Recently, I decided to take a look at the number of images in the various Creative collections on
Gettyimages.com. The numbers are very revealing and in some ways surprising. Getty has 16,687,710 million images in its Creative collection, 10,341,296 of them or 62% are RF and the rest are RM. (Obviously, these numbers grow slightly every day.)
Those interested in tracking individual collections can go to the Creative filters; click on “Royalty-free collections” or “Rights-managed collections” and get a alphabetical list of all the collections in each category. Click on any collection and you’ll see all the images and a count of the total in that collection.
Some of these links don’t work, but most do. Total image count for all the collections that worked was 15,121,310. Most notable among the collections that couldn’t be searched were the the iStock collections – iStock, iStock Editorial, iStock Unreleased and iStock Unreleased+. I suspect that most of the 1,566,400 not uncovered in my other searches are iStock images. The Vetta collection, which at one time was part of the iStock collection includes 101,762 images.
Clearly, Getty’s major source of new work comes from Flickr photographers. In March 2014 when
Getty terminated its formal relationship with Flickr there were 882,334 Flickr images on the Getty site. At that point Getty created a new house collection called Moment, placed all the Flickr images into that collection and continued to add images from Flickr contributors to it. The collection is now sub-divided into 6 brands – Moment Open, Moment, Moment RF, Moment RM, Moment Mobile and Moment Select. Combined these collections contain 2,480,784 images.
In addition, there are 3 new Flickr collections – Flickr Flash, Flickr State and Flickr Prime – that have a total of 8,575 images.
While Getty had indicated that they would only add a small percentage of the Corbis images to its collection, it is somewhat surprising how small. A total of 1,059,661 Corbis images have been added including – Corbis Documentary, Corbis RM, Corbis RF, Corbis Historical and Bettman.
There are only 903 images in the Bettman collection which may mean there are still more to be added, or they have placed some former Bettman images in other collections.
There are three other collections – Alloy, Canopy and Ivary – that I believe were former Corbis collections. The combined total images in these collection is 66,196.
There are a total of 209 brands on the Getty Creative site. Counting the Moment, iStock and Corbis collections Getty has 45 wholly owned brands with approximately 9,237,203 images, or 55% of the total collection. The other 45% of the images have been supplied to Getty by 164 independent agencies and production companies.
It is believed that gross annual Creative revenue is somewhere in the range of $280 million. Thus, each image in the collection generates on average $16.78 and the image creators, agencies of distributors receive a percentage of this number. The percentages usually range from 20% to 35%.
The following list provides the current count of images in each of the 209 collections.
| ABSODELS |
4,555 |
| ABSODELS RF |
4,596 |
| AFP Creative |
3,811 |
| Age fotostock |
84,306 |
| All Canada Photos |
90,463 |
| Alloy |
10,708 |
| Allsport |
2,594 |
| Altrendo |
|
| amana images RF |
137,472 |
| amana images RM |
62,461 |
| America 24-7 |
1,856 |
| arabian eye |
47,053 |
| Arcaid Images |
5,774 |
| Archive Photos |
24,954 |
| Art Images |
1,159 |
| ArtBox Images |
4,573 |
| ArtBox Images RF |
2,209 |
| Asia Images |
15,740 |
| Asia Selects |
10,604 |
| AsiaPix |
10,282 |
| Aurora |
39,917 |
| Aurora Open |
18,789 |
| AWL Images |
130,547 |
| Axiom |
18,792 |
| Best View Stock |
29,602 |
| Bettman |
903 |
| beyond fotomedia |
10,583 |
| Biosphoto |
1 |
| Blend Images RF |
171,424 |
| Blend Images RM |
171,847 |
| BLOOMimage |
41,182 |
| Blue Jean Images |
41,880 |
| Brand X |
37,396 |
| Britain On View |
68,451 |
| Caiaimage |
26,332 |
| Canopy |
48,254 |
| Car Culture® Collection |
4,767 |
| CGI Backgrounds |
5,336 |
| China Span |
9,809 |
| Collection Mix: Subjects RF |
58,185 |
| Collection Mix: Subjects RM |
7,229 |
| Contour Style |
40,316 |
| Corbis RF |
243,770 |
| Corbis RM |
224,343 |
| Corbis Documentary |
590,642 |
| Corbis Historical |
3 |
