Author Topic: Will SS muck up Bigstock next? (Read 5636 times)

Hannafate · « **on:** May 30, 2020, 07:59 »

Shutterstock has finally made themselves into the Wal-Mart of stock photography. They will probably still make a profit from selling tons of totally crappy images at "low everyday prices". But, I don't think that will satisfy their corporate greed.

My concern it that they'll turn to Bigstock next.

My sales there are pathetic, and have been for some time. I'm wondering if I should bail out before things get weird.

Although, Shutterstock's most likely move may be to simply close Bigstock.

What do you all think?

Roscoe · « **Reply #1 on:** May 30, 2020, 08:07 »

Nobody really cares about BigStock. They can do with it whatever they want as far as I'm concerned. It's a very low earning agency, impact will be minimal.

Justanotherphotographer · « **Reply #2 on:** May 30, 2020, 08:12 »

For anyone not on bridge bigstock is already almost the worst paying site out there.

MPfoto71 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 30, 2020, 09:15 »

My BigStock experiemce:
- makes 1.89% of my revenue
- lowest RPD $0.27 of all agencies I upload to (quit IStock last year, so now BigStock is the lowest)
- the site is buggy for uploading
- rejection reasons are ridiculous like SS
- support told several times 'we will fix this', nothing happened

Mimi the Cat · « **Reply #4 on:** May 30, 2020, 09:33 »

Bigstock already operates a form of royalty reset based on a rolling 12 months.

To be honest its already messed up and sales have pretty much dried up except for the odd 27 cent sale.

I quit uploading there a few months back there was just no point anymore.

Mantis · « **Reply #5 on:** May 30, 2020, 13:39 »

Bigstock is dead as it stands. I don’t think they could fukc it up anymore.

Desintegrator · « **Reply #6 on:** May 30, 2020, 13:56 »

Quote from: JustAnImage on May 30, 2020, 09:15

My BigStock experiemce:
- makes 1.89% of my revenue
- lowest RPD $0.27 of all agencies I upload to (quit IStock last year, so now BigStock is the lowest)
- the site is buggy for uploading
- rejection reasons are ridiculous like SS
- support told several times 'we will fix this', nothing happened

How do you get 0.27 RPD?
I've checked and the lowest commisions are 0.38 and there are a few 0.5 and 1.0 ones..
I don't say it's great, not at all...