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24+ Sites to Find Free Images You Would Actually Use for Your Marketing

Buffer Social

But you can find a public domain photo, use a Creative Commons image that might need attribution, or even create your own image from scratch. Related: If you are interested in learning how to pick and use such images, you might like our complete guide to using stock images in your marketing.). What is Creative Commons?

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Can I Use This Photo on Social Media? Understanding Image Copyright

Hootsuite

Especially if an image is used for social media marketing. Fair use rarely applies to social media marketing. Is the copyrighted work highly creative, or more fact-based? How does the use affect the potential market for the original work? What is Creative Commons? Just ask the mother of Success Kid.

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38 of the Best Free Stock Photo Websites for 2021

Hootsuite

Anything licensed under the Creative Commons or public domain is fair game too. Flickr Commons. Here’s a trick to find free photos on Flickr: search for images that photographers have labelled with “Creative Commons” licensing! Source: Flickr. But when in doubt, read the fine print. Magdeleine.

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Flickr adds Downloadable Video Sharing

The Way of the Web

It’s not often that there’s a new feature worth talking about at Flickr. And it seems to have been so long that Flickr’s marketing team dropping it into a particularly bare email, giving it just two lines. Flickr allowing video sharing changes that. But it’s actually quite interesting.

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Three Most Important Content Marketing Lessons of 2012

Firebelly

This year has been one of major upheaval after another for content marketers. Here are three things that every content marketer should have learned from the past 12 months. For example, the big co-citation link here is my use of “content marketing” in the headline, plus my name. Boom , co-cited.

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The Best Content Marketer? An Orange Cone

Firebelly

What Does Soccer Have to do With Content Marketing? If you want to succeed at content marketing, sometimes you only have to be an orange cone. I’ve worked with clients in the past who were being totally dominated in search, and our content marketing plan was an all-out game of catch-up. But the dividends will be huge.

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Content Marketing is More Than Just Blogging

Firebelly

Content marketing is about more than just blogging. Find photos from Flickr or Picasa — be sure to use Creative Commons photos — or buy royalty-free stock photography, and put them in your blog posts for added impact. And not, say, photos of small animals pretending they’re people.

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