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July 27, 2021by Alexandre Rotenberg

Rising popularity of free downloads at microstock agencies

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 ...

June 30, 2021by Taras Kushnir

Analysis of top-100 customer queries by traffic on Shutterstock

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 ...

June 28, 2021by Taras Kushnir

The ultimate contributor's guide to Shutterstock

Shutterstock is one of the most established and most well-paying microstock agencies out there. It was founded back in 2003 and since then it gained 200 million images and 10 million videos. And, what is more important, millions of paying customers. ...

June 28, 2021by Theocharis Charitonidis

Shutterstock vs Getty mobile contributor apps review

As a stock content creator, chances are that you are already using your mobile phone (or tablet) to earn money with your portfolio. However, if you are just using your device for taking photos / videos, this article will provide you with some ...

June 12, 2021by Taras Kushnir

Stock Photo Ideas that you should NOT work on

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 - ...

June 3, 2021by Alexandre Rotenberg

The ultimate guide to model and property releases

Whether you’re a commercial photographer working on solo projects, a hired photographer working on a contract basis, or a Microstock photographer selling media content through Microstock websites, chances are that at some point you will likely ...