Interested in selling your stock footage content online?

Pond5 is a revolutionary new way to buy and sell stock video footage on the web. If you are a rights-holder of quality video content, you are invited to partner with us in selling your footage online. This is an opportunity for film and video-makers everywhere to earn money licensing their work for use by others – simply, quickly and easily.


What we offer

• A global marketplace of buyers who will be able to search for, preview, purchase and download your footage instantly, online, 24 hours a day.

• A quick and easy workflow: upload your clips, tag them with info, and earn.

• 50 percent commissions on all sales. Simple, straightforward and very competitive in the stock footage industry.

• Monthly payments by check or paypal. As your clip portfolio grows, this can mean regular, ongoing income from a relatively small initial investment of time.

• You set the price for your footage (currently, the minimum price is $10 per clip for broadcast-quality footage, and $5 per clip for multimedia-quality footage).

• A non-exclusive contract and complete control over your work: you retain all rights to your footage, and can do whatever you like with it, including sell it elsewhere or instantly remove it from the pond5 marketplace.

• Aggressive marketing on your behalf. Extensive, ongoing campaigns designed to bring business to your doorstep.

• Realtime data on clip sales, buying trends, footage requests, and more. All the information you need to make the most from your footage.

• An artist-built, artist-friendly community of media producers.



What we’re looking for

We’re looking for dazzling, amazing, significant, and staggeringly beautiful motion content of all categories and genres, including:

• classic stock: fashion, lifestyle, sports, and location-based footage
• editorial and news content
• motion graphics, motion backgrounds, and VJ loops
• archival footage from all eras


Regardless of the style of your footage, it should be of extremely high quality. Commercially-oriented work should be professionally shot and carefully chosen. Editorial and archival content should be informative, powerful, and tagged with accurate contextual information. Please use your good judgement in uploading your clips, and upload only those clips that are likely to be commercially viable.


Put your footage to work for you

Here’s how:

Step 1: Upload your work in the form of short (5-30 second) clips. (All footage should adhere to our footage specifications). You will need access to a high-speed internet connection to do this, as video file sizes are very large.

After you upload your clips, we will automatically process them, creating a low-resolution, watermarked version for previewing, and extracting all the relevant technical information (duration, size, format, etc).


Step 2: Tag your clips with info, including a description, keywords, and a price. Using our intuitive Keyword Assistant, you can quickly add common keywords to your clip. Using our Tag Templates, you can process clips that share common tags at the same time. When you’re done, you submit your clips to a curator for review.


Step 3: Earn. After your clip has passed the review process, it will be placed online. Buyers everywhere will be able to search for, preview, pay for and download your content: instantly, online, 24-hours a day.

Each time a clip is purchased, you will be credited 50% of the price you have set. Each month, you will be able to receive your earnings by check or paypal.

It’s that easy.

To get started, you will need to sign-in or click here to register for a new account.


Still have questions? Take a look at our FAQ, or drop us a note.