Jonathan Oringer
Analyst · Cantor Fitzgerald
Thanks, Craig, and thank you all for joining us this morning. Shutterstock is off to a great start in 2015, as the strong financial results and sustained operating momentum we generated throughout 2014 have continued unabated into this year. Tim will cover our financial results in just a few moments, but before he does let me take a few minutes to highlight the key drivers behind our strong and consistent financial performance, and why we expect to build upon the success moving forward. Shutterstock’s ability to cultivate a healthy and expanding marketplace for both customers and contributors remains a key competitive advantage and a crucial component of our sustained growth. Our primary focus is ensuring we have the most robust platform for creative content worldwide, along with the most advanced search technology and the most suitable purchasing option. This way we can deliver a truly unique experience in each of our new and existing customers whenever they interact with us. Our growing and engaged customer base fuels the demand for content delivering a bigger path for our contributors and encouraging them to provide their best and freshest content to Shutterstock, further facilitating the network effect of our business. This past quarter alone, our content library expanded by nearly 5 million images and now includes more than 53 million photos, vectors and illustrations and 2.5 million video clips. It’s not just the scale of the content library, which attracts customers but equally important is the quality of the content we provide. While we grow our library by over 10% this past quarter, we were selective. An additional 3 million images failed to pass our content team’s rigorous review process. Our customers know that when they come to Shutterstock they are not only getting a largest selection, but also the most suitable content that will fit their creative needs. Equally important to having the right content is providing the proper tools for the users so they can quickly find the images and videos they need. We have spent considerable time and energy to develop technology and resources that makes the search process more efficient and are constantly pioneering new tools to help our customers. In the past year alone, we’ve introduced Shutterstock Palette and Shutterstock Spectrum, which allow users to incorporate color into their search parameters. It is these types of innovations along with dozens of algorithmic improvements and interface changes, which enhance our customer experience and why we frequently hear from our users that our search capabilities are a key differentiator. A superior customer experience is attracting more and more total users to Shutterstock with user accounts growing by 28% over the past year. We now have nearly 1.3 million active users who have licensed content from Shutterstock in the past year. This creative community downloads over four images per second on average from our content library. Once users engage with our platform, they keep coming back for their stock content needs year-after-year, as evidenced by our annual revenue retention rate exceeding 100%. This customer loyalty and growing demand continues to attract more and more contributors to our platform. We now have over 78,000 contributors and we recently passed an impressive milestone with over $300 million paid out in royalties since our inception. Just as we are enhancing the customer side of our marketplace, we are also looking for ways to increase our contributor expense. In the past year, we have further upgraded the ways that we review content by introducing innovative data-driven auditing to monitor and manage reviewer performance. Despite the diligent review procedures we have in place and the immense number of the content submissions, the efficiency of our review team enabled us to get the vast majority of images up on our site in less than 24 hours. With both sides of our marketplace growing steadily, we continue to see strong and predictable growth from our traditional ecommerce platform. There’s still a significant opportunity for us to grow this business, and we will remain focused on nurturing both sides of the market. At the same time, we invested in additional revenue opportunities that are providing significant growth today and which we expect to be even bigger pieces of our company as Shutterstock evolves. The first is enterprise sales, which is a natural expression of our traditional image and video business. One of the strengths of our company has been identifying the needs of our users of investing the resources to satisfy those needs, and this is exactly what we’re doing with our enterprise also. Not every customer is the same; an ad agency or media company may have very different wants than a small business just starting out. By providing dedicated sales reps, user management functionality, curated content and greater legal protection, we have better tailored our product offerings to the needs of large enterprises. And as a result, we have significantly increased the value of these customer relationships. Enterprise clients also tend to grow over time as additional users within the business are exposed to our content, as we further integrate ourselves by offering additional products and services. We’re still in the early stages of building this offering but our enterprise revenue now exceeds 20% of our overall revenue. And as we indicated at our Investor Day, we believe that percentage can double in the future given a low penetration of enterprise clients today. Another revenue opportunity, which we began investing in several years ago, which is delivering real growth today and which has considerable potential as media consumption continues to evolve as our video business. Four years ago, video was a small fraction of our overall revenue but we recognized that customers were increasingly looking for quality footage to use in their diverse video projects. We invested in this space and our video business has grown to nearly 10% of our overall revenue. Looking forward, much like with stock photography a decade ago, as the cost of equipment to produce this content continues to come down and as it’s becoming increasingly important for companies to create and distribute video content, we fully expect the marketplace dynamics in this space to deliver significant growth to Shutterstock in the years ahead. The third revenue opportunity driving growth today that I want to touch on is the increasing worldwide demand for stock imagery. In 2014, we made significant inroads increasing our global presence by expanding the languages in which we serve customers, launching a local contributor platform and opening regional offices to support the market growth we are seeing in countries like Germany, Australia and Japan. We generate revenue from over 150 countries today and our localization efforts have resulted in rapid global revenue expansion and diversification. As global demand for stock imagery continues to grow, we are ideally situated to further capitalize on the worldwide opportunity. The three areas I just detailed are natural evolutions of our existing ecommerce business and demonstrates Shutterstock’s unique ability to deliver significant profitability and rapid growth even as we invest in building new opportunities. And while the majority of our resources and the focus remains on further developing the core image business, we are continually evolving to meet and exceed the needs of our customers and our contributors. We have recently invested in several underserved content categories that we believe will provide additional value to our existing customers and attract new clients who have yet to engage with Shutterstock. Music and editorial content are both natural offshoots of our existing business and our clients have indicated for quite some time they are looking for alternatives in both areas. Our recent acquisitions of PremiumBeat and Rex Features gives us a great kick start in addressing this demand, and while it’s very early days we’re already making real progress. You may have noticed the new Rex-Shutterstock credits that are now appearing in media outlets around the world every day. Success in music and editorial can reinforce growth in all areas of our business, offering music allow us to serve more video customers and offering editorial content helps deepen our relationships with enterprise customers and broadens exposure to the Shutterstock brand. We’ve had great feedback from our customer base regarding these acquisitions and we think these two categories can be significant levers of growth in the years to come. Another area that we expect to provide meaningful growth over time is WebDAM. Our cloud-based digital asset management service enables marketing creative teams to efficiently manage and collaborate on their creative files. This business further integrates us into the workflow of marketing and creative professionals, and while still relatively small, WebDAM has seen bookings double year-over-year in Q1 with customer retention at nearly 100%. Shutterstock is off to a great start in 2015 with strong financial results and sustained operating momentum as creative professionals and contributors continue to embrace the platform we have built. We remain focus on cultivating our marketplace with additional investments to bolster our product offering, enhance our user experience and expand our market opportunity, so we can continue our rapid growth and build sustained long-term shareholder value. With that, I’ll turn the call over to Tim.