NYCat Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 (edited) I haven't looked at it yet but I'm hoping there will be room for suggestions. I am trying to think of things I want to suggest. Alamy treats me well. I would like a way to flag bad captioning. It doesn't help any of us if there are mis-identified animals, places, etc. Suzanne (LSP) very helpfully corrected me recently and it resulted in adding a couple more images I have of the subject. When I see something badly identified I'd like to have a way to report it to Alamy. Any other thoughts? Paulette Edited September 20, 2023 by NYCat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Robinson Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 (edited) Have I missed something? (Edit: found it) Edited September 20, 2023 by Phil Robinson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Standfast Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 Question 11. All of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Standfast Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 (edited) . Edited September 20, 2023 by Mr Standfast Duplicate. Kindle eh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariaJ Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 Where is the survey? Was it emailed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCat Posted September 20, 2023 Author Share Posted September 20, 2023 Emailed and appears at the top of topic listing here. Paulette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCat Posted September 20, 2023 Author Share Posted September 20, 2023 9 minutes ago, Mr Standfast said: Question 11. All of them. I don't understand no matter how many times you say this. Perhaps I should have looked??? I am afraid of opening it until I'm ready to give answers because I have found myself locked into surveys online. Paulette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariaJ Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 4 minutes ago, NYCat said: Emailed and appears at the top of topic listing here. Paulette Thanks Paulette. Didn't get the email but I see the posted link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 I don't seem to have gotten the email either. I also don't see the link... 😕 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StokeCreative Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 (edited) 5 minutes ago, John Mitchell said: I don't seem to have gotten the email either. I also don't see the link... 😕 John , click on the blue text above Stock photography discussion and contributor experience. Its the first entry Edited September 20, 2023 by StokeCreative Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 1 minute ago, StokeCreative said: John , click on the blue text above Stock photography discussion and contributor experience. Its the first entry OK Got it now. Thanks. DOH! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Ventura Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 46 minutes ago, NYCat said: I don't understand no matter how many times you say this. Perhaps I should have looked??? I am afraid of opening it until I'm ready to give answers because I have found myself locked into surveys online. Paulette It's not too long of a survey. Some can get to be WAY too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VbFolly Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 I've filled in the survey. There was a question where they ask if there is another feature you would like to add. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Standfast Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 55 minutes ago, NYCat said: I don't understand no matter how many times you say this. Perhaps I should have looked??? I am afraid of opening it until I'm ready to give answers because I have found myself locked into surveys online. Paulette Fair enough. Q11 If you are unsatisfied with the your commision rate what is the main reason for this? Because I have not had enough sales to reach the better commission rate. Because the licence prices are too low. Because the percentage commision split is unfair. I can't really differentiate between these three. Alamy need to address all of them, allthough they have little control over the middle one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCat Posted September 20, 2023 Author Share Posted September 20, 2023 10 minutes ago, Mr Standfast said: Fair enough. Q11 If you are unsatisfied with the your commision rate what is the main reason for this? Because I have not had enough sales to reach the better commission rate. Because the licence prices are too low. Because the percentage commision split is unfair. I can't really differentiate between these three. Alamy need to address all of them, allthough they have little control over the middle one. Thank you. Paulette 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCat Posted September 20, 2023 Author Share Posted September 20, 2023 24 minutes ago, VbFolly said: I've filled in the survey. There was a question where they ask if there is another feature you would like to add. Thank you. I think I'll sleep on it in case I get a bright idea in the middle of the night. Then I will wade in when I have my wits about me. I had one survey from SloanKettering that wouldn't let me move off a page no matter what I answered and then they kept sending emails asking me to finish. So frustrating. Paulette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Isaac Greenberg Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 2 hours ago, NYCat said: Any other thoughts? how about a. return of stemming also b. return of stemming and c. return of stemming ?all? other competitors have d. stemming so let's have e. return of stemming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Standfast Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 17 minutes ago, Jeffrey Isaac Greenberg said: how about a. return of stemming also b. return of stemming and c. return of stemming ?all? other competitors have d. stemming so let's have e. return of stemming Not sure what your getting at??????