Underwater Stock Footage and Photos
Our underwater stock footage and underwater stock photos are available for licensing.
The copyright of all videos, pictures and text on this website, except for images of third-party products, is owned by Bubble Vision Co Ltd. and/or Nicholas Hope. No material is in the public domain. Material may not be used without permission.
Commercial Use of Video
The underwater stock footage previewed on this website, and much much more, is available for licensing. Bubble Vision underwater stock footage has appeared on the BBC, Channel 4 and The History Channel. Masters in PAL format are normally supplied on a mini-DV cassette. If you need DV-quality NTSC format we can supply that as an AVI file on a DVD-R or CD-R disk or as a download. We can also convert into other formats such as MPEG2, MPEG4, DVD, Quicktime, Windows Media, DivX and Real Video. See our video format conversion page for details.
We license our video per second, with a minimum of 10 seconds. Our usual licence agreement is non-exclusive, for a single insert in a single production ("rights managed"), and our prices are as follows:
per second
prices |
National (5 years) |
Worldwide (5 years) |
All Media (in perpetuity) |
Non-Broadcast |
25 USD |
35 USD |
45 USD |
Documentary Broadcast |
35 USD |
45 USD |
60 USD |
Entertainment Broadcast |
50 USD |
60 USD |
75 USD |
Advertising/Theatrical |
70 USD |
80 USD |
95 USD |
Non-Broadcast:
The non-broadcast license allows for use on one of the following non-broadcast media: website (excluding advertising), personal videos, and educational exhibits. For other non-broadcast media (e.g. trade shows, in-house corporate, cell phones, and amusement parks), please contact us for a quote. License terms for the national and worldwide options are 5 years. The "all media" option permits use for a single production on any number of the listed non-broadcast media, worldwide, in-perpetuity.
Website Use:
Website use requires a non-broadcast, worldwide license. Downloads must be disabled. Clips must be watermarked in some way, and we can help you with this if you wish. For internet advertising, please contact us for a rate quote.
The edited underwater videos on this site are available themselves to license for other websites etc. but in most cases it is better just to provide a link to our underwater videos page.
Documentary Broadcast:
Documentary broadcast license terms for national and worldwide options are for 5 years. The "all media" option permits use for a single production, including broadcast use and any non-broadcast media, worldwide, in perpetuity. For promotional use, add 50% to the "all media" rates.
Entertainment TV:
Entertainment broadcast license terms for national and worldwide options are for 5 years. The "all media" option permits use in a single production including broadcast use and any non-broadcast media, worldwide, in perpetuity. For promotional use add 50% to the "all media" rates.
Commercial Use of Still Images
Our underwater stock photos are available as an uncompressed image file and may be licenced for use in commercial websites, printed media etc. Our underwater stock photos have appeared in magazines including Diver, Sport Diving, 9-90 and Scubaglobe (Thai Diver). The majority of the pictures are captured from video and so the resolution is generally maximum 768 x 576. A few were captured to memory stick at 1360 x 1020.
Rates for use of our pictures in printed media are as follows:
circulation |
<5,000 |
5,001-20,000 |
20,001-50,000 |
50,001-100,000 |
100,001-250,000 |
250,001-500,000 |
500,001-1,000,000 |
1,000,000+ |
Advertising |
10,000 baht |
11,250 baht |
12,500 baht |
13,750 baht |
15,000 baht |
17,000 baht |
20,000 baht |
contact us for a quote |
Editorial |
6,000 baht |
7,000 baht |
8,000 baht |
9,000 baht |
10,000 baht |
12,000 baht |
14,000 baht |
|
Editorial (daily
newspaper) |
6,000
baht |
7,000 baht |
8,000 baht |
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For internet/website use, our pricing is as follows:
1 year |
perpetuity |
|
1 instance per
domain |
8,000 baht |
20,000 baht |
per further instance
on same domain |
4,000 baht |
10,000 baht |
per associated
thumbnail upto 100 pixels wide |
2,000 baht |
5,000 baht |
For other uses, please contact us with the details, such as:
- medium (e.g. website, book, magazine, newspaper, leaflet, CD-ROM etc.)
- circulation (e.g. 1000 copies, 10,000 copies etc.)
- desired duration of licence (e.g. 3 months, 1 year, perpetual)
- territories (e.g. regional, national, international)
Non-Commercial Use
You may use the pictures or videos on this website for free on non-commercial web pages provided:
- The pictures or videos are not cropped, truncated or altered in any way
- The copyright text on the picture or video is retained
- You inform us of the use by e-mail
- A link to http://www.bubblevision.com is provided from the associated text or from the picture itself. For this purpose you may copy and paste the following text, which includes the link:
Photo courtesy of Bubble Vision underwater video
We reserve the right to refuse or withdraw permission at any time.
Trademarks
The name "Bubble Vision" and the Bubble Vision logo are registered trademarks, numbers ค212827 and ค212828.

