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Freepik Contributor AI Metadata & Tagging Standards (2026)
Everything you need to know about tagging stock photos and AI assets for Freepik: compound tags, singular noun rules, and mandatory AI identifiers.
Key takeaways
- Compound Words: Keep multi-word phrases as single tags (e.g. "remote work space").
- Singular Nouns: Freepik requires singular nouns instead of plural forms for tags.
- AI Tagging: Generative assets must append the mandatory "_ai_generated" tag.
- No Generic Fillers: Words like "photo", "image", and "vector" are strictly rejected.
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