Overall Satisfaction with iStock, from Getty Images
In my organisation I am a Digital Experience Coordinator who designs content types and digital assets for a number of webpages or assists on other design briefs for the wider department. Often we don't have enough of our own in-house photography to meet the need or represent certain areas of imagery and thus need to find outside images to reflect the content or message.
- It offers a large catalogue of images
- Wide variety of images for different subject matters
- Quick access to images when struggling to find suitable in-house examples
- Provide more niche photography areas
- Offer more natural or realistic photography
- Maybe offer a good discount on bundles of images
- High quality photography
- Good stock videos
- Stock music for social ads
- Provided good stock imagery for really niche content areas, sometimes organic photography can be hard to replicate what stock does well
- Helped to quickly gain access to advertisement ready music tracks when the marketing team have been stuck for audio
- Allowed designers to provide high fidelity examples of brand styling or campaign ideas
iStock in my opinion is probably the leading stock image distribution service at the moment and has definitely become a trusted source for stock images, video, animations and audio. Unsplash has a better library of organic photography but can be a bit lacking as it replies on photographers having images of certain styles, though I like the concept and working closely to give exposure to artists. Adobe Stock is a newer service in comparison so it will take time to build the same level in my opinion but I am a avid Adobe user so will watch that space.
Do you think iStock, from Getty Images delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with iStock, from Getty Images's feature set?
Yes
Did iStock, from Getty Images live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of iStock, from Getty Images go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy iStock, from Getty Images again?
Yes