With content budgets shrinking and production timelines tightening, brands can no longer afford to create everything from the ground up. Catch+Release offers a scalable, legal way to license real, authentic content—saving time, reducing costs, and delivering what today’s audiences truly want.

Catch+Release has rolled out powerful new features to streamline UGC licensing, from real-time cost estimates and clearance confidence ratings to an upgraded project workspace. With smarter tools and increased transparency, teams can now plan, collaborate, and license content faster and with greater confidence.

In today’s authenticity-first marketing landscape, the most impactful brand content is often raw, real, and filmed on someone’s smartphone. Catch+Release empowers brands to find, license, and activate this user-generated content legally and efficiently—turning everyday moments into compelling, high-performing campaigns.

As CMOs lead their brands and teams through the economic uncertainty, it becomes even more important to find ways to make every marketing dollar count

When telling a story with Found Content, you don’t start with a clean slate. You start with everything - everything that's ever been uploaded to the internet. The first thing you want to do is to open your mind to infinite possibilities. Then, you'll want to download this guide and unlock the storytelling power of found content.

Found content changes everything and today's storytellers are embracing it because it’s egalitarian, it's sustainable, and it lives at the nucleus of today’s culture: the internet.

Campaign budgets are set and paid media is secured. It’s go-time. The brief is ready and now the work begins towards final production. This Lunch + Learn takes a closer look at a Dove-Nike ad that aired on Super Bowl Sunday in Feb 2024, centered on body confidence and self esteem for young girls playing sports. It’s about educating coaches and leaders on how empathy and understanding are critical aspects to building confidence and grit to push through. Hard Knocks has since gained accolades, including numerous Cannes Lion nominations and it secured the 6th highest scoring spot on that Super Bowl Sunday.

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.

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.

Every creative in advertising has been there: You spend a week of your life in an edit room putting together a manifesto video for a client using beautiful content from movies, TV shows, and commercials meant to capture the “feeling” of the campaign. The client loves it so much, they want to run it everywhere. That’s when you have to tell them the cold hard truth: this is a rip reel full of unlicensable content.

Learn how to transform your creative process with our new Storyboards feature.

Learn how creative teams maximize resources by sourcing existing content to fit their vision. Join our webinar to explore strategies for smarter searching and effective curation.

Prestige Licensing is our premier service for clearing the untouchable. From celebrity legends to world-famous landmarks, we secure the icons so you can create with confidence.

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.

Found Content can be tricky to explain. And nobody knows that more than our Found Content Evangelist, Tom Christmann. Recently, we sent him to the Ad Age Small Agency Conference in Toronto, where he was tasked with explaining Found Content to the independent creative leaders gathered there.

Bianca Guimaraes, Partner and ECD at Mischief @ No Fixed Address, joins Lost In Found to unpack the creative philosophy behind some of today’s most fearless campaigns. In a conversation with Catch+Release ECD Tom Christmann, Bianca explains why bold ideas must start with culture, how inspiration is hiding in your algorithm, and why trust is the foundation of breakthrough client-agency work.

In this episode of Lost In Found, Catch+Release ECD Tom Christmann sits down with Detroit-based editor and filmmaker Scott Felsenfeld to explore how editing is evolving in an AI-powered world. Scott, who cuts campaigns for Ford at Hogarth and leads his own short film team, opens up about why curation is at the heart of great storytelling, where AI helps (and where it doesn’t), and how authenticity beats generic stock content every time. Whether you're a marketer, creative, or aspiring editor, this episode will inspire you to think differently about timelines, tools, and how the human touch still makes all the difference.

In this episode of Lost In Found, Jess Kirkman, Global Head of Creative at Mattel, joins Catch+Release ECD Tom Christmann to discuss the role of play, taste, and human intuition in modern brand building. From her roots in agency life to leading iconic brands like Barbie and Hot Wheels, Jess shares how creative teams can stay culturally relevant through collaboration, inspiration, and a deep understanding of brand DNA. She emphasizes that while AI has its place, it’s human creativity—and taste—that ultimately makes work memorable.