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As of May 2025, there are 1,826 font families on Google Fonts. At the end of 2024, there were 1,790 font families and 1,587 at the end of 2023.

Discover how many photos are taken every day in 2025, smartphone vs camera stats, and social media sharing trends with 14+ key facts.

As of 2025, there are over 4.3 billion videos on YouTube, 26% of which are YouTube Shorts.

I researched Adobe statistics, including how many Creative Cloud subscribers there are, company information, the latest acquisitions, the number of employees.

Midjourney is a quickly growing AI image generator whose numbers and revenue increase by the day. I'll keep these statistics updated as I follow Midjourney's journey.

Most of us have taken a selfie at some point, at the very least with our cats. In fact, selfies have become prevalent on social media platforms and also represent a significant portion of images on stock photo websites.

Currently, there are 1.1 billion YouTube Shorts, with around 25 million added every month. Shorts make up 26% of all 4.3 billion YouTube videos.

Looking to earn some money with stock photography? Selling stock photos is still profitable, but most photographers earn only around $0.02/month for each photo. Here's how you can increase your earnings.

Key findings Lossless Compression: Photos: WebP offers the smallest file sizes for photos when using lossless compression (1.42x smaller than JPEG, 1.70x smaller than PNG). Text Images: PNG is the most efficient format for losslessly compressing text-based images (6.25x smaller than JPEG, 3.06x smaller than WebP, and 3.88x smaller than AVIF). Lossy Compression: Photos: AVIF and WebP provide […]

In February 2023, Getty Images filed a lawsuit against Stability AI, accusing the company of infringing on their intellectual property rights by using over 12 million copyrighted images as training data for their AI art generator, Stable Diffusion. In light of these allegations, I decided to investigate further. Key findings Before we go any further, I’d […]

Though AI art has been quietly evolving since the 1960s, it wasn’t until OpenAI released DALL·E in 2021 that the world took notice. (Technically, Nvidia released the first GANs model from text to image in 2018). Suddenly, anyone could make images from text prompts, and the internet exploded with a mix of curiosity and amusement. […]

People keep referring to the factoid that the human brain processes visual information 60,000 times faster than text. But this has never been proven to my knowledge. It's a factoid from 1982.

The following article collects all available Shutterstock data, as well as Photutorial-original research and forecasts. Key Shutterstock stats Feature Data Company Shutterstock Industry Stock photography, stock footage, stock music Founded 2003; 20 years ago Founder Jon Oringer Headquarters 350 Fifth Avenue, 21st Floor, New York, NY 10118, USA Revenue $827.8 million (2022) Income from operations $93.6 million […]

About Flickr Flickr was founded by: Stewart Butterfield, Caterina Fake. Year Flickr was founded: 2004 (18 years ago). Flickr’s website: flickr.com. Flickr’s parent company: SmugMug. Flickr headquarters: San Francisco. Flickr traffic: 60 million users per month What is Flickr? Flickr is a photo-sharing website where users can upload, share, and tag photos. Flickr allows users […]