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When you need stock footage, sites like Shutterstock, Pond5, Storyblocks, Envato or Adobe Stock probably come immediately to mind. However, there are a lot of other sites where you can buy stock footage, often at much better prices and conditions. One such site is mediaCastpro, a recently established marketplace with an innovative business model. Let’s take a closer look in detail at what are the advantages of using mediaCastpro:
1. The price of footage on mediaCastpro is lower on average
This is definitely a good reason to prefer mediaCastpro. There are several reasons why prices are usually lower – sometimes by more than 50 percent:
- the platform uses a modern and innovative blockchain-based storage system that greatly reduces hosting costs;
- the platform retains a much lower sales commission than its competitors (25-30% versus 60-85%), so videographers can sell footage at lower prices while still earning the same amounts;
- the platform is B2B accessible only to professionals, so it has less traffic and management costs.
2. Stock footage purchased on mediaCastpro can be used without limits
Perhaps not everyone knows this, but many famous platforms impose limits on how footage can be used. For example, many platforms do not allow purchased footage to be broadcast on TV or when the audience is above a certain amount. In addition, many platforms require users to give credit attribution for editorial videos. On the other hand, mediaCastpro places no limit on usage and never requires credit attribution. Stock footage purchased on mediaCastpro can also be broadcast on TV, to an audience of millions of people, without mentioning the platform or the author of the footage.
3. mediaCastpro’s customer support is very quick to respond
One of the complaints most often made about large stock footage platforms is the difficulty in contacting customer support. Their 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 and the average response time – between 9 AM and 4 PM Italian time – is less than 60 minutes! All requests so far have been answered within 24 hours, even during holiday periods.
4. mediaCastpro uses an eco-friendly cloud 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-friendly, blockchain-based storage system that takes advantage of the free space on the hard drives of users from all over the world. It may seem like a small thing, but stock 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 powerful servers and hard drives, and all this pollutes. Instead, mediaCastpro uses a decentralized blockchain-based storage solution that 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.
5. On mediaCastpro you can buy exclusive footage and be the only one to use it
On the usual and most popular stock footage platforms, many videos can be found, but they have often already been downloaded, used, and viewed by many users. On mediaCastpro, however, you can also find exclusively sold footage that you can buy with the guarantee that it will not be sold to anyone else. In this way, you can be sure that no one else will use the footage you have purchased, and thus it will become your own footage for all intents and purposes, as if it had been made on commission.
For more information visit www.mediacastpro.net.
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