Getty Images is a stock photo agency that was founded by Jonathan Klein and Mark Getty in 1995. Their goal was to turn the fragmented and disjointed stock photography market into a thriving industry that’s modernized enough to meet the challenging needs of visual communicatiors. It is based in Seattle, Washington, US. It supplies stock images for consumers and businesses with an archive of more than 80 million still illustrations and images and more than 50,000 hours of stock film footage. Today, it’s among the world’s leading distributors and creators of award-winning music, video, still imagery and multimedia products, and other forms of digital content, available through its house of brands, including Thinkstock© and iStock©. With its advanced image recognition and search technology, it’s able to serve customers and businesses in more than 100 countries.
Getty Images has become the first place creative and media professionals turn to manage, discover and purchase images and other digital content. Getty Images was the first company to license imagery via the web. It moved the entire industry to an online platform – and has continued to drive the industry forward with digital media management tools, breakthrough licensing models and comprehensive offerings of editorial and creative imagery, footage, microstock and music. Its best-in-class imagery and photographers help clients produce inspiring work which appears every day in the most influential magazines, newspapers, campaigns, advertising, films, books, online media and television programs in the world. Getty Images has distribution offices all over the world and capitalizes on CD-ROM collections and the Internet for distribution.
