Connect Statements Explained
Getty Images gives you two different export files. Here's what each one is and how they affect your earnings.
Two types of export files
When you export your royalties from Getty Images, you can download two separate .txt files:
Transactions
Your regular sales — one line per image sold. Each row shows the exact asset, customer, date, and amount earned.
Connect Transactions
Sales through Getty's Connect API — often consolidated into summary lines instead of one row per image. Both files are needed for your complete earnings picture.
What is Connect?
Connect is a Getty Images API that lets companies embed Getty content directly inside their own products — design tools, news platforms, website builders, etc. Users of those products can view or use Getty images without ever going to gettyimages.com.
Because these are restricted-use licenses (the end user can't download the raw file or use it outside the platform), they are priced and reported differently from standard sales.
Why does the Connect file show "Consolidated" rows?
Connect deals can involve millions of views per month. Instead of listing every single event as a separate row, Getty groups them into summary lines. The amount is the same — they just show fewer rows to keep the file manageable.
Example
100 of your images were included in a deal. Instead of 100 rows at $0.10 each, you see 1 row for $10.00. Same money, cleaner statement.
Consolidated rows show generic values in fields like Asset Number and Asset Description — they will just say "Consolidated" because they don't refer to a single image.
Connect product types
You may see any of these product types in your Connect statement:
Cost Per View
Your image was viewed inside a customer's platform.
A company (like a news site or social network) pays Getty for views of its content. Getty splits that revenue proportionally across all images viewed that month. You earn a tiny amount per view, which adds up.
Typical customers: News aggregators, small publishers, social networks, blog sites.
Rev Share Ad Based
Your image was used inside a subscription platform.
A customer pays Getty a percentage of their subscription revenues. Getty splits that among all the images used that month, proportionally.
Typical customers: Ad creation services, website builders, presentation tools.
Price Per Image
Each download had a fixed price.
The customer pays a fixed fee per download. Simpler and more like a traditional sale, just routed through the Connect API.
Typical customers: Ad creation services, website builders, presentation tools.
Fixed Usage Fee
A lump sum divided across all images used.
The customer pays one fixed fee for a block of content. Getty divides that total by the number of files used to calculate your per-image share. Also covers AI data training deals.
Typical customers: Tech companies, website builders, AI training datasets.
AI Services
Your content was used to train AI models.
Getty shares revenues from its Generative AI licensing agreements with contributors whose images were included in training datasets.
Typical customers: AI companies licensing Getty content for model training.