Topic: studies and analysis

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 ...

Keywording is really the second most important deciding factor in your success on microstocks (after the quality of your work, of course). To be found, your artwork has to feature keywords similar to those customers might be using to search for it. ...

Some time ago we analyzed top portfolios on Shutterstock and found interesting insights of how different portfolios rank in top customer queries. Since then many users asked to do the same analysis for Adobe Stock. So here we are: crunching data on ...

During the past few years, many contributors have noticed that the average price of their images sold have decreased considerably. The reasons may be complex, but are mainly down to a combination of: market oversaturation, technological advances, and ...

Have you ever wondered what is the most searched content by customers? If yes, you came to the right place, since we just finished analyzing top 100 queries to Shutterstock. Of course, lots of them have hundreds of thousands or even millions of ...

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 - ...

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 ...