When you have the need to buy stock footage, sites like Shutterstock, Pond5 or Adobe Stock probably come immediately to mind. However, there are dozens of other sites where you can buy stock footage, often at much better terms and prices. In particular, today we want to focus on one of the most recently born platforms, namely mediaCastpro.
1. Stock footage on mediaCastpro costs less
The first reason for choosing mediaCastpro could only be the price of videos, which is often a key parameter in choosing the site where to buy stock footage. In fact, on mediaCastpro, the prices of videos are usually lower than the prices of the same videos on other more famous and well-known platforms. The savings can even exceed 50%! This is possible mainly for two reasons: because the platform uses a modern and innovative blockchain-based storage system that greatly reduces hosting costs, and because the platform retains a much lower sales commission than its competitors (25-30% versus 60-85%), so creators can sell videos at lower prices while still earning the same amounts.
2. On mediaCastpro you only pay for what you buy
It may seem obvious, but the most popular stock footage platforms are increasingly pushing users to make subscriptions, raising the prices of individually purchased clips. Subscriptions, however, involve a number of downloads that almost never coincide with your needs. Although subscriptions are advertised as something that saves you money, in reality, it very often leads you to spend more. On mediaCastpro, however, subscriptions do not even exist, and each video is sold at a clear and fair price.
3. Footage purchased on mediaCastpro can be used without limits
Perhaps not everyone knows this, but many stock footage platforms impose limits on how videos can be used. For example, many stock platforms do not allow purchased videos to be broadcast on TV or when there is an audience above a certain amount. In addition, many stock platforms require users to cite the platform from which the videos in their productions were purchased, especially if they are editorial videos. On the other hand, mediaCastpro places no limit on usage and never requires credit attribution. Footage purchased on mediaCastpro can also be broadcast on TV, to an audience of millions, without mentioning the platform or the author of the videos in any way.
4. mediaCastpro’s support is particularly fast and efficient
One of the complaints most often made about large stock footage platforms is the difficulty in accessing customer support. Customer support responses are often automatic or arrive after several days. On mediaCastpro, on the other hand, customer support is particularly quick and efficient. There are no automated responses, ever and in any situation, and the average response time – between 9 AM and 4 PM Italian time, where the company is based – is less than 60 minutes! All requests so far have been answered within 24 hours, even during holiday periods. It is true that customer support is something that most of the time is not needed but, when it is needed, it is certainly helpful that it is quick and effective.
5. mediaCastpro uses an environmentally sustainable storage system.
We all know how climate change is worsening the quality of our lives year by year, and how it is absolutely essential to do something as soon as possible to reduce this phenomenon. The company that runs mediaCastpro pays special attention to the environment, and that is precisely why it decided to use an eco-sustainable, blockchain-based storage system that takes advantage of the free space on the hard drives of users from various parts of the world. It may seem like a small thing, but as those who work in the video production industry well know, videos take up a lot of space – it can be as much as 1 GB for a single minute of video! A platform hosting hundreds of thousands of videos would need to use several servers and hard drives, polluting, but using a decentralized blockchain-based solution avoids this and greatly reduces pollution. Buying stock footage from mediaCastpro, albeit in a small way, means supporting a platform that thinks about the environment and respects it.
For more information visit www.mediacastpro.net.