# Artlist

> Artlist is a subscription creative platform that combines licensed music, sound effects, footage, templates and editing tools with AI generation for video, images, music and voiceover. Founded by filmmakers, musicians and a technologist in Israel in 2016, it turned a simpler global license into a profitable wedge, expanded through products and acquisitions, and reported $300 million in annual recurring revenue at the start of 2026 as it pushed into end-to-end AI production.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Ira Belsky (Co-founder and Co-CEO), Itzik Elbaz (Co-founder and Co-CEO), Eyal Raz (Co-founder), Assaf Ayalon (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** Around 500 employees at the end of 2025 after adding 120 during the year; LinkedIn lists the company in the 501-1,000 employee range.
- **Products:** Artlist Music, Artgrid, Sound Effects, Motion Array, Artlist Max
- **Notable:** Reached profitability within two weeks of launching its original music catalog, according to co-founder Ira Belsky., Reported being cash-flow positive from the start before taking its first publicly announced funding round in 2020., Raised $48 million from KKR and Elephant Partners in 2020 after years of bootstrapping.

## Products & services

- **Artlist Music** — Curated royalty-free music offered through subscription licensing for social, commercial and client video work.
- **Artgrid** — Stock footage catalog created to extend the subscription model from music into video clips.
- **Sound Effects** — A sound-effects library covered by Artlist licensing and sold alone or within broader plans.
- **Motion Array** — Creative asset marketplace for video templates, presets, plugins, motion graphics, footage, music and sound effects, acquired by Artlist.
- **Artlist Max** — The all-in-one subscription combining stock music, sound effects, footage, templates, LUTs, plugins and AI tools.
- **AI Voiceover and Artboards** — Multilingual generated narration plus script-led recommendations and collaborative storyboarding across catalog assets.
- **AI Image and Video** — Credit-based access to selected generative models for commercial image and video production under Artlist plans.
- **AI Toolkit** — A unified workspace for image, video, voice and music models, including Artlist Original 1.0 and third-party models.
- **Artlist Studio** — An AI production environment for reusable characters and locations, shot framing, camera direction and visual continuity across scenes.
- **Premiere Pro Plugin** — A native panel that brings Artlist generation, editing and a synchronized asset library into Adobe Premiere Pro.

## Achievements

- Reached profitability within two weeks of launching its original music catalog, according to co-founder Ira Belsky.
- Reported being cash-flow positive from the start before taking its first publicly announced funding round in 2020.
- Raised $48 million from KKR and Elephant Partners in 2020 after years of bootstrapping.
- Acquired Motion Array in 2020 and FXhome in 2021, widening the product from music into templates, assets and editing tools.
- Reported $260 million ARR for 2025, up 50 percent year over year, and $300 million ARR at the start of 2026.
- Said its platform served more than 50 million creators in 2026.
- Earned SOC 2 Type II certification in August 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Completed SOC 2 Type II certification for its enterprise platform and controls.
- **2026-08** — Released an Artlist AI plugin for Adobe Premiere Pro that brings generation and editing tools into the timeline.
- **2026-06** — Announced Terrarium, an AI-hybrid horror feature financed and executive-produced by Artlist with an intended union-aligned workflow.
- **2026-04** — Launched Artlist Studio with reusable characters and locations, shot framing, camera controls and scene continuity.
- **2026-01** — Introduced the unified AI Toolkit and Artlist Original 1.0, an image model the company says was trained on its own premium catalog.
- **2025-04** — Launched AI image and video generation alongside its voiceover tools and stock catalog.

## Links

- Website: https://artlist.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/art-list
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Artlist_io
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Artlistio
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artlist.io/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Artlist.io
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@artlist.io

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Last updated: 2026-09-02