Great one-stop shop for creating content on a budget—photos, videos, music, and sound effects are all at Pixabay
July 14, 2022
Great one-stop shop for creating content on a budget—photos, videos, music, and sound effects are all at Pixabay
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Pixabay
As a creative in the advertising and marketing world, I often need to create composites and mockups for client presentations, helping them imagine what a final ad, product, or website will look like. Pixabay is an excellent resource for free, high-quality imagery for use in these mockups. Additionally, I often create social media posts and other ads for clients with limited budgets who cannot afford to pay top dollar for videos, images, and sound effects; Pixabay is an incredible resource for those clients.
Pros
- Separate photos, illustrations, and vectors—Many competitors have these images all lumped together with a limited ability to sort through them, while Pixabay has a robust library of all of these, making it easy to find what you're looking for.
- Free, high-quality images and easy-to-understand licensing rules—Often a new client will have bad image usage habits, freely snagging any image off of google. Pixabay is an excellent resource to give clients a huge range of photos without the fear of getting into copyright trouble.
- Sound effects—Free, good-quality sound effects are surprisingly difficult to find amongst competitors, but Pixabay has them in their lineup as well.
Cons
- People search—I'd love to be able to search images based on whether the photo contains people or not.
- Sometimes filtering images by "editor's choice" results in no images being shown.
- The comments on images are not particularly helpful, usually full of people commenting "thank you" — maybe have users submit suggested image tags instead?
- Compared to some competitors, Pixabay's images can feel less contemporary.
- Free, high-quality images
- Ability to sort by transparent
- Library of free music and sound effects
- Saves us hundreds on stock photography vs using competitors.
- Can sometimes make the stock search longer if Pixabay doesn't have what you're looking for, which takes up valuable time.
- Useful for making high-impact, impressive presentations to clients.
Pixabay is free, easy to use, and has images, videos, vectors, illustrations, music, and sound effects—basically everything you need to make content on a budget. Getty only licenses images and videos, so I'd have to go elsewhere to find music and sound effects (and likely pay a lot more). I'll need to use Getty sometimes when Pixabay comes up short on finding a particular image, but it's a great place to start when seeking out low-cost images.
Do you think Pixabay delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Pixabay's feature set?
Yes
Did Pixabay live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Pixabay go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Pixabay again?
Yes
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