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August 30, 2025by Taras Kushnir
The case for microstock vector artists (and noone else) to sell directly to customers
Every microstock contributor has thought about it at least once: What if I just sold my work directly? No agencies taking 70% commissions. No rejection queues. Just clean, full‑margin sales straight into your pocket. The fantasy usually doesn’t last ...
August 5, 2025by Taras Kushnir
Xpiks 1.7.5 released
Xpiks 1.7.5 is out! In this release, we’re focusing on even more automation of boring parts of the workflow and a few quality of life improvements. Automatic metadata generation during Cloud Upload The single largest innovation of this Xpiks update ...
July 29, 2025by Taras Kushnir
What happened when stock photography agencies started accepting AI images
On June 18, 2024 a user contacted Xpiks support with approximately this message (lightly edited): Usually, we have relatively many users having an issue with Adobe upload because they have a different username and password for FTP access than those ...
June 24, 2025by Taras Kushnir
How much Adobe Stock pays contributors: royalties structure, bonuses & more
A few years ago Adobe Stock started taking over Shutterstock as a top agency (in terms of contributor earnings), after the latter did its earnings restructuring in 2020. This is also reflected in 2024 survey where Adobe was number 1 agency with 15.4% ...
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 ...
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