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Funding history
| Date | Stage | Amount | Valuation | Lead investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 2025 | Acquired | — | $3.7B | Getty Images |
| Oct 10, 2012 | IPO | $76.5M | $570M | — |
| Jun 1, 2007 | Series A | — | — | Insight Venture Partners |
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AI Image Generator
Shutterstock's AI image generator transforms text-based prompts into high-quality, licensable images in seconds using advanced models including OpenAI's GPT Image 2, Google's Gemini, and others. Users can customize style, aspect ratio, and upscale outputs to 4K resolution. The platform integrates ethical AI practices with contributor compensation through Shutterstock's Contributor Fund, ensuring artists are compensated when their work contributes to AI training. Available to all subscription users globally.
Creative AI Editing Suite
A comprehensive set of AI-powered editing tools enabling users to modify both stock and AI-generated images within Shutterstock's platform. Features include Magic Brush for selective image editing, Variations for generating alternate options, and Expand Image for extending compositions. Built on OpenAI's technology and integrated with C2PA standards for content credentials, these tools allow users to transform 700M+ assets in the Shutterstock library without leaving the platform.
Stock Content Marketplace
Shutterstock's core platform providing access to over 860 million licensable assets including photographs, vectors, illustrations, video footage, and music tracks. The marketplace connects millions of contributors with customers in 150+ countries, offering flexible subscription and on-demand pricing models. Users can license content for commercial and personal use across diverse industries including marketing, design, media production, and education.
Shutterstock ImageAI
An enterprise-focused text-to-image generation model powered by Databricks, trained exclusively on Shutterstock's proprietary image repository. Designed for organizations requiring high-fidelity, trusted outputs with customization and indemnification protection. Enables enterprises to generate images for marketing collateral, websites, applications, and campaigns while maintaining brand-specific control and legal compliance guardrails.
Most recent patents
Shutterstock, Inc.·2026-01-13US12524449
Shutterstock, Inc.·2025-11-11Predicting Performance Of Creative Content
US12469046AbstractPredicting Performance Of Creative Content
US12469046Abstract Methods and systems for predicting performance of creative content are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive a collection of images; provide a context to a user; serially cause display of pairs of images on a computer interface; receive user responses indicating which image of each pair is preferred given the context; determine a resonance value for each image based on a number of times the user responses indicate each image is preferred when displayed in a pair of images; determine a confidence score for each image; generate one or more models for predicting image performance based on one or more of the resonance value and the confidence score for each image; receive a plurality of candidate images; determine, using at least one model, a first metric set for each candidate; and cause display of a listing of the candidate images, the listing including the first metric set for each candidate image.
Shutterstock, Inc.·2025-06-17Asset Design And Generation Using Digital Assistant
US12333217AbstractAsset Design And Generation Using Digital Assistant
US12333217Abstract As disclosed herein, a computer-implemented method for refining a description of a desired digital asset through interactive conversational exchange is provided. The computer-implemented method may include receiving, via a conversational user interface (UI), a first input from a user including a description of a desired digital asset. The computer-implemented method may include prompting the user to provide a second input including additional details about the desired digital asset. The computer-implemented method may include generating, based on the second input, a first refined description of the desired digital asset. The computer-implemented method may include providing the first refined description to a machine learning (ML) model to generate the desired digital asset. A system and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are also disclosed.
Shutterstock, Inc.·2025-01-28Media File Recommendations For A Search Engine
US12210565AbstractMedia File Recommendations For A Search Engine
US12210565Abstract A method for recommending results to a user from a search query is provided. The method includes receiving, in a search engine, a search query for a media file from a user, identifying a style preference of the user associated with a one or more media file attributes, based on a user-related search history, selecting, from a database, a one or more media files based on the search query and the style preference of the user, determining a style preference score for the one or more media files based on the media file attributes, and recommending to the user a top ranked media file based on the style preference score. A system including a memory storing instructions and one or more processors to execute the instructions to cause the system to perform the above method is also provided.
Shutterstock, Inc.·2024-10-01Balanced Generative Image Model Training
US12106548AbstractBalanced Generative Image Model Training
US12106548Abstract A method for training a generative image model, including defining multiple sensitive categories and protected attributes associated with multiple training images, determining for a particular sensitive category a distribution of a protected attribute within the training images, and based on the distribution, calculating for each training image a corresponding image debiasing weight value associated with the protected attribute. The method further includes generating annotated training data including the training images, and for each training image, (1) the corresponding image debiasing weight value associated with the protected attribute and (2) a corresponding descriptive text caption. The method further includes performing a training process using the annotated training data to train a generative image model resulting in a trained model. A contribution of each image in the training images to an optimization loss of the training process is weighted during the training process using the corresponding image debiasing weight value.
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