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Shutterstock: History, Art & Companies

Shutterstock, Inc. is an American provider of stock photography, stock footage, stock music, and editing tools; it is headquartered in New York. Founded in 2002 by programmer and photographer Jon Oringer, Shutterstock maintains a library of around 200 million royalty-free stock photos, vector graphics, and illustrations, with around 10 million video…

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Shutterstock topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Art and Companies as prominent areas in the source structure around Shutterstock.

Related topics
67
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
72
Extracted relationships
185
Related term clusters
14
Bridge connections
72

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 32 topics
Corporate governance · 15 topics
Overview · 13 topics
Products · 6 topics
Criticism · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Founded
2002; 24 years ago (2002)
Industry
Stock photography, stock footage, stock music
Owner
Jon Oringer (33.3%)
Headquarters
Empire State Building, New York City, U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Founder
Jon Oringer

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Overview

History

Corporate governance

Products

Criticism

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How Shutterstock connects Entity context

The extracted context around Shutterstock shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Shutterstock → By April, Chinese, Facebook, Facebook's Ad Creator, French, German, In August, In May, Inc, Italian, Japanese, Korean, March, May, New York Stock Exchange, October, Portuguese, Russian, Shutterstock Instant, Shutterstock Labs Another extracted example is Shutterstock → According, Amsterdam, Berlin, CEO Jon Oringer, Chicago, COO, Denver, Empire State Building, European, Fast Company, Germany, In October, Inc, London, March, Montréal, New York, October, Oringer, Paris. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Shutterstock

Top relations

related to Acquisitions and IPO (2012–2013) · 25
Shutterstock → By April, Chinese, Facebook, Facebook's Ad Creator, French, German, In August, In May, Inc, Italian, Japanese, Korean, March, May, New York Stock Exchange, October, Portuguese, Russian, Shutterstock Instant, Shutterstock Labs
related to Facilities and staff · 25
Shutterstock → According, Amsterdam, Berlin, CEO Jon Oringer, Chicago, COO, Denver, Empire State Building, European, Fast Company, Germany, In October, Inc, London, March, Montréal, New York, October, Oringer, Paris
related to Founding and early years (2003–2011) · 18
Shutterstock → AIGA, American, American Institute, August, Bigstock, Creating, Fast Company, Getty, Graphic Arts, In February, Insight Venture Partners, Jon Oringer, On Demand, On September, Oringer, Photo, Shutterstock Footage, US
related to Recent developments (2015–present) · 18
Shutterstock → According, April, Associated Press, By March, Crain's, Deadline, Entrepreneur, Europe's, Getty Images, In January, June, Penske Media Corporation, PMC's, PremiumBeat, Rex Features, United States, Variety, Women's Wear Daily
related to Offset and new partnerships (2013–2014) · 15
Shutterstock → Europe, In March, In May, In October, In September, July, Offset, Palette, Salesforce, Salesforce's Social Studio, September, Shortly, Shutterstock's, US, Webdam
Subsidiaries · 10
Shutterstock → BEImages, Bigstock, Giphy, Offset, Pond5, PremiumBeat, Rex Features, Rocketstock, Splash News, TurboSquid
related to Censorship of results in China · 8
Shutterstock → China, Chinese, In September, IP, Mao Zedong, October, Taiwan, Xi Jinping
related to Shutterstock Labs · 8
Shutterstock → In July, In May, March, Palette, Shutterstock Images LLC, Shutterstock Instant, Shutterstock Labs, Spectrum
related to Business model · 7
Shutterstock → Explains Vice, Facebook, March, Pinterest, The Atlantic, Twitter, While Shutterstock
related to Computer vision · 7
Shutterstock → According, Discovery, Entrepreneur, In March, Later, Reverse Image Search, Similar Search

Important terminology

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Important terminology

images million new stock announced image 2014 photos company 2013 music contributors may video 2012 york firm tool july oringer

