Thriving Archives founder David Seevers is an experienced and effective marketing professional with deep knowledge of the footage licensing industry. Since founding Thriving Archives in 2005, Seevers has worked extensively to analyze and map the footage industry.
In partnership with ACSIL, Seevers produced the ACSIL Global Survey of Stock Footage Companies series, four comprehensive studies of the stock footage industry, including the AGS1 (2007), AGS2 (2011), AGS3 (2015) and the AGS4 (2019). He has advised a wide variety of companies on marketing and business development strategy, completed an array of custom market research projects and provided public relations services to companies in the footage business.
Seevers currently serves as the Chief Marketing Officer of Footage.net, where he is involved in every aspect of the business outside of the technical programming of the site. He works with Footage.net’s existing footage partners, brings on new partners and oversees all marketing and outreach efforts.
Seevers was formerly the Director of ABCNEWS VideoSource, the stock footage sales department for ABCNEWS. A key member of the start-up, he led VideoSource through 10 years of consistent growth. He began his career in 1991 at Worldwide Television News, where he relaunched the WTN Library Sales department, and grew sales by 300% over three years. Known for innovative marketing and industry leadership, he established the ABCNEWS VideoSource/IDA Award for Best Use of Stock Footage in a Documentary, presented annually by the IDA since 1997, and helped found and launch ACSIL, the Association of Commercial Stock Image Licensors.