Shutterstock, Inc.

(a)On July 16, 2026, Steven Ciardiello notified the Company of his decision to resign as Chief Accounting Officer of the Company, effective August 28, 2026 following a transition period. On November 2, 2026, the Company appointed Rik Powell, the Company’s former Interim Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, to serve as the Company’s Principal Accounting Officer.

Mr. Powell, age 54, served as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer from November 2024 to November 2026 and served as the Company’s Interim Chief Executive Officer from July 2026 to October 2026. From June 2024 to October 2024, Mr. Powell served as the Company’s Senior Vice President, Finance and Investor Relations. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Powell was Senior Vice President, Finance and Investor Relations at Shake Shack, an NYSE publicly traded quick services restaurant group, from 2022 to 2024. Prior to that, Mr. Powell served in various finance positions at Getty Images, a visual media company, where he ultimately advanced to the position of Chief Financial Officer from 2017 to 2020. Prior to that, Mr. Powell held various finance roles at Dell Computer Corporation and HP Inc. and started his career at Grant Thornton LLP. Mr. Powell is from Oxford in the United Kingdom and has been a Fellow of the UK Chartered Association of Certified Accountants for a number of years.

There are no arrangements or understandings between Mr. Powell and any other person pursuant to which he was appointed to serve as the Principal Accounting Officer. Mr. Powell has no direct or indirect material interest in any transaction required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K, and Mr. Powell has no family relationships with any director or executive officer of the Company.

(c) Insider Trading Arrangements

During the quarter ended September 30, 2026, none of our directors or officers (as defined in Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended), adopted orterminated a “Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement” or a “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement” (each as defined in Item 408(a) and (c), respectively, of Regulation S-K).