BBC Motion Gallery and Thought Equity Motion launch strategic partnership

BBC Motion Gallery, the motion clip sales arm of BBC Worldwide has re-launched its site at www.bbcmotiongallery.com, powered by Thought Equity Motion’s technology platform. Thought Equity Motion is a leader in digitising, delivering and monetising video content. The companies now cross-represent select international content sales.

The new web presence will be bolstered with professional video clips, enhanced search capabilities, simplified navigation, and instant complimentary preview downloads. Customers will benefit from more robust content delivery across a range of formats, as well as licensing content with simplified rights and pricing.

Select content from Thought Equity Motion media partners is available for licensing on www.bbcmotiongallery.com, including Paramount Pictures, National Geographic, Sony Pictures Entertainment, HBO Archives, Smithsonian Channel, and a vast array of royalty free clips.

Commenting on the partnership, Paul Maidment, Business Development Director, BBC Motion Gallery, said, “Our strategic relationship with Thought Equity Motion is a great development for BBC Motion Gallery and our clients. By making high-quality motion imagery from the BBC and other collections, we represent readily available for licensing via an enhanced web and technology offering, our global clients will have quicker and more effective access to our libraries. BBC Motion Gallery will continue to offer exclusive access to the BBC Archive, a textual database of over a million hours of footage.”

Additionally, with this move, BBC Motion Gallery has launched an educational licensing division, led by Jan Ross, Senior Vice President, BBC Motion Gallery, Americas. This division will serve the education market, building on key partnerships created over the last several years and fostering new business in this area.