Sky News Archive Library Sales

Sky News is an unrivalled, world class breaking news service with a spirit of innovation and a fresh approach to news broadcasting. As the UK's first dedicated 24-hour news channel, Sky News has built a deserved reputation for being the first to break major news as well as offering insight and analysis on the latest stories. It is renowned for the speed of its coverage and flexibility of reporting news live across all its platforms.

Just as Sky News has brought a fresh approach to news broadcasting and is renowned for the speed of its coverage and flexibility of reporting news live, the Sky News Library Sales team is renowned for its speed in getting quality content to you.

Sky News Library Sales is a service that allows you to license Sky News footage for use in your productions. We give you access to the high quality content produced by Sky News. Our experienced and knowledgeable staff will personally take you through the whole process, from research to delivery, licensing through to invoicing.


Sky News has covered major events from the UK and abroad since 1989 and the Sky News Archive gives you access to content captured around the world since then. We house thousands of hours of wholly-owned footage, which is expanding daily, and a spectacular range of HD content spanning a variety of subjects and countries.

Our news stories and accompanying stock-shot footage includes:

• Aerials, Scenics and Places
• Accidents & Disasters,
• Arts & Entertainment
• Business
• Celebrities, Fashion & Lifestyle
• Crime
• Nature & Wildlife
• Politics
• Royals
• Science, Technology, Heath & Environment
• Sports
• Quirky
• War & Conflict

Content that includes the Sky News logo is considered "branded content." Branded content may be licensed on a case by case basis and Sky News Library Sales reserves the right to license this content at its sole discretion.