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31 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Shutterstock?

Shutterstock is a global technology company headquartered in New York, offering a creative platform boasting high-quality assets, tools and services. With it, users can license images, video, music, and editorial assets -- as well as custom content tailored to a brand’s needs. Shutterstock offers a variety of plans for individuals, teams, and enterprise customers as well as creative editing and collaboration capabilities.

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What users are saying about Shutterstock.
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Great for Stock Assets

Incentivized
Tyler Newman
Marketing Director in Marketing at MGT Films (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Shutterstock for SVG and JPEG assets for Graphic design, email blasts, website development, and more. Shutterstock's robust catalog is immensely helpful to my team, enabling us to maintain high-quality, high-resolution assets across all our marketing channels. I love this program as it has gotten me out of a creative jam more times than I would like to admit.

Pros

  • Stock Imagery
  • SVG and Vector Assets
  • Video Footage

Cons

  • Video assets included in base subscription
  • AI Ability to make content that they do not have
  • Content management

Return on Investment

  • Keeps workflow going
  • Prevents needing to schedule costly asset captures
  • Easy button to have quality images

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Adobe Stock

Other Software Used

HubSpot CRM, Google Drive, Google Workspace, Constant Contact, Trello, WordPress, Zapier

Shutterstock Is Tremendous Value for the Money

Incentivized
Bill KerschbaumView profile
Owner in Marketing at Good Gnus (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I mostly use Shutterstock to find featured images for blogs and photos to embed in presentation slides. I need gorgeous, compelling images that don't feel authentic and not contrived. Shutterstock is a great place to get high-quality photos and illustrations that enhance my clients' brand and make them look professional.

Pros

  • Large library with a great variety of high quality images
  • "Similar images," "same model," and "same artist" suggestions to help you drill down your search for the right image
  • Handy editing tool that lets you save your custom image sizes

Cons

  • The editing tool has recently been updated and it doesn't seem to be working properly right now. But I trust they'll get it resolved quickly

Most Important Features

  • Affordable and flexible pricing options
  • Quality photos
  • Easy to search and use

Return on Investment

  • Allows me to provide more comprehensive marketing services to my clients
  • Saves time hunting for images
  • One-stop shop for all my image needs

Alternatives Considered

iStock and from Getty Images

Shutterstock a platform which helped us to grow scale our creative company

Incentivized
Verified User
Director in Professional Services (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are a animation studio based in new delhi, India we create multiple animation projects in a week so with shutterstock we get animated clips and stock footage and the quality we get from shutterstock is amazing and industry standard. the best advantage of choosing shutterstock is their work quality its professional grade and it helps us to boost our video productions much faster.

Pros

  • Quality of videos and animations
  • Pay per clip and subscription plans which is amazing
  • Easy to use platform
  • most trusted company in this industry
  • their new Ai content creation features
  • their easy to use editor tools

Cons

  • i think the pricing is still higher than other platforms
  • locating right files is sometimes difficult here like the search results could be better

Most Important Features

  • motion graphics library
  • their ai content creation
  • easy to use dashboard and instant download and use features

Return on Investment

  • it improved our work quality
  • it helped us to handle multiple projects as catered our creative needs well
  • due to faster project creation our business scaled

Alternatives Considered

Adobe Stock

Other Software Used

Adobe Stock

Shutterstock: Ease and Peace of Mind

Incentivized
Verified User
Analyst (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are a design team so we use shutterstock to license images for our publications, both print and digitally. The main reason we chose shutterstock is because once we license it, we can use those images without being sued. The secondary reason we use shutterstock is because it is easy to find assets that fit the needs of our publications. The third reason is because it will pair with our DAM system we are implementing.

Pros

  • Easy to find images
  • Easy to license
  • Easy to get ahold of our account executive

Cons

  • Reporting system is clunky
  • I wish it were easier to batch license
  • Filters on reporting system are aggravating

Most Important Features

  • Very searchable images/assets
  • Wide variety of images/assets
  • Confidence in not being sued

Return on Investment

  • Time saved by designers from how easy the searching is
  • The ROI in not getting sued is priceless!