Shutterstock relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 185 structured relationships around Shutterstock. Examples in this analysis include Shutterstock → Area served → Worldwide and Shutterstock → Founded → 2002; 24 years ago (2002). The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
ShutterstockArea servedWorldwide1.00infobox
ShutterstockFounded2002; 24 years ago (2002)1.00infobox
ShutterstockFounderJon Oringer1.00infobox
ShutterstockHeadquartersEmpire State Building, New York City, U.S.1.00infobox
ShutterstockIndustryStock photography, stock footage, stock music1.00infobox
ShutterstockKey peopleJon Oringer (chairman)1.00infobox
ShutterstockKey peoplePaul Hennessy (CEO)1.00infobox
ShutterstockNet incomeUS$110 million (2023)1.00infobox
ShutterstockNumber of employees1,274 (2023)1.00infobox
ShutterstockOperating incomeUS$68.4 million (2023)1.00infobox
ShutterstockOwnerJon Oringer (33.3%)1.00infobox
ShutterstockProductsShutterstock Editor, Shutterstock Tab, Shutterstock Image Subscription1.00infobox
ShutterstockRevenueUS$875 million (2023)1.00infobox
ShutterstockServicesLicensing of stock media1.00infobox
ShutterstockSubsidiariesGiphy1.00infobox
ShutterstockSubsidiariesTurboSquid1.00infobox
ShutterstockSubsidiariesBigstock1.00infobox
ShutterstockSubsidiariesPond51.00infobox
ShutterstockSubsidiariesSplash News1.00infobox
ShutterstockSubsidiariesOffset1.00infobox
ShutterstockSubsidiariesRex Features1.00infobox
ShutterstockSubsidiariesBEImages1.00infobox
ShutterstockSubsidiariesPremiumBeat1.00infobox
ShutterstockSubsidiariesRocketstock1.00infobox
ShutterstockTotal assetsUS$1.04 billion (2023)1.00infobox
ShutterstockTotal equityUS$527 million (2023)1.00infobox
ShutterstockTraded asNYSE: SSTK1.00infobox
ShutterstockTypePublic1.00infobox
ShutterstockWebsiteshutterstock.com1.00infobox
Shutterstockfounded in20030.95text

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Shutterstock bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Million, Images and Announced. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Shutterstock
    • Million
    • Images
    • Announced
    • Image
    • Stock
    • New
    • Tool
    • Video
    • Also
    • July
    • Partnership
    • Music
  • shutterstock
    • Million
    • Images
    • Announced
    • Image
    • Stock
    • New
    • Tool
    • Video
    • Also
    • July
    • Partnership
    • Music
  • stock footage
    • York
    • Oringer
    • Royalty-free
    • Photo
    • Clips
    • Jon
    • Million
    • Images
    • Subscription
    • Photos
    • Stock
    • Music
  • stock music
    • Video
    • York
    • Stock
    • Clips
    • Oringer
    • Royalty-free
    • Photo
    • Jon
    • Million
    • New
    • Images
    • Subscription
  • stock photos
    • York
    • Oringer
    • Royalty-free
    • Photo
    • Jon
    • Million
    • Images
    • Subscription
    • Photos
    • Stock
    • Online
    • Video
  • video clips
    • Video
    • Royalty-free
    • Million
    • Music
    • Available
    • Footage
    • Library
    • Company
    • Image
    • Jon
    • Subscription
    • Oringer
  • new york stock exchange
    • New
    • York
    • Footage
    • Stock
    • Oringer
    • Royalty-free
    • Photo
    • March
    • Image
    • Jon
    • Million
    • Images
  • getty images
    • Shutterstock
    • Contributors
    • Photo
    • Stock
    • Image
    • Tool
    • Photos
    • New
    • March
    • Partnership
    • Firm
    • Million

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Shutterstock, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Shutterstock with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Shutterstock — History · splits 40 ⟂ 33
Shutterstock — Corporate governance · splits 57 ⟂ 16
Shutterstock — Overview · splits 59 ⟂ 14
Shutterstock — Products · splits 66 ⟂ 7

Map overview Semantic statistics

Shutterstock

Nodes73
Edges72
Triples185
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.027397
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Shutterstock to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Art & Companies, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Shutterstock · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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