Mission
Broadimage is a global wire service. We deliver editorial photography in seconds — each image arriving license-ready, with brand attribution embedded at the moment of capture.
Fashion designers, jewelry, and accessories. Sports gear, equipment, and apparel. Music instruments, fashion, and apparel. Every category we cover, every product in the frame.
Picture editors spend hours less per story. Photographers earn from licensing — and from the social audience their work helps create.
Why we exist
The editorial workflow has not meaningfully changed in three decades. Photographers capture the moment. Brand attribution is manual research, often skipped. And revenue from social platforms — where most images now live — flows back to no one in the chain.
We rebuilt three things at once: the metadata pipeline, the distribution model, and the royalty structure.
License-ready, the moment the shutter clicks.
Every Broadimage image leaves the camera with brand attribution baked into its metadata — the designer at a runway show, the equipment in an athlete's hands, the instruments on a stage, the product in any frame. By the time a picture editor opens the file, the credit line is complete. The provenance is verified. The license is ready.
No other agency works this way.
Your work earns you when it's licensed.
Your work earns you when it's seen.
A new royalty era for the people behind the camera.
Photographers in our network earn from two streams: the editorial license, and the social audience. The editorial license is paid every time a publication, brand, or PR firm uses the image. The social audience is a per-view payout structured across every social media network we distribute on — Instagram, YouTube, and every other platform where our images circulate.
Each view metered. Each platform tracked. Each payout audited. A live panel in your contributor dashboard tracks every view, on every social network, as it happens. As an event unfolds and your images travel, you watch the metrics roll in. By the time you put the camera down at the end of the night, you already know what your work is earning.
Every sales report is backed by audited money management. License payments and per-view social earnings flow into the same dashboard, image by image, with full transparency.
Broadimage is the first wire-service-tier agency to pay photographers for both — license earnings and per-view social earnings — with full real-time transparency and audited reporting. That is our core difference.
The team behind the work.
Embedding brand-attribution metadata in real time, distributing license-ready coverage worldwide, tracking per-view social performance across every major platform, and paying photographers transparently from both license and view earnings — none of this happens by itself.
Broadimage operates across eleven specialized teams:
- Editorial Operations — picture editors, captioners, and the photo desk overseeing live event coverage.
- Metadata Engineering — the IPTC brand-attribution pipeline. Embeds designer, equipment, and product attribution at the moment of capture.
- Photographer Network & Talent Relations — onboarding, accreditation, and ongoing support for contributors across every continent and every coverage genre.
- Distribution & Syndication — newsroom partnerships, wire delivery, and contracted licensing channels.
- Social Media Distribution — Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, TikTok, and every other social network where our images are placed and tracked.
- Marketing & Brand — campaigns, partnerships, brand storytelling, and the comparison content that explains our differentiator.
- Sales & Licensing — direct buyer relationships across editorial, PR, lifestyle, sports, and brand teams. Pricing and contract negotiation.
- Royalty Operations & Finance — audited money management, per-view metric ingestion, royalty calculation, contributor payouts, and tax reporting.
- Data & Analytics — view tracking, performance dashboards, and real-time metric flow into contributor reporting.
- Engineering & Platform — the editorial portal where editors find and license images, the contributor portal where photographers upload and watch every view and every earning roll in in real time, and the security protecting both.
- Legal & Rights — copyright management, licensing terms, DMCA, model releases, and contributor agreements.
Eleven teams. One mission: every image earns. Every view counts. Every photographer paid.
Where we're going.
- Industry-first IPTC brand-attribution pipeline. Live across all coverage, with brand metadata embedded in 9 languages and expanding.
- Editorial distribution in nine languages. More to come.
- Global photographer network. Sports, news, entertainment, fashion, royalty, music, world events — every continent, every genre.
- Ultra-rich metadata standards that traditional agencies don't match.
- Seconds from capture to license — the fastest editorial pipeline in the industry.
- Authenticity verification embedded in every image — C2PA-aligned, AI-resistant.
- Photographer earnings dashboard with full cross-channel transparency.
- Machine-readable rights signals for the AI era of image use.
About Broadimage.
Broadimage is the trade name of PopShutter Media Network, LLC. We have been distributing editorial photography since 2008. Our network spans Los Angeles, New York, and bureaus across continents.
For licensing inquirieslicensing@broadimage.com
For presspress@broadimage.com
For contributorsupload.broadimage.com/apply