Add More to Your Blog Posts and Email with Multimedia, Free – B2B Marketing and Sales Tip #258
A picture is worth a thousand words, or so they say. However, I for one do not want to pay thousands of dollars in royalties. Images and other multimedia can really bring a blog post to life or capture the attention of your email subscribers. If you are like most of us, purchasing multimedia doesn’t exactly get its own budget line item. Thanks to Barb Dybwad at Mashable for the post, 26 Places to Find Free Multimedia for Your Blog.
Here is part of what Barb had to say:
Creative Commons search:
Free stock and public domain images
Much like with Creative Commons images, many just require attribution be given to the original creator. If an image is in the public domain, it is completely free for you to use for any purpose, altered or not, without credit required.
5. Stock.XCHNG
8. PDphoto
WikiMedia Commons
Aggregating all of the associated media from the various Wikimedia Foundation projects, the WikiMedia Commons is a large database that includes primarily freely reusable images, audio and video broken down into their various license categories. Be sure to note which type of license the image you want to use is under and follow the reuse guidelines for that particular license. Some useful collections include:
12. Public domain
13. Creative Commons
14. Sound
15. Video
Free audio sources
16. opsound
Free video sources
20. Internet Archive Moving Images Collection
Further resources
25. TeacherLibrarianWiki’s list of copyright-friendly image sources
26. NASA
I recommend digging a little to find an image that is not too overused. It is possible to find stock photography that doesn’t look glaringly like stock photography. Trust me, you will feel like you have been sucker punched when you are driving down the freeway and see the same image you used for your entire fall campaign on a billboard for a used car dealership.
Also, before you use any image, audio or video, double check the license agreement for allowed uses and attribution requirements.
For Barb’s full list, be sure to check out the complete article.
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