Getty Images Holdings Inc

gettyimages.com

What Do They Do?

Licenses creative and editorial images, video and music to businesses, media organizations and individuals.

How Do They Make Money?

Creative is the largest business; customers subscribe for a set quantity of content or library access over a period, or buy individual digital licenses at download.

revenue

Segment	Share	How money arrives
Creative Mix	57% FY2022: 63%	Mix
Editorial Mix	38% FY2022: 35%	Mix
Other	5.6% FY2022: 1.6%

Who Are Their Customers?

Corporate, agency and media buyers use Getty Images, iStock and Unsplash websites; internet platforms and other partners can integrate its content, metadata and search through APIs.

Do Revenues Turn Into Profits?

Not on paper. It lost $206.2M in FY2025, but brought in more cash than it spent: $5.7M of free cash flow.

Operating income, FY2025

9% of revenue

▼ −54% vs FY2024 ($180.8M, 19%)

Net income, FY2025

−21% of revenue

▼ Now a loss vs FY2024 ($39.5M, 4%)

Free cash flow, FY2025

1% of revenue

▼ −91% vs FY2024 ($60.9M, 6%)

How Are They Changing?

Since the FY2025 annual report

Latest quarter: Q2 FY2026, the three months to Jun 30, 2026

Revenue: ▼ −2%; vs $234.9M in Q2 FY2025
Net income: ▲ +150% (Loss); vs −$34.4M in Q2 FY2025

Creative share of revenue vs 55.7% in Q2 FY2025

Jul 7, 2026 Getty Images terminated its Shutterstock merger agreement The decision followed its refusal to pursue a sale of Shutterstock’s editorial business as a condition for U.K. clearance.
Jun 22, 2026 Getty Images signed an OpenAI display partnership Under a multi-year agreement, its licensed content libraries will appear in ChatGPT search and discovery experiences.

Flat. Revenue was $981.3M in FY2025, about the same as the $918.7M of FY2021.

Annual subscriptions The latest report describes a shift toward annual subscriptions; the older report presents subscriptions alongside a la carte purchases across its brands.

Generative AI imagery Generative AI image creation joins the offerings: the older report describes stills, video and music, while the latest adds a generative AI image service.

Revenue over time

Creative Editorial Other

$1B$500M$0

FY2021 FY2022 FY2023 FY2024 FY2025

Who Do They Compete With?

Competes with Canva, Adobe, Shutterstock, 123RF, Dreamstime, AdobeStock, Fiverr, Midjourney, Dall-E, Stable Diffusion, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Associated Press, and Reuters

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