Hi everyone,

We apologize for the confusion - we want to ensure that all users on our site are safe and secure and are taking an extra step to ensure that your data is safe. We have fixed the unsecure link now and would greatly appreciate if those that see the message can verify their email address. Thank you!

Vincent

Hi everyone,

We apologize for the confusion - we want to ensure that all users on our site are safe and secure and are taking an extra step to ensure that your data is safe. We have fixed the unsecure link now and would greatly appreciate if those that see the message can verify their email address. Thank you!

Vincent

Hello,

As many of you know, we experienced a site outage earlier today. This has now been resolved, we apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your patience and understanding.

Thanks,

Paul Brennan
VP, Content Operations
Shutterstock

Thank you for your interest about the news we shared this morning. We received a number of questions and hope to answer them here.

What this mean for our contributors:
In the immediate future, nothing will change for our commercial and editorial contributors. Please continue to submit content as you have and we'll continue to market and license your work. Our Red Carpet program will remain the same. We will continue to work with our editorial contributors to help you gain access to events. These acquisitions provide a wider audience for our commercial and editorial contributors. A broader audience means more views of your work which equals more downloads for you.


Will editorial images from Shutterstock also be available on Rex Features?
For the foreseeable future, Shutterstock editorial and Rex Features will run in parallel. This means that the images you submit to Shutterstock will remain on Shutterstock. Should plans change, we will keep you updated.

Where do the images on Rex Features come from and can I submit content?
Rex receives image submissions from freelancers, staff photographers and agencies around the world and covers red carpet events, celebrity photography, news, sports, and features. Rex also has an archive that stretches back to the early days of photography and shoots 'on set' exclusively for many TV shows.

Rex Features is rights managed?  Does that mean that Shutterstock is moving into RM licensing?
Rex currently licenses images for a single use rather than an unlimited number of uses. Shutterstock has no plans to change our current licensing structure.

What is the Rex Features pricing model?
Rex customers can either pay a fixed amount per image, or commit to a customized annual subscription.

Does Rex Features license footage?
Rex began producing and selling video over the last 18 months.

Will Shutterstock contributors have the ability to submit music tracks?
Currently, we are not accepting submissions to our music collection. We will keep you updated on progress.

Thanks,
Paul Brennan
VP, Content Operations

Hi Shutterstock Contributors,

Exciting news from Shutterstock HQ!  Today we're pleased to welcome Rex Features, Europe's largest independently owned photographic press agency and PremiumBeat, a royalty-free music service with 5,000 curated music tracks from leading composers around the world, to the Shutterstock family!

Shutterstock's customers have been asking for an end to end solution including both commercial and editorial content. The acquisition of Rex is a decisive move into the editorial category and underscores our mission to provide the world's storytellers with all of the content and tools they need to bring their ideas to life. By adding a more robust editorial offering, including entertainment, news and sports imagery, Shutterstock is expanding to serve the full breadth of imagery needed by media companies and advertisers around the world.

This acquisition of PremiumBeat allows us to accelerate our progress in music by welcoming a strong and growing customer base, content library, and team to Shutterstock.

Paul Brennan
VP, Content Operations

Hello,

As some of you may have seen, Shutterstock recently launched a new streaming video series: ShutterTalk Live. 

Please join us tomorrow - Thursday, January 15 - for Illustration & Vectors 101 presented by Tim Goldman, and check out the upcoming schedule and videos from past workshops:
http://www.shutterstock.com/blog/shuttertalk-livestream-series

We look forward to having you join us!

Jennifer
Head of Contributor Community Development
Shutterstock

hi Mar123,

we haven't see an email regarding this to the attention of Vincent - do you mind resending it to [email protected] - ATTENTION Vincent.

Thanks again.

Paul.
Shutterstock.

Hi mar123,

sorry about this inconvenience.  Can you send a note to [email protected] attention Vincent and we'll figure out what is happening.

Thanks,
Paul.

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to let you know that we will continue to participate in this forum.  You will be hearing from me and other members of the team from time to time.  We wish Scott the best and much continued success!

Keren Sachs
Director, Content Development
Shutterstock