I started with dt in 2012 and I am now at 85 usd, 2 more years for pay out

Quote from: Microstockphoto on September 06, 2019, 22:00
I started with dt in 2012 and I am now at 85 usd, 2 more years for pay out

A completely pointless post. If you have 2 images with DT, that's pretty impressive. If you have 10,000 images with DT, it's terrible.....

here is another completely pointless post

Quote from: Five Thumbs on September 06, 2019, 20:44

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on August 29, 2019, 15:23
I am $1.92 $1.22 $0.87 shy of my next payout - let's hope they stay in business long enough to get that over $100

@Jo Ann, After two months on $99.48 I've just had a sale of $5.47 to take me over the threshold. Phew! Hope you get there soon!

Congratulations on that accomplishment!!

I'm currently $2.04 short of payout (up about $3 in the last couple of weeks). No telling how long that last 2+ bucks will take.

Quote from: rinderart on August 29, 2019, 04:39
A very good site for Me and many Others. sales are so Bad Im in shock. I fear another One is gonna Bite the dust. I really Hope this Great Old site gets it back together.

I am not sorry about them.
Very unprofessional site. After revealing real contributor name, without any notice for artists, I deleted my account.

Quote from: rene on September 11, 2019, 09:01

Quote from: rinderart on August 29, 2019, 04:39
A very good site for Me and many Others. sales are so Bad Im in shock. I fear another One is gonna Bite the dust. I really Hope this Great Old site gets it back together.

I am not sorry about them.
Very unprofessional site. After revealing real contributor name, without any notice for artists, I deleted my account.

What? Real name is visible on the web?

Quote from: trabuco on September 11, 2019, 09:06

Quote from: rene on September 11, 2019, 09:01

Quote from: rinderart on August 29, 2019, 04:39
A very good site for Me and many Others. sales are so Bad Im in shock. I fear another One is gonna Bite the dust. I really Hope this Great Old site gets it back together.

I am not sorry about them.
Very unprofessional site. After revealing real contributor name, without any notice for artists, I deleted my account.

What? Real name is visible on the web?

It was during few days or weeks. They decided without prior notice to contributors that "confidencial info" accounts would not be confidencial anymore and they simply displayed real names of authors. After contributors protests they are going back on their decision, but the damage is done.

This is illegal here. Could be fined with a lot of money.

Amazing.

Quote from: Microstockphoto on September 06, 2019, 22:00
I started with dt in 2012 and I am now at 85 usd, 2 more years for pay out

maybe a reason to challenge yourself, complaining here is useless

Quote from: trabuco on September 11, 2019, 09:06

Quote from: rene on September 11, 2019, 09:01
I am not sorry about them.
Very unprofessional site. After revealing real contributor name, without any notice for artists, I deleted my account.

What? Real name is visible on the web?

Yup. You can read about it here.

Dreamstime's Identity Crisis

Quote from: Microstockphoto on September 06, 2019, 22:00
I started with dt in 2012 and I am now at 85 usd, 2 more years for pay out

Wow, almost same here, i started at 2013 and now at 86 usd...

Quote from: Mrblues101 on September 14, 2019, 03:24

Quote from: Microstockphoto on September 06, 2019, 22:00
I started with dt in 2012 and I am now at 85 usd, 2 more years for pay out

Wow, almost same here, i started at 2013 and now at 86 usd...

I started a year ago and I have like 25 USD. So 3 more years for pay out lol...

It seems to me Dreamstime fall started with their "submit only the best from the series we accept no similars" policy. Rings a bell, huh? 

Let's hope that next step will be bloking accounts that are floodin craps

Quote from: Microstock Posts on September 11, 2019, 14:26

Yup. You can read about it here.

Dreamstime's Identity Crisis

And as the arcicle suggested, (September 28, 2016)

Now it's time for Dreasmtime to rebuild their trust with their contributors, and maybe find more effective ways to increase their sales.

Guess they failed on the first one, dunno if at least managed to achieve the second.

this agency is going bankrupt soon. it's clear. like 123rf and cannock...probably deposit will manage to be alive some more here...then will be the time for ss esp and adobe...soon there will be no business in micro stock...it's pretty clear.

I just had a sale and it says something new (25% royalty).

Quote from: MysteryShot on September 16, 2019, 20:09
I just had a sale and it says something new (25% royalty).

That's not new - it was a credit sale (a rare bird these days) as opposed to subscription. You can read about the various royalty percentages (based on how much an image has sold) here:

https://www.dreamstime.com/sell-stock-photos-images

I seem to do okay on Dreamstime.  Enough that I feel it's still worth it to upload there.  But 123RF seems to be rather stagnant and their upload process is super time consuming.

Until last year, I was able to get a payout every month (sometimes even twice a month)
Now I can only got payed every other month.

I hope they'll find a way to recover and become competitive again.

Quote from: Hoodie Ninja on September 19, 2019, 19:57
I seem to do okay on Dreamstime.  Enough that I feel it's still worth it to upload there.  But 123RF seems to be rather stagnant and their upload process is super time consuming.

Amazingly RF is doing better for me the last couple of months but from a cliff edge drop about a year back. I don't find their ftp uploading time consuming.

Completly dead for a few months
Used to have 2 sales a month

Quote from: whosvegas on February 14, 2020, 16:04
Used to have 2 sales a month

Woo hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I really don't see what the problem is or why Dreamstime is supposedly doomed all of a sudden.

Yes, Dreamstime is a small and kind of low-earning agency. Yes, it can take a while until you reach payout. So? Their upload process is painless and speedy, their average RPD isn't so low that I feel ripped off (hello, 123rf!), they pay without delay or fuss when you reach the threshold.

For me, they have been a slow but steady earner and as long as the abovementioned criteria don't change, then I'll keep my portfolio there & keep uploading when I have the time. I'll worry about them going belly-up if it actually happens.

You'll be even more sorry when the time comes to close your account. They will make you
disable thousand of images one by one :p
Luckily it can be coded to go faster