Alamy (registered as Alamy Limited) is a privately owned stock photography agency launched in 1999. Its headquarters are on Milton Park, near Abingdon, Oxfordshire, U.K. It has a development and operations centre at Techno park in Trivandrum, Kerala, India and a sales office in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Company information
Alamy maintains an online archive of tens of millions of still images, illustrations and hundreds of thousands of videos contributed by agencies and independent photographers or collected from news archives, museums and national collections. Its suppliers include both professional and amateur photographers, stock agencies, news archives, museums and national collections. Its clients are from the photography, publishing and advertising industries and the general public.
In response to criticisms about its updated contributor contract, Alamy responded by stating that the changes only reflect the company work style and do not represent a significant shift.
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History
James West, a graduate of Edinburgh University is the CEO of Alamy and co-founded the company with Mike Fischer in 1999. Mike Fischer, the current Chairman and co-founder of the firm, was also co-founder and CEO of RM plc, the UK Company that pioneered the use of technology in the classroom.
2002 - 2010
- In 2002, Alamy won an EMMA (Electronic Multimedia Awards) award for technical excellence. The purpose of this award is to recognize excellence in digital media content creation. It also introduced a 24/7 high-resolution download tool for customers. The technical innovation continued with virtual CDs becoming a replacement for RF image CDs.
- In 2003, the firm introduced an international distribution network. Based on the resulting increased sales, it increased the royalty payments for its contributors in 2006. Since 2002 Alamy has paid out over $100million to its contributors.
- In March 2004 one million images were available on the site and by October 2007 there were 10 million images online.
2010 - 2015
- In 2010, the firm created an iPad app to showcase its images.
- In 2011, Alamy launched a live news service. and in 2012 it started to accept live news images from mobile phones which upgraded their collection to 25million images.
- In the same year 2011, the company expanded its international sales unit with teams being introduced in Germany, Australia and The Middle East.
- In 2012, Alamy introduced the Alamy iQ, video, and creative search results .
- In 2015, Alamy's iPhone app Stockimo has been shortlisted as a finalist of the MOMA awards - In the best mobile/tablet consumer facing app category.
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