Last week the leading microstock agency shocked the stock photography community with the announcement of a new royalty structure that means huge pay cuts to most of its image suppliers even though they already have the lowest royalty rates in the entire industry.

Being launched in June, Stockfresh is nowhere near the biggest agencies in terms of size and revenues, but we were among the top 5 with Stockxpert and we've always believed in doing business the right way — the way it benefits all parties involved. We truly apprieciate the hard work of our image suppliers and we are proud of our exceptionally high royalty rates.

Wherever you may decide to buy images, please always shop at agencies where image suppliers get a fair share. Ditch the ones that exploit them. After all, nobody likes when their work is undervalued, right? Most sites have their royalty rates posted so they are easy to find out. Let's spread the word and make this world a better place together! :)

In lighter news, we have some amazing new artists on board! Please check out the beautiful photos of ssuaphoto and choreograph for example, or if you have a craving for vector illustrations, we are pleased to announce that we also have a vast collection of brand new vector files including some great and stylish icon sets by Filata and dogandcat. Oh, and if you like the work of Andres Rodriguez, you'll love to hear that we're adding his entire portfolio as we speak.

Stockfresh now features nearly 300,000 stock photos and graphics from over 550 contributors and the number of artists signing up to sell their work every day is simply amazing. Actually, we better get back to importing images right now. If you need us, just drop us a line through the contact form. See you later!