Stock video marketplaces for contributors

Stock video marketplaces license footage to buyers and pay the person who shot it a share of each license. Videographers, drone pilots, filmmakers and motion designers use them to earn from clips they already have or shoot for the purpose, often on several marketplaces at once. They differ in how the share is set (a flat percentage, levels that reset each year, an exclusive tier, or a share of a subscription pool), how and when they pay out, whether you can remove clips or set prices, what happens to your clips in AI training, and whether anyone can join or you apply first.

We compare them on the same six indicators, read from each marketplace's earnings pages, payout and upload help, contributor agreement and AI pages:

• Royalty for a new seller: the average video share for a new non-exclusive contributor whose clips are licensed 100 times in a year; rates open only to exclusive contributors are not counted, and 0 when the share is not stated as a percentage.
• Earnings clarity: whether the share is stated as a percentage, how a subscription or pack download is valued, a minimum per download, and rules the pages leave out or describe two ways.
• Getting paid: the payout minimum, monthly or on-request payouts, the number of payout methods, holding or raising your minimum, and earnings reported per clip.
• Rights and control: selling non-exclusively, removing a single clip, setting your own prices, and notice before rates or terms change.
• AI and data terms: a stated commitment not to use your clips for AI training or data licensing, or else pay for that use at a stated rate, an opt-out, and whether the use is disclosed.
• Access and reach: open sign-up or an application, sales beyond the marketplace itself, FTP or CSV bulk upload, an exclusive option, referral earnings and published demand data.

Buyer prices, how much any contributor sells, and how long review or payment takes are not scored; whether a marketplace accepts AI-generated video is stated but not scored. Each review says which pages it was written from and when. Where we have run a product hands-on, the evidence is on its page.