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Dreamstime.com / Re: Dead dead and dead
« on: June 28, 2018, 18:36 »
Hello everybody,

I just want to share my experience about DT

I am an enthusiastic photographer who started stock photography in January 2017, with Alamy as my first site.

Also in January 2017, I signed up in ShutterS, and Dreamstime.

On April 2017, I signed up in Istock and late in Adobe Stock. (about December 2017)

It took me around 18 months to build a portfolio of around 2000 images in total.

I have commercial and editorial, mostly editorial.

My balance till now from Jan 2017 to June 2018 it is:

SS-      Images online: 1700          Downloads: 1300 - earnings around 700 USD

Adobe- Images online: 600            Downloads: 120 - earnings around 95 USD

Istock: Images Online: 1650          Downloads: 600 - earnings around 300 USD

Alamy: Images Online: 2000: 20 sales, around 340 USD net profit ( it took me 9 months for my first sale but now I have two or three by month but good money for each sale. My 20 sales are from October 2017 to now Jun 18)

Dreamstime: 1810 images online and just 107 sales and 66 USD earnings and I have even more photos online than in Shutterstock (1700)


Even Adobe it is a lot better for me, just 600 images and 120 downloads and 95 dollars...even I used to have only 200 images in Adobe and In Feb 2017 I started to upload again till completed 600 files in Jun 2018.

I really was thinking to close my account in Dreamstime...even I think they give preference to the exclusive photographers in the search results on the DT site.

I don't expect a lot but at least to be better than Adobe and closer to Istock where I have now around 90 downloads by month.

Have excellent day ladies and gentlemen!!

PD: I have the same photos on all the sites, excepts adobe which does not accept editorial.





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I have no problem with the creative stills, they review them very fast, just in hrs. But I have three Editorial Still awaiting for review since March 29, it is normal to wait such a long time to get reviewed editorial photos in Istock?

That's quite a dilemma. I notice with a lot of stock agencies, editorial content gets reviewed quicker because there's a chance that the image may be newsworthy. So they do get higher priority overall. If iStock are having issues with editorial images, then that really makes them look incompetent and behind the competition. By the way, I don't submit editorial content to them anymore because their new website design prevented me from doing so. Well, it's their loss.

It's possible (but I'm surmising) that iS's house editorial togs have been putting a lot of pressure on them re hot news. Certainly, they're not taking celebs, politicians, sports even with credentials, and it may be the same for hot news. Also the rebranding of iStock editorials mirrored to Getty* as 'creative unreleased', which means absolutely nothing but isn't to be seen as 'Editorial', even though their rules are pretty strict.

*Although exclusives were promised that all editorials would be mirrored on Getty, after being mirrored, then removed, then after a long time some portion were reinstated, they were called 'creative unreleased' and any images not lucky enough to make the first transfer under this renaming haven't gone over. Looking at my own editorials, I don't see any difference in quality or subject matter between those which were transferred and those which weren't, so another of these broken promises.

Alamy have a live news updating system, which might be worth exploring if you have a lot of access to hot news. Out in the boonies, very little of more-than-local interest happens, but if you can get to things, and upload them, before local newspaper shooters, you could be onto a good thing there. They actively push live news out to relevant publications.

Thank you soo much for all the replies. I am in Alamy from January 2017...500 photos not sell yet...most are editorial from my last trips...I like Alamy New, I uploaded some in eastern bu I am living in a very small city...200.000 habitants in Greece...no so much new...So, I will wait what happen with my editorial stills in Istock...I upload the same in Shutterstock and in Dreamstime...about editorial in Alamy, I used the RF license with tick Editorial use only...since I uploaded the editorial photos as RF in shutter and Istock, I dont want to have problem to put them as Manage license....otherwise...I will have problem with in incompatibility of the license.

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Hello, I am a new contributor of Istock using their new platform ESP since February 2017. I have no problem with the creative stills, they review them very fast, just in hrs. But I have three Editorial Still awaiting for review since March 29, it is normal to wait such a long time to get reviewed editorial photos in Istock?

Thank you for your time and help

Ruben

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