2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
The Board of Directors of Shutterstock, Inc. (the "Company") has scheduled its 2025 annual meeting of stockholders (the "2025 Annual Meeting") for December 22, 2025. The record date for determining stockholders entitled to receive notice of, and vote at, the 2025 Annual Meeting is November 19, 2025. Additional information regarding the Annual Meeting, including how to attend and whether it will be held in a virtual meeting format only, will be provided in the Company's proxy statement.
Because the date of the 2025 Annual Meeting will be held more than 30 days after the anniversary of the Company's 2024 annual meeting of stockholders, pursuant to Rule 14a-8 ("Rule 14a-8") under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), the Company is setting a deadline for receipt of Rule 14a-8 stockholders proposals that is a reasonable time before the Company expects to begin to print and send its proxy materials for the 2025 Annual Meeting.
Stockholders who wish to have a Rule 14a-8 proposal considered for inclusion in the Company's proxy statement for the 2025 Annual Meeting must ensure that their proposal is received by the Corporate Secretary of the Company, at the Company's principal executive offices at 350 Fifth Avenue, 20th Floor, New York, New York 10118, on or before 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on November 16, 2025, which the Company has determined is a reasonable time before it expects to begin to print and send its proxy materials for the 2025 Annual Meeting. Such stockholders proposals must also comply with the other requirements of Rule 14a-8 in order to be eligible for inclusion in the Company's proxy statement for the 2025 Annual Meeting.
The deadline for stockholder proposals other than pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Company's bylaws, including director nominations and other business, is November 16, 2025. Any such proposal or nomination must meet the requirements set forth in the Company's bylaws.
Additionally, in order for stockholders to give timely notice of nominations for directors for inclusion on a universal proxy card for the 2025 Annual Meeting, notice must be submitted by November 16, 2025, and must include the information in the notice required by the Company's bylaws and by Rule 14a-19(b)(2) and Rule 14a-19(b)(3) under the Exchange Act.
Dividend
On November 5, 2025, the Board of Directors of the Company declared a cash dividend of $0.33 per common share for shareholders of record as of December 4, 2025, payable on December 18, 2025.
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