SSTK News & Events

Shutterstock announced the launch of its Shutterstock app in ChatGPT, enabling users to discover images, videos, music, and sound effects from one of the world's largest content collections directly in ChatGPT. Shutterstock now enables users to discover images, videos, music, and sound effects from one of the world's largest content collections directly in ChatGPT. As AI platforms increasingly become a medium for creative ideation, Shutterstock is embedding high-quality, licensable content directly into AI-native workflows-positioning itself as the licensed content layer that fuels AI-driven creativity. The Shutterstock app in ChatGPT creates a gateway for AI-driven discovery, allowing content to be surfaced, previewed, and moved toward commercial production within AI and agentic workflows. By launching an app in ChatGPT, Shutterstock reduces creative and discovery friction and strengthens its position as the licensable content layer across emerging AI ecosystems.

Shutterstock announced that it is "accelerating the future of generative AI" with an expansion of its training datasets. "This expansion provides developers, researchers, and enterprise partners with unprecedented access to multimodal data high-quality licensed content for the full model training lifecycle, marking the next phase in Shutterstock's rapidly growing data licensing business," the company said in a statement. Shutterstock adds that its expanded data catalog now features assets from templates and fonts to long-form video, premium metadata, and specialized podcast and science imagery. "This expansion reflects the accelerating demand for high-quality training data as generative AI development reaches critical mass globally," it said.

Getty Images (GETY) and Shutterstock (SSTK) announced that the United States Department of Justice has concluded its review of the companies' proposed merger of equals and the applicable waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act has expired, without conditions. The merger transaction is expected to deliver substantial synergies across SG&A and CAPEX following close . Prior to the DOJ's decision, in the United Kingdom, the Competition and Markets Authority issued its interim report on February 19 as part of the ongoing Phase 2 review. Getty Images and Shutterstock are actively engaged with the CMA ahead of the CMA's final decision due by April 19, to further the CMA's understanding of the Editorial market and how the merger enhances the combined company's ability to serve customers, contributors, and partners in a highly competitive marketplace. Based on the merits of the transaction and market realities, Getty Images and Shutterstock remain hopeful that the CMA will reach a conclusion consistent with the DOJ and other regulators around the globe.