Shutterstock Announces Contributor Royalties Have Surpassed $200 Million

February 25, 2014 Marco | Editor

Milestone affirms Shutterstock’s dedication to supporting artists, while providing high-quality imagery to customers around the world

NEW YORK, Feb. 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK), a leading global provider of commercial digital imagery, recently announced that it has paid over $200 million in royalties to contributors since the company’s founding in 2003. With artists in over 100 countries, the milestone illustrates the dynamic global marketplace the company has built, and its ability to connect more than 55,000 artists to nearly 1 million image buyers around the world. Each time a customer licenses an image from Shutterstock, the contributing artist …read more

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Marco | Editor

Editor and founder of a bunch of stockphoto businesses

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