Legal Proceedings and Contingencies	6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2026
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]
Legal Proceedings and Contingencies	Note 11 - Legal Proceedings and Contingencies Warrant Litigation The Company previously issued 20,700,000 public warrants, which were governed by Warrant Agreements, dated August 4, 2020 (the “Warrant Agreement”) and redeemed by the Company in October 2022. Numerous lawsuits have been commenced against the Company alleging breach of the Warrant Agreement. On October 27, 2023, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (the “Court”) issued a decision in the actions brought by Alta Partners, LLC (“Alta”) and the CRCM Institutional Master Fund (BVI), LTD (“CRCM” and together with Alta, the “Plaintiffs”) captioned: Alta Partners, LLC v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Case No. 1:22-cv-08916 (filed October 19, 2022), and CRCM Institutional Master Fund (BVI) LTD, et al. v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Case No. 1:23-cv-01074 (filed February 8, 2023) (together, the “Initial Warrant Litigation”) on cross-motions for summary judgment and entered judgment in favor of Plaintiffs on their breach of contract claims and awarded damages in the amount of $36.9 million for Alta with respect to 2,066,371 public warrants and $51.0 million for CRCM with respect to 3,010,764 public warrants, plus, in each case, pre-judgment interest of 9% per annum. In an Opinion issued on January 15, 2026, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the Court’s opinion and on April 16, 2026, the Second Circuit denied the Company’s petition for rehearing. The Company had accrued for this loss on litigation and, on April 23, 2026, the Company paid $110.9 million in judgment and associated interest related to this matter. The Company has been named as a defendant in two additional suits in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Daniel Berner v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Case No. 1:24-cv-04483-JSR (filed June 11, 2024), and James Lapp v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Case No. 1: 24-cv-05129-JSR (filed July 5, 2024) (the “Berner/ Lapp Actions”). On January 27, 2025, the Court issued a bottom-line order in the Berner/Lapp Actions granting summary judgment to plaintiffs Berner and Lapp reciting that “[a]n Opinion explaining the reasons for this ruling will issue in due course, at which time judgment will be entered.” On August 7, 2025, the Court issued its opinion granting summary judgment to the plaintiffs Berner and Lapp and calculating damages, including pre-judgment interest at $7.8 million. The Company has appealed the opinion and judgment. Twelve additional suits have been filed in the New York State Supreme Court, New York County: CSS, LLC v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Index No. 653527/2024 (filed July 12, 2024); Walleye Manager Opportunities LLC et. al. v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Index No. 653528/2024 (filed July 12, 2024); Funicular Funds LP v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Index No. 653410/2024 (filed July 5, 2024); MPF Broadway Convexity Fund I, LP et. al. v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Index No. 653411/2024 (filed July 5, 2024), LMR Multi-Strategy Master Fund Limited et al. v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Index No. 654963/2024 (filed September 20, 2024); Jordan Flannery v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Index No. 654961/2024 (filed September 20, 2024); Bi-Directional Disequilibrium Fund, L.P. et al. v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Index No. 654960/2024 (filed September 20, 2024); Holland v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Index No. 655746/2024 (filed October 29, 2024); Hunsicker v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Index. No. 655911/2024 (filed November 7, 2024); Dasher, et al. v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Index No. 655913/2024 (filed November 7, 2024); Parker v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Index No. 659240/2024 (filed November 22, 2024); Highbridge Tactical Credit Master Fund L.P. et. al. v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Index No. 650402/2025 (filed January 21, 2025). These actions have since been consolidated under the caption Funicular Funds LP v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Index No. 653410/2024 (the “NY State Actions”). On June 9, 2026, following oral argument, the court issued a decision and order granting plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment as to the warrants for which plaintiffs had provided authorization letters and conditionally granting summary judgment as to certain remaining warrants, subject to plaintiffs providing such authorizations. On July 27, 2026, the Court directed the Clerk to enter judgment against the Company in favor of Plaintiffs in amounts totaling $67.8 million, with 9% pre-judgment interest from August 22, 2022, until judgment is entered. The Company has appealed the court’s decision. It is possible that additional purported former warrant holders of the Company could bring additional lawsuits against the Company, its directors