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QuickLinks For 2009-12-15

• New increased credit prices at Dreamstime. As much as most contributors are understandably delighted, some see things different:
  Any news about an increase in commissions is good news, however I also feel that Dreamstime should put some effort into their marketing of the site to try and get themselves up there along with iS, SS and FT. They need to be seen to be actively promoting the site in order to get the volume of sales to make it worth while staying. If Dreamstime don't market themselves properly a price rise is pointless. (abbreviated)
  Related:
  • Dreamstime adjusts Royalties and Pricing
    (Aug. 14, 2008)

QuickLinks For 2009-12-09

• What´s new at iStockphoto in 2010 here and here?
  Regardless of the new tiered collections, changed prices in some cases ("iStock’s largest files were too expensive") and the ongoing fight with other people in Calgary about exclusive contributors: "We now sell three times as many files as we did back in 2006 ... What´s even more amazing is the average number of downloads per contributor has also risen significantly since 2006".
  Related:
  • iStockphoto: New pricing, a new premiere collection and more changes
    (Dec. 10, 2008)

QuickLinks For 2009-12-08

• New programs need to be disruptive in order to compete with core models:
  It's the first time we had to remove a product since our inception, 5 years ago.
  No matter how difficult is to withdraw features that required a lot of work, I consider such move wiser than supporting a program that proved neither able to compete with our core model nor able to help it grow.
  Dreamstime´s Serban Enache indirectly on the sometimes ambiguous difference between managers and leaders when admitting mistakes: one man, one word, that´s it. Worth reading.
  Background here and here.