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A leading global creative platform offering full-service solutions, high-quality content, and creative workflow solutions for brands, businesses and media companies.
Freshest content
- 405M+ images
- 25M+ video clips
- Thousands of music tracks
Innovation-driven
- Advanced search
- Computer vision technology
- Leading creative platform
Proven performance
- Founded 2003
- NYSE listed: 2012
- Consistent revenue growth and strong profitability
Worry-free licensing
- Royalty-free licenses
- Rigorous content review process
Shutterstock's Growth Pillars
Investment Highlights
- Expanding TAM with Multiple Industry Tailwinds
- Evolving to a Creative Platform Leveraging Content, Data and Workflow Applications
- Growing a Powerful Subscription Led Business Model
- Diversified Across eCommerce, Enterprise and API Channels
- Shareholder Returns Driven by Revenue Growth, Margin Expansion, Capital Return and M&A
Expanding Total Addressable Market
Total Addressable Market
- Stock Imagery
- Music
- Video
- Creative Software Tools
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The Casual Creative Market Opportunity
While professional creatives have always been a core source of demand for Shutterstock, the Casual Creative represents an
increasingly important growth driver.
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Proliferation of easy-to-use creative tools is enabling the growth of the casual creative market.
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Shutterstock's global creative platform, Creative Flow, includes the scale and embedded relationships with leading social media platforms enables
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Increasing prevalence in the use of stock images, video and music in social media.
Stock Imagery, music, and video 2022 market size and 2022 market growth estimates based on 2021 Technavio Global Stock Images, Video and Music Market reports. Creative software tools 2022 market size and 2022 market growth estimates based on Statista Creative Software - Worldwide Market Forecast report.
Industry Tailwinds
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Digital advertising
Worldwide digital ad spending is expected to grow by 16.2% in 2022 to $571 billion. Digital will continue to account for over half of total media ad spending.
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3D & Metaverse
The metaverse is designed to be an experience that spans both the digital and physical realms in areas such as games, social networks and Ecommerce, in which 3D content will be a key ingredient. The metaverse revenue opportunity is projected to reach $800 billion by 2024 and is expected to incorporate technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality and other technologies.
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Video on Demand
The Global Video on Demand Market is expected to reach over $135 billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 8.3% during the forecast period.
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Website Proliferation
The growth in the number of organizations, many of which need a digital presence, will drive website proliferation. There are more than 30 million small businesses in the United States alone.
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Social Media
The creator economy is powered by over 50 million independent content creators, curators, influencers, bloggers and videographers and is expected to be a $104 billion market in 2022. These creators rely on various social media platforms to amplify their content reach.
Source: Digital Advertising obtained from www.emarketer.com. 3D & Metaverse data obtained from earthweb.com. Video on Demand content obtained from www.statista.com. Website proliferation data obtained from advocacy.sba.gov. Social Media data obtained from signalfire.com and influencermarketinghub.com
Our Target Customers
Use Cases for Stock Content
Utilization of stock content extends across a diverse set of media types, as follows:
Source: Shutterstock Market Tracker, Q4 2020.
Evolving to a Subscription Business
Global Marketplace Network Effect
eCommerce Channel
- Self-service sales channel
- Variety of plans for royalty free licensing of images, footage and music
- Standardized and enhanced content licenses available
- Leading edge search capabilities and editing tools
- Continuous improvement on localization and personalization
- Mobile application for browsing and consumption
- Represents over 60% of Shutterstock’s business
- Focused marketing spend to drive online conversion
- Direct marketing investment to maximize ROI and customer LTV
- In Top 500 of most visited websites

Enterprise Channel
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- Business for our sales-assisted and high-touch delivery products
- Tailored solution offering with white glove treatment
- Full service account management approach to delivery
- Responsive to unique customer content needs
- Team experience products streamlining workflow for multi-seat subscriptions
- Facilitating team collaboration and workflow
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This channel also includes revenues from:
- Editorial offering
- Custom branded content utilizing our Smartbrief workflow
- Asset Assurance
- API solutions

Ecosystem of API Partners
Embedding our content, technology, and tools within 3rd party applications, such as ad builders, social media platforms, Digital Asset Managers, and other Marketing Technologies


API Ecosystem
- Streamlining access to Shutterstock within the platforms customers use every day.
- Helping platform partners create more engaging customer experiences, leading to increased revenue, retention, and time on our platform.
- Making it as easy as possible to find the right content, in the right place, at the right time.
- Driving value beyond content through products like our Editor and Smart content recommendations.
Unique First Party Data Assets
Shutterstock is at the beginning of its journey to monetize data assets through sale of data insights and refined data sets to select strategic partners, and embedding content performance data natively into our search and content presentation capabilities.

