Shutterstock

Shutterstock, founded in 2003 by Jon Oringer, is an American stock photography, stock footage and stock music provider headquartered in New York City, New York, United States. Shutterstock maintains a library of over 50 million royalty-free stock photos, vector graphics, and illustrations, and 2 million video clips and pieces of music for license.

Shutterstock licenses images, video clips and pieces of music on behalf of photographers, designers, illustrators, videographers and musicians adding 40,000 new images a day from 60,000 contributors in 150 countries, as of 2014.

Shutterstock is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ.

History

Shutterstock was founded in 2003 by Jon Oringer. Oringer uploaded 30,000 of his own stock photos and made them available via subscription, forming the basis of the company.

Originally a subscription site, Shutterstock expanded beyond subscriptions into a la carte pricing in August 2008.

On September 23, 2009, Shutterstock announced that it had purchased rival site Bigstock, a credit-based microstock photography agency.