Blog Topic: microstock studies and 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 ...

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 Black Friday Ideas from Shutterstock suggestions More bad ideas Christmas Ideas from Shutterstock suggestions More bad ideas Halloween Ideas from Shutterstock suggestions More bad ideas Memorial day Ideas from stock website ...

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 ...