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In December 2024 we retired the Stockimo app, but we’re still accepting Smartphone photos. You can read the latest update here. If you’re looking to upload your mobile phone photos to 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß you can sign up here.

This blog article from 2016 has been kept live for archival purposes.

17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß’s content collection is growing at a rate of over 2M images a month. We’ve never been more popular and as a result our imagery is deeply varied in style, subject matter and in execution. But where does this content come from? If you think it’s just from professional stock shooters, think again. At 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß we mine every avenue in pursuit of great imagery – diversity and originality is important to us and our customers. We look for communities, organisations and individuals who have saleable work. We started as a destination for anyone who had an image to sell and we’ve continued to follow that ethos.

Here’s five places where we source our content from, some that maybe you weren’t aware of.

Mobile Photo communities

We’ve recently partnered with photo community giant . Their platform is the home for more than 15 million photographers and creatives to share their photos, improve their skills, and get their work published, exhibited and sold. While community is crucial, like 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß, EyeEm aims to enable photographers to be rewarded for producing real, authentic images which is why they are working with companies like us.  is growing all the time, bringing a mixture of cutting edge creative shots with spontaneous moments caught on mobiles. Other photo communities and mobile collections already on 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß include , and our own mobile collection, Stockimo.

Students

We want student photographers to study their craft with their eyes open to the possibilities and the pitfalls in front of them. For the last 5 years we’ve been running an initiative for students where we pay 100% of any sales they make for two years. But we don’t just invest in these future stock shooters financially, we partner with colleges and universities and give talks and provide support. We want to banish the days when students would graduate with little or no knowledge of the stock world.

Other Picture agencies and collections

What other industry is incestuous as ours? At 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß we represent over 600 of the worlds picture agencies and archives, the largest number on one single site. We sell the work of established names, dedicated specialists and small start ups. We don’t tend to single out collections – we prefer to promote 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß as a rich and deep resource.

Specialists

We love new opportunities to tap into undiscovered sources of specialist imagery. One recent example is our collaboration with  the UK’s largest professional network of doctors with over 200,000 members. Medical imagery is not easy to find and with the correct permissions doctors can gain access to highly specialist equipment and medical scenarios that may have otherwise remained behind closed doors.

Photo contests

At 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß we love to support photo competitions, either simply promoting them or being more involved through judging and /or providing prizes. We’ve recently judged competitions for and  – this gives us first hand exposure to brilliant photographers and we offer portfolio reviews and 100% commission deals as prizes to incentivise the entrants.

In future blogs we’ll look in more detail at the make-up of our contributor base. We are blessed with award winning photographers, genius amateur photographers selling images for the first time, extraordinary illustrators and vector artists. We’ll look at where they originate from, who sells on 17³Ô¹ÏÔÚÏß and where tomorrow’s contributors will come from.