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A collection of 25 posts

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Make More Money with Stock Photography by Joining Stocksy

Stock photography doesn't pay enough! One of the biggest pain points of stock photography is selling your photos for tiny amounts, such as 25 cents per sale. I think these extremely low rates scare away new artists from getting involved in the world of microstock. The pricing of

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How to Use AI to Quickly Generate Keywords in ImStocker

ImStocker is one of the best tools for uploading stock photos across multiple agencies. It's also one of the best ways to quickly auto-generate keywords for your images using the power of AI. Doing all of this from one interface dramatically increases your microstock productivity. ImStocker comes with

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Freepik Acquires EyeEm

EyeEm was one of the better stock agencies for mobile phone-focused photographers until they ran into some financial issues a while back. With users reporting that they weren't receiving payments, I recommended avoiding them. That has now changed, as Freepik has acquired EyeEm and they are back to

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Is Adobe Stock Worth it in 2023? Adobe Stock Contributor Review

Adobe Stock Review by Longtime Stock Photography Contributor Adobe Stock is definitely worth it! I've been submitting my photography to them for years, and they are by far my favorite out of all of the stock photo agencies. Not only do I get more consistent sales compared to

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Pond5 Expanding Exclusive Program

I recently received an email from Pond5 about an expansion to their exclusive program. I will paste the details below. When you go exclusive, you are signing an agreement saying that the media you upload to that marketplace will solely be for that marketplace and none of the others. So

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Best Stock Photography Books

These are some of the top-selling stock photography books on Amazon. They are available as physical books, audiobooks, and e-reader downloads. With these books, you can learn everything you need to know to create a microstock photography business and start making money selling photos online. If books aren't

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Pond5 - July's Top Sellers & Trending Searches

Pond5 has released their stock photography data for July. The top 3 search terms are; abstract, beach, and wood texture. The top 3 trending search terms are; house, office, and family. The median sold price was 4 dollars. You can view the top selling photos on their website below; Top

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Weird Stock Photos

Here are some weird stock photos that I found on the web. These come from one of my favorite subreddits r/wtfstockphotos, they are some of the most upvoted strange stock images. It makes me wonder how often these types of images get purchased. They definitely stand out from the

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Print on Demand Software FlyingUpload Now Supports Shutterstock

A New Source Of Income In The Flying Universe! Shutterstock compliments itself for more than $1 billion (!) paid to contributors since 2003. And now you can also earn there with your images and the automation of Flying Upload! Load your designs into the uploader, write your listing and start earning!

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ImStocker Releases New Microstock Keywording Tool

As you can tell from my review of ImStocker Studio, I'm a big fan of ImStocker's software. Yesterday I got an email from them saying that they created a new keywording tool. This new tool helps generate relevant keywords. It helps stock photographers by streamlining the

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Flying Upload Expanding into Microstock!

I've always wondered why microstock and print-on-demand tool providers haven't built out their software to accommodate both microstock and POD. As I've written previously, both are similar in their workflow and are worth doing together. I've always wondered why microstock and print-on-demand

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Adobe Developing New AI Compensation Model for Microstock Contributors

Today Adobe announced a new generative AI service offering called Firefly. The Adobe Stock library is being used to train this new AI tool. The new software is currently in beta, but Adobe plans to share details of their new compensation model once Firefly is out of beta. Similar to

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DepositPhotos Controversial Revenue Sharing Model

Some contributors within the microstock community are not happy about the new DepositPhotos revenue sharing model.

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Shutterstock Partners with LG

This was just posted on Shutterstock's blog about 2 hours ago. LG has started using Shutterstock's massive media portfolio to train their AI technology. LG is using this technology in a number of applications, including automating the process of analyzing x-rays to detect cancer. Let me

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ImStocker Studio Review

In my quest to try all of the stock photography tools available, this is my review of ImStocker Studio. A lightweight (100MB) microstock management solution available for both Windows and Mac. My initial impressions are positive, so keep reading if you want to know more. Is ImStocker Safe? Yes! As

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Stock Photography Keywording Guide from Xpiks Blog

A couple of weeks ago Xpiks posted a pretty good guide about microstock keywording on their blog. It's a good read if you are looking for some tips on increasing your sales by optimizing your keywords. It has a link to a case study about the total keyword

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Stock photo reverse image search - amazing insights for selling stock photos

Stock photo reverse image search is a useful thing to learn when you are selling stock photos. Microstock contributors want to know who buys their media. This helps us better understand our clients and their needs, which helps us to create better stock photography. When we see how businesses use

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Meta Training AI with Shutterstock Media

I know I’m a little late on this one, but I’m trying to post more microstock related news. Shutterstock released a statement saying that they have created a partnership with Meta. The plan is to use Shutterstock’s microstock media to train Meta’s AI development. This news

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Another Reason Why You Shouldn't Use Wirestock

According to this YouTube user @mattfowlerkc, WireStock recently had their Adobe Stock account deactivated. This means if you use Wirestock, all the photos you had with them are currently not available on Adobe Stock. This is a big deal because Adobe Stock is one of the most popular/profitable microstock

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POD & Microstock, Similar Workflow, Great Results

Print-on-demand & microstock can be a fun way for photographers to make extra money from their work. The more I do this type of work, the more I realize how similar their workflows are. If you do one, it's a good idea to do the other. Why They

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Xpiks Review, My Favorite Microstock Tool

Updated Aug.16.23 I've tried all the microstock tools available, and Xpiks is my favorite. The primary benefit of using a tool like Xpiks is that it allows you to tag, title, describe, and do automatic uploads of your microstock media to all the marketplaces from one

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WireStock Review

Wirestock is a SaaS tool that helps microstock artists upload their work to multiple microstock marketplaces from one interface. Although it is not the only tool available for this purpose, it is one of the newer ones in the space. It is free to sign up and get started, but

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How to Easily Pass Shutterstock Submission

Intro Shutterstock has strict rules regarding their upload process for editorial photos/videos, more than the other microstock marketplaces that I’ve used. This is something I struggled with when I first started. Shutterstock will deny all of your content if you don’t submit it correctly, and their upload

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Direction - Microstock

Since I started this blog, and the many others before it, I’ve written about tons of different subjects. This is fun because it keeps me engaged and stops me from getting bored. Although this goes against the common SEO recommendation of having a “niche”, I’ve always preferred the

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Over 200 GIGS of FREE Cloud Storage

How this works? This is a little trick I learned while looking around for different cloud storage options. The way it works is you sign up to multiple free cloud storage service providers, then use some software called Air Explorer to sync all of the accounts together into one quick/