Does nobody monitor the News Feed any more?

[Phil Robinson]

There's a great new way to keep you photos right at the top of the news feed:
Date them 2028 and they will stay there for five years! Why didn't I think of that?

[imageplotter]

A little weekly reminder that IMAGO are still spamming the newsfeed every day and, more commonly, every night. With hundreds of stock images, filed via the newsfeed, often filed as single images. Today's offering includes dozens of single file images of supermarket product shots (lots of single shots of sweets brands, beer crates, board games, fruit and veg). All very clearly stock and not related to any news stories, neither over here nor in the country they were taken (Germany). 

 

And still no response from Alamy as to why this continues to be allowed, tolerated, probably even encouraged. 

 

This is so demoralising. Does anyone at Alamy still notice or care? If they cannot look after the newsfeed, and, as we are told, no clients ever look at it anyway, then please, for goodness sakes, do what some of the wires do and just make the feed non-public via client login. It looks like an absolutely embarrassing mess.

[Alamy]

Hi All,

 

We're aware of this concern about some 'non-news' images appearing on the live news feed, and we do recommend and advise all contributors, including agencies, to send in images that are only 'news' related to the Live News Feed. The service is continually monitored and we do routinely remove content that does not fall into the category of 'news' as and when it arises, when we can.

 

However, as there is an ever increasing amount of content coming on board, which varies on a daily basis, there sometimes has to be prioritisation of work in other areas and on other more important news images coming in to ensure that the right customers get the right content that is more relevant to their needs.

 

This is an area that we continue to monitor and we continue to advise all agencies and contributors to not use the Live News upload for 'non-news' images.

 

Thanks

 

Sophie

[Mr Standfast]

1 hour ago, Alamy said:

Hi All,

 

We're aware of this concern about some 'non-news' images appearing on the live news feed, and we do recommend and advise all contributors, including agencies, to send in images that are only 'news' related to the Live News Feed. The service is continually monitored and we do routinely remove content that does not fall into the category of 'news' as and when it arises, when we can.

 

However, as there is an ever increasing amount of content coming on board, which varies on a daily basis, there sometimes has to be prioritisation of work in other areas and on other more important news images coming in to ensure that the right customers get the right content that is more relevant to their needs.

 

This is an area that we continue to monitor and we continue to advise all agencies and contributors to not use the Live News upload for 'non-news' images.

 

Thanks

 

Sophie

 

Thank you Sophie.