Author Topic: Anyone having success with Dreamstime in 2024? (Read 4878 times)

waitingonthestuff · « **on:** February 25, 2024, 17:31 »

I see plenty sales from certain subjects but they could all be old, for all I know. So are you having getting consistent downloads with Dreamstime in 2024?

If so, WHAT'S YOUR SECRET?

scribble · « **Reply #1 on:** February 25, 2024, 18:21 »

My Dreamstime sales in 2024 are consistent with past years. I usually make pay out in 2 months. At this time, I have approximately 8100 photos. My secret is to keep posting. Dreamstime makes it extremely easy to upload. Also, they accept most of my photos. I have a 98% acceptance rate.

Yakystockero · « **Reply #2 on:** February 25, 2024, 18:51 »

"Dreamstime makes it extremely easy to upload."
extremely??

For me it is one of the most tedious to upload, so much so that I hardly upload anything there anymore. 2023 stopped selling me almost nothing, and in 2024 nothing. Port of almost 30k images.

cobalt · « **Reply #3 on:** February 25, 2024, 22:08 »

I find the uploads really easy. I keep hearing that having some exclusive content with them will increase exposure and downloads. Might try that.

Pacesetter · « **Reply #4 on:** February 26, 2024, 00:46 »

I'll be closing the account down once I make my only one and final payment request from Dreamstime. I've made the payout but letting it there while it continues to increase barely at a couple of dollars a month then when I finally take payment, then it goodbye to dreamstime.

Deyan Georgiev Photography · « **Reply #5 on:** February 26, 2024, 01:46 »

Quote from: Yakystockero on February 25, 2024, 18:51

"Dreamstime makes it extremely easy to upload."
extremely??

For me it is one of the most tedious to upload, so much so that I hardly upload anything there anymore. 2023 stopped selling me almost nothing, and in 2024 nothing. Port of almost 30k images.

+1

Yes, uploading 10 files is "extremely easy" anywhere, try 100, 1000 will cost you hours while same quantity are uploaded in Adobe in minutes. Dreamstime has a vintage submission system suitable for retired people who have all the time in the world.
Nevertheless it is sympathetic agency and I hope it will be around for many years.

cascoly · « **Reply #6 on:** February 26, 2024, 13:36 »

Quote from: cobalt on February 25, 2024, 22:08

I find the uploads really easy. I keep hearing that having some exclusive content with them will increase exposure and downloads. Might try that.

uploads are easy submitting is tedious -- not only do you have to submit 1 by 1 but you often need to scroll down (on a full screen window) two get to the submit button. and there are several seconds of waiting between each image - enough to be annoying but not enough to multi-task

whereas with batch submit you can process 100 images with a few clicks

cobalt · « **Reply #7 on:** February 26, 2024, 13:51 »

Ok, I simply don't have the problem of needing to upload hundreds of files in one batch. Then I am sure it is more tedious than other places.

I submit 10-20 a day or 50-100 a week and do the details on my phone when I am waiting for the bus or other boring daily life situations.

yuriy · « **Reply #8 on:** February 26, 2024, 16:14 »

i asked around the forum to see if anyone had luck with any of the "lesser" agencies and this one seemed to come up a few times. over the last month i've added close to half of my portfolio. i've gotten 3 sales for RPD of $.90. early impressions is it seems promising though unlikely to be a huge money maker. my opinion is if you contribute to shutterstock to get $.10 you might as well contribute to dreamstime. at the rate SS is decelerating i'd be shocked if i earned more there than on DT come end of year despite smaller portfolio and shorter time spent on the platform.

Yay Images Billionaire · « **Reply #9 on:** March 01, 2024, 02:49 »

Submitting is worst than before. Autofill used to be helpful but now it needs to be done on each photo instead of just automatically.

cascoly · « **Reply #10 on:** March 02, 2024, 14:20 »

Quote from: Yay Images Billionaire on March 01, 2024, 02:49

Submitting is worst than before. Autofill used to be helpful but now it needs to be done on each photo instead of just automatically.

they made a change awhile ago that turned off autofill (one time), you just need to set autofill on the page before you edit an individual image.

zeljkok · « **Reply #11 on:** March 02, 2024, 14:45 »

I find DT upload straightforward, but I upload 20-25 images / month at most. Pop-up if description is less than 10 words ("Ooops ... Give yourself a chance") is bit annoying. I think Caption / Description being 2 separate fields is not necessary; single field, like SS or Adobe do is better (and faster)

For me worst by margin is iStock, with that managed keyword concept. "Landscape" is not recognized, but "Landscape - Scenery". Or "Equirectangular Panorama" instead of "Panorama". Etc. Although their support told me once non-recognized keywords are still indexed, just not expanded into whatever managed mapping system does in the back end. Don't know if this is true or not.

