DreamsTime.com is an online
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microstock
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provider based in
Brentwood, Tennessee
Brentwood is a city in Williamson County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 45,373 as of the 2020 United States census.[royalty-free
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images and was redesigned as a “community enabled” microstock provider in 2004, entering the market after its rivals
iStock
iStock is an online royalty free, international microstock photography, micro stock photography provider based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The firm offers millions of photos, illustrations, clip art, Digital video, videos and Digital audio, aud ...
and
Shutterstock
Shutterstock is an American provider of stock photography, stock footage, stock music, and editing tools; it is headquartered in New York. Founded in 2003 by programmer and photographer Jon Oringer, Shutterstock maintains a library of around ...
.
According to
Nashville Business Journal
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, the company had sales approaching $10 million on the year 2007 with revenue growing expected to grow to $15 million in 2008.
Their image database consisted of 25 million files from 170,000 different contributors from all around the world in the year 2014 and of 49 million files in November 2016.
Facilities and staff
Dreamstime is headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee, USA. Serban Enache is the CEO, Owner & Co-Founder of Dreamstime, a platform with 198 million stock images, and is currently the world's largest stock community with 46 million users.
Business model
Dreamstimestock photographs are licensed around the world through the website with the individual contributors curating their own image portfolios and providing their own image info and search keywords with the company handling image hosting and providing the search tools to find the images.
Like most other
microstock
Microstock photography, also known as micropayment photography, is a part of the stock photography industry. What defines a company as a microstock photography company is that they (1) source their images almost exclusively via the Internet, (2) d ...
companies, DreamsTime accepts anyone as contributor and relies on them to grow their file database.
The images are licensed as
royalty free
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, meaning one license has unlimited uses. Prices of the licenses images vary from $0.20 to thousands of dollars, of which the contributor receives a percentage.
Besides
stock photography
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and
illustrations
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the company also allows curation of
stock footage
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.
In 2011, DreamsTime reported a record year with more than 4.2 million customers.
As of September 2017, DreamsTime numbers 18,000,000 registered members, more than 300,000 contributing photographers and over 64,000,000 photos, illustrations, cliparts and vectors. With unique visitors exceeding 11,000,000 monthly, the agency occupies the 2nd place in stock photography audience and image licensing worldwide. (December 2007 historical data: 500,000 registered members, 26,000 contributors, 2,000,000 images online and 4,000,000 unique views).
DreamsTime's imagery is targeted for individuals, private sector and
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companies.
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Stock photography
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microstock photography
Microstock photography, also known as micropayment photography, is a part of the stock photography industry. What defines a company as a microstock photography company is that they (1) source their images almost exclusively via the Internet, (2) d ...
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