Getty Images Review

When you first arrive at the homepage of Getty Images (gettyimages.com) you are greeted by world class photos in either the creative or celebrity field, showcasing compelling and powerful images which solicit your immediate attention because of their highly visual impact.  

The creative field offers unique and unusual images that are really outside the square as the topics, subject and content are indeed very different- truly a remarkably effective marketing tool. The images selectively rotate, creating an ongoing stream of exclusive and outstanding imagery at your finger tips. 

The celebrity category is filled with an enormous catalogue of famous people from all over the world, including actors, singers, sporting heroes, politicians and many other super stars that regularly feature in the media spotlight. The remarkable photos are impressive, highly visual and again unique.   

Today, (gettyimages.com)serves an average of 3.2 billion thumbnails, 7.3 million visits and 4 million unique users in addition to an average of 175 million page views each month. Nearly 100 percent of the company’s visual content is delivered digitally. That’s a huge amount of photos flying all over the World Wide Web. 

At Getty Images there are three basic types of Licensing for their special new pricing of $49 per web-res image on offer:

- Royalty-free images may be used multiple times for multiple projects.
- Rights-ready images may be used in web or electronic media for commercial or editorial projects such as websites or email for three months.
- Rights-managed images may be used in one commercial or editorial website, email or mobile project for three months.
 
They also offer personalized contracts of different specific usage agreements that include combinations of various scales of exclusivity.