Andrej.S. · « **Reply #12 on:** March 03, 2024, 07:54 »

Dreamstime has been in a coma since around 2015/2016.
Would not invest much time in uploading new content, it's not worth it.

Would'nt be concerned if they will get in insolvency so the buyers move to other bigger agencies.

TonyD · « **Reply #13 on:** March 03, 2024, 09:34 »

Yes, DT is a real pain to upload with the auto keywords turned off. It also keeps saying you have less than 5 words in the description even when there are well over that & won't let you submit. I have to re-word the description. The number & rate of sales is very poor & hasn't improved in more than 3 years since my 1st download even with over 1000 more photos.
The last time I had more than 35c a Download was in May 2022 when I had a $2+ DL very poor. SS & Adobe have been much better.

cascoly · « **Reply #14 on:** March 03, 2024, 17:44 »

Quote from: TonyD on March 03, 2024, 09:34

Yes, DT is a real pain to upload with the auto keywords turned off. It also keeps saying you have less than 5 words in the description even when there are well over that & won't let you submit. I have to re-word the description. The number & rate of sales is very poor & hasn't improved in more than 3 years since my 1st download even with over 1000 more photos.
The last time I had more than 35c a Download was in May 2022 when I had a $2+ DL very poor. SS & Adobe have been much better.

what does it show when it says < 5 words? DT doesnt use the description or subject from meta data

Her Ugliness · « **Reply #15 on:** March 04, 2024, 01:04 »

Quote from: cascoly on March 03, 2024, 17:44

DT doesnt use the description or subject from meta data

For me it does.
I have embedded titel, description and keywords in my metadata and all I have to do with Dreamstime is select the category. That's why I do not understand why people here say the upload process was compilcated. It was even easier when they auto-detected the categoeries, all you had to do was click on submit, but unfortunately that does not work anymore.

Uncle Pete · « **Reply #16 on:** March 04, 2024, 12:18 »

Quote from: Her Ugliness on March 04, 2024, 01:04

Quote from: cascoly on March 03, 2024, 17:44
DT doesnt use the description or subject from meta data

For me it does.
I have embedded titel, description and keywords in my metadata and all I have to do with Dreamstime is select the category. That's why I do not understand why people here say the upload process was compilcated. It was even easier when they auto-detected the categoeries, all you had to do was click on submit, but unfortunately that does not work anymore.

I agree, and I don't understand. The auto select categories has to be turned on, each session. I use my own keywords, title and description. I don't do hundreds at a time, so that could be different. But the same keywords, title and description are used for every other site, except Adobe, where I have to remove the Title.

But I uploaded three images this morning. DT reads all the data... All I had to do was look at the words and categories and click submit. Basically three clicks and they were all in review.

No I don't use their auto keywords, it just makes a mess of things.

blvdone · « **Reply #17 on:** March 04, 2024, 15:09 »

TonyD · « **Reply #18 on:** December 27, 2024, 06:11 »

Quote from: Deyan Georgiev Photography on February 26, 2024, 01:46

Quote from: Yakystockero on February 25, 2024, 18:51
"Dreamstime makes it extremely easy to upload."
extremely??

For me it is one of the most tedious to upload, so much so that I hardly upload anything there anymore. 2023 stopped selling me almost nothing, and in 2024 nothing. Port of almost 30k images.

+1

Yes, uploading 10 files is "extremely easy" anywhere, try 100, 1000 will cost you hours while same quantity are uploaded in Adobe in minutes. Dreamstime has a vintage submission system suitable for retired people who have all the time in the world.
Nevertheless it is sympathetic agency and I hope it will be around for many years.

I want to leave DT due to very few sales but I've only just over $26 in my balance. I've Uploaded videos which pay more but no sales. And the rate of sales hasn't increased at all even though I steadily increased my port to about 1500 photos & videos

alexandersr · « **Reply #19 on:** December 27, 2024, 11:11 »

Quote from: TonyD on December 27, 2024, 06:11

Quote from: Deyan Georgiev Photography on February 26, 2024, 01:46
Quote from: Yakystockero on February 25, 2024, 18:51
"Dreamstime makes it extremely easy to upload."
extremely??

For me it is one of the most tedious to upload, so much so that I hardly upload anything there anymore. 2023 stopped selling me almost nothing, and in 2024 nothing. Port of almost 30k images.

+1

Yes, uploading 10 files is "extremely easy" anywhere, try 100, 1000 will cost you hours while same quantity are uploaded in Adobe in minutes. Dreamstime has a vintage submission system suitable for retired people who have all the time in the world.
Nevertheless it is sympathetic agency and I hope it will be around for many years.
I want to leave DT due to very few sales but I've only just over $26 in my balance. I've Uploaded videos which pay more but no sales. And the rate of sales hasn't increased at all even though I steadily increased my port to about 1500 photos & videos

Are videos good paying in Dreamstime?

