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Agency Based Discussion => Bigstock.com => Topic started by: rene on December 15, 2009, 06:17

Title: December commission = 0$
Post by: rene on December 15, 2009, 06:17

Bigstockphoto was always very low earner for me, but I had a payment almost every month. In December I have 0 dls. It has never happen before (I'm here for over 2 years). Looks like BS is slow dying.

Title: Re: December commission = 0$
Post by: epantha on December 15, 2009, 06:35

Fine here. Better than average month so far.

Title: Re: December commission = 0$
Post by: ibogdan on December 15, 2009, 07:33

For me, BigStock is definitely a weird agency. Sometimes it passes a week without any dwl, sometimes I get 4-5 dwls per week. In the first half of December my earnings are twice from previous month..

Title: Re: December commission = 0$
Post by: PowerDroid on December 15, 2009, 07:39

I had a great November on BigStock (I made a post about it).   I really thought some changes were happening, perhaps due to the SS purchase.  But December has stunk so far, with half the revenue of the first 14 days of November.  Otherwise, I'm seeing an increase on all the other sites.

Title: Re: December commission = 0$
Post by: oboy on December 15, 2009, 09:01

December looks so far normal for me.

Title: Re: December commission = 0$
Post by: etienjones on December 15, 2009, 09:30

Quote from: rene on December 15, 2009, 06:17

Bigstockphoto was always very low earner for me, but I had a payment almost every month. In December I have 0 dls. It has never happen before (I'm here for over 2 years). Looks like BS is slow dying.

Also a goose egg for me this month after a BME last month.  The promise of the SS takeover seems to be waning fast.

Title: Re: December commission = 0$
Post by: disorderly on December 15, 2009, 09:38

So far December is tracking close to my BME in October.  No signs of a slowdown here, although I expect things to fall off over the Christmas break.

Title: Re: December commission = 0$
Post by: studioportosabbia on December 15, 2009, 17:41

Absolutely a low and slow earner but always a few downloads amonth. I noticed a longer review time, it took them a week to take a look at those 10 files I submitted.

Title: Re: December commission = 0$
Post by: lisafx on December 15, 2009, 17:53

My sales have dropped from 20-30/weekday to 5-10/weekday.  With over 5k images that is really, REALLY low. 

Unless SS does something to prop them up I think they are on the way out.

At least Dawn and Tim got their payday.  They deserve it.  They are good people.

Title: Re: December commission = 0$
Post by: borg on December 15, 2009, 17:54

I upload constantly, but with 550 images there, I have had only 3,5 $ this month, so far!

Title: Re: December commission = 0$
Post by: chasmcn on December 16, 2009, 03:10

doing well bme help by a hot image thats getting
lots of dls

Title: Re: December commission = 0$
Post by: sharpshot on December 16, 2009, 03:30

SS must have a plan for BigStock.  It usually takes a while after a site is taken over to see what the plan is.  Hopefully it will be better for us than the StockXpert takeover.

Title: Re: December commission = 0$
Post by: WarrenPrice on December 16, 2009, 11:45

The site is down today, making changes.  Wonder if it is related to the merger?

Title: Re: December commission = 0$
Post by: PowerDroid on December 16, 2009, 12:12

Quote from: WarrenPrice on December 16, 2009, 11:45

The site is down today, making changes.  Wonder if it is related to the merger?

I saw a message that the site (mainly the uploading portions of it) would be down today for a percentage of contributors.  So it can't be a major overhaul... probably a server issue.  Unless they're rolling out something big in phases, but I don't think that would be too wise.

Title: Re: December commission = 0$
Post by: stormchaser on December 17, 2009, 12:28

Had BMEs there October ad November, and December is looking very good. There's been a nice increase for me there and I haven't loaded new images since August. Hard to figure how things work sometimes.

Title: Re: December commission = 0$
Post by: leolintang on December 18, 2009, 12:51

same for me..
no sales in here too...