Podcast Illustration Series

In between freelance projects I like to keep my design skills in use by creating stock illustrations and layouts. Shutterstock lists trending searches for their content creators and during Covid the number one query was podcasts. It's no wonder as over one million podcasts were launched in 2020 according to Statista. The challenge for stock illustrations is to make them unique enough to stand out in literally thousands of pages and at the same time have enough mass appeal that they speak to many different countries and situations. For this series I created podcast assets and example layouts for how one can use those assets.

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With stock content the goal is to have a high number of downloads as well as people saving your content to their boards. The higher number of downloads and saves, the more searchable your content becomes in the algorithm.

When using the search term "podcast illustration" my series comes up on the first page. It has worldwide appeal and is mostly downloaded in the USA, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. It is also designated as a popular downloaded item by Shutterstock and received "Rock Star Status".