PeopleImages

Spec sheet

What it does

PeopleImages sells downloadable stock photographs and videos, with model-released files marketed for professional projects.Read 15 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Free plan

YesRead 22 Sep 2026 · peopleimages.com

Integrations

The opened product and support pages describe website search, lightbox, and checkout but do not state third-party software integrations.Read 8 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Support

Official support provides a searchable question center, live chat, email contact and a contact page.Read 15 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Headquarters

PeopleImages lists its South African headquarters at 10 Kloof Street, Gardens, Cape Town, and an office in Aarhus, Denmark.Read 15 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Company

PeopleImages.com says it was founded and built on the ideas of Danish-born stock photographer Yuri Arcurs.Read 8 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Buy-out license

The 99% buy-out option removes the media from PeopleImages and seeks removal from major stock agencies within five working days, without guaranteeing complete industry-wide removal.Read 15 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Collection

The site says its curated collection contains 600,000 files and that less than 1% of RAW files make the final collection.Read 8 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Collection curation

PeopleImages says it rejects as much as 95% of produced images during its selection process.Read 15 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Company legal entity

The terms identify Yuri Arcurs Productions (Pty) Ltd, registered in South Africa under company number 2010/021359/07, as the site operator.Read 15 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Curation

The company says it adds about 5,000 exclusive images to the site each month and puts new images through about 15 checkpoints.Read 8 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Domain age

WHOIS records show peopleimages.com was registered on 20 June 2003 and is registered through GoDaddy.Read 15 Oct 2026 · whois.com

Extended license

The extended license permits uses such as items for resale and production runs of 500000 impressions or more.Read 15 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Founder

The company’s about material says the business was founded around Danish photographer Yuri Arcurs’s ideas.Read 15 Oct 2026 · yuri.peopleimages.com

Head office

The site lists its South African headquarters at 10 Kloof Street, Gardens, Cape Town.Read 8 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Illustration assets

YesRead 22 Sep 2026 · peopleimages.com

Image categories

The catalog includes business, healthcare, education, family, sports, technology, travel, illustrations and CGI categories.Read 15 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Independent news, 25 March 2022

A German stock-photography publication reported that a PeopleImages.com Adobe Stock account appeared in December 2021 and accumulated more than 41000 works in roughly four months.Read 15 Oct 2026 · alltageinesfotoproduzenten.de

Licence model

The service licenses copyrighted media under its own standard, extended, time-exclusive and buy-out agreements rather than publishing software under an open-source license.Read 15 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

License types

Available license agreements include standard, extended, time-exclusive and 99% buy-out options.Read 15 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Licenses

The site lists Standard, Extended, and 99% Buy-out licenses, with different permitted uses and limits.Read 8 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Limit: catalogue reuse

The independent article noted that the reappearing Adobe Stock portfolio included older, previously circulating images alongside newer uploads.Read 15 Oct 2026 · alltageinesfotoproduzenten.de

Limit: exclusivity

The same independent article described Yuri Arcurs’s earlier exclusivity arrangement as questionable because PeopleImages continued selling his images while major agencies had removed the portfolio.Read 15 Oct 2026 · alltageinesfotoproduzenten.de

LinkedIn company size

LinkedIn classifies PeopleImages.com as privately held, in photography, with 51–200 employees.Read 15 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

LinkedIn staffing claim

The LinkedIn description says the company has more than 100 full-time staff, including 20 full-time photographers.Read 15 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

Media scale

The search interface reports about 797642 images and 318349 videos.Read 15 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Model access

PeopleImages says successful casting applicants receive a login that lets them download their own photographs.Read 15 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Model releases

The license agreement states that the company warrants it has obtained necessary model and property releases for the uses specified in that agreement.Read 8 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Monthly downloads

10Read 22 Sep 2026 · peopleimages.com

Official reliability limitation

The terms state that the site and its content are supplied as-is and may not be faultless or uninterrupted.Read 15 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Operator

The terms identify the site operator as Yuri Arcurs Productions (Pty) Ltd, incorporated in South Africa.Read 8 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Payment methods

The pricing page displays Mastercard, Visa, Visa Electron, Maestro, PayPal and American Express payment options.Read 15 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Praise: production quality

The independent article characterizes Yuri Arcurs as a highly successful microstock producer whose production quality set a high benchmark for peers.Read 15 Oct 2026 · alltageinesfotoproduzenten.de

Public API and SDKs

The published license and support pages document browser-based searching and downloading but provide no API or SDK specification.Read 15 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Search

Customers can search for images, refine results by age, and access their view history.Read 8 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Search and lightbox

The site lets users search media, save selections to a lightbox, and check out online.Read 15 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Search filters

Search can be refined by age, concepts, industry, location, technical characteristics, model attributes, orientation and photographer.Read 15 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Security and privacy

The privacy policy says PeopleImages uses security procedures for collecting, storing, using and disclosing personal information and may use service providers for hosting, payments, analytics and fraud prevention.Read 15 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Self-hosting

The terms describe PeopleImages as a company-operated website and provide no self-hosted deployment option.Read 15 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Standard license limit

Standard licensing restricts advertising and promotional uses to projects below 500000 impressions, with additional restrictions on resale and redistribution.Read 15 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Subscription cancellation

The home page says image subscriptions are month-to-month and can be cancelled at any time.Read 15 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Subscription expiry rule

Media downloaded through a subscription must be used in a project within 30 days after the subscription ends or it is no longer licensed.Read 15 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Subscription limit

Standard-licensed downloads use one subscription download each, nude media use five, extended licenses use ten, and time-exclusive and 99% buy-out media are unavailable by subscription.Read 8 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Support coverage

The support page states that 93% of users find answers in its question center.Read 15 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Vector assets

YesRead 22 Sep 2026 · peopleimages.com

Video pricing

The published price page says video downloads cost five times as much as image downloads.Read 15 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

What it offers

PeopleImages sells royalty-free stock photographs, images, and videos for use in projects.Read 8 Oct 2026 · peopleimages.com

Plans and prices

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