Getty Images Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GETY) filed a Form 8-K on June 22, 2026, reporting under Item 8.01 (Other Events) that, on June 21, 2026, it issued a press release announcing the launch of a partnership with OpenAI. The press release, attached as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated into the filing by reference, describes the arrangement as a "display agreement" under which Getty Images' licensed content libraries will appear across OpenAI search and discovery experiences within ChatGPT. The 8-K characterizes the press release as announcing "the launch of a partnership with OpenAI" and adds one detail of timing: "The Company previously referenced the execution of this deal on an unnamed basis in its Q3 2025 earnings call."

The exhibit frames the agreement as multi-year and content-display in scope. Its headline reads "Getty Images Announces Display Partnership with OpenAI," with a subhead stating the "Multi-year agreement brings Getty Images' licensed content into OpenAI search and discovery experiences in ChatGPT." The body states that the agreement "enables the use of Getty Images' content for display within ChatGPT, enhancing the richness of visual responses." The filing's own language is the operative record here: it describes where Getty content will appear (within ChatGPT search and discovery) and what it is licensed to do there (display), without disclosing financial terms, duration in years, exclusivity, or volume.

"High-quality, licensed visual content makes AI-powered search and discovery more useful and more trustworthy. This partnership with OpenAI reflects a shared recognition of that, and together we will deliver richer visual experiences to ChatGPT users"— Getty Images Holdings, Inc., Form 8-K Exhibit 99.1 (June 21, 2026), source

That quote is attributed in the exhibit to Craig Peters, Chief Executive Officer at Getty Images. It is the only direct quotation in the press release and the only characterization of strategic rationale the document offers; everything around it is descriptive. The exhibit also restates Getty Images' scale in the terms the company uses for itself: it describes the company as "a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace" operating through its Getty Images, iStock and Unsplash brands, working with "almost 600,000 content creators and almost 360 content partners," and covering "more than 160,000 news, sport and entertainment events" each year. Those figures are the company's own self-description, included in the About section of the release rather than as audited disclosure.

What the filing discloses—and what it does not

The disclosure is narrow by design. An Item 8.01 filing is the vehicle a registrant uses to put a material development on the record without it falling under one of the enumerated 8-K items, and Getty's filing carries no financial statements or pro forma figures—Item 9.01 lists only the press release (Exhibit 99.1) and the cover-page XBRL (Exhibit 104). The 8-K does not state a contract value, a revenue contribution, a term length in years, whether the arrangement is exclusive, or how content will be attributed or compensated at the per-image level. What it does establish, in the company's words, is the existence and general shape of the arrangement: Getty's licensed libraries appearing for display inside ChatGPT's search and discovery surfaces.

The timing note is the most concrete forward link in the document. By stating that the company "previously referenced the execution of this deal on an unnamed basis in its Q3 2025 earnings call," the filing ties the June 2026 announcement back to a disclosure Getty had already made to investors months earlier without naming the counterparty. For readers following the company through its filings, that line indicates the agreement was executed before it was publicly named, and that the June 8-K is the point at which the counterparty—OpenAI—and the product surface—ChatGPT—became part of the public record.

The forward-looking caveats and the AI risk language

Both the 8-K body and the exhibit carry extensive cautionary language. The filing states that statements which are not historical facts are forward-looking and "are not intended to serve as, and must not be relied on by any investor as, a guarantee, an assurance, a prediction or a definitive statement of fact or probability." Among the enumerated risks, the company lists "the risk that content licensing arrangements and other strategic partnerships with third-party platforms may not achieve anticipated benefits, may be terminated or may not be renewed on favorable terms"—language that, by the filing's own terms, applies to arrangements of the type announced here.

The same risk recitation references "the legal, social and ethical issues relating to the use of new and evolving technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence," and points readers to the risk factors in the company's most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K. The exhibit separately notes Getty's broader AI posture, describing "the adoption and distribution of generative AI technologies and tools trained on permissioned content that include indemnification and perpetual, worldwide usage rights" as part of how Getty and iStock customers can "use text to image generation." That sentence concerns Getty's own generative tools and licensing model rather than the OpenAI display agreement, and the filing keeps the two distinct: the OpenAI arrangement, as described, is about displaying Getty's existing licensed content within ChatGPT, not about training.

The 8-K was signed on June 22, 2026, by Kjelti Kellough, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary. The date of the earliest event reported is June 21, 2026, matching the press-release date. For the disclosure record, the document does two things plainly: it names OpenAI and ChatGPT as the counterparty and surface for a content-display arrangement Getty had previously flagged without naming, and it incorporates the press release—including the CEO's single on-the-record statement—into the company's SEC filings. Beyond that, the financial and contractual specifics are not in this filing, and the company's cautionary language expressly states that the partnership's benefits are not assured.