Xpiks Blog

October 8, 2020by Julia Korchevska

5 tips for beginners how to sell your illustration on microstocks

Finally you passed the microstock exam and your account is created. But what to do now? Obviously you need to create some content to sell, but what should you create? This article is not just for beginner illustrators, but also for people who have ...

September 4, 2020by Taras Kushnir

Xpiks 1.6 released

It is my pleasure to announce general availability of Xpiks 1.6! This release has a record number of new features comparatively to any previous major Xpiks update. Xpiks 1.6 improves almost every aspect of your experience. Without further ado let’s ...

July 29, 2020by Taras Kushnir

How I earned 6,314 USD from a single photo on Shutterstock

Do you want to upload your photo to microstock once and earn royalties forever? Don’t rush until you read this. It was October 2013 and it was almost a year since I registered on Shutterstock. Sad thing is that I haven’t earned a cent during that ...

July 21, 2020by Taras Kushnir

How to find stock photography ideas that sell (backed by data)

You just uploaded your perfect artwork to the microstock. Few weeks have passed but you got just a couple of sales. Quite depressing, isn’t it? If that is familiar to you, you should know you made one mistake: you didn’t met the buyer’s demand. In ...

July 8, 2020by Taras Kushnir

Best microstock blogs for contributors

Staying educated and social is a must for improving your skills and increasing artwork sales. In this post we highlight the most interesting microstock blogs you can find on the internet that will help with that. All blogs in this review are in ...

June 28, 2020by Taras Kushnir

Top 5 vector rejection reasons and how to fix them

Vector rejections are quite different from photo rejection reasons though still frustrating. Also despite photo rejections are pretty much not changing, vector submission experience in microstocks is changing. One example could be Shutterstock ...