or officers, alleging substantially similar claims, or new or different claims relating to the public warrants. The Company intends to defend itself vigorously in the Berner/Lapp Actions and the NY State Actions and any future actions and is unable to estimate any potential additional loss or range of loss that may result from the ultimate resolution of these matters, which could be material to the Company’s business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows. The Company has recorded a loss on litigation relating collectively to the Initial Warrant Litigation, Berner/Lapp Actions and NY State Actions based on the criteria under ASC 450 - Contingencies (“ASC 450”) and as of June 30, 2026 held a related litigation reserve of $99.5 million with a remaining insurance recovery receivable related thereto of approximately $2.2 million in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet. Although the Company cannot be certain of the outcome of any litigation or the disposition of any claims, or the amount of damages and exposure, if any, that the Company could incur, the Company does not currently believe that a material loss arising from the final disposition of existing matters, other than those in respect of which the Company has made litigation reserves as described above, is probable. Due to the inherent uncertainties of litigation and regulatory proceedings, the Company cannot determine with certainty the ultimate outcome of any such litigation or proceedings. If the final resolution of any such litigation or proceedings is unfavorable, the Company’s financial condition, results of operations and cash flows could be materially affected. Further, in the ordinary course of business, the Company is also subject to periodic threats of lawsuits, investigations and claims. Regardless of the outcome, litigation can have an adverse impact on the Company because of defense and settlement costs, diversion of management resources and other factors. Stability AI Lawsuits Getty Images (US), Inc. is a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed on August 14, 2025 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against Stability AI, Inc., Stability AI, Ltd. and Stability AI US Services Corp. The case arises out of Stability AI’s alleged unauthorized reproduction of approximately 12.0 million in images from Getty Images’ websites, along with the accompanying captions and associated metadata, and use of the copied content in connection with various iterations of Stability AI’s generative artificial intelligence model known as Stable Diffusion. Getty Images (US), Inc. has asserted claims for copyright infringement; falsification of copyright management information; trademark infringement; unfair competition; trademark dilution; and deceptive trade practices. Getty Images (US), Inc. seeks, among other things, monetary damages and injunctive relief. The parties are engaged in fact discovery. Arising out of similar alleged facts, Getty Images (US), Inc., Getty Images International U.C., Getty Images (UK) Limited, Getty Images Devco UK Limited and iStockphoto LP were Claimants in proceedings issued in the High Court of England & Wales against Stability AI Limited on January 16, 2023, which, asserted claims for copyright infringement, infringement of database rights, trademark infringement and passing off seeks, amongst other things, monetary damages, injunctive relief and legal costs. In December 2025, the High Court held a hearing, during which the Court granted Claimants an injunction, assessed an interim costs award to Stability AI for the matters on which Claimants did not prevail or dropped at trial, granted Getty Images’ request to appeal the decision on secondary infringement and denied Stability AI’s request to appeal the trademark decision. The Claimants have filed an appeal, which Stability AI has challenged. Stability AI sought permission from the Court of Appeal to hear an appeal on the trademark decision, which the Court of Appeal denied. The appeal of the decision on secondary infringement is expected to be held in November 2026. Tax Examinations and Assessments The Company has open tax audits in various jurisdictions and some of these jurisdictions require taxpayers to pay assessed taxes in advance or at the time of appealing such assessments. One such jurisdiction is Canada, where one of the Company’s subsidiaries, iStockphoto ULC, received tax assessments from the Canada Revenue Agency (“CRA”) asserting additional tax is due. The position taken by the CRA is related to the transactions between iStockphoto ULC and other affiliates within the Getty Images group for the 2015 Canadian income tax return filed. The Company believes the CRA position lacks merit and intends to appeal and vigorously contest these assessments. As part of the appeal process in Canada, the Company may be required to pay a portion of the assessment amount, which the Company estimates could be up to $19.6 million. Such required payment is not an admission that the Company believes it is subject to such taxes. The Company believes it is more likely than not it will prevail on appeal, however, if the CRA were to be successful in the appeal process, the Company estimates the maximum potential outcome could be up to $28.6 million.

