Pexels vs. Shutterstock

The success of social media campaigns on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter depends significantly on the quality of the content used. Pexels maintains the highest quality standards for all content hosted on the platform... with High Definition, excellent composition materials only. Another great thing is that they provide you with an assortment of filtered content suggestions related to the selections. This helps save time.

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Shutterstock is ideal for creatives who need images for digital marketing such as websites, blogs, case studies, or presentations. Visual elements can make or break a brand, and Shutterstock has an enormous library with a huge variety of image styles. Yes, there are your cliché stock images that look goofy or fake, but it's easy to find world-class photos and vector illustrations that add authenticity to any brand.

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• High-resolution images – Pexels is full of images that are high enough in resolution to look beautiful on their own, but also high quality enough to be combined with other images without distracting pixelization
• Stock videos – other free stock sites are often limited to just images, but Pexels has a wide range of videos available as well, which we use to plus up decks
• Good search functions – while not as robust as some paid sites, Pexels' search functions make it pretty easy to track down what you need
• Licensing – it's very straightforward to know what you can and can't do with a Pexels photo, which protects my company and our clients

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• Large library with a great variety of high quality images
• "Similar images," "same model," and "same artist" suggestions to help you drill down your search for the right image
• Handy editing tool that lets you save your custom image sizes

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• I do think that the library should grow. For example, I was looking for an image of a living room with a fireplace and there were only a few options
• I get tricked sometimes because I see images I want to use but they are from some other company and they are paid
• Improve search understanding for multi-word searches

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• i think the pricing is still higher than other platforms
• locating right files is sometimes difficult here like the search results could be better

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Intuitive and simple interface.

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Pexels has a few unique features that stand out, the most important being a 1-click download from the search results. No need to navigate to another page to find a "download" button. This reduces the time required to find and download an appropriate image. The search results load fast, with lazy loading, so there's no annoying pagination at the bottom. I often travel as I work, and at times my internet connection can be slow or unstable. This kind of feature may seem minor to some users, but when on a slower connection, it makes a big difference. If a search term is too broad, it can recommend related keywords to search for - this helps to find the right image faster.

Shutterstock library and pricing is better than Adobe Stock also the preview is far better than Adobe Stock that's why i am still using shutterstock rather than Adobe Stock, their have a huge collections of images, videos than Adobe Stock. also the user interface of shutterstock is easy than Adobe Stock

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• Positive: the writing material when well illustrated gain more engagement.
• Positive: images can inspire better descriptions of scenarios and landscapes and therefore can make long texts more attractive.
• Positive: we saved a lot of time when writing.
• Negative: some images do not have enough quality for printing purposes.

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• it improved our work quality
• it helped us to handle multiple projects as catered our creative needs well
• due to faster project creation our business scaled

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