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April 24, 2025by Taras Kushnir
How much exactly and what for does Shutterstock pay contributors
Shutterstock is a top-tier agency, if we judge by how complicated the royalties structure they have. More seriously though, contributors still rank it in the top-3 of the most popular agencies, as of late 2024. Even though contributor earnings vary ...
March 5, 2025by Taras Kushnir
Learning from 16 years of stock photos that didn't sell
The time of “easy money” in stock photography is long gone. In fact, many contributors have been saying that microstocks “are dying” for a good 10 years already. And yet there are many who manage to earn decent money even today (at least, accordingly ...
December 28, 2024by Taras Kushnir
Key insights from 2024 microstock contributor survey. Part 2: Content creation
This is the second part of the analysis of microstock contributor survey of 2024. We asked around 30 questions via Xpiks website, MicrostockGroup forum, Facebook pages and collected incredibly interesting data. While the first part focused on ...
November 27, 2024by Taras Kushnir
Key insights from 2024 microstock contributor survey. Part 1: Earnings analysis
It is my great pleasure to showcase analysis of microstock contributor survey of year 2024. We asked around 30 questions via Xpiks website, MicrostockGroup forum, Facebook pages and collected incredibly interesting data. There are so many things to ...
October 31, 2024by Taras Kushnir
Xpiks 1.7.4 released
Xpiks 1.7.4 is out! In this release we’re focusing on quality of life improvements, requested by our users and refined user interface. Interface changes Large previews mode Long-requested feature by our users is the ability to increase previews size ...
August 29, 2024by Taras Kushnir
Building AI keywording tool for microstocks yourself in under 10 minutes
In the previous blogpost about AI keywording services, there was one service, which we did not discuss. An elephant in the room, one might say. Using AI (ChatGPT/Claude) directly. Or, even better, building a whole “AI keywording service” yourself. It ...
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