Introducing Terasor Stock: Turn Your Drone Footage Into Income

Most drone pilots have hours of footage sitting on hard drives. A coastline shot on the way to a job. A field at golden hour. A skyline from a flight that never became anything. Terasor Stock is a way to turn some of that into income.

Terasor Stock is live today at terasor.com/stock-footage. It is a marketplace where pilots upload aerial clips and anyone can licence them: a property marketer, a video editor, a small business, a documentary team. You keep 90 percent of every sale.

We will be honest about where this is. The marketplace is brand new and, right now, close to empty. That is not a reason to wait; it is the reason to be early. The pilots who upload first are the clips buyers see first, the names that come up when someone searches a location or a category, and the familiar sellers by the time it fills out. Being early is the advantage here, not the risk.

Here is how it works for pilots. You upload a clip from your dashboard and set the title, category and tags. We show a watermarked preview on the marketplace so buyers can judge the shot without being able to take it, and the full quality file is only released after a purchase. A buyer chooses a licence, either standard, extended, or an exclusive buyout, and pays. Prices are set by the platform in US dollars, the global standard for stock footage, so you do not have to price anything yourself. You keep 90 percent; Terasor takes 10 percent, the same as charter work. Payouts land in the same Stripe account you already use for charters, so if you are onboarded there is nothing new to set up.

What tends to sell is clean, stable, well exposed footage of places and subjects that people need but cannot easily fly themselves. Real estate and property. Coastline and countryside. Landscapes and cityscapes. Construction and infrastructure. Events and landmarks. If you have shot it well, someone can probably use it.

A few honest notes. You need a completed Stripe payout setup before you can upload, because a clip has to be sellable. Clips are reviewed before they go live, so there is a short wait for approval. And the peer to peer charter marketplace that sits alongside this is still in testing, so take Terasor Stock as exactly what it is: a new, live, early product that we are building in the open and improving as pilots use it.

If you fly, you already have inventory. Terasor Stock is a way to make it work for you. Upload your first clips at terasor.com/dashboard/stock, and if you have any questions, reply to any Terasor email and we will help.