Footage.net is an online footage search and discovery platform dedicated to connecting footage customers with footage providers. We make it easy for creative professionals to search the world's top archives from a single site, and for footage providers to present their content to active footage customers.

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.

At Footage.net, our primary mission is to make the world’s best stock, news and archival footage searchable from a single site, and give footage users the tools they need to discover and license the best footage in the world. We strive to deliver the most relevant search results to end-users, both through global search and our Zap email service. Wherever possible, we seek to help our users develop their footage research skills; to support the health and well-being of the archival community and the archival production ecosystem; and to help archives of all shapes and sizes remain viable for future generations.

Footage.net's dedicated footage search engine returns results by relevance from 40 major footage archives, allowing stock footage researchers to compare content across multiple collections, find the best footage and save time. Footage.net provides access to a growing collection of online screening clips as well as millions of detailed text records, giving stock footage researchers maximum flexibility in how they discover and obtain motion content. Researchers can browse our clip-based inventory to grab an iconic image, or trawl through our vast text database to surface obscure archival footage, harnessing Footage.net's advanced search functionality to pinpoint shots by date, collection and/or category. Additionally, the vast size and wide scope of the Footage.net database improves shot discovery, and because you're searching multiple databases, you can be confident that you're getting a global perspective on your stock video and archival footage options.

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.

Footage.net is not a footage marketplace or reseller. Our mission is to enable production professionals to discover footage from the world’s top footage archives and connect quickly and easily with footage licensors, many of whom are equipped with ecommerce licensing tools.

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.

No. We partner with existing stock footage companies and footage archives to make their collections accessible through our search platform. All our content partners are independent footage companies.

The Footage Industry Directory is open to all footage companies. A basic membership is free. Footage.net Global Search partners host searchable stock footage content on our platform. The directory does not include this kind of searchable content.

The Footage.net Newswire is a unique resource for keeping up-to-date on footage industry news. Check in with the Newswire to keep track of the new collections, lost films, footage deals and new technologies. If you have a story regarding the footage industry, send it to John Flewin at jf@footageinfo.com.

You can now use your iPhone or other mobile device to search our entire footage database and send Zap Emails to 50 of the world's top footage providers. As mobile Internet use becomes increasingly commonplace, we expect our mobile site to become a central access point to our stock footage search platform.

No. At the current time we do not provide the ability to buy stock video clips.

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.

We are working on it and appreciate your patience.

All footage clips available for screening on our site comes from our partner archives.

Our footage partners include some of the best-known companies in the stock footage industry, including Getty Images, Historic Films and CNN Collection, as well as many exciting specialist collections, such as Bridgeman Images, Critical Past and Celebrity Footage. For a full list of partners, click here.

Our Footage.net Partner Directory includes information on all our partners, including contact information.

You have several options. First, from within an individual record or clip you can click on the linked titled “License,” which will, in most cases, take you directly to the target clip on our partner’s website, where you can either license the clip online or find out more about the specific archives licensing procedures. For partners that do not offer online licensing, clicking on License link will generate a “Footage Information Request” form. Just complete the form, hit send and an email with all necessary information will go directly to the clip owner, who will then contact you. For many records, there will also be a link entitled “Direct Link.” Generally, this link will take you to the clip on our partner’s site. Alternatively, you can use our Footage.net Partner Directory to get contact info for the footage owner.

This list shows the footage search results for a particular inquiry broken out by company. If, for example, you want to see only results from a specific company on a particular search, you can click on any stock footage company in this list and see only their records and clips.

Sure. If you have a fully cataloged stock footage collection and you are looking to expose your stock footage video content to the global production community, then yes, by all means, please contact us. Generally speaking, we partner with existing footage companies, but we are always open to new opportunities to host great content.

Yes. Footage.net offers users access to over 4.5 million stock footage screening clips from some of the world's top footage companies, making us one of the world's largest online repositories of stock footage clips.

Footage.net provides access to millions of detailed text records, giving stock footage researchers maximum flexibility in how they discover and obtain stock footage and stock video. Footage.net started out as a text-based search engine, and we're still committed to providing access to millions of detailed text records. For serious researchers, there's often no substitute for this sort of precise metadata and historical context. And, let's face it, there's a ton of great archival footage that's yet to be digitized.

Yes. Nearly 1 million stock footage screening clips are now available for immediate download, giving footage researchers a critical tool with which to locate, screen and share stock footage screening clips.

No. At this point we can only provide access to screening clips.

Not every record has an associated screening clip. The simple reason for this is that some of the larger archives have not digitized their entire footage collections. New stock video clips are added to the platform every day.

Yes, whether you're searching the whole database or simply searching for stock video clips, you'll have maximum flexibility in how you discover and obtain motion content. There are two buttons just below the main search box. The first is titled “find text and online screeners.” The other is titled “find only online screeners.” If you want to see only results with stock video clips, choose the second option.

Contact the stock video clip owner. In most cases, they can provide a digital screener of the material within a short timeframe. From the record listing on the page, click the information icon, fill out and send the Footage Information Request form. The clip owner will contact you directly to arrange delivery of a clip preview, if available.

Many researchers begin and end their search for stock footage on Footage.net because searching multiple stock video and archival collections simultaneously from one central research platform expedites the research process. First-time stock video footage users come to Footage.net everyday. Footage.net offers a simple way to interact with footage indexes, learn about content opportunities, and connect directly with specific footage companies. Many deeply experienced filmmakers, archival researchers, corporate videographers and other moving image professionals use Footage.net on a regular basis because they know they can depend on our advanced search functionality to find exactly what they need.

No. You can search the database and send Zaps without logging in. However, in order to download stock video clips and create clip bins, you do need to register and be logged in.

You can click on the Save icon from within a particular clip of record. From within Saved Clips, you can create project-specific folders, communicate with our footage partners and better manage the often-chaotic process of finding and obtaining footage.

There is a huge variety of stock and archival footage available on Footage.net. That said, most falls into one of the following categories: premium stock footage; news footage; archival footage; aerial footage; weather footage; extreme sports footage; and natural history footage, which includes wildlife footage.

Yes. Our inventory of royalty-free footage has been growing steadily over the last few years.

Generally speaking, the term royalty-free footage refers to a usage agreement where the end-users pays a flat, one-time fee for the use of a stock video clip and can then use the image in several projects without having to purchase any additional licenses. Rights-managed, or RM, refers to a usage license which allows the one time use of the stock video clip as specified by the license. If the user wants to use the clip for other uses an additional license needs to be purchased.

Footage.net delivers a very specific demographic to its advertisers, providing a unique brand building opportunity. Currently, we offer three main opportunities: The Featured Footage section on the homepage; Banner Ads throughout the site; and Premium Directory listings. Please click here to contact us.

The Featured Footage section is a premium advertising space on the Footage.net homepage where footage companies can display their promo/sizzle reel