I doubt very seriously that the financial department gives two craps about putting man hours into puckering up for 100K over a 12 month span. They probably net more than that every 30 days off interest on their holdings alone. I'm sure there's plenty of eye rolling and laughing behind the scenes going on there right now LOL.
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Their "holdings"? Dreamstime is not some multi-national conglomerate. My guess is that, excluding reviewers, Dreamstime has less than 10 employees.

My pics had been in the Q for 5 days, just got reviewed today. 26 out of 27 rejected! My acceptance rate at SS is about 80%, so this was quite shocking. 

I thought, Wow, my images must really be crappy, 297 views and not one sale!! lol

Quote from: click_click on July 01, 2010, 12:06
I thought I was photographer of the day or something 

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Quote from: zimmytws on March 16, 2010, 18:18Seems to me some of the other sites could benefit from having some kind "uniqueness" criteria for searching on images, kind of like what DT does with "Editors Choice" images.

The "Editor's Choice" isn't that much functional. I'm with DT since half 2005 but what I've uploaded till half 2006 was mostly crap judged by today's standards. Yet all my "Choice" images come from that period. I asked on the forum and and admin said they wouldn't be updated.

As to your 'uniqueness' idea, well, microstock is about sales, not about wow-images that don't sell. The level system relies on sales, and that's the best criterion for whatever, imho.

Microstock breeds same-ness, I think buyers can get annoyed by that. Offering them a way to search for images that are a little out of the mainstream would help sales, I think, not hurt.

Seems to me some of the other sites could benefit from having some kind "uniqueness" criteria for searching on images, kind of like what DT does with "Editors Choice" images. It could be a way to combat some the copycat/sameness that permeates the sites. There could be a "unique" check box next to images, that buyers could check, to flag images they like and find unique. Then they could add a "Search by Uniqueness" choice to the search options.

There could be a limit on this, for example, only buyers who have spent at least $100 on images could check the boxes, to avoid sellers "spamming" their own images.
Just a thought, maybe some of the other sites already  have something similar that I'm not aware of. I just sell  ;o)