The change in pricing at BigStock did not have the dramatic effect on my earnings as previously imagined. December is looking a slow month there but guess just have to enjoy Christmas and not worry about earnings too much!

My sales in November and December in BigStock have been the usual pace. Slow but steady.  Not my highest seller at all   (SS highest quantity though not highest $). I like BigStock, easy site to work on, easy upload and I like my 98+% approval rating there.  BigStock is accepts more of my work than any of the others.  I don't know if that's good or bad...   LOL

In December for me it is very very slow or freezed..!

http://www.bigstockphoto.com/search.php?photo_by=GFghWs7hrB&mode=2

for me BigStock sucks.  I have 75 pics or so uploaded and I see the occassional sale.  I am at a whooping $21.50 ever since I started back in July or so.  Haven't uploaded anyhting in a while.  If it picks up I might upload some more stuff but right now my time is better spend on other sites.

Tina

It's number six so far this year for me, which I consider rather bad. What is positive though, is that during the two first months this year, I've sold more there than the last six months last year.

BigStock is also about the 6th for me in general.  It was ok last month, bad this month.  A good thing however is the low minimum payout - just US$30.

Regards,
Adelaide

Quote from: madelaide on February 28, 2007, 21:15
BigStock is also about the 6th for me in general.  It was ok last month, bad this month.  A good thing however is the low minimum payout - just US$30.

Regards,
Adelaide

I didn't know it was that low. I just passed that today, so that means I have money for rice again   

Not in my top 5 for sales...   However, February will turn out to be my best month at BigStock.  I've been on since last June.  My 'folio there is a little over 200.   Yeah, my sales are nothing like SS or StockXpert, but I like BigStock, nice little site and nice people. I continue to upload there.    -tom

I have a fairly small galley on BigStock (with just about 150photos)it took me several months to   reach my first payout(30quid).after slow sales I stopped uploading I am not sure if I should keep uploading and see what happens with a larger gallery.what puts me of is that you are not allowed to remove your photos for three month.what if you sell an image with exclusive licence on another site ?(altough chances are very slim)you'd have to  go through a complex processto remove it from BigStock.
I understand their policy on image removal but I think this is still discouraging,at least for me .

Different people, different experiences.  I have about 200 images there after nearly one year slowly building my portfolio and I am next to the second pay-out.  I am at CanStockPhoto for the same time and have just reached US$32 - about half of what I made in BigStock - but given their US$100 minimum pay-out it will take much longer to see the color of the money...

Regards,
Adelaide

i joined sometime in june 2006, last year and i will receive my 2nd payout of $30 this month. I like the low payout of $30 but with 500 photos (my largest portfolio) online in Big Stock I was hoping for monthly payout. Hopefully it happens soon like from Mar 2006 hahaha. I like the "no fuss" in Big Stock. Well like many say, it is a slow and steady site. Compare to some other sites, it is doing ok. My best sites are istock and shutterstock, the rest of the sites are hmmm.,....i wish they are better....

When I first started uploading 7 months ago, I just uploaded about 20 photos to BigStock and left them.  They sold more of those than other sites I had tried, so I am now uploading the rest of my portfolio.  Hope to get a few payouts a month soon.

Wow!! Yesterday I had said that BigStock wasn't in my top 5 for sales... today when I went back and tallied everything, I realized BigStock was my second in sales for February  (SS top dog).  I REALLY DO like BigStock!  -tom

BigStock is very dissapointing for me. About 100 images and only $14. I can't justify the time and effort to load unless I see some $ improvement.

SS is #1, DT #2, Fotolia #3, 123rf #4, ISP #5, BigStock #6, CanStockPhoto #7

StockXpert reject my applications, Gimme is dead, Crestock a waste of time. Can't be bothered with LO, FP, IV, or SSP.

I don't submit to Bigstock anymore.  In the beginning, they had a trouble with their ftp server, so suddenly I had about 50 double uploads waiting in the que.  I erased them prior to inspection, but bigstock counted these as rejections, lowering my upload limit and acceptance rate.  When I contacted them about the problem, I have received no reply.  So, it's not worth the hassle for me.

I like BigStock. I have a couple of downloads every day, and about half of them give me $1.

Inger

IMO BigStock isn't really worth the effort ... In the beginning I was quite optimistic, but finally I made there as much in a month as I earned within a day or two on other sites. So I keep the portfolio there as it is, requesting a $30 payout every 3 months or so.

The sales are there.  I average more than two $30 payouts a month.  Not great but it all adds up in the long term.  I now have a large portfolio with them but they sold more when they had 40 of my photos than 123rf and FP.

I was considering adding BigStock as a possible revenue source, but after reading that sharpshot gets $60+/month with 1800+ images I'm having second thoughts. This doesn't look like a very profitable place ...

I am sure others can do better than me   I don't have any recognizable people photos.  They seem to sell more than my photos.  $60+ a month doesn't seem like a lot but it is over $700 a year for the same photos that sell on other sites.  I hope that is a conservative estimate.

Well, I have about 90 images sitting there to be finished and no iptc data arrived with them.   I'm having a nightmare uploading model releases.  Don't they have a library or am I missing something?  It seems to work when I have just one, but when I need a few releases it dosn't want for work. 

Darn, I've made $1 so I'll have to stay for at least $29 more. 

They just added a library! Woohoo!

I think it's worth uploading to. I make roughly $130/month. It ranks 6th for me.

Quote from: kosmikkreeper on April 04, 2007, 23:44
They just added a library! Woohoo!

I think it's worth uploading to. I make roughly $130/month. It ranks 6th for me.

Wow, how many photos do you have there?

kosmikkreeper, you don't appear to have a portfolio at BigStock; your portfolio links all link to error pages "no such user etc....".

Quote from: hatman12 on April 05, 2007, 05:11
kosmikkreeper, you don't appear to have a portfolio at BigStock; your portfolio links all link to error pages "no such user etc....".

it looks like he has added the full web address to his portfolios.. and not just his username or user number.