MicrostockGroup

Thanks for that, shame they have a tie-in (that was the only reason I left dreamstime).
Regardless, it will still be very interesting to see if people on BigStock report increasing sales over the next few months.

What is wrong with BSPs home page? I always thought it one of the best and most informative of all the sites.

-Larry

Competition results in LOWER prices. The LACK of competition results in higher prices!

Example: One gas station in a one hundred mile stretch of highway. = $6.00 per gallon
add 50 more gas stations to the same highway = $3.50 per gallon.

I wish about 20 RF sites would dry up and fade away now. Start on the list at the right of this page work your way up from the bottom.

-Larry

I would hold the 'yippee's' for a while, for the existing BigStock contributors the flood of new artists migrating from SS will only dilute the revenue far greater than any new marketing can generate 'new sales', as there are limited new markets this move could be just a way to use the SS brand to try to attract Customers from the other 'Credits' agencies existing markets, costs can be reduced to increase profits by bringing both server farms, inspection and administration to SS, when companies are aquired it is not often that the suppliers benefit from the deal.

This move will consolidate SS in the market but will not really benefit the existing BigStock artists that have helped to build the brand, IS and SS both grew thier models as pioneeers in microstock the growth has now peaked and consolidation by aqusition is the new direction.

David (sorry to pee on the fire)

Hi Larry, it's just my opinion of course... too full, too many links and images.
  Cheers
        -roberto

Hi larry,
I blogged recently about Microstock and Image Diversity and the BigStock search engine was the 'worst bar stock expert' for returning relevent images, improvements in this area could generate much better sales, so it is not all bad!

David

Then instead of making $10 per hour working for a gas station, they offer you $2.50 and of course welcome you to go elsewhere if you don't like it.

Oh boy, hope BigStock is hiring some new reviewers to deal with the deluge of migrating SS submitters.

So they did not buy Cutcaster, Crestock or FeaturePics which would be much cheaper than one of big 6. I guess it's not about technology cause BigStock got one of the worse sites they should take CS for that. It's probably not about customers cause they already got more than mentioned sites combined. This leaves with eliminating competition option. BigStock become store front for SS. One thing left is, maybe they want to move it up to premium area so they can have a playground for competing with Getty without harming their core business.

What I think it happening is that sites are consolidating to increase their margins and revenues.  Its part of an industry that starts to mature to find an equilibrium thats worth it.  I wouldn't be surprised if 4 main big sites compete with each other and try to differentiate their product offerings to be able to charge a higher price.  Wait and see I guess, but its not shocking at all that this has happened.  It would be interesting to see if DT and FT woudl consider a merge to fight off the SS and IS market eating machine

PLEASE-O-PLEASE import Big Stock Photos upload system into Shutterstocks site!!! Shutterstock uploading is so arcane compared to all the other agencies.

maybe this will solve tax for users from non treaty counties 

You are joking __ right?