Icon creators, with Icons8, earn more than all other icon marketplaces combined*
How do we know it’s profitable?
We beta-tested it for 2 years. Here’s are sample earnings from one participant:
| Icons8 | Marketplace #1 | Marketplace #2 | Marketplace #3 | Marketplace #4 | Marketplace #5 | |
| January 2019 | $382 | $211 | $279 | $80 | $101 | $4 |
| February 2019 | $358 | $179 | $356 | $70 | $106 | $31 |
| March 2019 | $497 | $159 | $485 | $65 | $107 | $17 |
| April 2019 | $665 | $327 | $248 | $125 | $144 | $49 |
| May 2019 | $795 | $167 | $374 | $195 | $243 | $344 |
| June 2019 | $784 | $210 | $301 | $88 | $181 | $186 |
| July 2019 | $826 | $201 | $266 | $64 | $149 | $0 |
| August 2019 | $402 | $189 | $610 | $59 | $171 | $0 |
| September 2019 | $172 | $126 | $200 | $43 | $165 | $110 |
| October 2019 | $176 | $319 | $203 | $48 | $158 | $0 |
| November 2019 | $189 | $72 | $241 | $48 | $145 | $0 |
| December 2019 | $217 | $75 | $537 | $101 | $116 | $140 |
| $5469 | $2241 | $4203 | $987 | $1794 | $633 |
*These earnings are from a single contributor back when we only had one guest artist and a much smaller collection. Now, with many contributors and a massive icon library, earnings can vary a lot depending on things like style popularity and competition.
Avoid pain
How do we know your pains? In part, because we are icon designers.
Also, we were researching icon designers for 3 years.
Here's what we discovered from numerous interviews.
Also, we were researching icon designers for 3 years.
Here's what we discovered from numerous interviews.
Pain #1
Tagging
“I try to outsource it to freelancers for $100. Then I try to don't look into the result.”
Sergey Kokota
Painkiller #1
We tag
You give it to us, and we upload it. We're used to it: we've been tagging our own icons for years.
How?
It's a combination of:
It's a combination of:
- • A technology called approximate image matching
- • Crowd sourcing
- • Internal tagging team
Pain #2
Stealing
“Once an icon pack becomes popular, the knockoffs appear. Sometimes, they add only a single dot to create a different SVG file.”
Iconjam
Painkiller #2
We police
We don't accept similar-looking icons, stolen or not.
How?
We've developed a technology called Visual Hash to compare each new icon against existing ones.
Pain #3
No sales
“We get numerous offers to publish our icons on another new website. They offer millions,
but in fact, we get $67... over 3 years. True story!”
but in fact, we get $67... over 3 years. True story!”
Icons8
Painkiller #3
We limit competition
We don't accept visually similar styles.
How?
Visual Hash, which allows us to fight against copycats, also lets us compare similar-looking icons.
How does it work?
Sign up, and we'll ask for your icons: either on another website or attached as a zip file.