Best Stock Footage and Stock Image Sites (2023)
Top Royalty-Free Video and Stock Photo Sites for Creatives.
Want to know what the best stock video footage and stock image sites are for creatives, marketing, and / or advertising efforts? Look no further. Here's a list of the best royalty-free video and photo sites, both free and paid options.
Shutterstock Video
Shutterstock helps creative professionals from all backgrounds and businesses of all sizes produce their best work with incredible content and innovative tools, all on one platform. With over 1 billion video clips, images, and music tracks to download - it is perhaps the largest and most generic stock footage library.
iStock Footage
Adobe Stock
Adobe stock is another great resource for stock videos, photos, illustrations, vectors, music, sound effects, templates, and more.
Check out their pricing page here.
Envato Market
Pond5
Grab stunning stock video footage, images, sounds, after effects templates, and more on Pond5. With a library of over 33 million videos shot by the world's most talented fimmakers.
You have the choice to pay per clip, image, and item, or you purchase a prepaid credit pack, or a membership. Prices are set by contributing filmmakers and artists and vary by media type. Video clips start at $25 and music tracks start at $5.
Find more information about pricing for each media type here.
Film Supply
Stocksy
Stocksy stock footage and photo is site and art-forward, royalty-free stock agency that makes discovering unique and beautifully authentic imagery effortless.
High curation standards paired with a collection of exclusive assets means you don't have to search through endless pages to find the perfect photo and video clip.
Dissolve
Vimeo Stock
Vimeo Stock is another great resource for stock footage, and is quite different from the others on this list. They have exceptional exclusive video handpicked and curated from iconic creators.
HD clips start at $64 and 4K clips start at $160. Members can save 20% off every clip.
Nimia
Nimia is an award winning stock footage site that was one of the first to license 8K footage along with 16K video. Shop royalty-free and rights-managed stock footage from the world's top filmmakers exclusively on Nimia. Creative, archival, and news stock footage at your finger tips.
Artgrid
Artgrid is another great stock footage resource. They license royalty-free stock video, photo, and sound effects.
Filmstocks
Filmstocks is your one-stop shop for royalty-free video clips, effects, music, and sound.
Storyblocks
Storyblocks is the ultimate tool for video creators. With over a million royalty-free stock assets in their library; they have stock footage, photos, sound effects, music, templates, and more.
View their pricing plans here.
Overflight Stock
Overflight Stock specializes in aerial stock footage and has a vast library of drone-based video clips in HD and 4K. They are commited to building the premiere stock collection of one-of-a-kind aerial media for use in feature films, TV, documentaries, and advertising.
View their pricing plans here.
Pexels
Pexels is perhaps the best free stock footage and stock image site on the web. With a vast library of royalty-free stock video clips and stock photos, you should be able to find most anything you're looking for.
They help millions of filmmakers, video editors, designers, and artists get access to beautiful photos and videos that they can use freely which empowers them to create amazing products, designs, stories, websites, and more.
Pixabay
Pixabay is another great resource for free stock video and stock photos, music, sound effects, and more. With over 3 million high quality stock images, videos, and music shared by their talented community.
Clipstill
Clipstill is a free cinemagraphs site that is great for your marketing and website design.
Videezy
Videezy is another library of free HD stock footage and 4K videos. They also have stock images, vectors, and creative assets available for download. Their collection of high-quality footage makes filmmaking easy and affordable.
Videvo
Videvo offers over 1 million stock video clips, motion graphics, templates, music, and sound effects for filmmakers, video editors, and motion artists.
Pro Video Factory
Pro Video Factory is a stock footage platform where you can buy premium quality clips in HD, 4K, 6K and up. Their mission is to facilitate the creative process for filmmakers, editors, and creatives all over the globe.
You can view their pricing here.
Big Stock
Big Stock is a great stock video and stock image site. They offer over 120 million royalty-free photographs and illustrations from talented photographers and artists around the world.
You can check out their pricing plans here.
We hope you’ve found this article on the Best Stock Footage and Stock Image Sites 2023 to be useful and practical.
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