Getty Images, Shutterstock agree to merge in $3.7 billion deal. Here's what to know.
Getty Images and Shutterstock announced that the companies will merge and create a $3.7 billion 'premier visual content company.'
Getty Images Plans $3.7B Merger With Rival Shutterstock
The giant commercial photo and video providers are grappling with the emergence of artificial intelligence tools that have flooded the internet with AI-created images.
Getty Images and Shutterstock are merging into one stock photo powerhouse
Shutterstock are joining forces in a merger valued at around $3.7 billion, the companies announced on Tuesday. The merger will allow the companies to expand their stock photo libraries as they face increasing competition from AI-powered image creation tools.
Getty Images, Shutterstock agree to merge in $3.7B deal as AI competition heats up
News of the merger sent Getty stock surging by nearly 60% in pre-market trading on Tuesday. The stock was selling at $2.57 a share on Monday.
Getty Images and Shutterstock to merge to form $3.7B stock photo giant
Getty Images is the bigger company of the two, and its shareholders will own approximately 54.7% of the new entity, while Shutterstock shareholders will own 45.3%. Getty Images also owns the iStock and Unsplash brands. The company will simply be called Getty Images.
Seattle’s Getty Images will buy Shutterstock, creating company worth $3.7B
Getty Images CEO Craig Peters will oversee the company formed following Getty's mergers with Shutterstock. (Getty Images Photo) Seattle's Getty Images is
Getty Images buying Shutterstock to create a $3.7 billion visual content company
Visual content companies Shutterstock and Getty Images will join to become a $3.7 billion visual content company.
Getty Images buys rival Shutterstock to create "Premier Visual Content Company"
Image: Getty Images, Shutterstock Getty Images and Shutterstock are to join in what's being presented as a merger of equals. The new company will be called Getty Images Holdings Inc and the deal will see Getty Image's CEO retain his position at head of the new company,
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Getty Images, Shutterstock gear up for AI challenge with $3.7 billion merger
Getty Images said on Tuesday it would merge with rival Shutterstock to create a $3.7 billion stock-image powerhouse geared for the artificial intelligence era, in a deal likely to draw antitrust scrutiny.
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Shareholders of Seattle-based Getty will own about 54.7% of the combined company, which will retain the Getty name, at the closing of the deal. Shutterstock shareholders will own the remaining 45.3%,
2 of the largest stock photo platforms are merging, sending their shares up
The combined company, which will be called Getty Images, will be worth $3.7 billion, Getty said on Tuesday.
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