Little Dot Studios Pacts with Getty Images

Little Dot Studios has teamed up with Getty Images to bring two original science documentaries to YouTube, made entirely from Getty Images’ archival and stock collections.

The initial project, the two-part Moons of our Solar System, will premiere on December 12 across Little Dot Studios’ YouTube science offering: Spark, Progress and Cosmic. The documentary provides a deeper look at the moons in our solar system, exploring how they got there, what makes them unique and if any of them could contain signs of life.

“This collaboration with Little Dot Studios demonstrates how Getty Images’ depth of content can power premium, long-form storytelling for digital platforms,” said Paul Davis, VP of media and broadcast sales at Getty Images. “By combining our entire Getty Images video collection with flexible, digital-first licensing models, we’re making it easier for producers to create high-quality programmes with speed, creative freedom and full rights certainty. Little Dot Studios has been an outstanding partner, and we’re excited to see how YouTube audiences engage with this new approach to documentary production.”

Alex Hryniewicz, managing director at network social platforms at Little Dot Studios, added, “Our digital network gives us unparalleled, real-time insights into what audiences are passionate about. This partnership with Getty Images is a perfect example of how we can turn those data-led insights into premium, original programming. By combining our understanding of YouTube with Getty’s incredible, world-class archive, we can create compelling documentaries like Moons of our Solar System that are tailor-made for the platform and will resonate deeply with our viewers.”

Getty Images offers an archival collection of over 34 million footage clips. The collection includes contemporary, archive and creative footage, with almost 20 million 4K clips and vast offline archives of BBC programming and NBC News.