Author Topic: Photogs meet with James West CEO of Alamy at Brooklyn office yesterday (Read 2926 times)

ann · « **on:** March 02, 2011, 14:02 »

Last night around 30 or 40 Alamy photography contributors met James West, the extraordinarily engaging CEO of Alamy at their DUMBO office, an area of Brooklyn a short subway ride away from Manhattan.

He and several employees shared useful and interesting information about Alamy's past, present, and plans for future. Of course, nothing was off-the-record, though some plans were just alluded to, for reasons of commonsense business timing. And at least one fellow contributor I chatted with has a port not much larger than mine. (BTW, as far as I recall, this is the first I've happened to post about Alamy here since I knew about the meeting.)

I respect Alamy even more than before, and it looks like it will be first stock agency I do specific blog post about, which is one more agency than I expected. Once it's up, I'll post link to it.

stockastic · « **Reply #1 on:** March 02, 2011, 14:23 »

So - the CEO of Alamy is a very cool guy, and he recently said a a whole bunch of interesting things to a group of photographers, none of which can be revealed to those of us who weren't invited.

ann · « **Reply #2 on:** March 02, 2011, 15:04 »

Stockastic - Okay, I noticed your

wink, so I hope I'm not totally misunderstanding you...

Today's a crazy day - what else is new, everyone's day is crazy - but I look upon MSG forum members as my friends, and my above post was sort of a quick "last night was something you might be interested in, and I'm going to take the time to write about it clearly, so I can then share it with you in best way." I did mention: "Of course, nothing was off-the-record..." (Based on what people happened to mention, we seemed a diverse group of big and small contributors.)

smiles - Ann

Quote from: stockastic on March 02, 2011, 14:23

So - the CEO of Alamy is a very cool guy, and he recently said a a whole bunch of interesting things to a group of photographers, none of which can be revealed to those of us who weren't invited.

stockastic · « **Reply #3 on:** March 02, 2011, 15:27 »

Yeah it was meant to be funny.

Your original post didn't really make it clear that some actual details might be forthcoming...

sharpshot · « **Reply #4 on:** March 02, 2011, 17:09 »

I look forward to reading your blog posts. I'm a big alamy fan and really liked watching the videos of their AGM's a few years ago. Any news about their future plans would be great.

ann · « **Reply #5 on:** March 08, 2011, 03:50 »

sharpshot - Alamy post is up - hope you find something useful in it:

http://annparryny.blogspot.com/2011/03/meeting-alamy-ceo-james-west-in.html

I'm sure I'll be tweaking it. If anyone notices a factual error in it, please PM me.

Quote from: sharpshot on March 02, 2011, 17:09

I look forward to reading your blog posts. I'm a big alamy fan and really liked watching the videos of their AGM's a few years ago. Any news about their future plans would be great.

ShadySue · « **Reply #6 on:** March 08, 2011, 05:58 »

Quote from: ann on March 08, 2011, 03:50

sharpshot - Alamy post is up - hope you find something useful in it:

http://annparryny.blogspot.com/2011/03/meeting-alamy-ceo-james-west-in.html
I'm sure I'll be tweaking it. If anyone notices a factual error in it, please PM me.

Thanks, Ann, that was interesting/enlightening reading.

ann · « **Reply #7 on:** March 08, 2011, 13:17 »

thanks, ShadySue.

FYI, I recently added this info:

"James West said Alamy is working toward a lower payout threshold, which currently is at $250...."

(I also added link to the blog post on MSG's blog section, since it might be easy to miss here.)