Sell your photos and videos online

Why Adobe Stock is suspending accounts for photographers and videographers

Adobe Stock suspends contributor accounts if it decides that the photos and videos sold by them show suspicious purchasing activity. In the 24th episode of "Sell Your Ph

The good old days of microstock

Many people miss the good old days of microstock, when earning money with stock images and stock footage was easy. In reality, the opportunities available today for anyo

Shutterstock grows and pays more and more

Shutterstock's financial report demonstrates with data that both their revenues and the royalties they pay to photographers and videographers are increasing. This has bee

Why artificial intelligence is not killing microstock

Microstocks still sell stock images and stock footage despite artificial intelligence, because many buyers still prefer them for the speed with which they can obtain cont

500 dollars a month selling stock footage

The story of a non-professional contributor who started creating stock footage in 2020 and now makes $500 a month on Shutterstock, Adobe Stock, Alamy, and Motion Elements

Selling historical footage earning 1000 euros per month

The story of an amateur video maker who started selling historical footage purchased on Ebay in microstock agencies such as Pond5 and Shutterstock, achieving 1000 euros a

Earning 69 dollars on a single sale of a stock image

A professional photographer and microstock contributor earned $69 on Shutterstock with a single sale of an extended license of a stock image of a buffalo he shot near his

Photographing people (without people)

Unreal Engine is a free software that allows you to create photos and videos that portray people who do not exist, but made in such a photorealistic way that it is diffic

From office worker to professional photographer and video maker

Gianni Nitti worked as an employee for years and then decided to give up his job to open his own business and become a full-time photographer and video maker. Since he c

The photographer who has made 4200 dollars with an 8 seconds video

Andrea Delbò is a professional photographer who works in the publishing world and for some important brands. A few years ago, he started uploading content to microstocks

From microstock producer to Bitcoin miner

The story of a video maker who started the digital business by selling stock footage in the various microstocks and, after obtaining good results, expanded his projects b

Stock photographers are the new rappers

Sometimes stock photographers are people who make thousands of dollars per month, but usually they are just guys who think that producing stock images is a job, but they

Stock photography: the reasons why you must start your business today

Being a producer of stock images and stock footage is the business of the future for many photographers and film makers. In that market competition rises day by day and o

Why you're not selling photos online anymore

In the microstock industry the competition between stock images and stock footage producers is rising, and in the globalized world your competitors are not only the photo

Paying for the hotel with your stock footage sales

A few years ago, I shot the hotel room that I rented for the weekend, and the stock footage I created allowed me to earn more than what I spent during those days. Today t

Don't upload to Pexels and Unsplash

In the last few years, agencies like Pexels and Unsplash started giving away stock images to webmasters and advertisers. For a photographer who wants to make money with m

When producing microstock was like tourism

In the early years of microstock producers could make money even by creating content like tourists with a camera, but today the competition is too strong, and to make mon

Small towns Microstock

Creating microstock of small towns can still be profitable, even though the competition is growing, but you have to hurry up and work as a professional photographer. In

The tripod that can change your life

To understand what a microstock producer has to do to create a great collection, he first needs to ask himself these questions: Why am I creating stock images and stock

From Fotolia to Adobe Stock

Adobe bought Fotolia for $800 million a few years ago. The reason why a multinational Company spends such money for acquiring a Brand and a website (not the photos and vi