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Global trends around content preferences pertaining to consumer intent and culture (Creative Trends 2020, 2021, 2022)
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Predictive performance capabilities powered by the technology acquired from Pattern89, Datasine and Shotzr.
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Shutterstock’s Computer vision offering commercializes the underlying metadata of its existing content library to support customers’ AI models.
Recent Strategic Acquisitions


PicMonkey

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Shutterstock acquired PicMonkey on September 3, 2021
- Complements Shutterstock's content subscriptions with professional-grade, easy-to-use design tools
- Key features of the PicMonkey tool includes photo editing, effects, touch-up tools, brand kits, cloud storage video, animations, and multi-page for creators, solopreneurs, social marketers, marketing professionals, pro designers and casual creatives
- Expands Shutterstock's audience reach and addressable market by extending into the large and growing market opportunity for creative software and design tools
- Recurring SaaS-based subscription revenue

With the acquisitions of Pattern89, Datasine and Shotzr, Shutterstock.AI will continue to rapidly develop its own predictive performance capabilities to help creatives and customers accomplish their goals by making more data-informed content decisions.
Three leading Artificial Intelligence platforms acquired in July 2021:

Pattern89
Pattern89 provides industry-level and custom insights for predictive performance at scale. Utilizing these insights allows marketers, agencies and creatives to make the right decisions -- down to colors, copy and even emojis -- without having to live A/B test. Pattern89's sophisticated workflow allows real time monitoring of campaign performance, as well as one-click optimization

Datasine
Datasine's AI provides the insights and acumen for campaign decision-making. Their team of data scientists and psychologists have created algorithms that analyze the creative elements of an ad better than humans. The company's artificial intelligence reviews past campaign performance of digital assets and provides recommendations for optimizing their performance.

Shotzr
Shotzr uses human responsiveness to imagery, applying insights to any image for predictive analysis to ensure customers select the right image for social media and digital campaigns that will resonate with audiences.
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TurboSquid - democratizing 3D content worldwide
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Shutterstock acquired TurboSquid on February 1, 2021
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Industry leader, with full suite of 3D content offerings, including:
- TurboSquid - over one million assets in 3D marketplace
- PixelSquid - content marketplace for 3D objects available via a 2D spinner
- Kraken - SaaS-based digital asset management solution
- Extensive network of contributors who develop and sell 3D models
- Blue chip customer base including over half of the Fortune 100
- Diverse use cases spanning advertising & marketing, ecommerce, AR/VR, architecture, education, engineering, gaming and media
- Compelling strategic fit and meaningful revenue synergies with Shutterstock
- Expected to be immediately accretive to adjusted net income per diluted share and adjusted EBITDA
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Industry leader, with full suite of 3D content offerings, including:
Management Team
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Jon Oringer Founder and Executive Chairman
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Jarrod Yahes Chief Financial Officer
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Peter Silvio Chief Technology Officer
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Jamie Elden Chief Revenue Officer
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Meghan Schoen Chief Product Officer
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Kunal Mehta Head of Business Operations
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Sara Birmingham Chief Human Resources Officer
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John Lapham General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
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Julie Porro Chief Information Security Officer
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Hugues Hervouet Chief Information Officer
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Steven Ciardiello Chief Accounting Officer
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Aiden Darne VP, Shutterstock Studios
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Candice Murray VP, Editorial
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Denise Quaglia VP, Global Customer Care
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Chip Schenck VP, Sales Innovation
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Yvonne Januschka VP, APAC Sales
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Bridget Gola VP, Business Intelligence
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Jon Oringer Founder and Executive Chairman
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Jarrod Yahes Chief Financial Officer
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Peter Silvio Chief Technology Officer
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Jamie Elden Chief Revenue Officer
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Meghan Schoen Chief Product Officer
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Kunal Mehta Head of Business Operations
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Sara Birmingham Chief Human Resources Officer
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John Lapham General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
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Julie Porro Chief Information Security Officer
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Hugues Hervouet Chief Information Officer
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Steven Ciardiello Chief Accounting Officer
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Aiden Darne VP, Shutterstock Studios
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Candice Murray VP, Editorial
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Denise Quaglia VP, Global Customer Care
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Chip Schenck VP, Sales Innovation
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Yvonne Januschka VP, APAC Sales
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Bridget Gola VP, Business Intelligence
Financial Performance
Shutterstock By The Numbers

Note: Key Metrics as of March 31, 2022, unless otherwise noted.
- 24.3% Adj. EBITDA Margin (LTM)
- 359,000 Total Subscribers
- 41% Subscriber Revenue as a % of Total (LTM)
- $355 Revenue per Customer (LTM)
- 2.1M+ Customers
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- 405M+ Images
- 25M+ Video Clips