22 Feb, 2017

Background video on front page is one of web design trends getting more popular these days. It’s easy to see background of the website with looped videos. Demand for looped and time-lapse video is higher and higher because it creates a new look for your website and much impresses visitors. However where can you download free and good background videos to use on your website besides Youtube and Vimeo? In this post I am going to explore some of the best free stock video sources or footage. Here we go!

1.Pexels

Pexels  has a huge collection of quality CCO license videos, which you can download free with brilliant quality and use it as your landing page video or in any commercial projects.

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2. Videvo

Videvo founded by Tom Limb, has a huge library of free stock videos and motion graphics. Currently, they have over 3600 HD video, it’s steadily growing and becoming one of the go-to websites for stock videos.

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3. Videezy

Videezy is another place for quality video stock footage. They have over thousands of free videos for you to choose from.

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4. X Stock Video

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X Stock Video has a nice collection of free videos available for download.  Videos are extensively categorized and you can even sort the listed videos by popularity, download and date. Additionally, you can hover on the preview image to see the video before clicking to discover more. Cool, right?

5. Coverr

Coverr is a joint initiative between two startups Veed.Me & CodersClan.  They have a growing library of free videos which you can use a website background. Every Monday they add 7 new videos especially shooting for Coverr.

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6. Distill

Distill is a curated free video source for both personal and commercial projects.  An initiative by Create the Bridge, they add 10 new videos every 10 days, so you can get updated by subscribing.

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7. Clip Canvas

Clip Canvas has nearly 9000 free videos to use as background videos listed in their free section. You can easily watch these video by hovering on them. With various categories, Clip Canvas is hard to be ignores.

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8. Free HD Stock Footage

Free HD Stock Footage is a Vimeo group by Phil Fried. It offers a source for free stock videos and video footage which can be used in any video production.

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Bonus: You want to display video on website’s background? Try JUX Background Video – a heartedly crafted background video module.

9. Motion Background

Motion Backgrounds is a place to download professional quality motion backgrounds and video footage. To save these videos locally, you need to create an account and join!

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10. Free HD Footage

Free HD Footage offers a quite a good collection of free footages. Videos are neatly categorized and no registration is required for downloading the videos.

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11. Plixs

Plixs has a fair amount of CC0 images and videos listed on their site. You can search videos by keyword and sort them by popularity and date.

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12. TanuriX Experiment

With TaniriX Experiment, Videos & pictures shared under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License by traveler Tania and Yuri. All videos are divided into categories, such as: People, Nature and Scenery, Sunset, Industry, etc. that are easy to find out what you are looking for or what suits your website.

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13. Splashbase

Splashbase is a search and discovery platform for finding free stock images and videos. Just hover on each video and you can decide if you want to download or not.

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14. Cute Stock Footage

Cute Stock Footage, a project operated by Michael & Chris, is a source of free stock footage for professional and amateur filmmaker, video editor. You can search videos by categories of Newest, Most popular, Most downloaded, and Random.

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15. Life of Vids

Life of Vids is a free royaltee-free video, clip and loop source created by Montreal based advertising agency Leeroy. High resolution files can be downloaded from their Vimeo account and they are always enriched weekly.

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16. Vidsplay

Every week Vidsplay adds new royalty free video loops to their directory. They have a moderate collection of videos till date, but they are not categorized.

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Is that enough?

Those are 15 amazing sites of free stock background videos that you can use for personal or commercial projects without permission. These websites are really a blessing for whom want to create a new look for website with background video. Now, you have more referring sources than just Youtube and Vimeo, right? Like, Share, and Tweet to spread the world these amazing sources!

 

                                                                                

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