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
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.
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Pain #1
Tagging
“I try to outsource it to freelancers for $100. Then I try to don't look into the result.”
Sergey Kokota
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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:
  • A technology called approximate image matching
  • Crowd sourcing
  • Internal tagging team
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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
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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.
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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!”
Icons8
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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.