Getty Images

Photo licensing company

Getty Images is a major stock photography and media company that licenses images, video, and music for commercial use.

The name appears in watermarks on preview images and photo credits worldwide.

Journalists, advertisers, and designers use Getty Images to source visual content: The article featured a Getty Images photo of the protest.

The company name has become nearly synonymous with stock photography itself.

stockphotography

royalty-free

No per-use payments

premium content · collections · subscriptions · assets · microstock · photo library · digital assets · embed · download

brand

partnership

Shared business arrangement

trademark · corporate identity · subscription service · enterprise

media

news photography

Visual reporting of events

event coverage · paparazzi · photojournalist · wire service · current events

archive

historical photographs

Images documenting past events

preservation · retrospective · documentary footage

Opposites
licensing and cost model

Getty Imagespublic domain

Unprotected creative works

Creative Commons · royalty-free

content ownership and control

Getty Imagesuser-generated content

Material created by audiences

Instagram · Imgur · copyleft

content creation approach

Getty ImagesDALL-E

Text-to-image AI system

generative art

Family

image, imagine, imagined, imagining, images, imaginative, imaginable, imagery, imagines

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Concrete · Rated G