LONDON – 11 December, 2025: Getty Images (NYSE: GETY), a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace and Little Dot Studios, a multi-platform production company, social media agency, and digital media network, have partnered to bring two original science documentaries to YouTube made entirely from Getty Images’ premium archival and stock collections.
Produced by Little Dot Studios, an All3Media company, the documentary draws exclusively from Getty Images’ online image and video archive and is the first of an ongoing programme commitment between the partners. The project marks the first time a YouTube Original programme has been produced exclusively from Getty Images licensed visual content, showcasing how rich archives can power high-quality, rights-cleared storytelling at scale for digital-first audiences.
The two-part 90-minute -long documentary, Moons of our Solar System, will premiere on December 12th 2025 across Little Dot Studios’ YouTube science offering: Spark, Progress and Cosmic – part of the broader Little Dot Channels network, with German and Spanish language versions to follow. Powered by Getty Images’ content, the documentary gives the audience a deeper look at the moons in our solar system and asks the question of how they got there, what makes them unique and – the most important question of all – could any of them contain signs of life?
“This collaboration with Little Dot Studios demonstrates how Getty Images’ depth of content can power premium, long-form storytelling for digital platforms”, said Paul Davis, Vice President Media & Broadcast Sales at Getty Images. “By combining our entire Getty Images video collection with flexible, digital-first licensing models, we’re making it easier for producers to create high-quality programmes with speed, creative freedom, and full rights certainty. Little Dot Studios has been an outstanding partner, and we’re excited to see how YouTube audiences engage with this new approach to documentary production.”
The partnership was highly collaborative from development through production. Little Dot Studios leveraged audience insights from its network – which reaches over 125 million unique viewers monthly across more than 200 channels – to lead the creative direction. Getty Images’ research team then used these data-led insights to identify the perfect assets from its vast footage collection to bring to life Little Dot Studios’ creative vision.
Alex Hryniewicz, Managing Director – Network Social Platforms at Little Dot Studios, added: “Our digital network gives us unparalleled, real-time insights into what audiences are passionate about. This partnership with Getty Images is a perfect example of how we can turn those data-led insights into premium, original programming. By combining our understanding of YouTube with Getty’s incredible, world-class archive, we can create compelling documentaries like Moons of our Solar System that are tailor-made for the platform and will resonate deeply with our viewers.”
Getty Images offers an unrivalled archival collection of over 34 million footage clips. The collection includes contemporary, archive and creative footage, with almost 20 million 4K clips, and vast offline archives of BBC programming and NBC News.
