Published on 19th June 2026
Filmed something newsworthy? News channels pay for eyewitness video — but if you post it publicly first, the exclusivity (and your payday) is gone. Sell-It.Media flips the old lose-lose: send us your footage before it's shared, we verify it, newsrooms bid, and you get paid. The person who shot the moment finally earns from it. Here's how it works ? sell-it.media
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Published on 15th June 2026
A complete, balanced guide to selling your video footage to news organizations - what counts as newsworthy, your selling options, what footage is worth, rights and how to get paid fast.
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Published on 11th June 2026
When Belfast erupted, the night's most valuable footage was already shot - by an eyewitness on the scene, hours before the TV crews arrived. The eyewitness layer is the gap in every newsroom's coverage. Sell-It.Media turns the frantic scramble for verified footage into a marketplace: find the clip, win the bid, run the story.
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Published on 9th March 2026
BBC Verify’s four-step process for authenticating eyewitness video highlights the growing challenge of verifying footage from social media in the age of AI fakes and misinformation. This article explains how newsrooms verify viral videos and why a new model is emerging. Sell-It.Media verifies eyewitness footage at source, giving journalists trusted, authenticated video with verified creators, clear rights and raw files before it reaches the newsroom.
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Published on 12th May 2023
In recent years, the rise of smartphones has allowed for the rapid capture and dissemination of news and events as they happen. With the ability to record high-quality video and take clear photos from the palm of their hand, everyday people have become content capturers, documenting the world around them in real time.
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