Dreamstime is one of my favorite sites. It’s one of the top 4 (or 5) microstock agencies, with high payout per image and a good volume and variety of images sold. I like the large and valuable Management Contributors Area with a powerful Account statistics area (earnings, downloads, affiliation, acceptance ratio, portfolio exposure, graphs, etc.); portfolio exposure is calculated by comparing the size of your portfolio with the biggest existent on the site at that time. Here an example of statistics graph:
dreamstime account statistics - click to zoom out
In the Earnings section, you can also see which are the keywords used by the buyers to find and download your photos.
dreamstime buyer searched keywords - click to zoom out
Photographers can request a payment as soon as their earnings balance is higher than $100, by applying from the Management area. Payments are sent as bank checks (that you can cash at a local bank), by PayPal, Payoneer (Dreamstime Prepaid MasterCard or MoneyBookers.
There is a limit to the number of images submitted per day, depending on approval percentage . All users can submit via FTP. The system supports automated EXIF/IPTC data retrieval ( title, description – subject – and keywords).
You can upload editorial images reflecting events from social, cultural and political scenes. Editors choose the best and most recent event-related images for the “In the News” section. Each news-worthy image is rewarded $5 bonus.
Image approvals are generally easier than for the other top microstock sites and I’ve also registered in this three years that they have a quite constant inspection policy. Have a look at this Reasons for refusals article http://www.dreamstime.com/photography-article-2
You can donate images for the free section, in this case your profile link and some portfolio samples are in evidence (with the hope of gaining visibility)
dreamstime free section - click to zoom out
dreamstime free images
Dreamstime offers a good affiliation program:
Other peculiarity and features:
Conclusion: Highly Recommended
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Update Aug. 09
Dreamstime updates royalties and launches facebook application
Update Oct. 09
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Awsome review on Dreamstime!!! It's a shame it's not working that good for me…I'm afraid illustrations are not that strong over there…Cheers and good sales for you!!!
Thanks Augusto! Be patient and keep on with uploading, have a look at @niltomil post http://www.niltomil.com/n2m/big-mo-2/
Cheers
It is a well thought out site. The site is a pleasure to navigate and you it's great to read the blogs and meet others in the forums. However, I noticed that since around February they became extra tough on accepting images. If I look back to stuff I submitted last year, I'm sure a lot of it wouldn't be accepted now. My referred photographers seem to be struggling more than me. However, I still get regular downloads despite the drop in acceptances and they just raised their prices again this year, so revenue per download is getting higher.
Hi Komar,
it's a common consideration that in the last period Dreamstime has become more selective… maybe after 5,871,641 images they can choose.
Thanks for your comment,
roberto
unfortunately as a purchaser of images I was highly disappointed when I find out that my prepaid money "expires" and they just keep my cash if I don't use it fast enough. I liked their stock, but this policy is a rip off.
granted I'm a small customer, but I see absolutely no logic in this policy other than to just scam the infrequent (but loyal) user .
I emailed them questioning this policy and never got a response. it unfortunate cause I realy did like them, but I refuse to use them again.
@guest: All credits expire due to technical constraints. This is mentioned on the Buy Credits page, where you purchase them. https://www.dreamstime.com/credits
Because we update prices from time to time (last update was in Aug. 08), new prices will use a different type of credit (e.g. credits 2009 right now).
We have to remove the old types of credits (i.e. 2007) from our database, while the number itself is very small. It's not the number that matters but the space these can take from our database (multiply each type of credit from 2004 up to now with almost 2,000,000 customers; each type of credit that is removed will optimize the speed of the website). Most customers spend these credits. We need to remove the type of credit, not the credit itself.
All customers who have experienced issues with expiring credits can email support to get an extension. If you emailed us, please ensure that our response is not in your spam filter. You can also call us, to be certain your message reached us.
PS: Thanks for the review, we appreciate it
Thanks for your contrib. to explain the credit system.
Cheers,
roberto
This site is a complete SCAM and a joke. They take forever to review and upload your images and they reject just about everything. Poor customer service and complicated royalty BS. Do yourself a favor and don't bother with these clowns.
MPA,
it's true that the review times are so long… but about the other issues you point out I have to disagree: my experience is good, rejections are similar to other big sites and I don't see any big difference in the royalty scheme.
Cheers,
roberto
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