---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001549346-23-000025"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SSTK"
cik: "0001549346"
company_name: "Shutterstock, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-06-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T04:55:18.385533+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Shutterstock stockholders elect directors, approve advisory say-on-pay, ratify auditor

## Summary
- Elected Deirdre Bigley and Alfonse Upshaw as Class II directors for three-year terms.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation passed with 21.8M for, 10.0M against.
- Ratified appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as independent auditor for FY2023.
- Total shares voted: 33.6M out of 36.0M outstanding; quorum present.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001549346-23-000025
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SSTK
- cik: 0001549346
- company_name: Shutterstock, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-06-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1549346/000154934623000025/0001549346-23-000025-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1549346/000154934623000025/sstk-20230608.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001549346-23-000025.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  Shutterstock, Inc. shareholders approved Ratification of appointment of independent registered public accounting firm at the 2023-06-08 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-06-08
  source text: At the Annual Meeting, the Company’s stockholders ratified the Audit Committee’s appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1549346/000154934623000025/0001549346-23-000025-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Shutterstock, Inc. shareholders approved Election of Class II directors at the 2023-06-08 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-06-08
  source text: At the Annual Meeting, the Company’s stockholders elected the following Class II director nominees to serve on the Company’s Board of Directors until the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders or, in each case, until the director’s successor is duly elected and qualified or, if earlier, his or her death, resignation or removal.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1549346/000154934623000025/0001549346-23-000025-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Shutterstock, Inc. shareholders approved Advisory vote on the compensation of the Company's named executive officers at the 2023-06-08 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-06-08
  source text: At the Annual Meeting, the Company’s stockholders approved, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the Company's named executive officers as disclosed in the Company's proxy statement.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1549346/000154934623000025/0001549346-23-000025-index.htm

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