What is Getty Images?

Getty Images is one of the world's leading providers of visual content for media and corporate customers. Founded in 1995, Getty has a library of over 415 million assets which includes photos, illustrations, vectors and videos. Getty's content comes from over 490,000 contributors across almost every country in the world.

Getty licenses imagery to the media, corporate and advertising sectors and has an industry leading e-commerce platform for customers to search, view, download and incorporate imagery into their creative work. Customers include large corporations, small businesses, global media companies, newspapers, magazines, television stations, book publishers and other business and organizations.

In addition to licensing media, Getty runs the Getty Images website which enables customers to browse, search and view content for layouts before licensing. The Getty Images website receives over 3.5 million unique visitors each month. Getty also provides brand management services, produces high quality imagery through its production studios and offers digital asset management services.

Getty has a content assignment network of over 100,000 photographers, videographers and photojournalists deployed in almost every country to produce exclusive imagery. Every year, Getty Images produces over 150,000 hours of moving images.

Getty was purchased by the Carlyle Group in 2020 for $4.8 billion and continues to have offices around the world including Seattle, New York, London, Paris and Berlin among others. Some key people associated with Getty over the years include Mark Getty, Jonathan Klein, James McClelland and Dale Kunce.

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