Footage.net Wraps Footage Industry Survey

Footage.net has concluded the research phase of the Footage Industry Pandemic Impact Survey 2 and we are now in the process of analyzing and compiling the results. We launched the survey on January 16, 2020, and in the month since we’ve received complete responses from 54 companies.  

Our goal in conducting the survey was to capture a real-time snapshot of how footage companies are faring under the pandemic-related disruptions and lockdowns that began in early March, 2020, and to compare the results from this research to the results of our previous Footage Industry Pandemic Survey, which we published in April of 2021. Overall, we came away from our first survey with a sense of cautious optimism about the prospects for the footage industry under lockdown, and early highlights from the current survey indicate that the footage industry remains in stable condition and that most companies appear to be weathering this crisis. A big thanks to all the footage companies who took time to participate.

Survey Highlights:

• Only 17% of respondents believe that the overall demand for footage has decreased over the last 11 months.

• 79% of companies are either working remotely (55%) or are mostly remote, with some key staff working onsite at their facilities (24%).

• Just 9% indicated that the pandemic has had a significantly negative effect on their businesses, with 39% reporting that they’ve enjoyed a somewhat positive effect (29%) or a significantly positive effect (10%).

• 27% indicated that initial inquiries were down, and 26% said that final sales were down. 

We will be working on analyzing the results and compiling our report over the next week or so, and will reach out to the footage community as soon as the report is ready for distribution. The results will be reported in aggregate form only, and we will make the final report available to the footage industry at no charge.

If you would like to read our 2020 report, please click here to download the document.