Xpiks Blog

May 30, 2021by Stacy

Shutterstock vs Adobe Stock comparison in 2024

Shutterstock and Adobe Stock are the biggest competitors. They both represent royalty-free forms of stock photo agencies that sell illustrations, photos, audio, and video files featuring subscription plans as well as on-demand with cash or credit. ...

May 8, 2021by Alexandre Rotenberg

Creating trending cryptocurrency trading concepts that sell

Unless you’ve been hiding in a cave for the past few years, which nobody would blame you with all that’s going on, you’d have noticed that there’s been a lot of hype about Cryptocurrencies. As Microstock contributors, we’d be wise to pay attention ...

March 25, 2021by Alexandre Rotenberg

Analyzing popular past & upcoming films / series to create profitable microstock concepts

As the popular saying goes, “life imitates art” and in this post we’ll explore both past and upcoming viral popular culture films & series in view of now creating potentially profitable microstock content to soon be licensed at the major agencies. ...

February 27, 2021by Taras Kushnir

Pond5 contributor review: a video pioneer

Pond5 focused on video selling back when everybody else where selling only photos. It started with generous royalties for authors and has collected 25 million video clips since then. In the recent years they also started selling photos, music, 3D ...

January 30, 2021by Taras Kushnir

How to upload photos to Shutterstock: a full guide

It is quite easy to start selling your photos on Shutterstock. In fact, the whole procedure might take you only few minutes if you know what to do. Here are the steps: Register as a contributor Add metadata to your photo Upload your photo to ...

November 26, 2020by Taras Kushnir

Shutterstock Custom contributor review

The gist of microstock business from creator’s perspective is that you produce some content and sell it with rolayti-free license on various microstocks multiple times. However, there’re also other ways to earn. One of them is Shutterstock Custom - a ...