| CSA Images |
25,037 |
| Cultura |
164,301 |
| Da Vinci Codex Atlanticus |
2,238 |
| De Agostini Picture Library |
217,630 |
| Design Pics |
64,653 |
| DEX |
16,978 |
| DigitalVision |
150,510 |
| DisabilityImages |
10,557 |
| Discovery Channel Images |
4,387 |
| Dorling Kindersley RF |
19,216 |
| Dorling Kindersley RM |
76,858 |
| E+ |
892,753 |
| Evok Images |
385 |
| EyeEm |
253,328 |
| EyeEm Premium |
2,824 |
| EyeEm RM |
|
| F1online RF |
9,450 |
| F1online RM |
11,857 |
| First Light |
46,750 |
| Flickr Flash |
12,064 |
| Flickr Prime |
202 |
| Flickr State |
7,109 |
| Folio |
8,869 |
| Folio Images |
7,449 |
| Foodcollection |
26,133 |
| Fotosearch |
104,032 |
| Fototrove |
1,147 |
| FStop |
40,112 |
| Fuse |
30,984 |
| Gallo Images |
162,351 |
| Gallo Images ROOTS |
18,615 |
| GeoNova |
1,154 |
| Glowimages |
53,194 |
| Gulf Images RF |
5,788 |
| hemis.fr |
70,514 |
| Hero Images |
41,317 |
| HEX |
2,796 |
| Historic Map Works |
42,078 |
| Hola Images RF |
6,889 |
| Hola Images RM |
1,745 |
| Hoxton |
709 |
| Hulton Archive |
44,026 |
| Iconica |
42,614 |
| Ikon Images |
11,831 |
| Illustration Works |
8,112 |
| Image Source |
107,814 |
| ImageBROKER |
80,439 |
| Imagemore |
29,917 |
| imagenavi |
68,909 |
| Images Bazaar |
11,206 |
| imagewerks |
9,334 |
| Imagezoo RF |
21,863 |
| Imagezoo RM |
1,964 |
| ImaZinS |
968 |
| IndiaPicture |
19,929 |
| Ingram Publishing |
9,570 |
| iStock |
|
| iStock Editorial |
|
| iStock Unreleased |
|
| iStock Unreleased + |
|
| Ivary |
7,234 |
| IZA Stock |
6,348 |
| Johner Images RF |
42,376 |
| Johner Images RM |
21,127 |
| Juice Images |
22,889 |
| LatinContent RF |
2,239 |
| LatinContent RM |
3,504 |
| Lonely Planet |
734,694 |
| LOOK |
64,946 |
| Luxy |
85 |
| Maskot |
22,313 |
| MedicalRF.com |
11,900 |
| MILATAS |
8,099 |
| Minden Pictures |
210,854 |
| Mint Images RF |
13,925 |
| Mint Images RM |
4,648 |
| MITO Images |
1,192 |
| MIXA |
36,943 |
| Moment |
453,639 |
| Moment Mobile |
29,703 |
| Moment Open |
1,346,112 |
| Moment RF |
453,473 |
| Moment RM |
184,126 |
| Moment Select |
13,731 |
| Moment Unreleased |
410 |
| Mondadori Portfolio |
11,364 |
| National Geographic RF |
71,235 |
| National Geographic RM |
151,953 |
| Nativestock |
1,458 |
| Nature Picture Library |
11,940 |
| Nordic Photos |
7,042 |
| nPine |
|
| NYonAir |
|
| OJO |
53,702 |
| OJO+ |
3,867 |
| ONOKY |
22,367 |
| Oxford Scientific |
62,075 |
| Panoramic Images |
52,564 |
| Passage |
53,553 |
| Perspectives |
69,192 |
| PhotoAlto |
79,607 |
| Photodisc |
558,184 |
| Photographer’s Choice |
235,567 |
| Photographer’s Choice RF |
183,934 |
| Photolibrary |
496,271 |
| Photonica |
18,586 |
| Photonica World |
11,558 |
| Photononstop |
52,038 |
| photosindia |
34,096 |
| Picture Press |
39,564 |
| PictureIndia |
8,323 |
| Popperfoto |
1,922 |
| Publisher Mix RF |
|
| Publisher Mix RM |
|
| Purestock |
33,029 |
| Radius Images |
34,223 |
| redchopsticks |
10,351 |
| Retrofile |
8,056 |
| Retrofile RF |
7,276 |
| Riser |
2,007 |
| Robert Harding |
87,697 |
| RooM RF |
26,124 |
| RooM RM |
1,323 |
| Rubberball |
35,208 |
| SambaPhoto |
7,607 |
| Science Faction |
21,412 |
| Science Photo Library RF |
90,152 |
| Science Photo Library RM |
3,036 |
| Science Source |
99,544 |
| Score |
34,342 |
| Silk Pictures |
1,860 |
| Sino Images |
18,966 |
| Snapwi.re |
778 |
| SPL Creative |
|
| Stock4B RF |
12,236 |
| Stock4B RM |
23,131 |
| Stockbyte |
666,225 |
| StockFood |
35,110 |
| Stocktrek Images |
23,875 |
| Stone |
76,555 |
| Super Stock |
39,525 |
| Taxi |
57,056 |
| Taxi Japan |
16,344 |
| Tetra Images |
91,957 |
| The Image Bank |
463,143 |
| The LIFE Picture Collection |
905,678 |
| TongRo Images |
63,478 |
| Topic Images |
29,197 |
| UFO RF |
4,353 |
| Universal Images Group |
59,226 |
| Untitled X-Ray |
2,061 |
| UpperCut Images |
8,262 |
| Vetta |
101,762 |
| View Stock |
28,681 |
| Visit Britain |
|
| Visuals Unlimited |
32,756 |
| Vstock |
90 |
| WaterFrame |
35,797 |
| Westend61 |
149,011 |
| WIN-Initiative |
18,709 |
| XiXinXing |
5,984 |
| Yann Arthus-Bertrand |
4,441 |
| ZZVE |
6,275 |
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| Total Reported Above |
15,121,310 |
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Total Images in Collection
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16,687,710 |