Reuters Connect

On May 18, 2017, Reuters announced the launch of Reuters Connect. It is a content marketplace that brings together all of Reuters’ multimedia content as well as a diverse array of content from other media organizations around the world, with the aim of letting Reuters News AgencyReutersReuters is an international news agency founded in London in 1851 by Paul Julius Reuter and is now the news business of Thomson Reuters. It provides text, photo, video, and graphics coverage to media and institutional clients and distributes it through channels such as Reuters Connect.Open the full entry customers source the content they need in a single place. The first publicly named content providers included BBCBBCThe BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is the United Kingdom’s public broadcaster. Its predecessor was the British Broadcasting Company, formed in 1922, and since 1927 it has been established under a Royal Charter. It provides television, radio, and online services in the UK, is funded mainly by the television licence fee, and broadcasts worldwide in multiple languages through BBC World Service.Open the full entry, USA TODAYUSA TODAYUSA TODAY is a national general-interest daily newspaper and news brand in the United States. Founded under the leadership of Allen Neuharth and first published on September 15, 1982, it is known for its color pages, short stories, and abundant graphics. It is now published by USA TODAY Co. (formerly Gannett) and is the national flagship brand of the USA TODAY Network, and its brands also include the sports brand USA TODAY Sports.Open the full entry Sports, Omnisport (part of Perform Content), Variety, Hollywood TVHollywood TVHollywood TV (website Hollywood.tv, which calls itself HTV) is a celebrity entertainment video outlet in Southern California that shoots and distributes entertainment footage of Hollywood celebrities, red carpets, and award ceremonies. It has supplied paparazzi-style celebrity footage to Reuters since 2011, and in 2017 it was among the first publicly named content providers on Reuters Connect.Open the full entry, Jukin MediaJukin MediaJukin Media is a user-generated video company headquartered in Los Angeles, United States. It got its start acquiring, representing, and licensing viral online videos, and its social video brands include FailArmy, People Are Awesome, and The Pet Collective. The company was founded by Jonathan Skogmo in 2009 and was acquired in an all-cash deal in 2021 by Trusted Media Brands, the parent company of Reader’s Digest.Open the full entry, and Africa24.⁠[1][1][1]

The platform is available by subscription and introduced a points-based spending model called Reuters Points: clients receive points in quarterly allocations and can use them freely across topics and media formats on content from Reuters and its partners, so that they can adjust their editorial spend in line with the news agenda; clients can also continue to subscribe to unlimited content consumption. At launch, the platform was opened first to an initial group of customers, with plans to roll it out more broadly in the following months.⁠[1][1][1][1]

Sue Brooks, then Global Head of Product for Reuters News Agency, said the platform was driven by the needs of modern publishing and lets clients access Reuters’ real-time and archive multimedia content dating back to 1896 in one place. Brooks conceived and led the launch.⁠[1][1][1][2]

On October 19, 2017, Reuters launched a new live video service on Reuters Connect that provides real-time coverage of up to six concurrent news events. Aimed at television broadcasters and professional video publishers, it can integrate with digital and broadcast production workflows. At the time, the platform featured more than 13 million photos, videos, graphics, and text assets.⁠[3][3][3]

In January 2018, Reuters announced expanded sports content through partnerships with Field Level Media and Opta: the former provides news, recaps, roundups, and analysis of sports events in North America, and the latter provides live data across global leagues, building on an existing content partnership with Perform’s Omnisport. The content is available on Reuters News Agency products including Reuters Connect.⁠[4][4][4][4][4]

In May 2018, Reuters announced expanded entertainment content through partnerships with WENN, Runway Manhattan, and mptvimages: WENN provides celebrity pictures, mptvimages provides classic archive images, and Runway Manhattan provides fashion photos and video. Content from WENN and Runway Manhattan became available on Reuters Connect immediately, and mptvimages content followed in the subsequent weeks.⁠[5][5][5][5][5][5]

In February 2019, Reuters announced that the Players’ Tribune, AFLO, Panoramic, Sporting Images, and MB Media were joining, providing athlete video interviews, more than 50,000 curated archival images, more than 6,000 player headshots, and regional photo coverage from Japan and France; this content is available to Reuters News Agency customers exclusively on Reuters Connect.⁠[6][6][6]

In August 2019, Reuters announced that it would add partner-provided production tools to Reuters Connect to form a Productivity Suite. The first partners were Stringr, which provides custom video footage; Amper Music, which provides AI-generated, rights-cleared soundtracks; and the online video editing tool InVideo. Clients can use these services with their existing Reuters points. At the time, the platform already offered more than 15 million pieces of content.⁠[7][7][7][7][7]

On November 4, 2019, the Spanish international news agency EFE became a content partner on Reuters Connect, providing global news with a focus on Spain and Spanish-speaking countries, as well as Spanish and English language news feeds. At the time, the platform offered more than 15 million pieces of content in nine languages from more than 50 providers, including Accuweather, BBC, CCTV, Jukin, National Geographic, PBS NewsHour, PA Media, The Guardian, and USA Today. EFE was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in Madrid.⁠[8][8][8][8][8][9]

On November 19, 2019, Reuters announced that seven news agencies, AAP (Australia), Anadolu (Turkey), Belga (Belgium), Bernama (Malaysia), DPA (Germany), Latin America News Agency (Argentina), and Scanpix (Scandinavia and the Baltics), were joining Reuters Connect, alongside eight agencies already on the platform: PA Media, EFE, Imagine China, Aflo, Panoramic, Bildbryan, ANI, and ABACA PRESS. Together with the output of Reuters’ roughly 2,500 journalists, the platform offered more than 20 million pieces of content; its clients include broadcasters, publishers, corporations, and governments, who can choose content using Reuters Points.⁠[10][10][10][10][10]

As of October 2026, Reuters Connect brings together all Reuters content, including an archive dating back to 1896, along with multimedia content from more than 100 partners, spanning text, video, live video, pictures, graphics, and audio. The platform offers search and an API, flexible commercial models such as metered subscriptions, detailed usage reports, planning tools such as alerts and an editorial calendar, and round-the-clock live support.⁠[11][11][11][11][11][11][11][11]

In addition to institutional subscriptions, users can register a free Reuters Connect account to search Reuters pictures, build collections, and license individual assets one at a time by credit card or invoice.⁠[11][11][12]

As of October 2026, Reuters and the USA TODAY Network have partnered on content packages for U.S. publishers, with the USA TODAY Network’s picture and video products available via Reuters Connect.⁠[13][13]

Reuters Connect: Official website: https://www.reutersconnect.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[12]

Reuters: Official link: https://reutersagency.com/content-delivery-platforms/reuters-connect/ (opens in a new window).⁠[11]