Shutterstock meaning4/11/2023 Doesn’t the Bigstock pricing cut into Shutterstock sales? Apparently not. I asked Jon Oringer, founder and CEO of Shutterstock. Doesn’t that compete with Shutterstock’s $249 monthly subscription for up to 25 pictures a day? Or its five pictures for $50? What’s up with that? Bigstock sells pictures for as little as $1 each, although most packages end up at about $3 per image. The plot thickens, for me at least, when I saw a couple of months ago that Shutterstock had bought Bigstock. I make sure to give Shutterstock proper attribution, and to disclose that I get it free. They give me a free account because my blogs are getting good traffic. For the last year or so I’ve been using shutterstock, a subscription service that offers a lot more than I need, with a lot better resolution, but for a subscription price that amounts to hundreds of dollars a month, or about $10 per picture. Then I used, which sells pictures on a credit system, for roughly $1 per picture. And as I started doing slide presentations with pictures instead of bullet points, at first I got them from Flickr’s Creative Commons, meaning pictures that were offered for free as long as I named the photographer. Take images, for example: you can steal untold millions of images on the Web, you can get millions free without stealing them, or you can pay a little bit, or a lot. I’m getting more and more interested in the relationship between free work, fremium, and normal for-pay work especially in the area of creative works, like music and art, photography, and blogging.
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