Making Data a Part of Daily Life
Taking a walk around the two floors, which are connected by a 10-foot wide stair case in the middle, large flatscreen TVs show real-time business metrics. "It's important to have data visible to everyone around you--this is why we have these screens showing the number of downloads in real time happening around the world," he says. Another flatscreen is a "wormhole," or live camera feed into the Berlin office and another features popular images from Shutterstock contributors.
Shutterstock broke 400 million images downloaded recently and sells three images per second. One screen shows a map of the world and a red dot pops up every time someone downloads an image. While Oringer speaks, a red dot appeared in India, Thailand, and Brazil. "It shows just how global our marketplace is. This image originated in Serbia and was downloaded in the United Kingdom," he says, pointing to a red dot on the screen. "This data constantly reminds me what we do here.