Interview with Alamy CEO James West

When you get a moment this is an interesting interview with James West, the CEO of Alamy. He is one of the younger leaders in this space and he definitely is innovative and not a part of the core group of old school folks. Take a look when you get a chance.

About the Image reported that, "The UK-based image portal, Alamy, recently took the unprecedented step for a privately held company of releasing its revenue figures to the public. The figures show a company on an impressive trajectory having grown total sales from US$129K in 2001 to US$24.2MM in 2006. Founded by its CEO James West and his uncle, Mike Fischer, in 1999, Alamy also manages to dedicate significant sums to medical research and invests in technology to reduce the company’s carbon footprint."

The article is interesting for Photographers and anyone following the business trends. They go over the effects of microstock, the falling dollar, editorial vs commercial client base and Alamy's Novel pricing approach which was still hush hush.