Pond5

Pond5 is a multimedia platform that provides royalty-free music, sound effects, footage, photos, and more for content creators.

With world-class search algorithms, eclectic collections, and budget-friendly packages, anyone can find their ideal media assets in little time.

Pond5 currently houses over 11 million photos, 4.3 million video footage, 1.5 million music tracks, and 1.7 million sound effects. It also offers royalty-free after effects and illustrations if you want to create animations and manipulate imagery in your videos.

Curated collections are built around trends, concepts, mood, and more. There’s tech aesthetics for agencies that work with innovative startups, historical footage of world leaders and famous cities, and exclusive footage you won’t find anywhere else but on Pond5.

This impressive marketplace helps you get down to the specifics. Quickly refine your search with filters and sort the assets according to price, usage, resolution, duration and frame rates (for videos), number of people shown, gender, and more.

As a Pond5 user, you have three payment options. Either purchase the assets per item or via credit packs or subscription.

Pond5’s best feature is its patented and AI-powered visual search tool, which lets you match the composition or color palette of any video or photo you see.

Whether it’s a photo you stumble on the multimedia marketplace, a video on your favorite YouTube channel, or an image you took on your mobile device during vacation, use Visual Search to find similar assets and replicate the look in your projects.

You can even remove unwanted elements during search.

Say you want a similar beach photo you saw on your favorite blog but you want to exclude tourists and boats. Simply use the cursor to mask out both elements and Pond5 will exclude them in the visual search.

Pond5 works well with major tools such as Premier Pro and Final Cut Pro X. That way, you can continue to use your favorite tools without any interruption.

Key features

• Footage
• Music
• Sound effects
• After effects
• Images
• 3D models
• Visual Search