Find the clips worth money. License them to the people telling stories. Keep 60%.
Producer? Cast real peopleCast and research real peopleEven a clip from his own iPhone made it to air, in Claw Hunters. Yours could be next.
Everyone has footage nobody else has.
Selfshot gets it paid for.
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Drop in videos from your phone or computer. Selfshot checks and rates each one.
A fair price from quality, length and how rare the moment is. You have the final say.
Buyers get the clean file and a license certificate. Releases are checked before anything goes live.
60% of every sale, straight to your bank. Your footage stays yours.
1080p, 30 frames a second, filmed well. Already worth something to someone telling a story.
Every clip uploaded this month is in. The most liked make a bracket, and the community votes it down to one. October 2026: the final is live.
Every clip leads to a person who lives that story: the welder, the storm chaser, the nurse on nights. Search them by what they filmed, their job or where they are, and cast your next character without weeks of cold calls.
See ProPay once and you know exactly what you can do with it. Drop the certificate in your project folder or hand it to whoever clears your footage.
Whatever you pay, the person who filmed it gets 60% of the list price.
Clean original and a license certificate. Covers every episode, trailer and promo of your project.
Browse footageResearch and casting. Find real people by job, place or the footage they shot, and reach the ones who say yes.
See ProEvery clip covers unlimited projects. 5 Pro seats for your newsroom, production company or agency.
See BusinessI studied broadcast journalism, landed a TV internship, and within a few years I was chasing daily stories and dispatching crews around the world for a nightly science show. Whatever they shot, we fed back, cut that night and put to air.
Since then I’ve been a researcher, story producer, series producer, field director, story editor and development director. Every one of those jobs came down to two things: finding the footage, and finding the people behind it.
My work has aired on Discovery, The Weather Channel, Apple TV and Crave. Even a clip I shot on my own iPhone made it to air, in Claw Hunters.
The idea hit me on the bridge of a research ship off Newfoundland, heading back to a newly discovered coral garden with marine scientists and Indigenous youth learning ocean science. One of the mates pulled out his phone and showed me the storms he’d filmed right where we were. Incredible footage that nobody would ever see.
So I built Selfshot. The people who film it get paid. The people who need it can finally find it, and the person behind it.
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