Jon Oringer at least said in one of his recent interviews that SS currently has 600 000 customers and he estimates that there are another 70 million out there.

Rebecca tells us that the market as ended, new contributors and new files will mean we inevtably lose sales and that there is no future. Also the traffic at gettyimages itself keeps going down. So they have no organic expansion, unless they buy other people�s businesses.

Like others have said "meeting expectations" is not growing.

SS sees a huge world market, Getty doesn�t.

Who do you think will have more growth in the next few years?

Really astute observation Jasmin.  Sounds like Getty/IS has just thrown in the towel.  Very defeatist attitude.  Shutterstock, OTOH, is looking forward to more growth in their market and doing what is necessary to make that happen. 

ETA:  I am certainly not a fangirl of any one site.  I have seen enough over the past several years to know that any one of them has the potential to screw contributors over in the right set of circumstances.  For the moment, the fact that SS and DT are run by their original owners inspires the most confidence.  Who knows what will have happened by this time next year?