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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 ...
February 29, 2024by Taras Kushnir
Choosing payout provider for microstocks: Skrill vs PayPal vs Payoneer
When you’re working on microstocks and it’s time to receive your earnings, usually you have 3 options: Skill, PayPal and Payoneer. Sometimes the choice could be simple, as when only 1 option works in your country. However, the choice might be as ...
January 29, 2024by Clif Haley and Taras Kushnir
Dreamstime: a contributor review
Dreamstime, one of the oldest agencies, is still alive! Perhaps this is one of the quite positive things you could ever say about the agency, given the rise and fall of the likes of EyeEm, Veer, StockPhotoMedia etc. Dreamstime has never been the ...
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