dreamstime.com

dreamstime.com is a Brentwood, Tennessee-based internet royalty-free microstock provider. The business began in 2000 as a website selling royalty-free images and was redesigned in 2004 as a "community enabled" microstock provider, entering the market after rivals iStock and Shutterstock. According to the Nashville Business Journal, the company had sales of around $10 million in 2007, with revenue anticipated to increase to $15 million in 2008. In 2014, their image database contained 25 million files from 170,000 different contributors from all over the globe, and 49 million files in November 2016.

DreamsTime welcomes anyone as a contributor and depends on them to expand their file database, similar to the majority of other microstock businesses. The pictures have a royalty-free license, which allows for countless applications. The cost to license a picture can range from $0.20 to thousands of dollars, with a percentage going to the contributor. The business also offers stock footage that has been carefully selected in addition to stock photos and illustrations. With over 4.2 million clients, DreamsTime recorded a record year in 2011.

DreamsTime has 18,000,000 registered members, over 300,000 contributing photographers, and over 64,000,000 photographs, illustrations, cliparts, and vectors as of September 2017. With over 11,000,000 unique visitors per month, the agency ranks second in the world in stock photography audience and picture licensing. (December 2007 historical data: 500,000 registered members, 26,000 contributors, 2,000,000 images online and 4,000,000 unique views). DreamsTime imagery is aimed at people, the private sector, and Fortune 500 corporations.

Website: https://dreamstime.com