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WHAT IS STOCK VIDEO?!

ALSO KNOWN AS: Stock Footage, B-Roll, Cut-Away Clips‍‍‍

You are watching a commercial on TV that jumps between a beautiful sunset in France, to a boat sailing the coast of SouthAfrica, to a bustling street in Hong Kong. How much money did they spend making this thing?! Chances are the commercial producers used a combination of content they captured themselves, along with Stock Video.

Stock video is short video clips that are used in countless areas of media production where it would be very costly or time consuming for the production to film it themselves.

Everywhere you see video playing there is a high likelihood you will find stock video. TV commercials, Youtube Videos, even TV shows and Movies use stock video footage.

The major appeal of using stock video are that it is 1, Cheap relative to capturing the content directly and 2. Extremely fast to purchase and download a clip that is needed.

With this in mind, there is a huge opportunity for those who make video content (You!) to sell your video clips on stock video agencies to earn some extra cash.

There are a number of stock video agencies out there that act as marketplaces where buyers purchase video clips sellers supply. In exchange for running this marketplace, the stock agency takes a percentage of the commission of the sale.

By this point, you should have a basic understanding of how selling stock video works, but may have a host of other questions on how to start selling. This site has been organized to help guide you through the steps from capturing the stock video all the way through to uploading and making your first sales and beyond.

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