On October 27, 2023, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (the “Court”) issued a decision in the actions brought by Alta Partners, LLC (“Alta”) and the CRCM Institutional Master Fund (BVI), LTD (“CRCM” and together with Alta, the “Plaintiffs”) captioned: Alta Partners, LLC v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Case No. 1:22-cv-08916 (filed October 19, 2022), and CRCM Institutional Master Fund (BVI) LTD, et al. v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Case No. 1:23-cv-01074 (filed February 8, 2023) (together, the “Initial Warrant Litigation”) on cross-motions for summary judgment and entered judgment in favor of Plaintiffs on their breach of contract claims and awarded damages in the amount of $36.9 million for Alta with respect to 2,066,371 public warrants and $51.0 million for CRCM with respect to 3,010,764 public warrants, plus, in each case, pre-judgment interest of 9% per annum.

Lapp Actions”). On January 27, 2025, the Court issued a bottom-line order in the Berner/Lapp Actions granting summary judgment to plaintiffs Berner and Lapp reciting that “[a]n Opinion explaining the reasons for this ruling will issue in due course, at which time judgment will be entered.” On August 7, 2025, the Court issued its opinion granting summary judgment to the plaintiffs Berner and Lapp and calculating damages, including pre-judgment interest at $7.8 million. The Company has appealed the opinion and judgment.

Twelve additional suits have been filed in the New York State Supreme Court, New York County: CSS, LLC v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Index No. 653527/2024 (filed July 12, 2024); Walleye Manager Opportunities LLC et. al. v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Index No. 653528/2024 (filed July 12, 2024); Funicular Funds LP v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Index No. 653410/2024 (filed July 5, 2024); MPF Broadway Convexity Fund I, LP et. al. v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Index No. 653411/2024 (filed July 5, 2024), LMR Multi-Strategy Master Fund Limited et al. v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Index No. 654963/2024 (filed September 20, 2024); Jordan Flannery v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Index No. 654961/2024 (filed September 20, 2024); Bi-Directional Disequilibrium Fund, L.P. et al. v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Index No. 654960/2024 (filed September 20, 2024); Holland v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Index No. 655746/2024 (filed October 29, 2024); Hunsicker v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Index. No. 655911/2024 (filed November 7, 2024); Dasher, et al. v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Index No. 655913/2024 (filed November 7, 2024); Parker v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Index No. 659240/2024 (filed November 22, 2024); Highbridge Tactical Credit Master Fund L.P. et. al. v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Index No. 650402/2025 (filed January 21, 2025). These actions have since been consolidated under the caption Funicular Funds LP v. Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Index No. 653410/2024 (the “NY State Actions”). On June 9, 2026, following oral argument, the court issued a decision and order granting plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment as to the warrants for which plaintiffs had provided authorization letters and conditionally granting summary judgment as to certain remaining warrants, subject to plaintiffs providing such authorizations. On July 27, 2026, the Court directed the Clerk to enter judgment against the Company in favor of Plaintiffs in amounts totaling $67.8 million, with 9% pre-judgment interest from August 22, 2022, until judgment is entered. The Company has appealed the court’s decision.

