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Stay up-to-date with the latest content trends and discover how agencies and brands license content to create high-performing, award-winning campaigns.
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What is Catch+Release? A Quick Overview
Catch+Release is the platform that lets brands and agencies license real content from real people, fast. In this 90-second overview, see how you can search millions of assets (with 40K+ new pieces added daily), build your storyboards, and license internet content with confidence. Featuring AI-powered discovery, real-time clearance estimates, and seamless team collaboration, this is how modern marketers license content at the speed of culture.
Catch+Release Reel Highlights
This reel brings together standout moments from Catch+Release work, featuring real footage sourced from culture, community, and history. It highlights how creative intuition and data driven discovery come together to craft stories that move people and elevate brand presence. The result is a showcase of campaigns that feel timeless, human, and unmistakably authentic.
Blog

Meet Content Genie: AI-Powered Curation Built for Creatives
Creative teams don’t struggle with ideas—they struggle with time. Content Genie is Catch+Release’s new AI-powered assistant built to accelerate content discovery. By uploading a brief, users receive up to 250 curated, licensable shots that align with their story. It’s designed for producers, creatives, and marketers working at speed—offering clarity, creativity, and confidence at the start of every project. Best part: it’s free.
What Is a Brand Library (and Why Every Brand Needs One)
Every brand today is a storyteller—and for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, that story moves fast. With visuals scattered across platforms and licensing rights slowing them down, AJC needed a better way to organize, reuse, and scale their creative content. Partnering with their agency Dagger, they turned to Catch+Release to build a Brand Library: one central, rights-cleared hub that keeps creativity flowing and campaigns moving at the speed of culture.

Why Does Finding Content Still Feel So Hard?
We are an elite team of clearance specialists who are uniquely skilled at securing licenses to some of the world’s most exclusive content. From celebrity baby pictures to major league highlight reels. From stadium anthems to pictures of the coliseum. With the utmost discretion. And a industry-leading indemnification.
Podcasts

Lost in Found: Aditi Rajvanshi
Aditi Rajvanshi is all about authenticity. Recently, the Founder of Brewing Awesome and Director of Strategy at Portal-A sat down with Catch+Release ECD Tom Christmann on the Lost In Found podcast to talk about authenticity, building communities and her roots at Google’s YouTube in 2009, at the beginning of the social media revolution.
eBooks
Found Wisdom
Found Wisdom is your field guide to the future of content. Distilled from 16+ hours of candid interviews with top marketers and creatives, this ebook offers sharp, human insights on curation, ownership, culture, and real storytelling. Not stock advice. Just real talk from the people shaping modern marketing.
Webinars
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Meet Content Genie: Your AI Curation Wingman
Meet Content Genie. Your AI curation wingman built to help marketers and creatives find real, human content that fits their story. In this webinar, Tom Christmann and Liz Mandeville take you inside the workflow: how Genie analyzes a brief, how it organizes topics, and how it delivers curated, licensable content that reflects your creative vision. You will see a live demo, hear early success stories, and get practical guidance on pairing human taste with AI speed. You will walk away knowing how to write more effective briefs, how to organize Found Content in minutes, and how leading brands build campaigns with authentic visuals that feel real because they are real.
Embrace Found Content for Better Brand Storytelling
Now that everyone is a creator, traditional marketing strategies need to evolve. Your brand needs a fresh strategy that transforms customers, employees, and communities into active participants in brand storytelling. This kind of “found” creative goes above and beyond user-generated content and allows you to tap into culture and co-create with your community.
Found Content Through the Director's Lens
Today’s most innovative directors are expanding their creative toolkit by blending Found Content with original footage. Join Catch+Release for an inspiring Lunch & Learn with director Stuart McIntyre (CANADA), known for his cinematic realism, and Tom Christmann, Executive Creative Director at Catch+Release. Together, they’ll explore how Found Content can extend creative possibilities, enrich storytelling with cultural authenticity, and streamline production—without blowing the budget. If you’re a creative working in hybrid production, this session is for you.
Newsroom
Masterclass
Learn the Art of Curation | Module 2: Advanced Techniques
We will explore the strategic value of curation within the marketing ecosystem, learning how a proactive and continuous curation process can lead to deeper audience engagement, enhanced brand narrative, and ultimately, a more compelling marketing campaign.
Learn the Art of Curation | Module 1: Foundations
There’s been an explosion of creator content in recent years. And smart marketing teams are finding it valuable to gather relevant creator content on an ongoing basis. This creative exercise is known as curation. Historically, many marketers have left curation to their creative partners, like a social media manager or social agency. But the act of curation can unearth insights and give you a deeper understanding of your audience. And, honestly, anyone can do it. So we thought it was time to create a class.

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