Microstock metadata blog
Practical articles on image attribution for stock agencies.
How many keywords do you need on microstock sites
10, 25 or 49? How many keywords to use on Adobe Stock, Shutterstock and Freepik. Agency limits, first-tag weight and the optimal tagging strategy.
Why Adobe Stock doesn't read your JPG metadata
Embedded XMP into a JPG but Adobe Stock shows empty fields? The missing JFIF APP0 marker is to blame. Here's the cause and how to fix the file.
How to attribute AI images for stock sites
How to attribute Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and Flux images for Adobe Stock, Freepik and Shutterstock: the Generative AI flag, metadata, limits.
How to upload video to Adobe Stock
Step by step: how to prepare and upload video to Adobe Stock — file requirements, metadata, category, SFTP upload. A checklist of why videos get rejected.
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