Footage.net is the world’s largest online aggregator of stock footage databases,
providing serious footage researchers with free access to the most comprehensive
roster of stock, archival and news footage indexes online. At Footage.net, you can
search 30 of the world’s top stock footage archives with one search, find better
content and save time. Footage.net also offers powerful tools for locating hard-to-find
stock footage and simplifying the footage search process. The Footage.net Zap Email
Request is an easy and efficient way to broadcast your stock footage request(s)
to over 50 of the world’s top footage providers. Just fill out a very short Zap
Request online form, hit send and our partners will review your request and contact
you if they have stock footage that meets your requirements. Footage.net’s “My Lightbox”
and “My History” tools enable you to save searches, communicate with content owners,
access previous searches and keep your project on track.
Since our inception over 15 years ago, we’ve built a core constituency of stock
footage researchers and continue to add new registered users at an average rate
of 400 per month. Many researchers and production professionals begin and end their
search for stock footage on Footage.net because it is simply easier to use an industry
search engine then to go from site to site hunting for the perfect stock footage.
Now fully redesigned, Footage.net will help you find the right motion content, including
animation, faster and more easily than ever before.
Footage.net’s newly reengineered search engine returns results by relevance from
30 major footage providers, allowing stock footage researchers to compare content
from multiple collections, see who has the best material and save time. Use Footage.net’s
advanced search functionality to pinpoint shots by date, collection and/or category,
or limit searches to clip-based results only.
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
databases and detailed metadata to surface obscure subject matter. We’re adding
new clips and more data on a daily basis, so however you make use of our services,
you’re sure to find some amazing footage.
At Footage.net, we believe that text-based research will play an important role
in the process of acquiring stock footage for the foreseeable future. Text-based
footage research is especially important for editorial footage research, wherein
researchers need access to specific historical detail, contextual information and
highly granular metadata. Additionally, because of their sheer size, the vast majority
of large, editorial archives will not be digitized at any significant level in the
near future. There will always be content in these collections that isn’t digitized
and is therefore only accessible as text. For these reasons, Footage.net will continue
to provide the industry with the tools it needs to make optimal use of these vast
text databases.
Whether you’re an agency art director up against a deadline or a professional footage
researcher searching for an obscure clip or hard-to-find image, the Footage.net
Zap Request is a simple, effective tool for taking charge of the stock footage research
process and broadcasting your specific footage request(s) instantly to over 50 of
the world's top stock footage sources. Every day, professionals from every segment
of the film & video production industry rely on Zap Requests to initiate their footage
research projects and get real results, often hearing back from multiple sources
by the end of the day.
The Footage.net Lightbox allows researchers to save searches, communicate with
our footage suppliers and better manage the often-chaotic process of finding and
obtaining footage. Once you’ve made a Lightbox folder and added clips to it, you can send it out to our content
partners and get your project moving forward. Then use My History to access your
previous searches, prior Zap Requests and earlier Lightbox requests. To access these features,
simply register an account with Footage.net or manage your account settings through
the features in My Account.
The Footage.net Newswire is a great 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 that every footage pro needs to know about.