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November 27, 2024by Taras Kushnir
Key insights from 2024 microstock contributor survey. Part 1: Earnings analysis
It is my great pleasure to showcase analysis of microstock contributor survey of year 2024. We asked around 30 questions via Xpiks website, MicrostockGroup forum, Facebook pages and collected incredibly interesting data. There are so many things to ...
October 31, 2024by Taras Kushnir
Xpiks 1.7.4 released
Xpiks 1.7.4 is out! In this release we’re focusing on quality of life improvements, requested by our users and refined user interface. Interface changes Large previews mode Better plugins integrations New search options Operations with file previews ...
August 29, 2024by Taras Kushnir
Building AI keywording tool for microstocks yourself in under 10 minutes
In the previous blogpost about AI keywording services, there was one service, which we did not discuss. An elephant in the room, one might say. Using AI (ChatGPT/Claude) directly. Or, even better, building a whole “AI keywording service” yourself. It ...
July 28, 2024by Taras Kushnir
An unscientific test of AI keywording services for microstock contributors
The largest complaint of microstock contributors, after falling earnings, is the tediousness of filling in the metadata: Title, Description, and Keywords. Everybody wants to do only the fun part - the shooting, but everything else - editing, ...
May 28, 2024by Taras Kushnir
Editorial vs Commercial content on microstocks: which earns more
Editorial images were always a backbone of microstocks, even before the development of generative AI. In the end, it’s much cheaper for news outlets to source content from local photographers than to send somebody to shoot. Also, it was a “secret” ...
March 31, 2024by Taras Kushnir
Top 10 Print-on-Demand marketplaces in 2024
Microstock illustrators, graphic designers, and, partially, photographers have one additional way to earn on the same artwork. And this way is called Print-on-Demand (or PoD short). Basically, it lets you create your own designs for stuff like ...
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