Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge
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Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge
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#2Feels like Getty has acquired all their big competitors.
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#3I've been a Shutterstock member for years (not a big user, but I always like to make sure my blog posting images are legit, and SS has been good for that).
Hope that it doesn't change much for me.
Otherwise, I'm sure it will be OK.
Can't help but feel that this is a response to some of the AI image generation stuff.
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#4Feels like Getty has acquired all their big competitors.
Is this a defensive move, against AI taking over the stock image market?
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#5Just think of all the re-watermarking that will have to take place!
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#6Whenever I wanted to buy stock images, I was shocked how expensive they were. I usually didn't intend to use them straight up commercially, but I felt like I should pay for somebodies work to produce these images. The prices were too steep though.
Unsplash was a God-sent. High quality images with only attribution requirements, which I was happy to give anyways. But Unsplash was bought by Shutterstock and became "kinda free" with the good stuff being paywalled. And now Shutterstock merges with Getty, two of the biggest players in the space.
Frankly, I am quite convinced this is bad for end-users. The space is already enshittified by all the AI junk. So I fully expect quality to go down and prices to go up after this merger.
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#7Just think of all the re-watermarking that will have to take place!
I hope they call the merged company "gutterstock"
Re: Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge
#8Feels like Getty has acquired all their big competitors.
Is this a defensive move, against AI taking over the stock image market?
Both of them already provide AI image generation themselves.
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#9No anti-trust here? Seems like their market share might be too unreasonable to me.
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#10Whenever I wanted to buy stock images, I was shocked how expensive they were. I usually didn't intend to use them straight up commercially, but I felt like I should pay for somebodies work to produce these images. The prices were too steep though. Unsplash was a God-sent. High quality images with only attribution requirements, which I was happy to give anyways. But Unsplash was bought by Shutterstock and became "kind…
> Whenever I wanted to buy stock images, I was shocked how expensive they were.
It's funny, because authors of those images (at least on Shutterstock) get basically nothing (like ten cents for photo, iirc).