Shutterstock, Inc.

Shutterstock, Inc. was founded in 2003 by Jon Oringer in New York, where it remains headquartered. The company operates a marketplace for licensed stock photography, video footage, music, and 3D models, serving businesses, marketers, and media organizations worldwide. It went public in 2012 and trades on the New York Stock Exchange.

Shutterstock's core products include its stock content library of several hundred million assets, along with editing and creative tools such as Shutterstock Editor. The company has expanded into generative AI, offering text-to-image generation built on licensed training data and partnerships with companies including OpenAI, Google, and NVIDIA. It also licenses its content library to AI developers for model training under compensation agreements with contributors. Customers include advertising agencies, publishers, and enterprise marketing departments.

The company has grown through acquisitions, including PremiumBeat (music), Rex Features and Bigstock (stock content), TurboSquid (3D models), Pond5 (stock media), and Giphy's non-social media business acquired from Meta in 2023. Shutterstock trades under the ticker SHUT and reported annual revenue in the hundreds of millions of dollars, with a workforce in the low thousands.