Pond5

Pond5
Company typeSubsidiary
Industrystock footage, stock music, sound effects, and stock photography
Founded2006
FounderTom Bennett (founder)
Marcus Engene (founder)
Headquarters
New York City, New York
,
U.S.
Number of locations
New York, London, Dublin, Prague
Area served
Global
ProductsStock Footage
Stock Music
Sound Effects
Stock Images
Pond5 Select
Pond5 Subscriptions
ServicesLicensing of stock media
Number of employees
175
ParentShutterstock
Websitewww.pond5.com

Pond5 is a New York–based online marketplace for royalty-free media. The company licenses stock footage, stock music, stock photography, sound effects, Adobe After Effects templates, and 3D models. Pond5 claims to have the world's largest collection of stock footage,[1] and that they host more than 38 million clips as of September 2023.[2]

The company originally focused on selling video clips, but began to expand into other asset types following its 2013 acquisition of Pixmac, a stock photography site based in the Czech Republic.[3][4] The acquisition added Pixmac’s 6,000+ photographers and support for 17 languages to the Pond5 marketplace.[5]

  1. ^ "Pond5 Surpasses a Record 30 Million Licensable Videos". PR Newswire. 19 Jan 2022.
  2. ^ Pond5 (1 September 2023). "Pond5 Footage Page". Pond5.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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