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What We Do

The News - By You

Demotix is a multi-award-winning picture and video newswire, with the news supplied by you.

We are a community of over 30,000 users and 4,750 active photo and video journalists in every corner of the globe, helping you cover stories that otherwise aren't being told.

We publish your stories on Demotix.com, where they are seen by hundreds of thousands of viewers each month, and we license the best of your images and videos to hundreds of media publishers all over the world.

Through Demotix, your images and videos have appeared on the front pages of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Time Magazine, the Boston Globe and elsewhere, and have featured on the BBC, CNN, NBC and across the world. Your pictures have appeared in hundreds of newspapers, magazines, books, and online news sites all over the globe.

In the process, you have also earned hundreds of thousands of dollars, and told stories no-one else could have covered.

So, whether you're wielding a cellphone or the world's most expensive video camera, join us and share.

If you're a picture editor or a media buyer, please get in touch directly with our sales team. Our editorial archive holds hundreds of thousands of images, and is constantly growing.

Welcome to the future of news!

Where your images go

collage of Demotix images in globally recognised publications

Demotix images have made headlines in all kinds of publications. Whather it's breaking news in the broadsheets, something more lighthearted for the tabloids or an illustrative image for an in-house publication, Demotix can and has provided it - and made sure the photographers have got a fair deal in the process.

Voice of Demotix

You don't have to take our word for it. Many media organisations have interviewed us to find out more about how exactly the Demotix model works and what we're up to. Why not take a look at some of the video reports below to see their conclusions for yourself?

If you're interested in more media coverage of Demotix, you can find it on our Coverage of Demotix page here.