Free Photo, Video and Graphic Materials for Your Website

If you've ever built a website, you've probably encountered the problem of a lack of quality photos or videos. As a solution to such a problem, many have resorted to finding these materials on Google Photos or in similar websites, which deals with the same topic. This is not exactly a solution, given the increasing activity on the web regarding copyright protection, as well as the high penalties you can earn in this situation.

On the other hand, in addition to quality textual content, photos and videos of high-quality resolution are also extremely important. According to marketing experts based on numerous analyzes, visiting sites for the first 5 seconds on average is crucial, to make sure that the visitor has what he is looking for on the website.

For this reason, in addition to interesting textual content, quality photography, video, the graphic display also play an important role, which leaves the impression that they keep the attention of the visitors as long as possible.

One of the solutions is iStock sites that have an abundance of photos, videos and graphics, but the prices are not very affordable if the sites are intended for personal use or promotion of smaller businesses, products, and services. For that reason, we have found some services that partially or completely, with certain rules and conditions, make free materials available.

StockSnap.io

StockSnap.io has a large selection of beautiful free photos and high-resolution images. The site also has a very useful search feature that makes it easy to browse thousands of available images. In addition, the website tracks views and downloads so you can find the most popular photos available. StockSnap adds hundreds of images every day, and all photos are published under the public domain of the creative community - no need to cite sources. 

Pixels.com

Pexels provides high-quality and completely free stock photos licensed under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. All photos are nicely tagged, simple and easy to search.

Unsplash.com

Unsplash offers a large collection of free high-resolution photos and has become one of the best sources for images. The Unsplash team combs through new applications and displays the best photos on the best page. All photos are published free of charge under the Unsplash license.

Pixabay.com

Pixabay provides high quality and completely free stock photos, licensed under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. All photos are nicely tagged, searchable, and easy to find through their category pages.

Stockio.com

Stockio - Free vector, photos, fonts and videos. Each file specifies whether it is OK for personal or commercial use with attribution. Simple searching and advertising is very easy to spot. Beneath each free image is a banner of top-notch alternatives, which is more useful rather than intrusive. ...

Say it with signs – free icons and vector graphics

The simpler the symbol, the better the message is transported. Something that icons and graphics convey well. If you don't want to get an agency involved every time you need to do so, it's worth having a look at these online resources:

• You'll find over 1000,000 icons and vector graphics at Flaticon. Many of these are free of charge, for others there are cheap flat rates for project use.
• There are considerably less graphics available at Vectors4free, however the quality of them is really good.
• Vector.me is a type of search machine for graphics and symbols. With over 200,000 elements, there's a lot of junk, however it is definitely still worth a look.

Moving moving images – sources for free video material

Yes, this also exists: sources for high quality video material that you can use for your online marketing. A story cannot be told more emotionally than through good video content!

A sample clip from Coverr, can be used without name mention and totally free, e.g. as a backdrop for animated graphics

• A good source for stock videos is Dissolve. There is a free downloadable clip every month, so it's worth following the site.
• Mazwai offers video clips in HD quality that can be downloaded straight away without having to sign up. The clips are licensed with Creative Commons CC 3.0 , meaning that they can be used for commercial projects, as long as the name of the author is stated.
• The video portal Videohive is from the makers of Audiojungle. Similar to Audiojungle, you can pay to download video material, but there are also free clips every month here.
• You'll find some great material on Coverr – completely free of charge, even without naming the author (Creative Commons 1.0).