by any means, so perhaps Alamy actually expects customers to switch to the "All" filter. I guess we'll never know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Harrison Posted August 30, 2022 Author Share Posted August 30, 2022 17 minutes ago, John Mitchell said: perhaps Alamy actually expects customers to switch to the "All" filter Well if that's what they wanted all along I could have suggested a different business plan ☺️. Normal consultancy rates of course. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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