At Footage.net, we partner with the world’s leading stock, news and archival footage companies to make their collections discoverable from our online footage search platform, allowing creative professionals to search the world’s top footage archives from a single site. As a Footage.net user, you can view approximately 4.5 million online screening clips and access over 10 million detailed text records, giving you a comprehensive view of your footage options. Once you’ve found the perfect shot, you can connect easily with the footage owner to license the content you need. Our Global Search partners include some of the best-known companies in the stock footage industry, including ABC News VideoSource, CNN Collection, Getty Images, Historic Films and Reelin’ in the Years Productions, as well as many exciting specialist collections. Footage.net is also home to the Zap Request, used every day by creative professionals to send footage requests instantly to over 50 top footage providers.

Whether you're looking for an obscure, hard-to-find clip or would simply like to expedite your footage research project, our Zap Request service makes it easy to send your footage wish list to 50+ leading global footage companies simultaneously for free. Once our Zap partners receive and review your request, they'll respond to you directly if they have footage that meets your needs. In most cases, you'll begin hearing back from our partners within a few hours. Footage researchers, archival producers, documentary filmmaker and all variety of creative professionals have relied on our Zap Request service since 1996 to make their footage research process easier and more comprehensive.

Once you’ve identified a target clip, clicking on the associated “License this Clip” button will take you to the designated sales page on our partner’s site, where the you can log in to the partner’s ecommerce site and complete the transaction. If a particular footage partner does not currently have e-commerce capabilities, clicking on the Footage.net “License this Clip” button will activate an info request form, allowing you to indicate interest in the specific clip, communicate directly with the footage partner and figure out how to purchase and obtain the content.

You don’t need to register to use our service, but it helps. Registered users have access to a range of benefits, including making and sending clipbins, autofilling Zap emails and access to past searches.

Footage research can be daunting. There are a lot of footage companies spread out across the world, and conducting research at each one individually can be time-consuming and inefficient. Users often turn to platforms like YouTube to conduct archival research, which can cause a lot of clearance headaches down the road. Footage.net helps solve these problems by offering a consolidated search experience across multiple footage archives, all of which are set up to license footage. We bring together many of the world’s leading footage companies on single, unified footage search platform, providing a central hub for footage research and a streamlined pathway into our partners’ collections, and our Zap Request service is a tried-and-true resource for expediting your footage research projects.