The Image Bank
 |
|
| Private | |
| Industry | Publishing, media, web design |
| Genre | |
| Predecessor | Getty Communications, PhotoDisc |
| Founded | March 14, 1995 (as Getty Investments, LLC.) |
| Founder | Mark Getty, Jonathan Klein |
| Headquarters | Seattle, Washington, United States |
|
Number of locations
|
Toronto London New York City Seattle Dubai Paris Chicago |
|
Area served
|
Worldwide |
|
Key people
|
Dawn Airey (CEO) |
| Products | Digital images, audio, video |
| Services | Rights-managed and royalty-free images, audio and video |
| Owner | Carlyle Group |
| Divisions | Getty Productions |
| Subsidiaries | PhotoDisc, Tony Stone Images, Hulton Getty, Jupiterimages |
| Website | gettyimages |
Getty Images, Inc. is an American , with headquarters in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is a supplier of stock images for business and consumers with an archive of 80 million still images and illustrations and more than 50,000 hours of stock film footage. It targets three markets—creative professionals (advertising and graphic design), the media (print and online publishing), and corporate (in-house design, marketing and communication departments).
Getty has distribution offices around the world and capitalizes on the Internet and CD-ROM collections for distribution. As Getty has acquired other older photo agencies and archives, it has digitized their collections, enabling online distribution. Getty Images now operates a large commercial website which allows clients to search and browse for images, purchase usage rights and download images. Costs of images vary according to the chosen resolution and type of rights associated with each image. The company also offers custom photo services for corporate clients.
In 1995, Mark Getty and Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Klein co-founded Getty Investments LLC. Mark Getty is the company's chairman. In September 1997, Getty Communications, as it was called at the time, merged with PhotoDisc, Inc. to form Getty Images. In April 2003, Getty Images entered into a partnership with Agence France-Presse (AFP) to market each other's images.
Getty Images acquired the Michael Ochs Archives in February 2007. The Michael Ochs Archives were described by The New York Times as "the premier source of musician photography in the world".
In 2008, the private equity firm Hellman & Friedman (H&F) acquired Getty Images. In 2012, H&F put Getty up for sale. As of the ensuing sale to Carlyle Group, the company was said to have an archive that included 80 million stills and illustrations.
...
Wikipedia