Did you know that Visual Content marketing is becoming one of the most popular digital marketing trends today, with the ever-increasing use of visual social media like Pinterest, Instagram, Youtube, and Facebook, among others?
Visual content is being used extensively as a way to increase traffic and conversion among established businesses and digital marketers. If you are struggling to improve your online presence and visibility, it is high time to shift or enhance your visual content marketing strategy.
People LOVE this kind of content. It is easy and fast to consume. Where can you find free images that are of high quality and cleared to use for your blog posts or social media content?
The answer is right here, where we show you a list of awesome websites for free stock photos.
A few words of warning before using any free images.
Even though all the photos are free to use, without attribution, for personal, editorial, or commercial purposes, some of the sites shown in this series have stipulations that require attribution. Also for commercial use, do check with each of the free image sites that you can still use the images for free. So make sure you read the usage license every time you download an image.
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13. FANCYCRAVE
The focus here is on travel photography, covering 10 countries so far. A lot of good images with an editorial look and feel, which makes them look more authentic. The quality is top-notch.
There are some upsells for premium packs, but it is not needed unless you are looking for super-high-resolution images.
14. STOCKVAULT
This is a free stock photo community where photographers and artists share their own photos and artwork with people from all over the world.
They offer thousands of pictures and illustrations of people, animals, buildings and street photography, beautiful landscapes, computers, and electronics to food images and jewelry photos. They also have an extensive collection of free textures and backgrounds ranging from grunge, dirt, paint, rock, plastic, wood, and liquid to metallic and rusty surfaces.
Caution: Every page contains Premium stock photos as well as free. They are marked, so be careful!
15. RAWPIXEL
This site has both free images as well as images for sale. Saying that the quality of the photos is outstanding is an understatement!
You will also find a “Public Domain” section where the RawPixel team curated collections of public domain images that are grouped by themes. Here again, you will find impressive photos.
Be careful though: The search engine is the same for premium and free photos, so you have to remember to enable the “Free” filter every time you do a search for free images. Also, you are limited to 5 downloads per day for free images.
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