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From the webiste http://depositphotos.com/for-bloggers.html

Sponsorship by Depositphotos
Depositphotos has a unique program for bloggers and websites dedicated to design, advertising and stock photography.
If you operate a blog or website and are looking for some fresh new images, or are willing to hold a contest that offers real prizes, we want to be your sponsor. For prizes, we can provide temporary subscriptions to our site, offering free downloads of high-quality images. In return, we’d like you promote our site and your contest using interesting articles or useful reviews of Depositphotos, including information such as prices, the variety of payment options and subscription plans, the new pay-by-SMS option, and the wealth and diversity of images available. The article or review must be unique and must contain at least one link to our site with one appropriate keyword (such as "photo stock", "buy images", "stock images", "Depositphotos", etc.). Copying text from our site or other sources, either fully or partially, is prohibited. The number of prizes we can offer will be decided on a case-by-case basis, and will depend on the number of visitors and the level of your blog or site according to the www.alexa.com rating. When you apply, one of our representatives will review with you the options that apply to your site or blog.

I'm not with DP so I don't know about their t&c. (Of course, iStock is forcing us all to opt our images in for free promotions).

I'm just concerned about the amount of image copying that goes on in the blogosphere.

I presume they still pay us?  I don't want to give bloggers free images but if DP are paying me, it's OK.

Yeah, they don't make those important specifics very clear, do they? And even if they say you will get paid, how will you be able to tell, they certainly won't flag those giveaway images for you.

Yesterday after receiving letter from Depositpotos I wrote to their support asking who will pay for this images, here is the answer:
"We sure will pay for every image downloaded using subscription, no matter if this subscription was purchased or given for free. The same we do for Free Trial subscription - photographer receives payment for every image."

Of course we are being paid.. how do you think DP became a better seller than veer and BigStock on the ranking? this is how.. images are given away for free and we are being paid.. If I wasn't paid I would remove my images in a heart beat no matter how long it took to upload them..

They did have a free trial for a very long time now and still have. And they pay for the imags they are giving away there too. So...i don´t get the fuss. It´s a promotion thing, that doesn´t really effect photographers. At least not in a negative way. If lots of bloggers use it, they can use images at will that they don´t have to worry about, since they get them for free and that the photographers get their pay for as well. So if i had a big portfolio there, it´d be pretty chummed to hear about this.

Thanks for posting this.  I am relieved to see that we are still being paid for the downloads.  No complaints from me then. 

They will pay until their investors money runs out and then the investor will want to see a good return.  I don't think you need 3 guesses to work out where that money will come from   No doubt they will also want to move their commissions more in-line with istock and FT.

The ranking is a poll not verified, people from DP could raise the poll number to make it look better. I don't believe it.

I´m a designer myself. I used the free trial on DP. You need to register the free trial with your paypal account and with a cc on that paypal account. So, it´s not just the matter of giving a junk email and registering an account everyday - you can only get as many free trials as you have creditcards  .