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Updated 04-May-2020.

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Royalty-Free Stock Video and Music Library | Pond5: Search the world’s largest video collection plus millions of music tracks, sound effects, motion graphics and images. Over 20,000 new videos added daily. Find the perfect media for your next creative project. Search now.

Pond5 & Reuters create the largest collection of royalty-free editorial videos in the world – Newsshooter: Pond5 has announced the launch of its new Editorial collection in partnership with global news agency Reuters, as well as Cover Video and Newsflare.

Pond5 Introduces Extended Licenses, Offering Some of the Highest Levels of Coverage, Protection, and Flexibility in the Industry: Today, Pond5 — the world’s largest provider of royalty-free video — announced the launch of its new Extended Licenses, offering some of the highest levels of coverage, protection, and flexibility in the industry.  Designed to provide enterprise-level businesses, creative agencies, and major media companies the protection and flexibility they require during their content creation process. The new licenses offer up to a million dollars of indemnification for each commercial video clip, unl…

Bleeding-Edge Artifical Intelligence Sets to Upraise Stock Media: Might an AI visual search engine revitalize the industry as a whole?

Pond5 Issues 80,000 Free Media Assets With The Launch Of Its Public Domain Project – TechCrunch: Bloggers, designers, illustrators, researchers, documentarians, historians, and media makers of all stripes now have a new online repository for nearly 100,000 free media assets with the launch of Pond5’s Public Domain Project.

Pond5 and Adobe partner for Adobe Premiere Pro royalty-free video, music and sound effects plugin: Pond5, the online repository for royalty-free stock media, has partnered with Adobe to officially launch a plugin for Adobe Premiere Pro that provides access to stock videos, music and sound effects directly within Adobe’s CS6 and Creative Cloud (CC) software. The release follows the beta availability of the tool, which has been knocking around since back in …

Shutterstock and Getty Images Competitor Pond5 Raises $61 Million: Venture investors are betting $61 million that Pond5 can take on Shutterstock, Getty Images and others to become the dominant, online marketplace for stock media.

Exclusive: Pond5, a stock video company, raises $61 million from Accel, Stripes: The bootstrapped firm, known for its marketplace of royalty-free stock video clips, wants to keep pace in a fast-growing online market.

Media Licensing Marketplace Pond5 Launches Massive Redesign, With Advanced Search And Customized Artist Pages – TechCrunch: Pond5 has grown its marketplace for finding video, photos, and other media pretty dramatically. But now that it has reached critical mass, it can be difficult to sort through all the millions of pieces of content to find what you want. To improve on that, the company has just launched a bold new re…

Stock Media Marketplace Pond5 Acquires Rival Pixmac: ‘Artist friendly’ stock media marketplace Pond5, is making a move to expand its global footprint today with the announcement that it has acquired Czech Republic-based rival Pixmac.

Media Marketplace Pond5 Acquires Stock Photo Startup Pixmac To Expand Its International Presence – TechCrunch: Pond5 has tried to differentiate itself with an artist-friendly model, allowing its contributors to set their own terms and splitting sales with them 50-50. That’s a much more favorable revenue split than the competition, and as a result, the marketplace has done pretty well for itself. Now it’s lo…

Media marketplace Pond5 acquires European stock photo startup Pixmac: Emboldened by the recent IPO success of stock imagery service Shutterstock, New York’s Pond5 has agreed to acquire Prague-based stock image service Pixmac to bolster its marketplace for media makers.

Pond5 Blog: The official blog of Pond5, your partner in creativity. Find inspiration, how-to tips and educational guides for integrating stock footage, video, photos, music, and more into your creative work.

Pond5 Breaks Industry Record with Library Exceeding 4 Million Video Clips – Videomaker: As the world’s largest repository of royalty-free video, the company has recently announced that its library of high-quality video clips now exceeds

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Pond5 licenses stock footage, stock music, stock photography sound effects, after effects, images and 3-D models . the company originally focused on selling video clips, but began to expand into other asset types following its 2013 acquisition of Pix Pond5 aggregates and sells content created and owned by contributors . contributors determine the selling price, and earn 50% of revenue .