Microstock metadata blog

Practical articles on image attribution for stock agencies.

2026-09-01
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.
2026-09-01
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.
2026-09-01
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.
2026-09-21
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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