NEW

We are sunsetting Citizen Explore portal starting 04/17. Contact us now to upgrade to Citizen Enterprise for Journalists.

NEW

We are sunsetting Citizen Explore portal starting 04/17. Contact us now to upgrade to Citizen Enterprise for Journalists.

NEW

We are sunsetting Citizen Explore portal starting 04/17. Contact us now to upgrade to Citizen Enterprise for Journalists.

Citizen Enterprise for
Media Organizations

Citizen Enterprise for
Media Organizations

Real-time, human-verified, hyper-local,
on-the-scene footage to boost your coverage

AI-powered Radar

Continuously monitors and analyzes real-time data streams to detect, classify, and surface critical incidents with high precision.

18+ Incident Categories

Comprehensive coverage across a wide range of incident categories, enabling structured detection and consistent response workflows.

Video Downloads

Easily view, download or embed videos streamed on the ground and verified near incidents.

Pro Power Tools

Advanced tools for filtering, and deep analysis, designed to accelerate operational efficiency.

Citizen is Built for Speed, Volume & Scale

Citizen is Built for Speed, Volume & Scale

Citizen is the largest real-time public safety network in the United States. When an incident happens, Citizen users are there first capturing video before any news crew arrives.

Citizen Enterprise gives your newsroom licensed, searchable access to that footage, with the legal protection to publish it.

Why Citizen Enterprise

Why Citizen Enterprise

Citizen Enterprise is built for the demands of a professional newsroom with the tools, history, and legal backing to match.

How Citizen Footage is Different

Licensed Video Downloads

Protect your broadcast and publication with Citizen's indemnification on licensed content.

Category Sorting

Find relevant video in seconds by filtering footage by incident type such as fire, accident, crime, and more.

5-year Archive Access

Five years of historical video so you can report developing stories, file follow-ups, and build context from the archive.

Location, Date & Time Search

Pull footage by specific dates, custom ranges, and geography to see everything. Citizen Enterprise lets you zero in on a specific city, neighborhood, or region tied to a story window, a known incident, or a recurring beat—search the way journalists think.

Embeddable Videos

Clean, attributed, CMS-ready, videos without the friction of downloading, converting, or re-uploading footage.

Make Citizen Your Unfair Advantage

Make Citizen Your Unfair Advantage

From incident to publish, you can move fast with Citizen with the workflow you are most comfortable with.

From incident to publish, you can move fast with Citizen with the workflow you are most comfortable with.

  1. Incident Reported

A user reports an incident on Citizen. Nearby users are alerted and begin capturing footage often within seconds of the event.

  1. Search & Filter

Your team searches Enterprise by category, location, or date range. Filter to your beat, your geography, your story window.

  1. Download or Embed

Download footage for broadcast or embed it directly in your digital story fully attributed and covered under your licensing agreement.

  1. Publish With Confidence

Your legal indemnification is in place. Your attribution is built in. Your editors can approve and your audience will instantly see it.

Don't Lose Access

Don't Lose Access

Citizen Explore is Retiring Soon

Starting 04/17, free access to Citizen footage through the Explore portal ends. Newsrooms that rely on Citizen video for breaking news coverage should act before the cutover to avoid any gap. 

Citizen Explore is Retiring Soon

Starting 04/17, free access to Citizen footage through the Explore portal ends. Newsrooms that rely on Citizen video for breaking news coverage should act before the cutover to avoid any gap. 

Schedule a Call With Our Team

Our team is available to walk through your newsroom's specific coverage needs and help identify the right Enterprise plan for your team.

Schedule a Call With Our Team

Our team is available to walk through your newsroom's specific coverage needs and help identify the right Enterprise plan for your team.