December 17, 2023by Taras Kushnir

Exploring the best-selling stock photos of all times

In the realm of stock photography certain images rise to the top as best-sellers, becoming the go-to choices for marketers, bloggers, and publishers around the globe. It’s not always obvious why these pictures resonate with their audience, for ...

December 23, 2022by Eli Miller

Sky replacement and sun flares to boost sales on microstocks

It happened to the best of us and sometimes more than once. You travel to a country you have always wanted to visit and photograph. The weather was supposed to be nice and shiny, yet against all expectations, it turned out to be cloudy or overcast. ...

June 12, 2021by Taras Kushnir

Stock Photo Ideas that you should NOT work on

How to use the data This is an example of data presented in the newsletters: (1K = 1,000; 456K = 456,000) # Search Shutterstock Traffic Existing Results Google Volume 1 example query ★ 123 456k 789k green - highlighted as “better” option red - ...

May 8, 2021by Alexandre Rotenberg

Creating trending cryptocurrency trading concepts that sell

Unless you’ve been hiding in a cave for the past few years, which nobody would blame you with all that’s going on, you’d have noticed that there’s been a lot of hype about Cryptocurrencies. As Microstock contributors, we’d be wise to pay attention ...

March 25, 2021by Alexandre Rotenberg

Analyzing popular past & upcoming films / series to create profitable microstock concepts

As the popular saying goes, “life imitates art” and in this post we’ll explore both past and upcoming viral popular culture films & series in view of now creating potentially profitable microstock content to soon be licensed at the major agencies. ...

July 21, 2020by Taras Kushnir

How to find stock photography ideas that sell (backed by data)

You just uploaded your perfect artwork to the microstock. Few weeks have passed but you got just a couple of sales. Quite depressing, isn’t it? If that is familiar to you, you should know you made one mistake: you didn’t met the buyer’s demand. In ...

April 27, 2020by Taras Kushnir

15 ideas of content to create during the pandemic

If you’re one of the many contributors who are already late to the party with images of people in medical masks, you might be thinking about what content you should be creating now. Since market is already overfilled with masks and medications, there ...