Infographics are a great way to explain research statistics though images. iStockphoto, with input from Getty Images, just released an infographic about stockphoto trends in 2012.
Highlights of stock photo trends in 2012
The top user trends are highlighted in this iStockphoto infographic. We have gleaned the following information from the infographic:
- There is a 19% increase in stock photo use with use increasing from 79% to 98%
- People images is the top category searched on stock photo agency sites
- Stock photo users are looking for quality of images over searchability, new images or collections
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This is very useful information… – I didn't know until now for these sites. It is a really refreshing from the "usual" sources of photos… Thanks for the post!
Thank you very much for your comment. iStock still has quite a lot of unusual photos on sale ;-).