Where to Find Copyright-free Photos and Videos Online
Finding copyright-free photos and videos to use in your digital marketing can be challenging! Searching on Google for photos, videos or images is not a good idea as the majority of what you’ll find will have copyrights, so don’t go there!
Copyright-free photos and videos are necessary for online marketing and social media and can help showcase your brand! You’ll appreciate knowing about these sites not only because the images are free but also because you’re supporting artists and photographers.
Here are the top sites I use to find beautiful images. Hundreds of high-resolution images are added weekly and all images are free from copyright restrictions. Every image on these sites is governed exclusively by the generous terms of the Creative Commons CCO License.
The Creative Commons CCO License allows you to download the photo and publish, revise, copy, alter and share it. Also, this license means that you are not required to give the creator credit when you use their images.
The image creator has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all rights to the work worldwide under copyright law. You don’t need to buy a CCO image, you don’t need written permission from the image’s creator and you don’t need to attribute the work to the image creator (although it’s a nice thing to do).
Copyright-Free Photo and Video Sites
Here’s an image I found on the Pixabay site and I added a quote to it and published it for a client on Instagram. Also, note that I created this quote in the easy-to-use graphics program–Canva. Canva is super easy to learn and offers various tutorials.
Here’s an image on Unsplash which I added a quote to and published on Instagram.
Here’s one of the photos Pexels offers.
StockSnap has quite a range of gorgeous photos.
Free Images
Just scrolling through copyright-free images will often help you consider some marketing ideas you hadn’t thought of. For instance, what if you own a coffee shop and you want a steaming hot cup of coffee and you can’t take a good photo in your shop? Voila! Free image sites will have the perfect cup of coffee for your needs. Please avoid using Google Images. Most Google images are copyrighted so be very careful using them.
Jules Marie is a social media manager in Colorado and loves hiking in the mountains. with her three golden retrievers.
