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Founded in September 2007 in Munich by Markus Hein and Tiruban, ClipDealer was officially launched in March 2008 with video footages. By the end of January 2009 royalty-free sounds and GEMA-free music were recorded. Later in the year, addition of royalty-free photos and vector graphics made ClipDealer all-in-one marketplace for royalty-free media. ClipDealer is Europe’s [...]

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DepositPhotos opened its gates for stock photo lovers and photographers in 2009 and since then it has been multiplying its image bank and popularity ever single day. They have a custom “Buy by SMS” option to order photos over your mobile phone. DepositPhotos is #1 resource for buying and selling Royalty-free photographs and vector images. [...]

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Shutterstock is the world’s first site in the appointments and with no doubts it stands out all Microstock websites as it shares with you most unique collection of images compared to others. It also holds the veterans of industry under its belt. The site contains a wide range of licensed high-quality free images and weekly adds-on about 90,000 images. Shutterstock raises the greatest amount of pictures compared to other sites. The pictures that are sold most crawls to the top of search engines and can easily be located on the first page of the site’s categories. Website has over 12 million images making it the largest hub among all.

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Istockphoto is considered to be one of the largest websites in Microstock industry and has a wide range of Royalty Free images. This website is very common and equally popular among buyers which at times create genuine issues ignoring the fact that the pricing for pictures is relatively high compared to other websites.

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Fotolia is among the first of its own kind Microstock websites where you shall locate more than 9.4 million free license images for sale. Today, Fotolia holds second place among the world’s Top Microstock sites. The site offers everyone opportunity to display their work, both professional and amateur photographers regardless of their popularity, allowing a very interesting variety of images with the possibility to obtain more pictures.

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Dreamstime is now an old and established name in Microstock industry. It has managed to place itself at a high and respectable position among the leading Microstock sites and works very hard to stay on top. Enclosed with over 8.8 million freely licensed (Royalty Free) photos, it gives you options to buy them under one-time purchase or subscription plans.

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BigStock, despite of the fact that the website is relatively small in comparison to other Microstock websites, the company is still considered strong among the new Microstock sites, probably due to the combination of high-quality images and variety of subject categories along with additional feature of locating the registration easily.

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123RF is compiled of over 7 million good quality free license images. This website provide special rewards program which makes it stand out from other Microstock websites. RF123 special reward program works similar to credit card stars/point program under which you earn points. If you purchase image from website you are rewarded with certain amount of RF points and once you accumulate good number of points you can trade them with presents/gifts offered by website for free. This program is great, unique and profitable from the view point of designers who purchase large quantity of pictures for themselves.

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Crestock in Microstock industry is best known for making sure that the images they include in their existing database are quality pictures. The company’s ambition is to offer its customers the best quality of images compared to what you have on Microstock websites while maintaining a reasonable price. In all, Crestock is a small website in big Microstock world.

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