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ALAMY EXCEEDS ONE MILLION IMAGES
April 13, 2004
Alamy Images, ( www.alamy.com ) now offers more
than one million RM and RF images from over 175 agencies and 2,500 plus photographers
from around the globe. This represents a 330% growth in content since this time last year.
The company has been in operation since 2001 and currently has offices in the
UK and Asia Pacific. Another office is scheduled to open in the US in April 2004. Alamy
conducts regular surveys to identify customer content requirements and feeds this back to
contributors to ensure they provide both the quantity and range of material to meet
market needs. For example, after a recent survey revealed that 92% of customers were
using royalty free (RF) images, Alamy added the following RF providers to its
collection: Imageshop Zefa (UK); Bananastock (UK); Epcot Images (UK); Organics (UK);
Goodshoot (France); Dex Images (Japan); Pixland (France); Inmagine (Asian);
Medioimages (Hispanic); Comstock (US) and Thinkstock (US).
Alamy's customers are also big users of RM imagery with 74% using both RM and RF and
8% using Rights Managed images exclusively. The company has also focused on signing
specialist in its ten top selling categories which are: lifestyles/people; concepts;
business; landscapes & nature; travel; science, technology & research; architecture,
homes & interiors; backgrounds & objects/still life; reportage, social,
environmental & conservation issues, and medical, health, beauty & fitness.
New contributors signed by Alamy include:
- Lifestyles/people - Philip Brittan, Enamul Hoque, Liam Bailey, Iain
Masterton, Plant, Max Paris, Marc Romanelli and Samantha Scott;
- Business - Profimedia, Dan Kenyon, Marc Romanelli, Liam Bailey and Tom
Tracy;
- Concepts - GlassHouse Images, Dex Images, Paul Heartfield, Oote Boe,
Pedro Lobo, Tim Bird, Tim Kavanagh, Blackout Concepts and Gari Wyn Williams;
- Landscapes and nature - CuboImages (lesser known regions of Italy),
Agence Images (undiscovered corners of France) and Helder Silva;
- Travel - Photolibrary Wales, Apex News and Pictures (UK travel feature
specialists), Archivberlin Fotoagentur (Germany), Lookgaleria (Poland),
Photo Japan, Pat Behnke (China), Gavin Hellier, Tibor Bognar (advertising-style
travel), David Sanger Photography and Kevin Taylor;
- Architecture, homes and interiors - View Pictures (UK), The National
Trust (UK historic buildings) and Artografika Bildagentur (Germany);
- Reportage/social/environmental issues - Tim Graham (indigenous people
and cultures), Julio Etchart (focus on Latin America), Terry Fincher (famous actors,
politicians, figures as well as war photography) and Jayne Fincher (the UK royal
family).
James West, CEO of Alamy, commented, "While hitting the one million image mark is an
important milestone for us, more significant is the fact that the content we have
signed up matches the needs of our customers. Alamy's strong customer focus and
understanding of the marketplace ensures that our customers benefit not only from
the quantity but also the quality and relevance of our images, and that our
contributors enjoy strong sales."