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VideoBlocks.com Secures $10.5 Million Series A Funding to Fuel Growing Stock Video and Music Business

By StudentFilmmakers.com
posted Sep 6, 2012, 13:23

With Five Million Clips Downloaded, Company is Gaining Subscribers and Poised to Disrupt Market. In Recognition of Success, VideoBlocks.com Named as #4 Fastest Growing Media Company by Inc. Magazine

(Reston, VA) VideoBlocks.com, the first subscription-based provider of unlimited royalty-free stock video and audio clips, today announced that it has closed a $10.5 million Series A investment led by Updata Partners with participation from QED Investors. Already profitable, VideoBlocks.com has delivered more than five million clips to subscribers in the last 18 months.

Video Blocks takes a unique approach to providing stock audio and video. The company owns all the rights to its content library and makes this available for an affordable monthly subscription rate, free of confusing licensing.

From aerial city views to high definition slow motion shots to royalty-free music, VideoBlocks.com content is used on many of the world's best-known television and movie production networks in addition to a quickly growing audience of freelancers, small businesses, pro-sumers and home video enthusiasts.

In recognition of the company's business success, Inc.com named VideoBlocks.com/Footage Firm the fourth fastest growing media company in 2012. Footage Firm is the parent company of VideoBlocks.com.

"We're excited to offer so much value to our customers. Our innovative model allows us to provide unlimited access to high-quality content from our vast library without requiring complex licensing fees," said Joel Holland, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Video Blocks. "This infusion of funding will further extend the incredible growth. We plan to aggressively acquire content with this investment, nearly doubling our library by the end of the year, to continue to build a resource professionals and pro-sumers alike prefer."

As consumption of video increases, the stock video market continues to grow rapidly. To help its members create professional-quality content easily and affordably, VideoBlocks.com offers a quickly growing library of high-quality stock video, motion backgrounds, production music, After Effects templates, special effects, sound effects and more that can be used in all types of projects, royalty-free.

"The business model of VideoBlocks.com is highly disruptive and is changing the way stock video and audio is licensed," said Carter Griffin of Updata Partners, a leading technology-focused growth equity firm. "The company is clearly poised for success as consumers flock to creating video on mobile phones and other devices and want to create high quality experiences to share. Joel Holland has a clear passion for helping content creators and has been instrumental in the incredible growth the company has seen. We are excited to help him fuel the growth of VideoBlocks.com."

Over the past year, the company has been executing on its growth strategy, rapidly expanding its content library and growing its customer base. Subscribers have downloaded over 5,000,000 video clips, motion backgrounds, music tracks, special effects and more since the site launched in January 2011.

Resources:

http://www.videoblocks.com/

http://www.updatapartners.com/

http://qedinvestors.com/