Pexels

Pexels has always been one of my go-to sources for stock assets. Stock assets can be SO cheesy and expensive, but Pexels is neither. The models are diverse and modern, and the photography styles are more realistic and photojournalistic and not that awful studio-bright-light-fake look that so many stock companies have used for years. Plus, the search functionality continues to improve all the time.

• The quality of the assets.
• The search and filtering makes finding what I need FAST.

• It's kept down the cost of our internal training.
• It allows us to supplement our external training content with some non-cheesy stock.
• It means we don't have to go through procurement; we just get some stock assets for our content creators.

Unsplash for Brands, iStock, from Getty Images, Shutterstock and Pixabay

Adobe Premiere Pro, OpenReel, DaVinci Resolve

Clients supply content for publication on my website. While from time to time, the client supplies images, I usually have to source photography to match the content. This is where Pexels comes in, as one of the leading free stock photo libraries on the Internet. Pexels allows me to search the library quickly and easily to find the most suitable photos, and download them. Each photo contains additional metadata (such as keywords, camera make & model) which helps to better identify the context of the image. Once downloaded, Pexels' images can be safely published on my website.

• Easy to use interface
• High resolution photo quality
• No-fuss image licensing

• Significantly reduced time to source new images for publication.
• Reduced article publication turnaround time.
• Reduced risk of image copyright issues.

Pixabay and Unsplash for Brands

Pixabay, Unsplash for Brands

With Pexels I found a simple and pure way to obtain images, videos, and backgrounds that I need to keep my articles well illustrated. It offers a better experience than many other similar platforms. I usually use it while I am writing articles and when I am about to finish the text I go to the site to obtain the images that are related to the main text.

• Quick way to match results
• Image databank
• Image reference

• 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.

Shutterstock, Unsplash for Brands and Adobe Stock

Adobe Illustrator CC, CorelCAD, iStock, from Getty Images

I've used Pexels for many different purposes over the years. One of the main areas was in helping clients imagine how their designs would look with different photographic styles and depicting different ideas. Before this, we would have issues with clients disliking designs because they couldn't envision them within the context of seeing photography that was relevant to them. Pexels really helped be able to visually describe ideas.

• Ability to search easily
• Free downloads
• Being able to download in different size variations

• Speed of getting clients to agree on concepts
• Ability to visually describe ideas
• More quality looking concepts early on
• Cuts down on time spent

Unsplash for Brands, Shutterstock and Adobe Stock

Figma, ClickUp, Toggl, Trello, Notion, Adobe After Effects, Slack, Calendly, Timetastic, WordPress, Shopify, Shopify Plus, Apple Keynote, Apache Spark, Procreate

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.

• Huge library of images and videos
• Free of cost
• HD resources

• Increased brand reach
• Got in more visitors
• Increased business

Unsplash for Brands

Pixabay, Canva, Wix