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Dreamstime Introduces Weekly Subscription

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:00:00 -0500

One of the world's largest microstocks Dreamstime introduces new weekly subscription plan. Now it's possible to choose not only from monthly or more lengthy period subscriptions but also to use a short-term subscription plan only for a week.

There are three sorts of weekly subscription:

- up to 10 images per day — $44.99 (70 images per week, $0.64 per one image);
- up to 25 images per day — $79.99 (175 images per week, $0.46 per one image);
- up to 50 images per day — $139.99 (350 images per week, $0.40 per one image).

This weekly subscription is useful for those of customers who are in need of large number of images in a short term. In that case monthly subscriptions are more useless cause of their longer terms, greater number of images and much higher prices.

It's interesting that Dreamstime is the second stock agency to offer weekly subscription. The first microstock to announce this feature was Depositphotos.

You can see full Dreamstime review and detailed prices at the Dreamstime review on our site.

10% Discount at iStockphoto

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:32:42 -0500

iStockphoto was selected as the "Best Place to Buy Images" in the About.com "2011 Readers' Choice Awards".

Due to this remarkable achievement iStockphoto offers its customers 10% off any credit pack purchase greater than 50 credits until April 3, 2011.

To receive this discount use the following coupon code ABOUT11.

You can see full detailed prices at the iStockphoto review on our site.

iStockphoto Announced Editorial Use License

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:00:00 -0500

iStockphoto has announced that it will soon introduce a new editorial use only license. This means that customers of this stock agency will have the possibility to purchase images which do not have model or property release: social and travel photographs, product shots, architectural and landmark images.

The launch of editorial usage of photographs will be in the first weeks of upcoming 2011 and other formats (illustrations, video, etc.) will follow.

We can say that this is a huge step for iStockphoto since it have been almost the only one among the largest microstocks at the market to lack the possibility of purchasing editorial images. Such licenses are offered by Shutterstock, Dreamstime, 123RF and Bigstock.

It's important to mention that since iStockphoto is part of Getty Images empire it will not offer editorial images of news, sports or entertainment events. Such images will be available through Getty Images.

You can see full detailed prices at the iStockphoto review on our site.

Save Up To 20% on iStockphoto Vetta

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:00:00 -0500

Till the very end of December, 2010 every customer of iStockphoto can save from 6.7% up to 20% when purchasing images from Vetta collection.

Quoting iStockphoto's official press-release "since being introduced, the Vetta collection has grown into the most beautiful and inspired set of community-generated stock photography in the world".

You can see full detailed prices at the iStockphoto review on our site.

Sale structure

Size	Regular price (credits)	Sale price (credits)	Discount
Small	30	28	6.7%
Medium	50	45	10%
Large	70	65	7.1%
XLarge	100	80	20%
XXLarge	125	110	12%
XXXLarge	150	120	20%

10 mln of Images at Dreamstime and Other News in Monthly Report on December 1, 2010

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:00:00 -0500

Stock photo agency		Number of images (growth of image gallery)	Number of added images (growth compared to prev. month)
1	Shutterstock	13.538.763 (▲ 2.99%)	392.829 (▲ 18.50%)
2	Fotolia	11.332.725 (▲ 3.61%)	395.096 (▲ 7.63%)
3	Dreamstime	10.078.449 (▲ 2.85%)	278.860 (▲ 14.69%)
4	123RF	8.192.217 (▲ 3.97%)	312.981 (▲ 8.76%)
5	iStockphoto	7.843.149 (▲ 2.35%)	180.421 (▲ 9.89%)
6	Bigstock	5.642.000 (▲ 2.69%)	148.000 (▲ 15.63%)
7	Depositphotos	2.283.016 (▲ 6.84%)	146.229 (▼ -7.00%)

There's not much to mention this month. But it's worth noting that Dreamstime is another stock agency which has 10 million of images and stock photos in its base by now.

Fotolia and 123RF also have completed remarkable milestones: 11 and 8 millions of images respectively.

This month Shutterstock has the greatest growth rate compared to previous month among all microstocks at PhotoBuyerGuide.com.

During this month only Depositphotos have added less images than in previous one.

The remaining of iStockphoto and Bigstock maintain stable growth of image galleries.

Next month you can expect 8 million of images at iStockphoto and much slower growth of image galleries due to Christmas and New Year holidays.

Crestock Announces Development Plans

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:12:39 -0500

This summer microstock Crestock had been acquired by Masterfile Corporation with plans to somehow reanimate this stock agency.

In July, 2010 Crestock has processed royalties and comissions that had been requested by contributors and affiliates.

In August, 2010 Crestock's six month editing backlog has been reduced to one month. Long-term goal was to complete edits in one week.

Recently at the Visual Connections show in New York Crestock was presented to the public with new logo, strongly improved design of web site and vastly accelerated capabilities of search engine.

