in march 2014, shutterstock acquired webdam, a provider of online digital asset management software. in may 2014, the firm partnered with salesforce to integrate shutterstock's image library into salesforce's social studio. shutterstock debuted its palette tool in july 2014, a "multi-color image discovery tool." the firm announced it had surpassed 2 million video clips on september 2, 2014. shortly afterwards it revealed a new app meant to help contributors with uploading and categorizing photos. shutterstock's revenue was $328 million in 2014, an increase of 39% from 2013. in 2014, shutterstock paid "over $83 million to its roughly 80,000 contributors."