The growth of the U.K. stock retailer’s collection has naturally led to more stringent quality control procedures. Several months ago, Alamy began to penalize contributors who consistently failed the agency’s technical requirements by revoking upload privileges. The next step: images submitted to the company are now prioritized in the quality-control queue based on each contributor’s QC history, as opposed to the previous first come, first served method.
“We hope that this new working process will benefit all of our contributors,” reads the Alamy blog. “Those already passing QC will see the same turnaround times maintained and possibly improved. Contributors experiencing problems will need to modify their workflow.”