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Getty Images

Media techUSA
📉 Public < $1B
Peak $5 BillionToday
~-93%
from peak
  1. 🦄
    Became a unicorn
    2022
  2. 📈
    Peak valuation
    $5 Billion ’22
  3. 💔
    Became a Unitard
    ~2022
  4. 💸
    Last valuation
    ~$350M
Current status
Public ~$0.35B; pending Shutterstock merger

How it happened

Getty Images, a longtime stock-media and editorial-photo licensor, returned to public markets via SPAC in 2022 at a valuation around $5B. Debt load, secular pressure on stock imagery, and concerns about generative AI weighed on the stock, cutting its market cap roughly 93% to about $0.35B. The company later agreed to a merger with rival Shutterstock.

Source: stockanalysis.com Apr 2026