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Trading statement

Annual sales 1
Year Sales (USD)
2001 129,440
2002 897,844
2003 4,363,774
2004 12,225,538
2005 18,863,505
2006 24,237,364
2007 29,254,226
1. Average annual USD-GBP exchange rates used for historical sales figures.
Line graph of sales increasing to $29.2M in 2007
Quarterly sales 2006 - 2008 2
  2006 2007 2008
Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 3
Revenue USD (000's) 6,255 6,327 6,866 7,132 7,506 7,750 8,097 8,520 8,186
2. Effects of Dollar (USD) weakening against Sterling (GBP) between 2006 and 2008 has exaggerated growth in some instances.
3. Effects of Sterling (GBP) weakening against Dollar (USD) has exaggerated decline in this quarter.
Quarterly image and revenue split, 2006 - 2008
Contributor information 2006 2007 2008
Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3
% Revenue - photographers 45 49 51 53 54 54 56 55 56
% Revenue - agencies 55 51 49 47 46 46 44 45 44
Percentage revenue information, 2006 - 2008
Percentage revenue information 2006 2007 2008
Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3
Av. no. images sold per transaction - credit card 1.7 1.8 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.8 1.8 1.8
Av. no. images sold per transaction - account 3.6 3.4 3.6 3.7 3.8 4.1 3.9 4.3 4.5
% Revenue - RF 36 35 34 31 33 31 33 30 29
% Revenue - RM 64 65 66 69 67 69 67 70 71
% of images sold - RF 29 29 27 24 26 24 26 22 21
% of images sold - RM 71 71 73 76 74 76 74 78 79
% Images sold - credit card 15 16 13 11 11 10 9 8 7
% Images sold - account 85 84 87 89 89 90 91 92 93
% Revenue - credit card 21 21 18 17 16 15 15 14 12
% Revenue - account 79 79 82 84 84 85 85 86 88
% Revenue - editorial licenses 72 72 73 77 74 76 76 73 78
% Revenue - commercial licenses 28 28 27 23 26 24 24 27 22
Average pricing information USD, 2006 - 2008
Average pricing information USD 2006 2007 2008
Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3
RF image - credit card 229 234 246 250 257 276 262 278 296
RM image - credit card 254 224 240 254 272 227 253 254 214
RF image - account 205 206 211 209 214 205 207 208 181
RM image - account 151 156 149 149 152 152 144 142 131
RM image - editorial use 133 132 130 131 133 129 126 116 117
RM image - commercial use 357 332 378 355 393 350 371 383 384
All RM images 159 161 155 155 159 156 149 147 135
All RF images 213 215 222 220 226 221 219 224 200

Please note:

We have had to withdraw some parts of this statement that refer to contributor image submission volumes. This is due to a technical problem which has affected the way those figures have been reported, resulting in a misrepresentation of numbers in some instances.

As there is no way of providing accurate figures for those periods already reported, we have decided to withdraw this part of the statement until further notice. Alamy unreservedly apologises for this problem. There was no intention to provide misleading information and we want to assure you that all other figures are accurate. This includes the total number of images shown on the Alamy website, currently over 14 million, and all the revenue figures.