Xpiks Blog

October 1, 2022by Taras Kushnir

Analyzing keywording of 10,000 most popular stock images

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. ...

July 25, 2022by Steve Heap

How to make money selling photos of yourself

I’m sure many of you are now thinking – what, I’m not an attractive model! Who on earth would want to buy a picture of me? But I can assure you, I certainly don’t fall into that category either but over the past 10 years, I’ve earned at least $25,000 ...

June 29, 2022by Taras Kushnir

Why you should never ever work with Wirestock

Wirestock is an online service that sells works of other contributors using an “umbrella” account on microstocks. They offer certain benefits like automated keywording and content upload in return for a fee from your sales. But the surprising thing ...

May 26, 2022by Taras Kushnir

Xpiks 1.7.1 released

It is my pleasure to announce general availability of Xpiks 1.7.1! The major feature brought by this release is the ability to do cloud upload. Now you do not need to keep your computer running after starting the upload: the upload can continue in ...

May 22, 2022by Alexandre Rotenberg

What is a realistic income from stock photography (updated)

Contributors report earning $0.08-$2.28 per month, while some of the best-sellers yield $87.7 per month (aggregated in 2022). With a literally over 1000 times difference between average and best-seller content it’s easy to see that full earnings ...

March 30, 2022by Theocharis Charitonidis

Best microstock keywording tools

In order for customers to buy your photos, vectors or videos on microstocks, they need to find it first. That’s why agencies require you to describe what you’re selling, using Title, Description and Keywords. Despite how uninteresting, boring and ...