Secrets Marketeers Should Know About Stock Images

Need royalty-free hd stock images for your marketing campaign or just about anything else? Here’s a list of websites where you can download free hd stock images for free.

Before we get to that point…

Things You Should Know About Stock Images

First of all; you definitely want to make sure the images you’re using are royalty-free. Because you can get sued for using images you don’t own.

Second; if your post doesn’t have an image, don’t expect it to go very far. Researchers found that colored visuals increase people’s willingness to read a piece of content by 80%!

Also, 46% (increasing) of marketers say photography is critical to their current marketing and storytelling strategies.

65% of senior marketing executives believe that visual assets (photos, video, illustrations and infographics) are core to how their brand story is communicated

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From a user’s perspective, photos are also the most engaging type of content on Social Media, with an average 87% interaction rate from fans on Facebook! No other post type received more than a 4% interaction rate

Where To Find Free HD Stock Images

This list of free stock photo websites offers you a wide variety of options for finding stock photography images you can use in your design projects, blogs and other situations requiring graphics. An important note: Always read the licensing terms of the image you wish to use to determine how to use it appropriately.

1. Freerange Stock
2. Public Domain Pictures
3. Stocksnap.io
4. The Open Photo Project
5. Pixabay
6. Stock.XCHNG
7. Pickup Image
8. Imagebase: Free Stock Photography
9. Stockvault.net
10. unprofound.com
11. LibreShot
12. PicJumbo
13. PDPics
14. Unsplash
15. morguefile
16. Wikimedia Commons
17. FreePixels
18. 500px.com
19. Flickr: Creative Commons
20. Free Royalty Free Images (on Fotolia)
21. New Old Stock
22. Skitterphoto
23. A Digital Dreamer
24. IM Free
25. Photo Pin
26. Alegriphotos
27. SplitShire
28. openphoto.net
29. deviantART’s Stock Images section
30. Creative Commons Search

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