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At www.gettyimages.com/video you'll find an unrivaled wealth of high-quality video clips in the industry's largest collection. Our comprehensive site allows customers to search through clips, price and purchase broadcast-quality videos and easily download final high definition assets.

From Oscar-winning motion pictures to Cannes International Advertising Festival commercials to streaming video on corporate sites, Getty Images video is widely used across advertising, feature film, corporate communication, new media and television markets.

Getty Images has several house collections including rights-ready collections, one80, Image Bank Film and Archive Films and royalty-free collections, Digital Vision and Photodisc. You may be offered the opportunity to submit your material to one of these collections if it meets their unique creative direction.

What type of video are we looking for?
We seek dynamic and exceptional videos. Clips with strong conceptual appeal and an emotional connection have the greatest power to make multiple, global sales. All contemporary videos should be shot in a fresh and innovative fashion. In addition to contemporary material, we're always interested in unique and powerful editorial and archival footage.

Submission Requirements
To successfully submit, you'll need to carefully read and understand our Submission Requirements document, which you can download by clicking here.

Here are the main points:
- We primarily accept content captured on high definition, or on film and transferred to high definition.
- Content can be submitted digitally (hard drive or DVD) or on tape.
- Model and Property releases are required with all clips where relevant and must be supplied in digital format.
- Metadata (also known as captioning) must also be supplied to us digitally..

Submit a Sample of Your Work
If you feel you have content that is suitable for our collection and are interested in it being licensed through Getty Images, we'll be pleased to review a sample of your work to see if your material is relevant for our collections and it meets the high technical and legal standards our customers demand. If it meets our requirements, we'll be able to offer you a contract to contribute to one of our collections; it's then up to you to decide if you'd like to enter into a licensing agreement with us. For an overview of the main points contained in the Contributor Agreement please click here.

Please follow the details below to submit a sample of your work (at least 15-20 clips) for review:

If you'd like to send a sample of your work via a link or access to an FTP site, please email details to footage.submissions@gettyimages.com.

If you'd like to mail a sample of your work on DVD or VHS tape (NTSC or PAL), please include all your contact information and send to:

New Contributor - Video
Getty Images
75 Varick Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10013

When submitting a sample of your work, please include the following information:

- Where are you located?
- What format and camera the video was acquired on?
- What was this material originally shot for?
- Is this material available for stock video representation?
- How many clips do you currently have available for representation?

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at footage.submissions@gettyimages.com.

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