shutterstock, inc. announced spectrum, a new "image discovery tool," in march 2013. at the time, the firm had 24 million licensable photos, vectors and illustrations in its portfolio. in august 2013, shutterstock and facebook announced a partnership to integrate shutterstock's library within facebook's ad creator, allowing advertisers to select from shutterstock's images when creating ads. at the time, shutterstock was available in 20 languages including thai, korean, french, italian, portuguese, spanish, german, russian, chinese, and japanese.