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Shutterstock, Inc. develops licensable digital content, creative services and GenAI solutions for businesses, creatives, brand teams and technology partners. Company news commonly covers product launches across images, video, music, sound effects, AI video generation and AI-native content discovery, as well as the expansion of licensed training datasets, evaluation tools and model-training services.
Updates also address operating results for its Content and Data, Distribution and Services offerings, customer and partner activity, dividends, shareholder voting matters, material agreements, capital-structure disclosures, governance topics and regulatory developments tied to the company’s public-company operations.
Sonilo announced a strategic partnership with Shutterstock (NYSE:SSTK), licensing Shutterstock’s music catalog to train Sonilo’s video-to-music AI models. This is Shutterstock’s first partnership with a video-to-music AI platform.
Sonilo’s model generates original, commercially cleared soundtracks from video input and is integrated into ComfyUI, an AI workflow tool used by over four million creators.
Shutterstock (NYSE: SSTK) reported Q1 2026 results: revenue $199.2M, net loss $47.6M, adjusted EBITDA $42.7M and adjusted net income $20.7M. The company noted a slowdown in Content and timing impacts in Data licensing.
Merger with Getty Images remains pending; CMA final report due June 14, 2026. Board declared a $0.36 per-share dividend payable June 18, 2026.
Shutterstock (NYSE: SSTK) launched its AI Video Generator on April 15, 2026, a unified solution combining leading text- and image-to-video models with Shutterstock's large licensed asset library.
The tool includes two free generations, integrates models from Google and Runway, and offers clear commercial licensing for scalable video creation.
Shutterstock (NYSE:SSTK) launched a Shutterstock app in ChatGPT on April 1, 2026, letting users discover licensable images, video, music, and sound effects directly inside ChatGPT workflows. The integration surfaces rights-cleared commercial assets, enables preview-to-license flows without leaving conversations, and highlights Shutterstock's data-licensing and AI services.
The app aims to reduce discovery friction, embed licensed content into AI-native workflows, and support generative model training with curated, provenance-backed multimodal datasets.
Shutterstock (NYSE: SSTK) announced on March 19, 2026 a major expansion of its licensed training datasets to support generative AI development across the full model lifecycle. The expanded catalog adds new multimodal asset types—templates, fonts, long-form video, premium metadata, podcast and science imagery—and emphasizes rights-cleared, labeled content and data provenance for research and commercial licensing.
The company also highlights investments in data structuring, labeling, rights management, MLOps, and its recently launched AI Services to enable end-to-end model training, evaluation, and retraining for enterprise partners.
Shutterstock (NYSE:SSTK) responded to the UK Competition and Markets Authority's interim report on the proposed merger with Getty Images on Feb 19, 2026.
Key points: Shutterstock welcomed the CMA's provisional finding that the deal is unlikely to raise competition issues in the global Stock content market, disagreed with the CMA's provisional view of a substantial lessening of competition in the UK Editorial market, and said it will file a response to the interim report in line with the CMA timeline while cooperating with the U.S. DOJ review.
Shutterstock (NYSE: SSTK) reported full-year 2025 revenue of $989.9M (+6%) and record Adjusted EBITDA of $271.8M (27.5% margin). Full-year net income was $45.5M and adjusted free cash flow expanded to $149.5M. The company credited Envato contributions and growth in Data, Distribution & Services, while noting continued weakness in Content and merger-related costs tied to the pending Getty Images transaction.
Q4 revenue declined to $220.2M (-12%), with a Q4 net loss of $16.0M and Adjusted EBITDA of $46.8M.
Shutterstock (NYSE: SSTK) reported third quarter 2025 results for the period ended September 30, 2025. Revenue was $260.1M (up 4% year-over-year). Adjusted EBITDA rose to $79.4M (up 13%) with a margin of 30.5% (up 260 bps). Net income was $13.4M and adjusted net income was $36.4M. Content revenue declined 5% to $194.4M while Data, Distribution, and Services revenue grew 40% to $65.7M. Cash and cash equivalents increased to $165.5M and adjusted free cash flow was $75.2M.
The company noted merger-related professional fees and continued engagement with the UK CMA regarding the pending Getty Images merger.
Shutterstock (NYSE: SSTK) said the UK's Competition and Markets Authority referred the proposed merger with Getty Images to a Phase 2 review on Nov 3, 2025. Getty Images offered comprehensive remedies to avoid Phase 2; Shutterstock said it is disappointed but remains committed to the transaction and will continue to engage with the CMA to secure clearances.
Getty Images and Shutterstock previously filed required SEC registration and proxy materials, with the Form S-4 declared effective on April 30, 2025.
Shutterstock (NYSE: SSTK) released the 2025 Creative Impact Report on Oct 23, 2025, quantifying creative ROI and market trends.
Key findings: global marketing spend rose 33% since 2023 while purchase intent rose only 17%, creating a 12% impact gap. The proprietary Impact Score fell a cumulative nearly 20% from 2023 through Aug 2025. The study (44 months of econometrics and AI content analysis) flags creative quality, emotional connection and AI as primary levers to close the gap. Sector snapshots show Aerospace & Energy +45%, Consumer -24%, Technology -12%.