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What do you like best about Bigstock?

Quickly download assets to use in marketing materials. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bigstock?

Would like some more options, often see the same thing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Bigstock solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helping add creativiity and images to our marketing materials with small overall investment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bigstock Overview

What is Bigstock?

Find millions of awesome royalty-free stock photos and vectors. Affordable high-res stock photography.

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Find millions of awesome royalty-free stock photos and vectors. Affordable high-res stock photography.


Seller Details
Year Founded
2003
HQ Location
New York
Twitter
@Shutterstock
273,586 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
6,189 employees on LinkedIn®
Ownership
NYSE: SSTK
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$494
Description

Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK) is a premier partner for transformative brands and digital media and marketing companies, empowering the world to create with confidence. Fueled by millions of creators around the world, a growing data engine and a fearless approach to product innovation, Shutterstock is the leading global platform for licensing from the most extensive and diverse collection of high-quality 3D models, videos, music, photographs, vectors and illustrations. From the world's largest content marketplace, to breaking news and A-list entertainment editorial access, to all-in-one content editing platform and studio production service—all using the latest in innovative technology—Shutterstock offers the most comprehensive selection of resources to bring storytelling to life. At Shutterstock we understand that Diversity, Equity and Inclusion makes us more effective and is essential to innovation. We are deeply focused on equality and are committed to diversity across areas including race, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, religion, ethnicity and national origin. Guided by our Seek Diversity principle, our goal is to build a workforce, contributor network, and content library that is representative of the diverse global community.

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3.5 out of 5
"Reasonable Option for Digital Assets"
Quickly download assets to use in marketing materials.
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manan S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Bigstock best selling photo website"
Bigstock is an royalty free. I am a part time photographer. I use to click photos and sell on bigstock it has credit base system. I love bigstock ....
Michael B.
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Michael B.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
2.5 out of 5
"Good images if the plans fit your usage style"
Their pricing model of a flat fee for a certain amount of images per day or per month is great if you are regularly consuming a lot of images and w...
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Michael B.
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What do you like best about Bigstock?

Their pricing model of a flat fee for a certain amount of images per day or per month is great if you are regularly consuming a lot of images and want to have them available at a good cost. I ended up stopping my subscription because my image usage slowed down and I felt like I was losing money when I didn't use my credits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bigstock?

The subscription service offers unliimted downloads per day or per month, but the credits don't roll over, use them or lose them. Their "image credit" option give you a high per-image cost (between $1 and $3.50, depending on how many bulk credits you get.) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Bigstock solving and how is that benefiting you?

Their image library is unique enough that if you use them, you get images that aren't all available in other platforms, so you can feel like you get a fresh set of images. When I was using A LOT of images, I found their subscription model to be very cost effective for my agency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Bigstock?

Bigstock is an royalty free. I am a part time photographer. I use to click photos and sell on bigstock it has credit base system. I love bigstock . It is a best way to sell photos online Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bigstock?

Website glitches issue. It will stuck sometimes when it load Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Bigstock solving and how is that benefiting you?

It help the creator where they can sell. stock photos. and also royalty free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Bigstock?

There is really a non-stop flow of images from Bigstock. They have high-quality images and someone can usually find whatever they need to find there. There are almost too many images to sort through! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bigstock?

There are some areas of Bigstock that they are lacking in. Searching for more niche stock photos can prove difficult, but that isn't necessarily Bigstock's issue. There are also some weird NSFW images that pop up even with the filter on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Bigstock solving and how is that benefiting you?

Needing images for trade show magazine social media posts that are as niche as water quality companies can be hard to find. Bigstock has a wide array of images that I use on the daily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wael E.
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What do you like best about Bigstock?

Bigstock provides lots of stock photos and vectors with excellent economical pricing compared to well know competitors. Mainly, they have different user plans, making it easier for buyers. Bigstock Provides various wonderful photos and vectors that make it unique rather than other platforms, as it also has a simple interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bigstock?

I did not face any problems with the platform as it seemed simple and easy stock photos platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Bigstock solving and how is that benefiting you?

I was looking for creative ideas and photos for my work. Bigstock was a good solution for that, as it has a simple interface and helped me find many creative ideas for my artwork. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Emily H.
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What do you like best about Bigstock?

If you need an image, you can probably find it on Bigstock. Their library of content is massive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bigstock?

Their library is almost too big. Sometimes it can be difficult to find what you're looking for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Bigstock solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Bigstock for stock photos for our marketing collateral. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Bigstock?

The monthly subscription price is very reasonable if you use a lot of stock photos and graphics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bigstock?

While the pricing is great, it's not quite as appealing as some competitors that offer unlimited downloads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Bigstock solving and how is that benefiting you?

Bigstock solves the problem of affordability for small businesses and organizations that constantly need stock photos. It's cheaper than paying for licenses individually, depending on how many photos you use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Bigstock?

Bigstock has quite a lot of good images - photos and illustrations. You can add images to lightboxes for ease of finding later. If you don't add images to lightboxes, it makes it more difficult to find the ones you've already purchased. (They appear in a chronological list.) You can re-download any images you've already purchased for no extra fee.

Images are available in multiple sizes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bigstock?

If Bigstock had more search options it would be really powerful. It is sometimes difficult to refine one's search sufficiently to find what one needs. While the video library has some quality stock videos, I'm not sure it is worth the extra expense. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Bigstock solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use images all the time for learning courses and often have to find very specific ones - for medical conditions or showing older adults being cared for by others. Bigstock has awide enough selection that we can usually find what we need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Bigstock?

The price is ok. Like there is another site Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bigstock?

I don't think I have a dislike really for this site Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Bigstock solving and how is that benefiting you?

Finding the right photo Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Bigstock?

BigStock is excellent for finding a multitude of stock photos AND videos! There is a wide range selection of content, even if you're looking for something out of the ordinary. It has a combination of graphics, photographs, and videos. I have found most of what I need for my promotional marketing purposes on BigStock. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bigstock?

Although I love the selection of BigStock Photos, the subscription plan is very below-par, in my opinion. The plans give you a certain amount of images per month, but if you don't use them, you lose them! Some months I need a lot of images and some months I don't need any. I feel like my subscription can be wasteful if I don't make a point to log-on every month and look for images. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Bigstock solving and how is that benefiting you?

Because we do not have a professional photographer on staff, BigStock has been a big help for supplementing marketing materials. I can easily find realistic, on-brand images for our marketing purposes. This takes the pressure off of me to capture photos in our facility all the time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Avia K.
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What do you like best about Bigstock?

Bigstock is one of the cheaper stock libraries out there. It was the cheapest option I found for buying à la carte photos as compared to similar stock libraries like iStock. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bigstock?

The credits system should really be a 1-to-1 ratio—one photo equals one credit. Then I wouldn't have to do so much mental calculation to figure out how much an asset is going to cost me and what kind of credit pack I need to buy. I also find that the search filters aren't as robust as Adobe Stock or iStock, and it takes me more time to find a photo I like. The photos are often not quite as high quality (artistically, not technically) as some other libraries. There is also a great need for better diversity in the stock models' race, body size, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Bigstock solving and how is that benefiting you?

Stock libraries are great for saving time on assets that would otherwise take a lot to produce in-house. When I worked for a supplement company, I needed photos of unique ingredients that would be hard to purchase in their raw form for my own photoshoots, and Bigstock had many good photos of those ingredients. It saved me a lot of time and effort. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.