MUMBAI: CNN ImageSource has off late started providing a global, free, on-demand customisation service for screeners on its site, cnnimagesource.com.

The site allows access of CNN footage to professional film, television, advertising and corporate producers from around the world 24-hours a day.

The site consists of more than half a million items, including CNN-owned footage and material from more than 650 US news affiliates that CNN represents. In addition to news footage, the website contains material covering science and technology, business, travel, entertainment, sports and user-generated content from CNN’s iReport.

Says CNN ImageSource licensing and content sales VP David Sheehan, “With an expansive archive of CNN’s award-winning reporting and compelling stock footage, CNN ImageSource is in a unique position to offer an easy-to-use website for producers to research video on their own schedule and customise and download screen material to their desktop for free at any time.”

CNN ImageSource has content in high-definition and access to CNN’s Library, containing more than three million items accumulated over nearly 30 years. CNN ImageSource has recently updated search functionality on the site.

CNN ImageSource facilitates the licensing needs of professional video producers for their productions, ranging from documentaries, to television, theatrical and corporate/institutional productions.

CNN ImageSource continues to maintain its customer service and research assistance, while also allowing producers the ability to research CNN’s video archives on their own time as they need with its enhanced commercial website.