What I haven't seen to date (but will now look out for) is any media outlet actually using any of these images or videos...has anyone seen an uses?

I think that's because they never appear as the source of their material. They act like a marketplace and sell their contributors' content to the media directly. As far as I understand the concept, they are never seen as a copyright owner and thus are never mentioned as the source.

Hi everyone,

this is my first post, and I've signed up to hear about your experience with Newzulu (http://www.newzulu.com/). I didn't find any post about them in the forums, so I thought I'd create a new one.

Newzulu say they are "a news platform with a community of over 100000 professional and citizen journalists who share and break news to the world as it happens." The reason I find Newzulu interesting is that they are all about news content - photos, videos, live videos, articles. They have lots of partner agencies, and recently partnered with Tribune Media and Getty Images, and they keep expanding, so you get exposure to big companies now. They have features like "newscalls", which is when news agencies ask for certain news coverage/content in pictures and video. So instead of sending their own news team, they look for people who are on the spot to create the content the agency needs. It seems like you can write and sell news articles there, too.

They even have a live news app, where you can act as a live reporter by using your smartphone.  I guess that modern smartphones deliver good enough quality anyway. There's a video on http://newzululimited.com/ that explains the concept.

It seems to me they're quite unique, particularly with all the partnerships they have (Czech press, French press, US press/media, Australian press, and so on). Has anyone used them? Sounds kind of cool, a bit like in the Nightcrawler movie. I've found this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFCbHCNArIQ) where their CEO explains how someone earned some 50k with a single smartphone video.

I think it's a very interesting concept that your content is made immediately available to important news agencies and media companies in the whole news world, and could, in theory, appear on a big news website or even on TV within minutes. They seem to screen the content for quality standards and relevance, so there is a delay for live streams, but other than that, you could end up seeing your news video on Fox News an hour later.

I'm happy to hear about your experience with them and will sign up with them soon and report myself. Imagine a UFO lands in your garden and you don't have the app to earn big money as a reporter. 

Would love to hear if someone lands a big selling hit with their video/picture.