Future Demand For Photography

Posted on 2/4/2020 by Jim Pickerell | Printable Version | Comments (5)

A reader asked recently, “Is it true that Unsplash is now getting more downloads than Getty, Shutterstock and Alamy combined?” According to Unsplash’s statistics page they currently have 70,263,886 downloads per month. Based on Shutterstock’s last quarterly report they have about 15,433,333 downloads monthly. Their downloads per quarter haven’t changed much quarter-to-quarter over the last two years so I think this number is a pretty good average and not really growing.

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Brad Crooks Posted Feb 8, 2020
Great info Jim...

Peter Dazeley Posted Feb 10, 2020
The business is really slipping through the fingers of the big three. What I would like to ask UnSplash photographers is how you can afford to do this?

Jagdish Agarwal Posted Feb 11, 2020
Some photographers say that they get assignments.

Peter Dazeley Posted Feb 11, 2020
Good luck with that !

Sabine Pallaske Posted Feb 15, 2020
what photographers must not forget: Unsplash, Freepik, Canva and similar free platforms are not "picture agencies", but companies that use photographer uploads only for generating revenue in other areas. Photographers compete on these platforms with PR images from corporations that are hired en masse and with fake identities that upload other people's images. The promise of getting assignments is nothing more than a honey trap. These platforms reforce the trend of not paying for image usage, the result can be clearly seen in the fees paid by Getty images, Alamy and all the others...

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