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Blog
New Platform Features: Bulk Download High Res Files and License Summaries, Plus a New Shots Table Filter
We have exciting new features to announce at Catch+Release this week that help you streamline your production workflow. Whether it’s through automating tasks that tend to pile on and become tedious, or through promoting team collaboration and supporting the creative process, we’re here to make things easier for you.
Harnessing AI for Creative Harmony: A Look at Google's Latest Innovative Offering
As someone who has ridden the waves of creative innovation for three decades, I find Google's latest AI music experiment nothing short of thrilling. Here's why: it's a bold leap into the future of content creation, where AI meets human creativity to make magic.
Save Time Using Bulk Checkout to Request Use on Multiple Shots in Your Shopping Cart
When it comes to licensing content, production teams are reviewing hundreds of shots per campaign. You need a faster way to request use on multiple shots, so we made it easy for you to do that. Catch+Release is happy to introduce a new shopping cart and checkout feature so that you can send shots to clearance faster and get back to more important matters.
Case Studies
Gatorade Reaches Gen Z Using Historical Sports Footage to Showcase Brand Superiority
Gatorade approached their agency of record TBWA/Chiat Day with the exciting opportunity to work on a new spot that would premier during the 2023 NBA finals, hailing their product as the best sports drink of all time. It’s what the agency calls a “brand superiority” spot.
eBooks
Unlock the Storytelling Power of Found Content
When telling a story with Found Content, you don’t start with a clean slate. You start with everything - everything that's ever been uploaded to the internet. The first thing you want to do is to open your mind to infinite possibilities. Then, you'll want to download this guide and unlock the storytelling power of found content.
Masterclass
Learn the Art of Curation | Module 2: Advanced Techniques
We will explore the strategic value of curation within the marketing ecosystem, learning how a proactive and continuous curation process can lead to deeper audience engagement, enhanced brand narrative, and ultimately, a more compelling marketing campaign.
Learn the Art of Curation | Module 1: Foundations
There’s been an explosion of creator content in recent years. And smart marketing teams are finding it valuable to gather relevant creator content on an ongoing basis. This creative exercise is known as curation. Historically, many marketers have left curation to their creative partners, like a social media manager or social agency. But the act of curation can unearth insights and give you a deeper understanding of your audience. And, honestly, anyone can do it. So we thought it was time to create a class.
Webinars
Creative Boost: Mastering the Collections Features
Join Catch+Release experts Liz, Head of Curation, and Lisa, Creative Director, who bring over 40 years of combined experience to this insightful session. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to harness the power of the Collections features to supercharge your creativity. Discover how to effectively use Topics to organize content into focused groupings, which can then be developed into Storyboards and transformed into Rip Reels for a streamlined creative process.
License the Internet: The Future of Marketing Campaigns
“Good, fast, or affordable: pick two” has long been a rule of thumb for content creation in campaign marketing—until now. Join us for an exciting session where we show you how Catch+Release is changing the rules of the game by offering all three “asks” through licensing all kinds of content from the internet.
Rip This. How To Use Catch+Release Storyboards To Wow Your Clients
Every creative in advertising has been there: You spend a week of your life in an edit room putting together a manifesto video for a client using beautiful content from movies, TV shows, and commercials meant to capture the “feeling” of the campaign. The client loves it so much, they want to run it everywhere. That’s when you have to tell them the cold hard truth: this is a rip reel full of unlicensable content.
Musing
Videos
Podcasts
Lost in Found: Wim Vanhenden
In this episode, Tom sits down virtually with Wim Vanhenden, Technical Director of Tool of North America. These creative production maestros have been at it since 1995, consistently pushing boundaries and raising the bar in content production and creative technologies. Wim, broadcasting all the way from Belgium (with a few charming Belgian dogs making a surprise appearance), takes us on a mesmerizing journey through the intricate ways that AI is transforming the branding landscape.
Lost in Found: Aditi Rajvanshi
Aditi Rajvanshi is all about authenticity. Recently, the Founder of Brewing Awesome and Director of Strategy at Portal-A sat down with Catch+Release ECD Tom Christmann on the Lost In Found podcast to talk about authenticity, building communities and her roots at Google’s YouTube in 2009, at the beginning of the social media revolution.