---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-001735"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GETY"
cik: "0001898496"
company_name: "Getty Images Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-01-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T09:16:45.737425+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.9
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
confidence: "medium"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Getty Images and Shutterstock agree to merge, creating premier visual content company

## Summary
- Definitive merger agreement signed on January 6, 2025; transaction structured as a merger of equals.
- Combined company expected to benefit from complementary strengths in premium and mid-market content.
- Merger aims to strengthen Getty Images' balance sheet and reduce debt levels.
- Deal subject to regulatory clearance and approvals from both companies' stockholders.
- Combined entity will invest in AI, 3D, and expanded event coverage.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-001735
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GETY
- cik: 0001898496
- company_name: Getty Images Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-01-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.9
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
- confidence: medium
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1898496/000110465925001735/0001104659-25-001735-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1898496/000110465925001735/tm252186d2_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-001735
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-001735.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-001735.txt

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