Getty Images in partnership with BBC Studios announced the launch of a new platform giving its customers unprecedented access to BBC archive video and a new seamless search, purchase and download experience. Designed to intuitively enable end-users to select and order content, the platform, powered by MAM software specialists VIDA Content OS, allows easy access to over 57,000 programs from the BBC archive which was previously only available offline by a heavily manual process. Customers can now securely search the entire digitized library, view, annotate, clip, share, and download previews for use within projects.

Curated collections around upcoming events and commissioning trends support ideation, while the latest Speech to Text tools enable program makers to ?transcript search? all assets, bringing to light previously hidden content from BBC Motion Gallery?s vast archive. Customers can now access a wealth of iconic BBC content, with programs such as The Office, Top of the Pops, BBC Sports Personality of the Year and Planet Earth now available to download for the first time ever.