DiscreetDuck · « **Reply #20 on:** December 27, 2024, 11:55 »

Quote from: TonyD on December 27, 2024, 06:11

I want to leave DT due to very few sales but I've only just over $26 in my balance. I've Uploaded videos which pay more but no sales. And the rate of sales hasn't increased at all even though I steadily increased my port to about 1500 photos & videos

Sorry, but your lifetime download per image is 0.03, mine is more than 6 for lifetime.
I never expected a fortune for snapshots, and I think I was right to be very selective, and hard working for the highest level I could produce.

DT was and is a very good company I like to contribute to.

dragonblade · « **Reply #21 on:** December 27, 2024, 17:42 »

I'm just a few dollars away from getting my first payout at DT. And that took an incredibly long time (years.) Recently, I had my 900th photo accepted and added to my port on DT. An editorial image. Then later on, I discover that this photo has been removed from my port and placed in the rejected section. And they're recommending me to resubmit the photo as commercial. This is despite the fact that the image is a close up view of products with the company names and logos being clearly visible.

I will keep submitting to DT after I reach payout. The sales are certainly not common or regular but they do add up over time. And the commissions are pretty good compared to a lot of the other agencies. This may sound like a bit of a shocker but for me, DT outperforms Alamy. Sales on Alamy are even rarer and when they do occur, I usually receive amounts that are worse than microstock.

Uncle Pete · « **Reply #22 on:** December 28, 2024, 11:57 »

Quote from: DiscreetDuck on December 27, 2024, 11:55

Quote from: TonyD on December 27, 2024, 06:11
I want to leave DT due to very few sales but I've only just over $26 in my balance. I've Uploaded videos which pay more but no sales. And the rate of sales hasn't increased at all even though I steadily increased my port to about 1500 photos & videos

Sorry, but your lifetime download per image is 0.03, mine is more than 6 for lifetime.
I never expected a fortune for snapshots, and I think I was right to be very selective, and hard working for the highest level I could produce.

DT was and is a very good company I like to contribute to.

Nice numbers, is that 6.03 an average, not a "per image"? So if you have bubbles vectors, with 725, 161, 40 downloads, and many others at level 5, then something else with zero, with 2,173 images, the average download per image is 6.03? You have some real winners in there!

I'm first to admit, mine is 0.09 / 1,549 and no hero winner vectors.

But not everyone has a special standout group of vectors that are repeating sellers at level 5. My best image is an illustration, marked photo

level 4 with only 15 DLS. Most of my sales are 35 cents. It takes a long time at 35¢ to make it to $100.

I think for many more people DT was good at one time and has fallen to small returns now. Depending on when someone started, the rank and results could be very different.

Big Money · « **Reply #23 on:** December 28, 2024, 12:34 »

I reached payout ($100) about every three months thus still worth it to upload there. My best sellers are home exteriors like the yard or deck.

cascoly · « **Reply #24 on:** December 28, 2024, 15:09 »

Quote from: Her Ugliness on March 04, 2024, 01:04

Quote from: cascoly on March 03, 2024, 17:44
DT doesnt use the description or subject from meta data

For me it does.
I have embedded titel, description and keywords in my metadata and all I have to do with Dreamstime is select the category. That's why I do not understand why people here say the upload process was compilcated. It was even easier when they auto-detected the categoeries, all you had to do was click on submit, but unfortunately that does not work anymore.

the problem is youn can only submit 1 image at a time, so you waste time waiting for each image t be submitted

zeljkok · « **Reply #25 on:** December 28, 2024, 19:23 »

I stopped uploading to DT 5 or 6 months ago, mostly because I didn't find worth the effort for getting a payout ~ once / year.
But just yesterday got EL ($13), so maybe DT is not completely dead yet. Time will tell

cobalt · « **Reply #26 on:** December 29, 2024, 10:03 »

I managed to get one payout this year.

I find the upload process very easy and I will always be grateful that Dreamstime was the only agency that raised our income for one year during the pandemic.

Good karma deserves to be rewarded, so I will keep uploading.

Longterm goal is one payout every 3 months.

I wonder how many files it would take to get a payout once a month?

What I really like is that what sells on Dreamstime is totally different from what sells on Adobe. 95% of what sold on Dreamstime this year never had a sale on Adobe.

I also like being able to see the keywords customers use for searches, it helps a lot.

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Author Topic: Anyone having success with Dreamstime in 2024? (Read 4878 times)

waitingonthestuff

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Pacesetter

Deyan Georgiev Photography

cascoly

cobalt

yuriy

Yay Images Billionaire

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zeljkok

Andrej.S.

TonyD

cascoly

Her Ugliness

Uncle Pete

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