Open marketplace for buyers and sellers of royalty-free clips in all categories.A review of this tool in this presentation.

1. Pond 5

2. Pond5
What is Pond5?
Pond5.com is a web-based stock footage marketplace and community of filmmakers, stock
videographers, musicians, photographers, designers, and audio professionals. It’s a great place to find and license stock
footage or audio for use in your productions, or to upload and market your own work for use by others. All of our clips are
downloadable and available immediately under a royalty-free licensing agreement.
Who sells on Pond5?
Any copyright-holder of high-quality footage, audio, after effects templates and images including individuals, companies, and
organizations, or their authorized representatives. If you are unsure about whether you are legally allowed to upload content
to Pond5, do not upload.
Does Pond5 check for copy right?
Yes. Submitter must have rights for distribution to the submitted imagery. Found or public domain images or illustrations cannot be
submitted under any circumstances. If you do not have complete rights to the submission, you may not submit it.
For submitted work that contains any copyrighted material including paintings, other copyrighted photos, copyrighted logos, or any
other art/advertisements/sculptures/exhibits which are copyrighted, you must either submit releases from the copyright owners or you
must note to the curator the images are editorial.

3. Pond5
What do you mean Royalty Free?
Our industry-standard royalty-free license agreement allows buyers to use footage in a wide variety of ways in their
own work, across multiple projects, for a one-time licensing fee. Basically, you're granted non-exclusive perpetual
use of the footage across a wide array of media, worldwide. Most uses of our footage are acceptable under our
license agreement
How do I purchase clips?
Once your clips have been selected and added to the cart, simply log into your account and click "checkout" and
check out like you would for any online purchase, using paypal or a credit card. Our system is pay-as-you-go - you
only need to purchase the clips you want, and will not be required to pay for additional credits, or a subscription
package. If your company does not support paypal or credit card systems, you can start the process for setting up a
Purchase Order system by sending us an email .

4. Pond5 – How it works
A sample of a clip that
you can download off
Pond5. Basically you can
download various videos
in this section.

5. Pond5 – How it works
One can purchase the
video clip if he/she finds
it relevant to their
product or brand directly
from the site in various
resolutions… Directly by
adding to cart. You can
pay by CC, Paypal or if
your account is prepaid.
It’ll charge to that.

6. Pond5 – How it works
You can use a search box or there are various categories
to search videos/photos/illustrations/ aftereffects/music
etc.

7. Pond5 – How it works
One can also download
SFX sound effects music.

8. Pond5 – How it works
One can search for music
clippings too… They have
audio cues of pond5 to
avoid copying… but once
we buy it it’ll go away.

9. Pond5 – How it works
Through Photo search or
gallery you can look for
images on the website…

10. Pond5 – How it works
You can also download
illustrations.

11. Pond5 – How it works
You can also download
3D images.

12. Pond5 – How it works
There’s also a preview
feature where without
clicking the image you
can see the preview of
flash / video / photo.

13. Pond5 – How it works
They have a support
center where one can
look for help.

14. Pond5 – How it works
There is also a full
fledged community
where if you’re
stuck, you can look for
help / answers.

15. Pond5 – Summary
• Overall has a good mix of videos, photos, illustrations, SFX, Music, 3d and after effects.
• Good if we want to create custom videos and make videos for brands / clients
ourselves.
• Pricing may be an issue as it may turn out to be costly if we buy many things to
compile one product. (Video/photo etc.)
• Overall it’s good, but reviews state that iStock is a competitor that’s better than Pond5.
• Definitely better than Shutterstock per se.

16. THANK YOU
Srinivas Kulkarni
Social Web Advocate
@srinistuff