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Getty Images has renewed a multi-year agreement with U.S. Soccer, with Getty Images continuing to serve as Official Photographic Agency of U.S. Soccer. The multi-year renewal comes at a pivotal time, with the FIFA World Cup 2026 bringing U.S. soccer unprecedented visibility. Under the agreement, Getty Images' team of specialized sports photographers and editors will capture, authenticate and distribute imagery from a range of U.S. Soccer matches, programming and events.

The United Kingdom CMA's independent inquiry group has concluded the merger between Getty and Shutterstock "would lead to competition concerns for editorial content supplied to UK media outlets, but not for stock content supplied globally," the competition watchdog announed. "The inquiry group concluded that a sale of Shutterstock's global editorial business, which operates under the Shutterstock Editorial, Backgrid and Splash brands and competes with Getty across live and archive news, sport and entertainment content, could resolve the competition concerns identified. Getty and Shutterstock offered to sell Shutterstock's global editorial business at the end of the CMA's phase 1 investigation, previously describing it as 'peripheral to Shutterstock's core operations'. Once a sale of the Shutterstock editorial business is concluded to a CMA-approved purchaser, the Getty and Shutterstock merger, which the businesses have claimed will produce cost synergies of $150-200 million annually, can proceed," the CMA stated.

Sees FY26 adjusted EBITDA $279M-$295M. The company said, "The following table summarizes Getty Images' fiscal year 2026 guidance, including a normalized revenue outlook that excludes the impact of the $40 million of accelerated revenue recognized in Q4 2025 from two multi-year licensing agreements. This guidance remains unchanged from guidance communicated earlier this year."