Microstock Sites for Passive Income

If you’re new to microstock industry or you want to earn more, it’s vital to know what microstocks you can work with. In this blog post you can find information about best microstocks, how much they pay contributors and what you can sell there as well as useful resources on each of them.

Shutterstock is one of the most established and most well-paying microstock agencies out there. It was founded back in 2003 and since then it gained 200 million images and 10 million videos. And, what is more important, millions of paying customers. If you’re not yet uploading to it, you definitely should, since it is also one of the well-paying agencies with $250 million paid since its founding.

AdobeStock is a microstock that was known as Fotolia before Adobe acquired it in 2015. Adobe inherited 100 million of images and more than 10 million clips in addition to graphics and 3D content.

iStock is probably the most famous now for its exclusivity program: contributors can sign special agreement and in exchange to increased rates they will not upload their artworks to other microstocks.

Depositphotos is a well-established agency, founded in 2009 in Ukraine featuring more than 140 million assets. Depositphotos has been around for a while being one of the top agencies both for customers and contributors. They constantly improve technologies and asset base is also growing very fast.

Dreamstime is one of the oldest microstocks, founded in 2000 in US. Today they host 122 million stock photos, vectors and videos. Dreamstime has never been a leader of the market, but they maintained their position for a long time being relatively stable. Also they feature the biggest number of licensing options for customers: royalty free, extended, editorial and full copyright.