User:Carmenmaftei/Sandbox-Dreamstime

Version prior to Michael's edit
Dreamstime' is a microstock photography agency based in Brentwood, Tennessee, with part of the offices located in Bucharest, Romania. It is a community based agency sourcing stock photos and illustrations from worldwide contributors.

History
The website has been online since 2000 as a Royalty free stock photography website. In 2004, Serban Enache and Dragos Jianu co-founded Dreamstime. The agency is the second launched company in the industry after Istockphoto. Dreamstime is one of the major players in the microstock market along with Istockphoto, Fotolia and ShutterStock. In September 2006, Dreamstime became a member of the Picture Archive Council of America PACA and Centre of the Picture Industry (CEPIC), the first microstock agency to achieve this.

Languages
As of 2008 Dreamstime is available in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish and as of February 2012, in five additional languages: Chinese, Greek, Polish, Russian and Swedish.

Users
In June 2012, Dreamstime had over 14 million images online, close to 140,000 contributors and more than 4.8 million users.

Version after Michael's edits
Dreamstime is a microstock photography agency based in Brentwood, Tennessee, with offices located in Bucharest, Romania. It is a community based agency sourcing stock photos and illustrations from worldwide contributors. In June 2012, Dreamstime had over 14 million images online from nearly 140,000 contributors and more than 4.8 million users.

Background
The website has been online since 2000 as a Royalty free stock photography website. In 2004, Serban Enache and Dragos Jianu co-founded Dreamstime. The agency is the second launched company in the industry after Istockphoto. Dreamstime is one of the major players in the microstock market along with Istockphoto, Fotolia and ShutterStock. In September 2006, Dreamstime became the first microstock agency to become a member of both the Picture Archive Council of America (PACA) and CEntre of the PICcture Industry (CEPIC).

By 2008 Dreamstime was available in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. As of February 2012, in became available in Chinese, Greek, Polish, Russian and Swedish.

As of July 2012, Dreamstime had an Alexa ranking of 965 in the US and 952 globally.