Shutterstock Contributor Fund: contributors' share of what Shutterstock receives for data licences
20% average corporate royalty rate of revenue received by Shutterstock for data licenses share of data licence revenue, pooled and split by each contributor's content and metadata in the datasets sold
Dated 19 Oct 2026Source checked 19 Oct 2026Basis: stated
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“Contributors will receive a share of the entire contract value paid by customers licensing datasets. The share individual contributors receive will be proportionate to the volume of their content and metadata that is included in the purchased datasets. Contributors will earn a 20% average corporate royalty rate of revenue received by Shutterstock for data licenses.”
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- $378K to $35.4M per contractImages, sales that happened, per contract
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