Customer testimonials
“We LOVE Alamy! Not only do they have a vast collection of high quality images; I especially appreciate that
it’s quick and easy to download from the website, with all the size options available. You have really
perfected the process. I always advise all our designers. Check Alamy first!”
Jill Supka , Radisson Seven Seas Cruises
“Alamy provides an excellent range of imagery”
Tom Hind, WWAV Rapp Collins London
“I’m very impressed by the range and quality of the photos available from Alamy; I can almost always find
what I am looking for. The speed of the search engine also means that I can find the images I need quickly.”
Wendy Stokes, New Scientist Magazine
“Alamy offers great images - a good cultural mix!”
Helen Salter, Bartlett Scott Edgar
“We used to never have time to contact all the smaller libraries and often felt that we were missing out on
getting the right image. Now through Alamy we can be sure that all the very best specialist libraries are
involved in any searches we do. Aside from amazing images, Alamy also offers great service and has
friendly staff.”
Debi Hughes and Helen Kunzemann, Macmillan Education
“Alamy has become the first place I look as it offers a great choice of quality shots.”
Landor Associates, Emma Booty
“Alamy provides just the right image formats for initial mood board usage and internal workshops, as well as
great material for the final job”
Catriona Crombie, Interbrand
“I look to Alamy for the unusual, the thought-provoking, the ‘not typical stock’ images I can’t find anywhere else.”
Fritz Klaetke, Visual Dialogue
“The reason Alamy is my first choice for stock pictures is that their web site is super-fast and offers a huge
selection, plus the service is very friendly, quick and personal.”
Louise Thomas, Health Service Journal, EMAP
“With Alamy, in just a matter of a few clicks, you’re looking at the image that meets your demands and puts
a smile back on your client’s face.”
Ian Gregory, Pandora Graphics
“I use Alamy because I know I will find a good choice of images on their easy-to-navigate site and nothing is
too much trouble for their staff if you need help.”
Steven Lawrence, Country Life Magazine, IPC Media
“I use Alamy regularly because they understand that we have to get visuals approved before the project
progresses and can provide images in the right format easily and without fuss.”
David Kerfoot, The Tangent
“Besides having fantastic customer service (I know I can always get an answer or assistance whenever I
need it) Alamy has great images. I’ve always been able get the photos I couldn’t find anywhere else.”
Robert Sperka, Corporate Creations, Inc.
“As a large direct marketing and advertising agency, we are always on the look out for fresh, exciting, and
modern images to use within our clients’ communications. Alamy’s site has been extremely useful.”
Dave Collins, JDA
“Alamy staff are extremely helpful. I am also able to breeze through the website quickly to find suitable
images for my projects and they have a great selection of images!”
Dana Zikria, BBDO
“Like many others in my profession I search several image banks with no results, but I know that Alamy will
have just what I am looking for. I also always find Alamy staff to be extremely efficient and helpful.”
Melissa Crouch, Service Credit Union
Alamy has very friendly staff, always ready to help and provides relevant images to the brief given”
Erika Moore, Leo Burnett
“Alamy’s website is very user-friendly and easy to navigate. But the most impressive aspect of dealing with
Alamy is their customer service. I don’t know of any other stock agency with the same exceptional level of
customer service and expertise.”
Elena Wood, J. O’Connor & Matthews
“Alamy’s customer service is excellent. Also, the website is efficient and easy to navigate, the search results
are accurate and you don’t get a whole lot of irrelevant images in a search.”
Marni Brownlees, Craik Jones
“I use Alamy the most out of all the stock agencies as its website is so quick, simple and easy to use. No
fussing about trying to view images as you are given the option of two different sized images without
tiresome download time - great! The downloaded larger images are also of sufficient quality to let a
prospective client decide if the image is the right one for their job.”
Kevin McCann, Swiss life (UK) plc
“The speed of Alamy’s website makes long searches bearable! Its customer service is always impeccable too.”
Kerry Falconer, Discovery Communications
“Alamy have an outstanding understanding of how the design industry works allowing them to service
ourselves and ultimately our clients better. The staff are always friendly and can always answer our
questions - no matter how bizarre. Also, the site is very fluid, with no complex search strings and more
importantly, easy to understand price guidelines.”
Andrew Eccles, Fudge Studios
“Alamy the best! They have a highly usable website and the highest quality imagery. Basically, they’ve
managed to offer a quick and efficient download system without losing the personal touch! Congratulations
on achieving such great things in a very competitive market.”
George Bryan, WWAV Rapp Collins North
“I always turn to Alamy first when searching for stock photography because I rarely have to look elsewhere.
Their range of images is vast and the quality is superb. The icing on the cake is that the website is an
absolute joy to use. It’s well designed, very intuitive and most importantly, blazingly quick. It’s the best stock
library - period.”