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antonsrkn Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 3 hours ago, NYCat said: I haven't looked at it yet but I'm hoping there will be room for suggestions. I am trying to think of things I want to suggest. Alamy treats me well. I would like a way to flag bad captioning. It doesn't help any of us if there are mis-identified animals, places, etc. Suzanne (LSP) very helpfully corrected me recently and it resulted in adding a couple more images I have of the subject. When I see something badly identified I'd like to have a way to report it to Alamy. Any other thoughts? I've often griped about the terrible wildlife IDs and captions of stock libraries including Alamy. While it's obnoxious to see dozens of misidentified pics - I'd personally not give Alamy the free labor of fact checking their image libraries. They already take 60% commission from most of us as is. Maybe if there was a system in place like: contributors who verify 1000 photos as accurate or incorrect a month get upgraded to the platinum commission split. 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geogphotos Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 (edited) My suspicion with surveys like this is that they are more about generating positive statistics than addressing genuine concerns. We will see. Edited September 20, 2023 by geogphotos 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Lewis Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 Maybe it's just my obtuse personality or common sense approach to things but I mentioned the very poorly designed website for buyers to figure out. My suggestion was to scrap it and start over with the ease of buying in mind. It just seems confusing to me from the start. Rick 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Ventura Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 One suggestion I had was to get rid of "Discoverability", in AIM, as it seems to only make a mess of things when people over tag photos just to reach "Good Discoverability" 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 As it suggested at the end I saved my form. These were my suggestions: The reports on sales and zooms are really good. What would be useful is the opposite: what image has never been licensed and what image gets no views or very few views. It would be a great help for contributors complaining about few or no sales too. What is really annoying is the loss of the ability to view a page of results with the Alamyref numbers always visible and every image the same thumbnail size. It is still an option in lightboxes btw like in https://www.alamy.com/search/lightbox/5254583.html. It's the two tiny icons in the upper right hand corner. Long time clients and image researchers that had gotten used to copy/pasting the ref numbers into their own work documents or ordering system must have felt lost also. It would be an easy fix: just bring it back on every page with search results. You probably know that the *Customer search activity - All of Alamy* currently does not allow clicking on any of the columns and that this has been the case for quite a while. Which is a pity because it is a unique and valuable tool. But I totally forgot to ask for a tool to report wrong captions and keywords. wim 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Isaac Greenberg Posted September 21, 2023 Share Posted September 21, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, wiskerke said: what image has never been licensed and what image gets no views or very few views. WimW Although not exactly same, few years back I asked IM for a list of my decade+ old images that had never zoomed nor licensed so I could consider deleting them from collection. They told me never-zoomed data didn't exist... Historical zoomed data exists in Measures but it would be overwhelming task to match it to file names & reveal unzoomed...? Zoomed data goes back to 2012 IIRC... Edited September 21, 2023 by Jeffrey Isaac Greenberg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCat Posted September 21, 2023 Author Share Posted September 21, 2023 2 hours ago, wiskerke said: As it suggested at the end I saved my form. These were my suggestions: The reports on sales and zooms are really good. What would be useful is the opposite: what image has never been licensed and what image gets no views or very few views. It would be a great help for contributors complaining about few or no sales too. What is really annoying is the loss of the ability to view a page of results with the Alamyref numbers always visible and every image the same thumbnail size. It is still an option in lightboxes btw like in https://www.alamy.com/search/lightbox/5254583.html. It's the two tiny icons in the upper right hand corner. Long time clients and image researchers that had gotten used to copy/pasting the ref numbers into their own work documents or ordering system must have felt lost also. It would be an easy fix: just bring it back on every page with search results. You probably know that the *Customer search activity - All of Alamy* currently does not allow clicking on any of the columns and that this has been the case for quite a while. Which is a pity because it is a unique and valuable tool. But I totally forgot to ask for a tool to report wrong captions and keywords. wim This has reminded me that I'd like to see the net amount I am receiving in the Account Balance listing, as well as the gross amount and deductions. Paulette 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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