NEW YORK, Feb. 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK), a leading global provider of commercial and editorial imagery and music, has licensed more than 500 million royalty free images, vectors and illustrations, including 100 million over the last 10 months.
The increased pace of commercial images being downloaded and licensed showcases the vibrancy of Shutterstock's marketplace. Every second four images are sold enabling businesses, marketing agencies and media organizations to communicate visually on any platform anywhere in the world.
"The best marketplaces are built on simplicity and that's what we work toward everyday," said Jon Oringer, founder and CEO of Shutterstock.
With more than 40,000 images added daily to the collection, Shutterstock is built to give all businesses vast choices and options at scale. To mark this milestone, Shutterstock has curated a collection of images of extraordinary size.
About Shutterstock
Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK), is a leading global provider of high-quality licensed photographs, vectors,illustrations,videos and music to businesses, marketing agencies and media organizations around the world. Working with its growing community of over 70,000 contributors, Shutterstock adds tens of thousands of images each week, and currently has more than 48 million images and 2 million video clips available.
Headquartered in New York City, with offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, Chicago, Denver, London Montreal, Paris and San Francisco, Shutterstock has customers in more than 150 countries. The company also owns Bigstock, a value-oriented stock media agency; Offset, a high-end image collection; PremiumBeat, a curated royalty-free music library; Rex Features, a premier source of editorial images for the world's media; Skillfeed, an online marketplace for learning; and WebDAM, a cloud-based digital asset management service for businesses.
For more information, please visit www.shutterstock.com, and follow Shutterstock on Twitter or on Facebook.
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