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Who says the more the better...? posted on 12th of july, 2008

Proposal

This is a proposal to improve the quality of the service, hence the reputation of Dreamstime, the satisfaction of the community, the profit for all.

This originates from the observation that images are being added with exponential rate, i.e. 100.000 every two weeks or so. At this rate, we might get close to 5.000.000 by the end of the year and so on...

I absolutely recognize the need to supply more, new and better images all the time and motivate new members to join. However, this will also inevitably lead to the following

Problem

- For the buyers: it will be more difficult (time consuming) to search what is needed although the chances to find it is higher

- For the sellers: lower chances to be found, hence lower earnings.

- for dreamstime: more ...

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Tags: images problem quality sales solution

Comments (4)

	Eventually a cleaning of the main database will be done, but this was delayed a lot with the help of our search engine, the Dreamfinder, using our proprietary search algorithm. This allows buyers to find great images for subjects that we have lots of images on. It also allows buyers to search specific subjects and license images uploaded 3 years ago, even if they didn't have any downloads until now. Yes, an image uploaded 3 years ago can still sell. Donating some to the free images section may make you lose a couple of sales on the next years but will increase your portfolio's exposure. Overall, this is a good suggestion but something we were carefuly prepared about. The proof is the fact that we gave a BME to most photographers in June, while accepting the most images in our market, since the beginning of the year. While others provided a slowdown due to summer, we gave a BME. What better proof that this worse-case scenario doesn't apply to us? Thanks for the suggestion nevertheless. More) - posted by Achilles on July 14, 2008
	I was trying to estimate the number of expected downloads for the future, based on sales of previous months and the amount of pictures I have on line and expect to have on line in the future. Let's not consider that in time my pictures may become better as I may become a better photographer :) So do others if they stick around. In time everybody becomes better. So it turns out that in order just to maintain your sales level and assuming Dreamstime business is not growing signifficantly, one needs to grow the portofolio at a similar pace as the total amount of pictures online grows. This grim situation is even without considering that competition may show up with new sites which will decrease Dreamstime percentage of the total market. How much can the total market grow? What I expect that in relative short time maybe a year or two this whole microstock business will become so saturated that even hobbyists, who do not expect real compensation commensurate with their efforts will stop ... More) - posted by Gmargittai on July 14, 2008
	Interesting theory, I agree that an expiration date would be counter productive. In my experience I have found that if an image is not selling well, but is still getting a decent amount of views, I usually go back and check to see if there is a way I can improve the key wording or title. Many times it has helped. - posted by Irisangel on July 13, 2008

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