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:
Author: Amos Struck
Amos Struck
I write about the stock photo and microstock industry since 2006 on my several online-magazines. My goal for MyStockPhoto is to teach photographers and stock photographers how to sell more photos and earn money with their photography hobby.
Microstock agencies promote their business by using referral / affiliation programs useful to drive new contributors and new buyers to their websites. If you join these programs, you can earn extra incomes. You have to publish affiliation links on your blog, website, social media profile, e-mail, etc. to refer new contribs and buyers. Here you can find a summary of the referral / affiliation programs and commissions of the microstock agencies. You can also see the format of the referral link (in this case with my different refer ID). I’m having good result from Dreamstime and Shutterstock affiliation programs (thanks…
I wrote in my previous post about the rather difficult web based iStockphoto upload process. Thanks to iStock contributor carrollphoto, I discovered a bulk uploading/manager tool called Deepmeta (by Eazign bvba). DeepMeta is a free software (Windows and Mac) that assists you in managing your iStockphoto portfolio: adding/editing keywords and categories appending model or property releases uploading your images checking your latest portfolio statistics and ratings With a local copy of all of your portfolio data, you can completely manage your photos off-line and then upload in batches. Let me know if you use this tool or something else similar,…
Cutcuster, 1 year old media marketplace, has introduced a new kind of photographic dynamic exchange. As a buyer of images or vector illustrations, you can immediately license or bid for this content by submitting a price to sellers. Sellers can accept, decline or negotiate with the buyer by resubmitting a new offer back. In addition, sellers can set their prices or use the Cutcaster pricing algorithm to correctly determine the market price. What is the Cutcaster Algorithm? Cutcaster’s proprietary pricing algorithm takes the work out of determining and maximizing your content’s revenue by changing its price to match the demand…
Vivozoom announces a new market for your images. Vivozoom’s Image Warranty gives Corporate clients the confidence they require to licence your images. Do Clients Really Care About Warranty? Those who are aware of the issues believe that it is crucial. An advertising agency using an image for one of its clients must feel confident in the Provenance of that image. Early 2008, Vivozoom commissioned external Market Research, soliciting the opinions of Corporations in North America and Europe. Many were avoiding Microstock because of the lack of Warranty while a few were using Microstock in the mistaken belief that the images…
Choosing subjects for your microstock images is an important step. How could I have visibility among thousands of photographers ad millions of images? You have a beautiful ‘red rose’ picture and you want to sell it in the microstock market… before try to see how many similar images are already in the stock agencies: Shutterstock Red Rose Stock Photos, Illustrations, and Vector Art Returned 36884 results. Dreamstime Search results: 26810 images. Fotolia Search results: 27805 files