by march 2016, the company had "over 100,000 contributors," with around 70 million images and 4 million video clips available for licensing and sale. that month shutterstock announced it would be distributing material from the associated press in the united states, with the deal to last 3 years and cover 30 million photos and around 2 million videos. the photos were expected to go live in april. according to "entrepreneur", shutterstock also had an "active customer base of 1.4 million people in 150 countries."