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Pexels is a trusted resource for users in need of diverse and modern photography for their websites and content. Users, ranging from startups with limited marketing budgets to full-service marketing agencies, rely on Pexels to find high-quality stock videos and photos for a wide range of purposes. This includes marketing campaigns, pitch deck visuals, social media posts, presentations, ads, blog images, and more. The platform's ease of use and intuitive interface make it simple for users to obtain images, videos, and backgrounds for articles and illustrations. Pexels also enhances the design process by providing a wide selection of royalty-free stock photos and videos in various sizes and orientations. Its valuable collection of high-quality images helps clients visualize designs, improving overall communication and understanding of design concepts. With its vast library of diverse imagery, Pexels is a go-to resource for finding custom and business-related images for various needs such as blog headers and social media posts. Whether it's for commercial use in social media marketing or print materials, or personal use in newsletters or PowerPoint presentations, Pexels remains a reliable source for quality stock imagery that meets a variety of user requirements.
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Pexels Reviews
8 Reviews
Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees)
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Pexels has been a very reliable resource in our organization for high-quality stock images and videos. We use these resources commercially for social media marketing, paid advertising banners, and on our clients' websites for blog images and more. Pexels provides a vast library to choose from and has authentic imagery and videos from contributors.
Pros
High-quality videos and images
Easy of use
Copyright-free images
Rich in resources
Cons
Sometimes its difficult to find resources for particular search terms.
Does not contain much vectors.
Likelihood to Recommend
We were doing social media marketing for one of our clients and the niche was culinary. We could not find good-quality videos for them and most of them were copyrighted. But then we came across Pexels and they had beautiful videos in 4K and they were free. Even after downloading the quality of the videos was not compromised.
We use Pexels for pictures, videos, gifs - all forms of digital images. It is easy to find what you need, download or collect and implement how you need to use it. Content is available for most uses, blogs, social media, and campaigns. You cannot use it as an endorsement of a product or sell the Pixels media content to another service.
Pros
images
video
gifs
Cons
website-based collections
multi-word specific searches
Likelihood to Recommend
We use it for our outreach campaigns, and we need to reach specific populations that often are not represented in stock photography. Pexels is inexpensive and many things are free to use! We are able to find a diverse group of images that represent our users better. We have also used it for social media and our website.
VU
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (51-200 employees)
I use Pexels for more natural, energetic, and vibrant shots for my design material. Also, as you can obtain free stock, it is a great tool for last-minute jobs, especially social posts.
Pros
Natural shots
Energetic shots
Diversity within imagery
Cons
To have more corporate imagery in your library
To have a more elaborate searching system - can be a bit basic, so it can be hard to find images on certain topics
Likelihood to Recommend
Pexels is great for more natural shots, daily life shots, still life, and props when used in my corporate and charitable design projects. I use them heavily when designing charity designs as these charities do not tend to have a budget for stock imagery. Pexel allows me access to professional and dynamic imagery making their work look professional and trustworthy. Pexels is great for events and daily things like weddings, fairs, shopping, and young people but not as good for very specific topics imagery in any industry, especially corporate.
I use Pexels to find stock imagery for marketing such as our website, blog, and social media as well as for internal presentation decks. We need a selection of imagery and have a subscription with another stock photo provider but find it's important to have the variety that Pexels offers in addition to the other subscription. We like that Pexels has more variety and more creative imagery than other stock services. We also like how it constantly updates and allows us to support new photographers and artists. We find the diversity to be strong within Pexels' library which is very important to us.
Pros
Search is very easy
Variety of results
Support lesser-known or newer photographers and artists
Constant fresh content added regularly
Diverse results and diverse artists and photographers
Different from other stock services
Cons
The ability to request specific photos or commission projects from photographers would be interesting
Image compression with the cropping and resizing options would be great (optimize file size for web)
More metadata would be great
Likelihood to Recommend
Pexels is great for creative and non-typical stock imagery for marketing and social media. As a B2B company we use imagery to convey emotion, aesthetics, and trust (rather than to showcase a particular product) so having a variety of imagery and constantly fresh imagery to choose from to help us stand out is important to us. Pexels is an excellent resource in addition to other stock photo services to keep our content engaging and different from our competition.
VU
Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology (51-200 employees)
We use Pexels to find aspiring images that help us illustrate our presentations and improve the quality of our proposals. Sometimes we use the images as examples for creative pieces, as to make them the most accurate to what the final piece will look like. It is great to be able to download free images that do not come with watermarks on them.
Pros
Free Images
Aspiring images
No watermark
Cons
More range of images
Search engine
Bunch download
Likelihood to Recommend
It is great to use images for presentations, proposals, mood boards, and getting inspiration. As they are artistic photos, they are nicer than traditional stock ones, but sometimes there are no series of the same images, so you might not get the perspective you are looking for and just get one point of view.
Pexels is a wonderful resource for free stock photography to use for internal campaigns as well as promotional materials for marketing. I highly recommend it for PowerPoint presentations as well as social media posts. Print projects can also benefit from their high-quality photography. A definite must as a free photo source.
Pros
Inclusion
Variety
Large prints
Cons
Recommended based on search feature
Homepage feature images from your favorite users
Seasonal or holiday feature imagery
Likelihood to Recommend
The Pexels library is constantly changing and growing. For the most consistent variety, I would suggest paid stock photography as a backup. Videos and vectors are not available on Pexels. Definitely keep Pexels favorite users and images bookmarked for easy access for projects. Supporting the artists is a wonderful bonus.
VU
Verified User
Professional in Professional Services (51-200 employees)
Typically we use this brand as a company when we require any stock images to help when we are creating PowerPoint decks that we are presenting to clients; to make them look more aesthetically pleasing. If I needed an image I would browse the website to see if there was anything suitable that met my needs and is the correct sizing.
Pros
A very wide range of images available
High quality images
Clearly demonstrates which are free and which need to be paid for
Cons
Increasing the relevancy for certain phrases. I will sometimes need to search numerous times with different phrases to find something suitable that I am looking for
Likelihood to Recommend
I have largely used them in our creative projects. In my remit as I do a lot of PowerPoint presentations for clients, I will often use Pexels to find a suitable image that will compliment my existing content. I will also sometimes use the website as inspiration for image ideas; that I will then send to our design / photography team.
We use it for almost all of our stock images. Many of our social media posts contain an image from Pexels. We use their images often in our print marketing material too from brochures to flyers to postcards. There are always so many great license-free images for any topic we search in Pexels.
Pros
All license-free images, don't have to search through anywhere else
High quality images easy to download
Many options for whatever we search
Cons
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
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are making a social post, and need a background image, go to Pexels search it, and find it. I was surprised that there are even many images of the city I live in, Minneapolis. Cool to use those in posts and have lots of high-quality professional photographs to use. Lots of good generic house images.
