Just checked it out and found some of mine there, too, with a blank author field. Why is that? Will we be paid if our images sell there? How did thay get these images in the first place? Did they just purchase images from DT and then upload them to their site? Or, do they have an agreement with DT that we don't know about? Lots of questions. Very puzzled. 

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Thanks for the info wysiwyg_fot. If this is one of the affiliates that's OK. Missed that announcement.

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Does anyone know what the royalty schedule is for this affiliate?  In other words, how much will we get for a sale?

Ok, just got an email from Ellen that explains it:

Alliances that pay full commission to contributors get access to all images.

Alliances that don't pay full commission to contributors only get access to images of contributors who have opted-in to the Alliances option on the page I linked above.

All good now. 

She also said that BrightQube are EXCLUSIVE with Dreamstime. I take this to mean that there'll be no other microstock agencies coming on board, which seems a very odd strategy from the BrightQube point of view.

One final thing. The news got out before it was intended. That's why there haven't been any press releases yet. How did Paul Melcher know??

Oh wow, Lee!  That's great information. Thanks for posting that!

A very intriguing idea - it's natural to search for an image visually instead of using keywords, which is exactly what this site is attempting.

Navigation wasn't as easy or straightforward as it could be, and there should be a way to dynamically change the thumbnail size. I played around with a few searches and found their engine to be a bit weak. Given the graphical nature of the interface, it would be a natural to arrange images according to color and brightness (e.g. top row = white, bottom row = black, left side = dark, right side = bright); instead the images are displayed in (seemingly) named or numbered order - easy to implement, but a definite hinderance to finding an appropriate image quickly.

One bit I found striking was the similarity between the "professional" images (from Corbis) and the "everyday" images (from DT). After poking around with similar searches, I really couldn't spot much of a difference between the two (apart from file size, that is). If anything I found the Corbis stuff to be a bit lacking - there's just no way that even the slackest microstock agency would ever accept some of it. Given that the pro material is sold at $100+ a pop, it's a pretty easy guess that absolutely nothing will sell there.

If they can perfect the interface they will definitely have a winner on their hands. I hope the leading agencies are taking note of this place ... if not their sales will suffer.


Thanks for the link, Lee!

the only question will be : "how much royalties will we get from DT if an image is sold on that site"

So it seems that multiple words in the search are treated with the conditional "or".

I found out the same. They don't "AND". Searches are pretty useless now. The flash programming also blocks my (slow) PC, so I just avoid the site for now.

Yes, I am interested in the $500 to $1.  There are other sites that let us choose our own prices but they haven't had much success yet.  I think that is because they haven't spent enough on marketing.  The sites that do well have big adverts in the design magazines.

I like to sell RM as well as RF, so that might be one area that most of the microstock sites don't deal with.

It would be good to be able to set up different portfolios.  One for low priced RF images, one for higher priced RF and one for RM would be useful.

I thought you are search engine for stock photos. You cannot re-sell pictures from Dreamstime for $500, right? Last time I checked there was clear distinction between micro and macro search. You do not mix them on one page, right? I am curious how I could set my own prices unless Iwould be able to contribute thru Brightqube?

I cannot find my images from dreamstime in their search (Everyday (blue) search option). Is there something that I need to change in my dreamstime account setting to be listed there too?

Also did a very specific search for a few of my images and had zero hits.

I like the cubes, but would like it to be more maplike, and be able to grab the page and pull it around from there.