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Agency Based Discussion => Dreamstime.com => Topic started by: jcpjr on August 12, 2010, 15:06
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What's the deal with DT...I haven't had a D/L since Aug 3rd with over 500 images there and SS is slammin'. Anyone else see a slow down?
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They are the worst of the top 4 by a long way. Looks like Veer might overtake them this month for me.
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Why have you put 'lol' on the end of your topic title?
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I would say that the website need to be redesigned a little. The random search engine is quite annoying to live with. Finally the Level prices are good for the contributors, but often a bad surprise for buyers with small budget. Which is often the case on Dreamstime IMO.
Dreamstime level 1 and 2 images can be attractive for low budget designers. But since a good pourcentage of the collection already sold a lot, it become annoying to browse. It's just an impression though
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Ironically for me, they've been accepting everything I send which is unusual, even some flower pics. Yesterday and today were banner sales days. Trends are odd sometimes.
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Why have you put 'lol' on the end of your topic title?
Funny in a strange way that's typical of them...certainly not funny in a comical way. However, 5 minutes after I started this thread I got a d/l...would you call that "funny" or strange. They're not very consistent.
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It's very slow lately. They even closed the "How was your July" thread on the forums. I had 2 giant (relatively) level 5 pics sales yesterday. Since the keywords were N/A and just one hour apart I had a look at the Google Analytics on my site where those pics are on the front page with a link to DT. Lo and belo, somebody visited there and exited by the link to DT. It will end up we'll have to do our own marketing I think. :P
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I was planning to start a thread asking if anyone else had a great day at DT today and then I saw this one. I was wondering if they did some sort of marketing push...
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I just have some sub sales at the beginning of this month then all the way to empty.............................and got some weird rejection of vectors >"<
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august is very good so far - i am on the way to my bme on dreamstime (fingers crossed). submitting there for approx. 2 years and got a port of 800 pics...
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Yes, DT is very weak for me to (but I'm not laughing :( ).
In fact thanks to a couple of EL's I have made twice as much money at Veer than at DT.
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I think DT sale vary wildly by contributor. Maybe some styles or subjects just do better there.
My sales across the board are down, and DT with them, but to be honest I have not seen the rapid, drastic drop there that I have elsewhere. Just a sort of gradual decline that is to be expected considering the economy and the time of year (summer).
As for redesigning the site - I have yet to see a site redesign rolled out this year that I like. I hope DT doesn't do a major redesign. Their site is attractive and functional, and IMHO they stand to pick up customers (if any) who are disenchanted with the IS redesign.
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As for redesigning the site - I have yet to see a site redesign rolled out this year that I like. I hope DT doesn't do a major redesign. Their site is attractive and functional, and IMHO they stand to pick up customers (if any) who are disenchanted with the IS redesign.
They just did a redesign of their buyers pages, which I frankly don't like. It's too spacious. It seems to be a recent design trend (compare XSP to FreshStock) and I assume it's a conspiracy to give buyers a carpal tunnel syndrome. :P
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DT is actually ahead of IS for me so far this month. I think that says more about how dismally IS is doing than that DT is doing well for a change. They have been performing pretty poorly for me since March or so.
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DT is fine for me at the moment but I'm lucky if I average a dollar a day on 123rf lately.
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No sales this month :(.. though I'm new everywhere. :)
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I've been having sales for the last couple of days all across the board. Not a bunch but on all the sites that matter... ;)
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Actually, I'm having good sales at DT lately
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August is proving to be a decent month for me at DT. Nothing spectacular, but not bad - just about average.
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checking... checking....
nah, still bad.
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DT would be such a great site if only their search was better.
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August is BME for me. Even better than SS or IS.
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DT would be such a great site if only their search was better.
Maybe not great, but definitely would make a huge difference.
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I just wish that I could sell as many images at DT as I do everywhere else. At this rate it's going to take me another year to reach my first payout. Although the submitted large jpgs get processed a heck of a lot faster now than it used to. Not even an hour. Best day I had there was I believe 5 dls. Finally got an image to level 2 yesterday which was nice. Just wish sales were better.
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Best search in the world, it usually puts my images on the first page :D
DT would be such a great site if only their search was better.
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DT would be such a great site if only their search was better.
I'd agree __ DT's default search results are frequently hopeless. When similar searches are compared on each of the 4 largest agencies the results at DT are almost invariably the worse, most especially because they are less diverse with series from the same artist being ridiculously stuck together within the results.
I've tried a few basic searches for 'business meeting desk', 'mushroom omelet' and 'toddler laughing'. The results on DT range from fair to positively embarrassing. Why they can't recognise the issue and get it sorted is beyond me. It must irritate busy customers no end.
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DT would be such a great site if only their search was better.
Funny because I think they have a good search function - as a buyer I find DT and IS have by far the best.
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I also think they are one of the best with the exception that too many shots from the same photographer (similars) are shown in a row.
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No seriously though, Ive never figured out why DT insist on putting out entire series in search, I mean you can sometimes see 10 or 20 shots, almost identical taking up an entire page and I wouldnt mind but often the series are just mediocre shots and with hardly any DLs at all.
I recon they simply let the search-engine run itself hoping for the best, either that or they simply dont have the know-how regarding searches?
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No seriously though, Ive never figured out why DT insist on putting out entire series in search, I mean you can sometimes see 10 or 20 shots, almost identical taking up an entire page and I wouldnt mind but often the series are just mediocre shots and with hardly any DLs at all.
I recon they simply let the search-engine run itself hoping for the best, either that or they simply dont have the know-how regarding searches?
This is ironic because the biggest rejection is to discourage similars. Unless this is reviewers and new editors double standard?
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I'm having an extra poor month, but now that August is more than half done I can see that my sub sales appear stable, its the PPD's that have stopped. I've had no less than 6 "20% off" sale emails from them too.
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Has been a little slow in recent weeks which would be normal at this time of year.
But overall, I cant complain.
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I'm a buyer as well as a contributor, and I prefer using the DT search engine to any of the others. And my sales just keep going up (more downloads as well as higher $ per sale as more images advance in tiers).
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Hey I love DT.
I have 180 pics on DT. I am not very good... but my sales are going up all the time. Then again I do have a secret formula.
Link removed by admin : spam
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Hey I love DT. I have 180 pics on DT. I am not very good... but my sales are going up all the time. Then again I do have a secret formula.
Link removed by admin : spam
Just kill him. Death to spammers! ;D