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Stock Footage
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Cardboard Spaceship is one of the fastest-growing contributors on Filmsupply – the world’s leading platform for premium, cinematic stock footage. That didn’t happen by accident.

It came from thousands of productions, deep relationships with top filmmakers, and a disciplined focus on one thing: capturing content people actually want to use.

Cardboard Spaceship’s Custom Stock brings that same system directly to you.

We deliver high-end, licensed stock video – purpose-built for your brand.

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Why Custom Stock works

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    Built for Scale

    Traditional campaigns are engineered for a single moment. Custom Stock is designed for years of use, across platforms and formats.

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    Cost-efficient by Design

    Because shoots are structured as stock-ready productions, you get more usable footage per day without compromising quality. 

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    Creative Firepower

    You’re not hiring “a crew.” You’re accessing a curated network of filmmakers who understand what makes licensed stock video valuable: versatility, coverage, and usability.

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    Clarity + Control

    You choose what lives in your brand library. Nothing accidental. Everything curated with intention and value.

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    A smarter way to invest in content

    Most content is built to expire. Custom Stock is built to compound. If you’re ready to turn production into a long-term asset – this is the model.

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Custom Stock – Our Process

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    Strategic Alignment

    We start with your brand, audience, and distribution needs – where your footage will live and how it needs to perform. This informs creative direction, locations, casting, and visual language so every frame delivers against your goals.

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    World-Class Production

    Each shoot is led by experienced, top-tier creators working at the same creative caliber trusted by the most demanding brands and agencies.

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    Intelligent Curation

    From all captured material:

    • You select the strongest clips
    • We deliver these clips fully cleared and ready to use

High-end, licensed stock video content that works beyond a single production. Designed to perform across campaigns, channels, and time.

RUNAWAY

Runaway focuses on a young woman who moves to Denver to chase her dream of outdoor adventure. This collection of footage showcases traveling, hiking, community and exploration.

RUNAWAY
Dog’s Life

A Dog’s Life was created for premium licensed content available at Filmsupply. This content captures authentic moments for digital campaigns.

Dog’s Life
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Frequently Asked Questions

  • What is Custom Stock?

    Custom Stock is a multi-production process designed to create premium, evergreen stock footage tailored to your brand’s world – your people, your product, your environments, your tone. You receive a curated library of licensed, high-end video content – built for long-term use across paid, owned, and earned channels.

  • Is Custom Stock the same as a campaign shoot?

    It’s structured differently. Campaigns chase a single deliverable. Custom Stock builds a reusable library designed to support many deliverables over time.

  • Do we own the footage?

    Yes. You receive a licensed, cleared selection of your strongest clips for broad brand use.

  • What types of brands does this work best for?

    Brands with ongoing storytelling needs – multiple launches, multiple channels, executive and corporate content, seasonal beats, and always-on marketing.

  • What types of clips perform best?

    Versatile actions, strong coverage, clean brand environments, and moments that can be re-contextualized across messages and seasons.

  • How do you keep the footage from feeling generic?

    We build the footage around your brand’s world – locations, casting, art direction, wardrobe, tone, and behavioral detail – so it stays flexible without turning into “stock-looking stock.”

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Strategic depth. Creative excellence. Flawless execution.

Cardboard Spaceship delivers all three — because when your message can’t afford a weak link, you need a partner who doesn’t have one.

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Strategic depth. Creative excellence. Flawless execution.

Cardboard Spaceship delivers all three — because when your message can’t afford a weak link, you need a partner who doesn’t have one

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