[ericwood]

I used to work on Squarespace's templates team, and this is a very real problem we talked about with some frequency.

There's a few solutions, one of which is designing more around text, but in many instances people still want the media-heavy look. For those cases, the image tool tied in with Unsplash, which made getting high quality stock images pretty easy.

[edraferi]

I like Unsplash, but I don't understand their business model. What makes it sustainable?

[ipsum2]

Unsplash is just an image hosting place. The photos are contributed by users. Unfortunately, they no longer have a CC0 license.

[Bombthecat]

What about pixabay?

[ericwood]

I don't have much visibility into that but the Squarespace ad on their homepage is absolutely a clue :)