It is possible that additional purported former warrant holders of the Company could bring additional lawsuits against the Company, its directors or officers, alleging substantially similar claims, or new or different claims relating to the public warrants. The Company intends to defend itself vigorously in the Berner/Lapp Actions and the NY State Actions and any future actions and is unable to estimate any potential additional loss or range of loss that may result from the ultimate resolution of these matters, which could be material to the Company’s business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

The Company has recorded a loss on litigation relating collectively to the Initial Warrant Litigation, Berner/Lapp Actions and NY State Actions based on the criteria under ASC 450 - Contingencies (“ASC 450”) and as of June 30, 2026 held a related litigation reserve of $99.5 million with a remaining insurance recovery receivable related thereto of approximately $2.2 million in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet. Although the Company cannot be certain of the outcome of any litigation or the disposition of any claims, or the amount of damages and exposure, if any, that the Company could incur, the Company does not currently believe that a material loss arising from the final disposition of existing matters, other than those in respect of which the Company has made litigation reserves as described above, is probable. Due to the inherent uncertainties of litigation and regulatory proceedings, the Company cannot determine with certainty the ultimate outcome of any such litigation or proceedings. If the final resolution of any such litigation or proceedings is unfavorable, the Company’s financial condition, results of operations and cash flows could be materially affected. Further, in the ordinary course of business, the Company is also subject to periodic threats of lawsuits, investigations and claims. Regardless of the outcome, litigation can have an adverse impact on the Company because of defense and settlement costs, diversion of management resources and other factors.

Getty Images (US), Inc. is a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed on August 14, 2025 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against Stability AI, Inc., Stability AI, Ltd. and Stability AI US Services Corp. The case arises out of Stability AI’s alleged unauthorized reproduction of approximately 12.0 million in images from Getty Images’ websites, along with the accompanying captions and associated metadata, and use of the copied content in connection with various iterations of Stability AI’s generative artificial intelligence model known as Stable Diffusion. Getty Images (US), Inc. has asserted claims for copyright infringement; falsification of copyright management information; trademark infringement; unfair competition; trademark dilution; and deceptive trade practices. Getty Images (US), Inc. seeks, among other things, monetary damages and injunctive relief. The parties are engaged in fact discovery.

Arising out of similar alleged facts, Getty Images (US), Inc., Getty Images International U.C., Getty Images (UK) Limited, Getty Images Devco UK Limited and iStockphoto LP were Claimants in proceedings issued in the High Court of England & Wales against Stability AI Limited on January 16, 2023, which, asserted claims for copyright infringement, infringement of database rights, trademark infringement and passing off seeks, amongst other things, monetary damages, injunctive relief and legal costs.

In December 2025, the High Court held a hearing, during which the Court granted Claimants an injunction, assessed an interim costs award to Stability AI for the matters on which Claimants did not prevail or dropped at trial, granted Getty Images’ request to appeal the decision on secondary infringement and denied Stability AI’s request to appeal the trademark decision. The Claimants have filed an appeal, which Stability AI has challenged. Stability AI sought permission from the Court of Appeal to hear an appeal on the trademark decision, which the Court of Appeal denied. The appeal of the decision on secondary infringement is expected to be held in November 2026.

The Company has open tax audits in various jurisdictions and some of these jurisdictions require taxpayers to pay assessed taxes in advance or at the time of appealing such assessments. One such jurisdiction is Canada, where one of the Company’s subsidiaries, iStockphoto ULC, received tax assessments from the Canada Revenue Agency (“CRA”) asserting additional tax is due. The position taken by the CRA is related to the transactions between iStockphoto ULC and other affiliates within the Getty Images group for the 2015 Canadian income tax return filed. The Company believes the CRA position lacks merit and intends to appeal and vigorously contest these assessments.

As part of the appeal process in Canada, the Company may be required to pay a portion of the assessment amount, which the Company estimates could be up to $19.6 million. Such required payment is not an admission that the Company believes it is subject to such taxes. The Company believes it is more likely than not it will prevail on appeal, however, if the CRA were to be successful in the appeal process, the Company estimates the maximum potential outcome could be up to $28.6 million.