How it works

• Share : Citizenside is a platform for news photos and videos lovers. You witnessed an event? You want to show your vision of the news? Discover new info and images ? Share your impressions with other members? Join and meet an international community of citizen reporters that offers daily exclusive videos and photos, never seen in the traditional media.
• Sell : Citizenside is an intermediary between your photos and videos and the worldwide media. Payment platform, Citizenside negotiates for you your documents at the best prices and gives you back up to 75% * on the selling price. The editorial line: the documents put online must be of good quality and be linked to news events.

CitizenSide negotiates your scoops to the media

We can all become reporters. For each extraordinary event, there are always witnesses, very often equipped with cameras or camcorders. WHAT NEXT?

• What to do with your news documents ?
• How much is worth an exclusive shot ?
• How to sell my scoop ?
• To whom sell my photo or video ?
• At the local level ? national ? international?

CitizenSide was created to answer all these questions in the simplest way possible. It is simply a meeting place between individuals and media professionals (press, TV, websites…) ensured in FULL TRANSPARENCY.

Pioneers et leaders on the French market, today CitizenSide counts thousands of media clients all around the world and has already sold very big scoops.

Citizenside, how does it work?

1. It's a scoop : the document is almost immediately marketedunder an exclusive license by CitizenSide for three months, in effect as soon as it is received by CitizenSide.
   
   If your scoop is sold exclusively to a media or if there is a problem with the copyright, it probably won’t be published in the public gallery. You won’t see it on the website. This intends to guarantee your images remain a scoop and therefore allows us to negotiate a better price for them.
   
   After 30 days, the document is placed in citizenside.com's image bank and will be available for sale for an unlimited amount of time.
2. It's an interesting news photo : the document is integrated inside the image bank and is sold at a set price. It will be on sale on citizenside.com under a non-exclusive license and for an unlimited length of time.
3. The document is not in accordance with our editorial line (not interesting enough) or CitizenSide's ethics (documents depicting pornography, violence, etc.). It will simply be refused.

How will I get paid ?

CitizenSide is a payment platform. Buyers pay CitizenSide, who keeps the funds for 60 days starting the reception date as a down payment if a legal problem should arise.

After the 60 days are up, the scoop seller receives his payment via PayPal or a bank transfer (or a check in some cases) after CitizenSide took its commission.

Your commission rate could be as much as 75%, more than twice the commission rate paid by photo agencies.

Important : When you put your photos or videos up for sale to CitizenSide's subscribed buyers, you agree not to sell them elsewhere for a period of three months.

It's a detail of capital importance since this is what really gives your photo its value. In fact, the exclusivity clause is a determining factor for us to set a price for your photo.

As an intermediary CitizenSide declines all responsibility for the content for sale on its site.

It is important for sellers to be aware of the different legislations and which could differ from country to country.

To know more, check out our faq or contact us.