The newly appointed president Joan Fischer marked out that "affiliation with Masterfile was viewed as very positive". And the main thing to mention is new structure of credit and subscription packages prices since late October, 2010. Now you can buy images as low as $0.75 per image using credits or just $0.25 per image using subscription. You can see detailed prices at the end of this article.

Images are priced from $1 to $25 depending on their size, vectors — from $10 to $15. No extended license is available at the moment.

Crestock accepts payment via PayPal and credit cards. Also there is possibility to purchase images without registration.

Right now Crestock is carriyng out "an extensive internet advertising campaign to get the word out on Crestock far and wide". Joan Fischer pointed to the fact that "advertising budget for the next six months is double Crestock�s annual sales in 2009".

To register at Crestock use the following link.

Credit prices

Price	Number of credits	Price per image
$5	5 credits	$1.00
$10	10 credits	$1.00
$25	25 credits	$1.00
$50	50 credits	$1.00
$90	100 credits	$0.90
$425	500 credits	$0.85
$750	1000 credits	$0.75

Subscription prices

Price	Period	Price per image
$179	1 month	$0.30
$499	3 months	$0.27
$959	6 months	$0.26
$1799	12 months	$0.25

Fotolia and deviantART Announce Partnership Plans

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:00:00 -0500

About month ago Fotolia and deviantART announced their plans to form a unique partnership called "deviantART Stock Project with Fotolia".

Users of deviantART will have a great opportunity of using in their work images from one of the most vast collections at the microstock market. Most likely this solution will also bring deviantART's users flexible prices tuned to their needs.

At the same time this partnership serves Fotolia plans of expanding its footprint in the U.S..

DeviantART is a worlwide social network consisting of 15 million artists around the world. And we can say that it's the largest online community of microstock users.

The initial offering will increase the amount of stock already available on deviantART.com and provide members with commercial tools to facilitate an image-licensing program. The fully integrated product, expected next year, will provide members with seamless on-site access to microstock assets and create a unique deviantART collection from the community's resources.

To learn more visit: stockproject.fotolia.com or stockproject.deviantart.com.

10% Discount at iStockphoto

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:00:00 -0500

Due to slightly unsuccessful upgrade which wasn't finished in time iStockphoto offers its customers 10% discount for every credit package of 50 or more credits.

To receive this discount use the following coupon code 2010ISTOCK.

We guess this offer is limited by time though it wasn't announced so. Be quick!

You can see full detailed prices at the iStockphoto review on our site.

Dreamstime Offers Special Promotion Celebrating 10 Million of Images

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 12:00:00 -0500

Dreamstime announces a special promotion dedicated to the upcoming milestone of 10 million of images in its gallery.

This offer is limited only by one clause: time. It means that every user will get bonuses for his purchases and sales during one day: the day when the image "number 10 million" will be approved. The offer consists of:

- 100% to all non-exclusive contributors;
- 110% to all exclusive contributors;
- 20% discount to all buyers.

To be in touch when it'll happen visit front page of Dreamstime and look for ETA countdown timer showing when the milestone is expected.

You can see full Dreamstime review and detailed prices at the Dreamstime review on our site.

Vast Growth of Image Galleries at Microstocks and Other News in Monthly Report on November 1, 2010

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:00:00 -0500

Stock photo agency		Number of images (growth of image gallery)	Number of added images (growth compared to prev. month)
1	Shutterstock	13.145.934 (▲ 2.59%)	331.512 (▲ 4.63%)
2	Fotolia	10.937.629 (▲ 3.47%)	367.092 (▼ -1.68%)
3	Dreamstime	9.799.589 (▲ 2.54%)	243.147 (▲ 17.61%)
4	123RF	7.879.236 (▲ 3.79%)	287.764 (▲ 37.99%)
5	iStockphoto	7.662.728 (▲ 2.19%)	164.176 (▲ 9.34%)
6	Bigstock	5.494.000 (▲ 2.39%)	128.000 (▲ 4.07%)
7	Depositphotos	2.136.787 (▲ 7.94%)	157.234 (▲ 42.44%)

The only thing worth saying about past month trends is: it's growing! Every stock agency except Fotolia has positive growth of image galleries compared to previous month. Contributors and inspectors had returned from their vacations and the results of their work you can see and buy right now. The end of the year is always very hot!

Despite the growth which is the common feature for every of 7 microstocks at PhotoBuyerGuide.com it's necessary to mention some milestones.

Firstly, Shutterstock has passed the number of 13 million of images.

Secondly, Depositphotos has an outstanding growth rate this month and has successfully completed the task of getting 2 million of images in its gallery. By the way don't miss almost the same growth rate at 123RF! Many of fresh stock images are just waiting for you.

Concerning the remaining trio: Dreamstime is certainly going to hit 10 million next month, iStockphoto maintain its stable growth as if saying that "only the quality matters", Bigstock has a positive growth rate but also has the least number of added files.

We expect the growth to continue until the very Christmas and New Year holidays.