Young New York and Geneva-based stock-footage marketplace Pond5 has reached 150,000 broadcast quality, royalty-free HD and SD clips. It has also added a free weekly HD stock clip offer.
Established in 2006, Pond5 bills itself as the world’s first open marketplace for stock footage. The company says it now has the fastest-growing collection of inexpensive royalty-free motion content on the Web, doubling in size every six months.
Founder and CEO Tom Bennett says this rapid expansion is the result of the company’s high contributor royalties of 50%, as well as its artist-friendly contract, cutting-edge user interface and “the absolute lowest prices anywhere.” The company says that many of its 1,200 contributing video producers are seeing recurring income in the thousands of dollars per month.