Very Good Selection, Their Lifetime Deal is a Tremendous Value I've been a YAY Images customer for a few years and have found that for the quality and selection, they offer tremendous value. I was using credits for their service for quite a while when they had an offer for a lifetime deal where you pay a one time fee (at the time, I think it was $149 USD) and get 10 premium images per day. I took the deal and I have no regrets -- it was one of the best lifetime deals I've ever purchased. Every once in a while they repeat that deal and if you use licensed images regularly, I would highly recommend buying it. My experience is that the same images are on other image licensing services and they cost a lot more elsewhere. The downside of using YAY images is that their service gives 500 errors every so often -- and it can last an entire day. In fact, that was the case yesterday. There have been two or three days in the past month where I could not access my licensed images or get new ones, so I lost 10 images each day they had server issues. A week ago I sent YAY Images a support request to tell them of the issue and I still haven't received a response and I believe that was the first time in the years I've been with them that I've ever sent a support request. I can see from Reddit that they've been having these same server problems for years. I only recently noticed it. My hope is that YAY Images can improve their server reliability and their customer support. But even with those issues and lost credits, I still don't regret my LTD purchase and would still recommend them, noting that they have server and customer service issues. If YAY Images improved their customer service and server reliability, I would very happily change my rating from 4 to 5 stars. Hey, I bought their lifetime deal, so I'm cheering for them to succeed. Work on these areas YAY Images. Make improvements. You, otherwise, have an excellent service.

Worth Every Penny I've been using Yayimages for a year now and it is a get go tool for all my blogging needs. I also write a nature-based local area guide and it can be hard to find good photos of some of the things we write about. Since getting this, I've found all the photos I needed for my articles. I do prefer taking my own photos, but finding quality stock photos helps save time and money, which I seem to be short of these days. Great value, excellent selection, and I appreciate the different search options to help me find exactly what it is I'm looking for.

The real benefit of Yay I see a lot of negative reviews but as a heavy user of this service, I will say this. This is the only service that is providing EXTENDED LICENSE at an affordable price. All other services will require you ridiculous price on extended use. If you want to print on T-shirt, create a card, a calendar, etc. Other services are good for images for blogs, etc... but not for business purposes. I do need Yay to survive, or other services to follow Yay, in terms of offering reasonable options for extended license.

Yay Images is awesome! Viewing images is very fast, the fastest image website I've used. The images display rapidly and clearly. Going from page to page is also fast. The images are high quality and download quickly. The search feature brings up the images super fast. When hovering over an image it enlarges and displays metadata about the file. Something else I like is the filename includes a description of the image, not just a number. This saves time. There is a great selection of images to chose from.

Think twice before you join yayimages as a contributor. Recently, they rejected all my uploaded photos -which were accepted by other 8 stock companies- in the same reason "Limited Commercial Value". It's convenient huh. When I asked them to close my account and delete all my assets, they refused to pay my unpaid Earnings. Think twice before you join them, contributors.