Phil Robinson Posted October 26, 2023 Author Share Posted October 26, 2023 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imageplotter Posted November 10, 2023 Share Posted November 10, 2023 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. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alamy Posted November 23, 2023 Share Posted November 23, 2023 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Standfast Posted November 23, 2023 Share Posted November 23, 2023 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Robinson Posted March 11 Author Share Posted March 11 (edited) I really hoped things had improved: https://www.alamy.com/news/newsresults.aspx?qt=#BHM=foo%3Dbar%26qt%3D%26pn%3D1%26ps%3D120%26aoa%3D1%26news%3D%26sports%3D%26entmt%3D%26Videos%3D%26bb%3D1%26md%3DOL24805143%26dt%3D%26gid%3D{91339F09-1FD3-41D8-8862-BFFCBFADD7EF}%26destxml%3D%26imglst%3D%26orderby%3DDT%26newsseq%3D%26userid%3D{173C1BC7-D93A-43C2-A48C-B5EB9221055B}%26rand%3D1710186629119 https://www.alamy.com/news/newsresults.aspx?qt=#BHM=foo%3Dbar%26qt%3D%26pn%3D1%26ps%3D120%26aoa%3D1%26news%3D%26sports%3D%26entmt%3D%26Videos%3D%26bb%3D1%26md%3DOL24805142%26dt%3D%26gid%3D{1E4BF827-FA48-4B1E-93FE-2B7B16945C48}%26destxml%3D%26imglst%3D%26orderby%3DDT%26newsseq%3D%26userid%3D{173C1BC7-D93A-43C2-A48C-B5EB9221055B}%26rand%3D1710186646372 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https://www.alamy.com/image-details-popup.asp?pv=1&stamp=2&liveData=1&imageid=DBFBFECF-6176-4D22-ADF3-1BC4DD786080&p=undefined&n=undefined&imageType=0&orientation=0&pn=1&searchtype=0&srch=foo%3dbar%26qt%3d%26aoa%3d1%26news%3d%26sports%3d%26entmt%3d%26Videos%3d%26bb%3d1%26md%3dOL24433358%26dt%3d%26gid%3d{5D516285-4188-4D12-8902-9B7C3FB4ADE4}%26destxml%3d%26imglst%3d%26orderby%3dDT%26newsseq%3d%26userid%3d{173C1BC7-D93A-43C2-A48C-B5EB9221055B}%26rand%3d1710187273490 That's only two days, and there are so many more, I just couldn't be bothered to continue with more pages of "people seen at Doha airport" Seeing people at an airport is not news If Alamy really want to be taken seriously as a supplier of news images to the media, couldn't they perhaps spare one of their employees for ten minutes a day to check that the "News Feed" contains some news? Edited March 11 by Phil Robinson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin L Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Read all about it......Nuthatch eats sunflower seed https://www.alamy.com/sieversdorf-germany-08th-mar-2024-a-nuthatch-sitta-europaea-with-a-sunflower-seed-in-its-beak-credit-patrick-pleuldpaalamy-live-news-image599482193.html?imageid=13F0D0D3-DC2A-40F7-95CA-7C32A8C7B346&p=173981&pn=1&searchId=b0edb317162120c1e59a1706792a04d4&searchtype=12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebecca Ore Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Ramadan preparation photos are current soft news. The photos of the Russian Defense Ministry are a bit of a problem as news, but photographing recognizable people going in and out might have been problematic, especially if the photographer wasn't Russian. A lot look like bad travel photos, sent to news to avoid QC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Robinson Posted March 12 Author Share Posted March 12 4 hours ago, Martin L said: Read all about it......Nuthatch eats sunflower seed https://www.alamy.com/sieversdorf-germany-08th-mar-2024-a-nuthatch-sitta-europaea-with-a-sunflower-seed-in-its-beak-credit-patrick-pleuldpaalamy-live-news-image599482193.html?imageid=13F0D0D3-DC2A-40F7-95CA-7C32A8C7B346&p=173981&pn=1&searchId=b0edb317162120c1e59a1706792a04d4&searchtype=12 That's a fantastic photo - but no, not news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Park Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 The other annoyance (and regular occurence) is having to wade through individually captioned shots from one event on the Live News page. Today, 23rd March 2024, we have 118 images from the Australian GP, all incorrectly captioned with a file number only. Looks very amateurish. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Robinson Posted April 7 Author Share Posted April 7 BREAKING NEWS! https://www.alamy.com/news/newsresults.aspx#BHM=foo%3Dbar%26qt%3D%26pn%3D1%26ps%3D120%26aoa%3D1%26news%3D%26sports%3D%26entmt%3D%26Videos%3D%26bb%3D1%26md%3DOL24963330%26dt%3D%26gid%3D{C6349C34-FCB8-4523-A1A4-AF459BA73B94}%26destxml%3D%26imglst%3D%26orderby%3DDT%26newsseq%3D%26userid%3D{173C1BC7-D93A-43C2-A48C-B5EB9221055B}%26rand%3D1712481513255 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Robinson Posted May 8 Author Share Posted May 8 (edited) I'm trying to stay away from this but today's just can't be beat: Insect on a block of wood, Stuttgart, Germany followed by the wonderful: Two insects on a block of wood, Stuttgart, Germany (one of which isn't an insect, or even a spider, it's a harvestman -Weberknecht in German if you want to get the caption right for all the German front pages. And they're both out of focus) Edited May 8 by Phil Robinson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nacke Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 Well I've been trying not to contribute to this thread, but........ I do agree with Phil's original post and it is an ongoing problem for all "News Photo" agencies. I do believe that Alamy is doing the best that they can dealing with contributors who are mostly not trained journalists. In my opinion, a larger issue are the individuals and agencies who just "dump" images onto the news feed without any editing (selecting) images. Not sure why anyone would upload 20, 50 or more images that are from the same event, often showing the same thing? To make it worse their captions accompanying those images are not specific and often not accurate. Just my opinion, Happy Friday Chuck 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynchpics Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 (edited) On 10/05/2024 at 19:13, Chuck Nacke said: . In my opinion, a larger issue are the individuals and agencies who just "dump" images onto the news feed without any editing (selecting) images. Not sure why anyone would upload 20, 50 or more images that are from the same event, often showing the same thing? To make it worse their captions accompanying those images are not specific and often not accurate. Just my opinion, Happy Friday Chuck Just did a search on Alamy for UK Gaza protest images, 1st page had 4 identical images from the same contributor via different distributors. How do 'normal' contributors make sales if the 1st few search pages are spammed in this way? This search was on the main Alamy library, not the live news page. Edited May 13 by Lynchpics 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynchpics Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 Just searched again and it looks like someone has changed the algorithm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP Essex Posted May 14 Share Posted May 14 And this morning there's no news at all apparently... Just went to look and the page is blank (tried 2 different browsers, & signed in & out) @Alamy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imageplotter Posted July 13 Share Posted July 13 The Alamy news desk needs more resource. I don't blame the messy feed on the staffers who man the desk at all, I'm sure they try their best and there is a huge amount of images coming in from agencies as well as the ever increasing number of those given news upload rights (Some of whom, I suspect are wire agency pseudos, I think I mentioned this before - there are quite a few pseudos with below 5k images who randomly file from high profile events where Alamy shooters had no access, ie pool/NMA/Royal Rota only events). But the fact remains that Alamy's news feed is far more disorganised and messy than any of the other open access feeds, ie PA Images, Getty News, Rex/Shutterstock. And it seems to come down to lack of resource. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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