EPISODE · Feb 14, 2021 · 3 MIN

Envato Elements vs Adobe Stock vs Shutterstock

from BarrazaCarlos.com Digital Marketing, Entrepreneurship & Professional Development · host Carlos Alberto Barraza Lopez

While working on Digital Marketing and creating content, one thing that it is needed for websites and social media advertising is image stock. There are many websites that offer free stock images, but the thing is that sometimes the licenses of those images might not be for commercial purposes, or they are already been used a lot by many other websites. So I have worked with Adobe Stock, and used images from Getty Images. I have to say that for Adobe Stock, I got to know their credit system for images. You have to use one credit for one image. The thing is that it might get expensive if you are going to use a lot of images. One issue that I saw, was that sometimes high quality images are not a must in some projects. So why spend too much money on an image that will be in a webpage that might not receive high traffic. Does the investment worth it? Certainly, for me not, and I don’t think that as well for the company. When you are trying to build a brand, there might exist brand images or core images, that I think having a high quality image will worth the use. So what solutions are there for the websites that are not willing to spend or have a high budget to fill out their websites with images? Well, Envato Elements is one example. I have used Envato Elements, and I do think is a really useful digital asset subscription for nearly $190 per year. I consider it a low cost investment in comparison with the costs of Adobe Stock or Shutter Stock. 5 Credits in Adobe Stock cost $50 or their cheapest monthly plan costs $30. Shutterstock 10 images monthly subscription costs $50. Well, as I said, does it really worth for you high quality images on the webpages that are not visited? If I do talk merely about the quality, I have found better images in Shutterstock than in Adobe Stock or Envato Elements. The subscription of Envato Elements aslo includes videos, wordpress themes, music, sound effects and more. So you are actually getting access to more digital assets. I have also found about MonsterOne, which is a service that I haven’t tried yet, but it seems they offer to just have the image and video stock for $82 per year. To read more visit Envato Elements vs Adobe Stock vs Shutterstock