Xpiks Blog

February 27, 2022by Theocharis Charitonidis

A technical guide to creating microstock video

Microstock videos bring more profit than photos or illustrations to it’s creators per file. In fact, the author of this blogpost earned as much as $603.3 once from a single video shot handheld with a mobile! However, there are not so many videos ...

January 25, 2022by Taras Kushnir

Analysis of Adobe Stock portfolios from top-500 customer queries

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 ...

November 13, 2021by Grant Baker

YayImages: alternative microstock agency with big potential

YayImages is an alternative to the legacy stock media providers and the new unlimited download providers alike. Founded originally in Norway, this agency dates back to 2008. YayImages has the highest payouts for the hybrid unlimited/pay as you go ...

October 26, 2021by Elijah Lovkoff

Alamy: a world outside of microstock

Alamy is a totally different player in the game of microstock. Not only it is one of the oldest agencies out there, but it still thrives and even makes contributors happy (or at least happier that many others). Alamy has highest contributor payouts ...

September 16, 2021by Taras Kushnir

Xpiks 1.7 released

It is my pleasure to announce general availability of Xpiks 1.7! In this release Xpiks gets one of the most important features for it’s growth: support of plugins. Also you can enjoy few newly-available plugins from the plugin marketplace, including ...

August 26, 2021by Elijah Lovkoff

How to use your smartphone to create and sell stock video

Technology is developing at an astonishing pace these days. Boston Dynamics have their humanoid robots playing parkour. Elon Musk develops a human-to-computer interface that will connect our brains to the digital space. Crazy (and exciting) times we ...