Buyer Requests: Winter is Coming, New Year – New Me, Smart Health

• User-generated content – leave your professional gear at home and send us authentic POV footage, whether a snowball fight, sledding, or shoveling your walkway.
• Breaking News – capture the climate crisis and weather behavior! If you’re witnessing unusual weather, such as storms, give it a shot, literally. Don’t forget to stay safe!
• Vintage shots – if you have an old functional camera, try using it and give buyers content with a vintage feel. Alternatively, you can experiment with the post-production techniques. Send in those film shots!
• Archival footage – have you found old VHS tapes? This kind of authentic footage is highly in demand as it’s irreplaceable because it’s evidence of the lifestyle at that time. Check our Pro Tip below to see the requirements for submitting archival footage.
• Local shots – Wintertime is beautiful for its diversity! Show us what winter looks like in your local town, city, country, etc. Capture how businesses prepare for the holidays, winter sales, etc. What is typical for your country? What does this season look like in Germany, the US, Australia, and India? A range of options is best!
• Winter sports – traditional winter sports we’ve been looking forward to, from skiing to snowboarding, figure skating on a frozen pond, ice hockey, sledding, and more.
• Winter duties and responsibilities – Capture how lifestyle changes during winter – snow removal from the paths and sidewalks, ice removal from the roof, raking leaves, and winter cleanup of your home before decorating it for the holidays.
• Winter in detail – macro shots of snowflakes, timelapse of melting ice, breath in the cold, rosy cheeks and noses, tree branches covered in snow, frozen lakes.

Winter, holiday, Christmas, Winter sport, skiing, snowboarding, figure skating, ice hockey, sledging, archival, vintage, retro, climate change, etc.

A wide variety of clients from ad agencies and news organizations to influencers and bloggers.

• New Year transformation – people working out at home watching a virtual instructor, installing or building equipment for their home gyms, paying for a gym membership, buying vitamins, protein drinks, and other dietary supplements online. Capture multi-generational family members and friends exercising together, atypical fitness equipment, and inadequate/inappropriate exercise rooms.
• Multitasking people – working out during online meetings, a floor treadmill under a working desk.
• People giving up bad habits – such as drinking alcohol, smoking, overeating, etc.
• Close-up shots – people writing down a list of New Year’s resolutions and creating a vision board.
• Online learning – think of people attending an online course, learning a new language, etc.
• Group shots – families discussing New Year’s resolutions plans, groups of friends supporting or motivating each other.
• Body image – standing on a scale, looking at a fit or unfit body in the mirror.
• Cooking and eating – healthy foods, shopping for organic food at a farmers market, cooking in the kitchen, etc.
• Mindfulness – practicing yoga, meditating, etc.

New Year, New Year’s resolutions, new beginnings, high expectations, workout, training, multi-generational family, smoking, overeating, bad habits, home gym, equipment, online course

All groups, especially ad agencies and corporate clients.

• Smart health devices – shots of people using common smart health such as toothbrushes, apps, bracelets, watches, etc. Include close-up shots of the devices in action.
• Checking data – graphs, statistics, and results from the smart devices on their phones, tablets, or laptops.
• Wellness devices – heart monitors, sauna blankets, facial massagers, facial steamer, etc.
• Smart fitness – think of different types of connected treadmills, elliptical machines, scales, and smart workout machines.
• Health in VR – working out with a VR headset/goggles on.
• Smart software – upload content of people working out following instructions on their phone from the app or people tracking their progress in an app.

Smart, smart health, futuristic, VR, gadgets, healthy lifestyle, sleep trackers, smart scale, massagers, smart app, etc.

All groups, especially ad agencies and corporate clients.