Getty Images Acquires Motorsport Images, a Specialist Motorsport Archive
02 April 2024 - 12:00PM
Getty Images (NYSE: GETY), a preeminent global visual content
creator and marketplace, and Motorsport Images, a specialist
motorsport archive, today announced that Getty Images has acquired
Motorsport Images, including its operative arm LAT Images and its
Sutton, Schlegelmilch, Colombo and Dukes Video archives.
With an archive of over 29 million images and more than 8,900
hours of premium video footage, Motorsport Images is the home of
motoring and motorsport history, tracing its beginnings back to
1895. Between the brands Motorsport and LAT Images, as well as its
Sutton, Schlegelmilch, Colombo and Dukes Video archives, Motorsport
Images’ distinctive archive features key events including the first
French Grand Prix, the first Le Mans 24-hour race in 1923, as well
as images from every Formula 1 Grand Prix since its inaugural race
in 1950.
Getty Images provides premium content and services to the sport
industry, covering more than 50,000 events annually through its
expert sports photography team and prestigious content partners. It
is also a trusted partner to 125 of the world’s leading sports
governing bodies, leagues, and clubs, as the official photographer
or photographic partner to organizations including FIFA, the
International Olympic Committee, Formula 1, Major League Baseball,
UEFA, NASCAR, NBA, and the PGA Tour.
The addition of Motorsport Images’ photographic talent and
premium motorsport archive complements Getty Images’ award-winning
motorsports photographers, its expert operations team and rich
sports archive, augmenting Getty Images’ customer offering in the
motorsport space.
“We are thrilled to welcome Motorsport Images to Getty Images,”
said Craig Peters, Chief Executive Officer, Getty Images. “The
Motorsport Images team shares our commitment to capturing and
bringing customers and fans the greatest moments from motorsports.
Their impressive archive of iconic imagery and video will expand
upon our premium motorsport offering to Getty Images’ global
customer base.”
“I’m so proud of what the Motorsport Images team has built over
our history and of the high-quality service and outstanding visuals
we provide our customers,” said Steven Tee, Managing Director,
Motorsport Images. “Joining Getty Images marks a new chapter for us
and I’m pleased to be joining a team who share the same passion for
the sport and commitment to industry-leading photographic coverage.
Our customers will now benefit from having access to an even
greater depth and breadth of content and services.”
Motorsport Images content will be online at gettyimages.com from
3rd May 2024, where customers can find both Getty Images and LAT
Images coverage of the Miami Grand Prix. Motorsportimages.com will
also continue to service its customers.
About Getty Images: Getty Images
(NYSE: GETY) is a preeminent global visual content creator and
marketplace that offers a full range of content solutions to meet
the needs of any customer around the globe, no matter their size.
Through its Getty Images, iStock and Unsplash brands, websites and
APIs, Getty Images serves customers in almost every country in the
world and is the first-place people turn to discover, purchase and
share powerful visual content from the world’s best photographers
and videographers. Getty Images works with over 557,000
contributors and more than 320 content partners to deliver this
powerful and comprehensive content. Each year Getty Images covers
more than 160,000 news, sport and entertainment events providing
depth and breadth of coverage that is unmatched. Getty Images
maintains one of the largest and best privately-owned photographic
archives in the world with millions of images dating back to the
beginning of photography.
Through its best-in-class creative library and Custom Content
solutions, Getty Images helps customers elevate their creativity
and entire end-to-end creative process to find the right visual for
any need. With the adoption and distribution of generative AI
technologies and tools trained on permissioned content and uncapped
indemnification and perpetual, worldwide usage rights, Getty Images
and iStock customers can use text to image generation to ideate and
create commercially safe compelling visuals, further expanding
Getty Images capabilities to deliver exactly what customers are
looking for.
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