I was wondering if anybody was seriously using ChatGPT for work (e.g. keywording, DCMA, anything else), related to microstocks. If so, what did you do and how did it work?

Do you write to support?
Do you use any legal service?

Curious about takedown procedures you have experience with

Hey folks

A bit overdue, but finally I got to write a long blogpost about everything you can do today with generative AI in the context, useful for microstock contributors.

One spoiler quote:

When was the last time you got a 40% productivity boost from using any tool the money can buy?

(yes, you might not get replaced during the next couple of years)

Let me know what do you think about this: https://xpiksapp.com/blog/generative-ai-microstock/

Cheers

Hi folks

Finally managed to write a detailed keywording blogpost which is taking modern reality into account (AI, data analytics, competition): https://xpiksapp.com/blog/keywording-files-for-microstock/

The typical mistake everybody are doing - batch-editing pictures and considering keywording "boring" directly trumps your sales.

Let me know if you learned anything new from the blogpost

Hi folks

Alex and me just published a new blogpost about how to start with drone video for microstocks. The blogposts discusses everything from selecting a drone and passing exam to post-processing workflow and sales statistics.

https://xpiksapp.com/blog/drone-video-for-microstocks/

What do you think about drone footage in general? Did you try it or wanted to try? Really curious of your experience!

Hey folks

Happy to share the study ("part 1") that I did to analyze keywording on microstocks: https://xpiksapp.com/blog/microstock-keywording-analysis/

Would be very interested in your opinion and possibly what should I target for "part 2"!

Thanks

Hello

A little rant from me for hearing too much about Wirestock: https://xpiksapp.com/blog/never-use-wirestock/

Let me know what are you thoughts! Do you think this is all wrong and actually WS is a good time investment?

Hi folks

Theo wrote a wonderful technical guide with lots of tips for newbie and pro video contributors. He covered lots of information starting from what and where to shoot, which codecs to use, to how to post-process and where to sell (covering all video-specific agencies that nobody is talking about like RobertHarding, Nimia etc.).

Check it out: https://xpiksapp.com/blog/microstock-video-guide/

Let me know what do you think of it and maybe if there's anything we missed from the article?

Hello folks

Just published an Alamy review over in Xpiks blog: https://xpiksapp.com/blog/alamy-review/

What was your experience with Alamy? I'd also be genuinely interested if there's anything missing in the blogpost. Please let me know!

Hey folks

As a preparation to October stock photo ideas newsletter, I investigated Christmas as one of the topic. This led me to writing this short blogpost which, however, should be useful for contributors that are thinking what should they do for Christmas!

https://stockphotosideas.com/blog/christmas-photo-ideas/

Let me know what are you thoughts on Christmas? Have you already given up to find Christmas niches or you believe that they exist?

Hi all

After receiving a feedback from the microstock contributors community ("great content, but too expensive"), I decided to decrease prices for Stock Photo Ideas newsletter. I've heard that for many of you $9/month was too much and I still would like to enable contributors to create a better selling content.

https://stockphotosideas.com/

Hi all

I was collecting new data for Stock Photo Ideas after the feedback on top-100 customer queries by traffic. I took top-500 customer queries by traffic instead of top-100 this time and analyzed portfolios that were on the first pages of Shutterstock search for these queries. These are only queries for photo and video.

The results are published on Petapixel: https://petapixel.com/2021/07/23/how-to-rank-on-the-first-page-of-top-queries-on-stock-photo-sites/

Believe it or not, I found out that about 30% of portfolios that rank at least once on the first page have 1000 or less photos! Even though there were portfolios with as much as more than millions photos too.

Also I managed to capture an interesting SEO-"hack" that allowed some portfolios to capture as much as 1000 backlinks to their page on Shutterstock!

I hope you find it useful. Do you think I missed any interesting statistic?

P.S. Link to the previous research on forum: https://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/analysis-of-top-100-customers-queries-on-shutterstock-(opportunities)