David Seevers Email & Phone Number

As Chief Marketing Officer at Footage.net, the world’s premier online platform for stock footage research, Seevers oversees all marketing and outreach efforts, builds new content partnerships and manages the site design. With his help, Footage.net has grown to become one of the world’s largest online repositories of stock footage clips, and essential production resource for creative professionals around the world. Seevers also owns and operates Thriving Archives, a company providing strategic market research, marketing, communications, and business development services to companies working in and around the footage-licensing field. In partnership with the Association of Commercial Stock Image Licensors (ACSIL), Seevers produced both the ACSIL Global Survey of Stock Footage Companies 2007, a comprehensive review of the stock footage industry, and, in 2011, the ACSIL Global Survey of Stock Footage Companies 2. He is also the author of the Footage Customer Survey: Non-Fiction USA, an in-depth study of footage customers from the US documentary film community. He was formerly the Director of ABCNEWS VideoSource. A key member of the start-up, he led VideoSource through 10 years of growth. Along the way, he established the ABCNEWS VideoSource/IDA Award for Best Use of Stock Footage in a Documentary, presented annually by the IDA since 1997, and helped found and launch ACSIL, the Association of Commercial Stock Image Licensors. Seevers began his career in 1991 at Worldwide Television News, where he relaunched the WTN Library Sales department in the United States.Specialties: Excels at developing and implementing market research; designing and executing strategic marketing plans; creating clear and compelling business communications; building teams; solving problems; creating partnerships between companies; prospecting for new business; and closing deals.

Listed skills include Documentaries, Television, Digital Media, Web Video, and 17 others.

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