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Getty Images Holdings Inc has made an offer to buy Shutterstock Inc. Shareholders are being offered USD9.50 in cash and 9.17 Getty Images Holdings Inc shares for each Shutterstock Inc share.

The offer was approved at the recent shareholder meeting on 10 June 2025.

The effective date for this scheme has not yet been announced. The cash and shares are expected to be paid shortly after completion of the offer.

To give an instruction for the Mix & Match alternative – act by 9am on Wednesday 22 October 2025

Mix and Match facility

A mix and match facility is available allowing you to vary the amount of cash and shares you receive under the offer. You may elect to receive additional Getty Images Holdings Inc shares instead of cash or additional cash instead of Getty Images Holdings Inc shares.

Elections for excess shares or cash will only be satisfied to the extent that other shareholders make equal and opposite elections and may therefore be subject to scaling back, i.e. you may still receive a combination of both cash and shares.

The terms of the mix and match facility are as follows:

• Maximum cash. You can elect to receive USD$28.8487 per Shutterstock Inc share held

• Maximum shares. You can elect to receive 13.67237 Getty Images Holdings Inc shares per Shutterstock Inc share held

Elections for maximum cash or maximum shares could be scaled back, so you may not get all of the cash or shares you ask for.

If you do not give an election you will be deemed to have elected for the basic cash and stock offer.

Full details of this event will be sent to Qualifying Hargreaves Lansdown clients by email or secure message. Please note that any instruction you give must be based on the full details provided in the email / message and not on the summary information outlined above.