Xpiks Blog

October 12, 2023by Steve Heap and Clemency Wright

Keywording for Fine Art prints

As stock photographers, we are always looking for extra ways to monetize our images and one potential avenue is to sell them as “Fine Art” prints on Print on Demand sites. Of course, not all types of stock imagery suits being hung on a wall in ...

September 2, 2023by Alessandro Brencich

mediaCastpro contributor review: a marketplace for professionals

mediaCastpro is not a microstock agency, but a marketplace accessible only to companies and professionals where you can sell and buy videos on any topic. The project was born at the end of 2022 and is continuously evolving, as can be seen from the ...

August 10, 2023by Taras Kushnir

Best-selling microstock categories: let the numbers talk

If you’ve ever wondered where to focus your creative energies, you’re in the right place. In this blogpost we are going to take a second deep dive into Steve Heap’s earnings. This time to see how much income was generated per category since 2007 and ...

June 29, 2023by Taras Kushnir

How to find stolen stock photos and what to do about it

While the internet landscape may have evolved from the “Wild West” it once was in the 2000s, certain aspects of human behavior remain unchanged. The unfortunate truth is that what one person creates through hard work and dedication can easily become ...

May 26, 2023by Taras Kushnir

Xpiks 1.7.2 released

I’m happy to announce new version of Xpiks: 1.7.2. In this release we’re bringing few dozen new features that users were asking for, alongside general improvements and bugfixes. Uploading Improved Upload interface In the previous releases there were ...

April 30, 2023by Taras Kushnir

25+ actionable tips to improve your microstock sales

We asked few microstock communities to share some useful tips that helped to earn more money or work less and here’s what we got. Here you will not find cliche tips typical for spammy online blogs, but practical and actionable tips you can implement ...