Media and assets
The picture come with im paperwork
Royalty-free photography, video and audio wey dem gather from eleven providers, search am for one place, import am locally, and store am with the licence and attribution attach to the file, no be to somebody memory of where dem find am.
The problem wey e solve no be to find picture
To find picture easy. Anybody fit find picture in ninety seconds. The problem na the six months after, when the picture don copy from the blog post enter newsletter, from the newsletter enter slide, and from the slide enter printed leaflet — and nobody fit talk which of the eleven sites e come from, wetin licence e dey under, or whether dem give the required credit at all.
By then, the person wey download am don comot, the tab don close, and the honest answer to “we fit use this one?” na say nobody know. That one na small risk for blog post but na real risk for anything wey dem print, pay for, or put on product.
So the record travel with the file. The provider, the author, the licence, the source URL, and credit line wey dem generate from that record — wey mean say the credit line no fit drift comot from the thing wey e credit.
- 1Search“autumn market stall” — eleven providers, one set of result.
- 2Di one wey dem chooseBy AI step against the brief, or by person from shortlist.
- 3Import amE dey stored locally. Licence na CC0. Author and source URL dey recorded.
- 4Dem don use amE go dey inside the post wey the next step go publish, credit line join.
- §Six months aftaDi same file inside printed leaflet still carry di same correct credit.
Eleven providersAttribution dey travel with the file
Eleven provider dem, one search
Di libraries wey dey publish royalty-free work no gree on anything: no be on how dia search dey behave, no be on how dem dey talk licence, no be on wetin fields dem dey return. Di aggregation make dem look like one collection with one vocabulary, so workflow fit ask for picture without knowing which shelf e come from.
“Royalty-free” sef no be one licence. E cover public-domain dedication, permissive licence wey require credit, and licence wey get restriction on commercial use. Each imported file keep im own, and workflow fit filter am — so “only assets wey I fit use commercially without attribution” na condition no be hope.
Imported, no be hot-linked
Wetin you use na copy wey dey stored on di platform. If provider rearrange dem site, change URL or remove item, e no go break page wey you publish two years ago. Dis one sef mean say di file dey available to di next step sharp sharp, at predictable speed, without workflow dey wait for another person CDN.
Picture wey dem allow you to use, with di credit don already attach.
Inside workflow
Where media come be one step no be one task
Illustrated content
Post, newsletter or landing page wey marketing workflow assemble, with di picture wey dem choose against di brief and di credit line don already write.
Catalogue gaps
Product wey no get photograph na product wey dey sell bad. Workflow fit find suitable placeholder, tag am clear say na placeholder, and flag di line make dem put real photograph.
Social on schedule
Weekly post wey need image every week. Di search na one step, di choice na one step, and none of dem be somebody Friday afternoon.
Audio for video
Music and sound beds under di same aggregation and di same licence handling, for di workflows wey dey produce something with soundtrack.
Your own assets
Files wey workflow produce — generated report, invoice PDF, export — fit dey stored alongside, with links wey go expire when you decide say dem suppose expire.
Audit wey possible
Because every asset carry im provenance, di question “where dis one come from?” get answer for every file, no be only di ones wey somebody happen to note down.
Wetin dis one no be
E no be stock agency and e no dey sell you rights. Everything here na material wey di original provider publish as royalty-free; di platform dey aggregate, import and keep di paperwork, and di licence wey you dey operate under na di one di provider grant.
E sef no be substitute for photographing your own product. Stock photography na for illustration and mood, and difference dey wey person fit see between business wey dey show dia own work and one wey dey show well-lit stranger inside office. Use am for di former and photograph di latter.
Read di licence when e matter. Di record dey attach to every file precisely so you fit read am. For blog post, di default handling dey enough; for printed run of ten thousand leaflets or anything wey dey appear on packaging, somebody suppose look di actual terms, and now something dey to look at.