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The Storyblocks API gives you the power to differentiate your product and provide your customers with relevant, high-quality content.
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Storyblocks does stock content differently

The Storyblocks API helps your users create more engaging and effective video with access to our high-quality library of stock video, sound effects, and exclusive music. With fresh new content added daily, you’ll keep users coming back for more and get an edge over the competition.
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Prioritizing authentic content

Stock gets a bad rap. That’s why we focus on adding representative, diverse content to our library from award-winning artists.

Avoid claims with exclusive music

Help prevent ContentID claims for your users and avoid publishing delays with 100% royalty free music you won’t find on any other platform.

Legal peace of mind

A generous license that provides you and your users peace of mind with worldwide distribution and broad usage.

Best-in-class API

Get the best of Storyblocks through an API that’s trusted by industry-leading products such as Descript, Magix, and Clipchamp with dedicated support.

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How Magix provides exceptional customer value and proves ROI with the Storyblocks API

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Storyblocks stock media API?
The Storyblocks API (application programming interface) gives 3rd party platforms streamlined access to our data and content. Our API makes it easy to integrate our massive video, image, and audio libraries into your application. Developers can access our content to build a wide variety of tools and apps.
The possibilities are endless! We provide access to our content through dozens of platforms, including media editing, digital marketing, website building, telestreaming, presentation building, eLearning, and content creation.

We offer a free trial of the API for you to test out. The trial provides access to test API keys for our image, video, and audio libraries. Search queries are unlimited, and we include five free downloads for each content type to give you a sense of the full functionality.

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When you’re ready, contact us to trade in your test keys for a fully functional integration. You get unlimited (yes, unlimited) search and download calls in whatever media types you choose.

You also get a dedicated customer support agent to answer all your questions and make sure your integration goes smoothly. That’s a real human who sits right next to us at our Arlington, VA headquarters.

You can test our API for free, but full functionality comes once you are a Storyblocks API client.

Cost varies depending on the number of libraries you choose to include, and your monthly active users. We currently offer three: video, images, and audio.

Unlimited downloads = unlimited ROI. For an exact quote, contact our sales team today.

The Storyblocks API gives you access to the same great content you see on our video, images, and audio sites. Our API lets you search and narrow down results using the same filters you see there. We expand and update our features continuously to keep adding oomph to the experience. 

All of Storyblocks’ content is 100% royalty free, licensed for commercial use, and backed by $20,000 in indemnification. We provide your end users with a license to create projects through your platform with our content.

As an API Partner, there are certain ways you may monetize our content within your platform. Some partners choose to provide our content to their end-customers free of charge, while others choose to include our content as part of a premium product offering.

Note that you cannot distribute, resell, or otherwise provide the source files of our content on a stand-alone basis; the files must be incorporated into a finished project. For more information on proper commercial use of API, please contact our team. 

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Integrate the Storyblocks API into your product to attract and retain customers while increasing engagement.