Jonathan Hunt, Clavicorn Limited
“Alamy has been a real find for us. The site loads quickly, and has an extremely fast search engine,
something other libraries could learn from! We have found the content both comprehensive and original for
our project needs, with an after sales service that is useful yet unobtrusive. In summary, Alamy offers a
great site, effective products and good value.”
Neil Horne, Abbey DPM
“;Unlike other image sites, Alamy is a pleasure to use. The response times are quick even when returning
100 images and that’s something the others seem to have overlooked. More fool them. To further sweeten
the deal, the images are cracking of course and the service is second to none. You want an image library
you can rely on? Look no further than Alamy.”
Gareth Paul Edwards, Hartley Briggs and Ross Creative
“Alamy staff are extremely helpful. I am also able to breeze through the website quickly to find suitable
images for my projects and they have a great selection of images!”
Dana Zikria, BBDO Atlanta, USA
“Alamy - a fantastic range of images, user-friendly website, great customer service and competitive pricing -
what more could you want?”
Kate Earl, Woman Magazine, IPC Media
Contributor testimonials
“I have always found the Alamy staff to be helpful and responsive to my queries and really feel valued as an
artist/contributor. This is a rare luxury in the stock photography industry.”
Mike Hill, Photographer
“I appreciate Alamy’s flexible terms, their knowledgeable and efficient staff, and a website that offers
everything from photography tips to traceable online sales. Alamy is enabling photographers to have
maximum control over their images, and still receive an equitable commission.”
Marv Johnson, Fogstock
“Alamy is much better to deal with from a photographer’s point of view because once we have passed strict
quality checks, we are the editors of our work. This allows us to promote and sell images which may escape
the attention of an editor in a busy agency. It also allows customers to get easy access to a completely fresh
selection of images.”
Chris Knapton, Photographer
“I like the overall setup. Upload times are now less than a week and I think this is great - the quicker my work
can get on-line the quicker I can start to make sales and customers can see my work. The real-time sales
reports are fantastic; they keep me up-to-date on just which images are selling and help me plan ahead.”
Steve Allen, Photographer
“Alamy has proved to be a powerful collaborator in the marketing of my stock photography. By linking my
web site to www.alamy.com and having my photos available on the Alamy site, I gain the powerful benefits of
24/7 e-commerce capability, sophisticated keyword search capabilities, and other relevant infrastructure that
makes the purchasing decision easy for my clients. These days, fewer obstacles to purchase mean more
sales, and I appreciate the many, and increasingly viable, benefits that Alamy brings to my stock photo business.”
Stephen Frink, Photographer
“I was intrigued by Alamy’s approach to stock photography sales - all online, inexpensive for buyers, quality
conscious, allowing the photographer to keyword his/her own images and giving a high percentage return to
the photographer. I am particularly pleased with the no-fuss aspects of sending images on a CD and
receiving commission checks not long after. I am relatively new to stock sales and appreciate the income
made with little additional effort.”
Bart Harris, Photographer
“I like Alamy because it puts me in control of how I market my stock. I decide what images to sell, how to
license them, and how to keyword them. Alamy’s website makes all this very simple to do.”
Peter Mumford, Photographer
“Everyone talks about the excellent management, intelligent business plan and technical expertise at Alamy,
and well they should. But it is the mailbox money at the end of the month that gets my attention.”
Tom Payne, Photographer
“I don’t simply provide the images. I feel part of the team. Alamy has made me want to get out there and
shoot even more.”
David Hughes, Photographer
“Alamy has managed the difficult feat of balancing high technology with the personal touch, particularly in the
way it interacts with image buyers and contributors. The technology never gets in my way; as a
photographer, it allows me to display my visual ideas and themes in exactly the way I want. At the same
time, I can get helpful feedback and support at any time. In these volatile times, Alamy has become the right
place for the creative photographer seeking to sell to a global customer-base. Bravo!”
Jon Bower, Photographer
“Alamy is a breath of fresh air in the ever-changing world of stock photography. I wish there were ten other
companies just like it. The best way to describe working with Alamy is ’easy’.”
Mark Lewis, Photographer
“We love the Alamy model! Everything online, no catalogue fees, a fair split for the photographer. It’s the
way the stock industry will go in the future.”
Lightworks Photographic
“Alamy doesn’t carry any past baggage and outdated ideas. Its openness creates a feeling of trust and
honesty, not only with regards to image sales and commissions, (which are very fair and flexible) but also in
the overall direction of the company, which is driven by optimism and enthusiasm. I share that vision and
appreciate being part of the team.”
Terry Why, Photographer
“Alamy’s approach to stock photography is like a fresh breeze in an industry that has become too stale, too
complex, too predictable and too corporate.”
Lisa Valder - Imagestopshop