Getty Images Holdings, Inc. is a Delaware corporation with its corporate headquarters located at 605 5th Ave S., Suite 400, Seattle, Washington 98104, telephone number (206) 925-5000, internet website address www.gettyimages.com. Our internet website and content contained therein or connected thereto are not incorporated by reference into this Annual Report. References to "Getty Images," the "Company," "we," "our" and "us" and similar terms mean Getty Images Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries, unless the context otherwise requires.
Getty Images was founded in 1995, with the core mission of bringing the world’s best creative and editorial visual content solutions to our customers to engage their audiences. We have developed market enhancements across e-commerce, content subscriptions, user-generated content, diverse and inclusive content, and proprietary research alongside investment in our technology platform (which includes generative AI-services designed to be commercially safe, natural language processing, and AI based integrated APIs) to become a global, trusted industry leader in the visual content space. On January 6, 2025, Getty Images entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger to combine in a merger-of-equals transaction with Shutterstock. See " Item 7 – Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial and Results of Operations – Merger Agreement with Shutterstock ".
Our comprehensive product offering is designed to address the full spectrum of customers’ visual content needs.
Getty Images is our premium offering focused on corporate, agency, and media customers, serving the full breadth of our customers’ content needs by combining the highest quality content with premium support and customized rights and protections. Customers can purchase on an a la carte basis and through subscriptions, including our "Premium Access" product, where we enable customers to access our complete library of creative and editorial images and video and music, via one website and one set of terms. Our assignment capabilities along with our Custom Content offering, a subscription product that leverages Getty Images’ global network of photographers and videographers to create customized and exclusive project-specific content, enables Getty Images to produce cost-effective content to meet the specific needs of customers. In the fall of 2023, we launched Generative AI by Getty Images which is designed to be a commercially safe AI image generation service that is trained with Getty Images creative content.