Arts Help

What Arts Help does

Arts Help is a Canada-based non-profit that operates a digital media platform (built on the Ghost CMS) publishing editorial content on art, sustainability, and social issues, positioning itself as a network for the global creative community. Its core offering is an editorial publication featuring artist profiles, cultural commentary, and climate-focused journalism organized around UN Sustainable Development Goal tags. The company extends beyond publishing into three adjacent product lines: the Conscious Crypto Creator (CCC) program, which distributes $3.5M in grants to climate-focused artists via Web3 funding; an NFT Store for digital art; and curated exhibitions such as Zero Gravity. Partnerships include a core collaboration with the UNFCCC on the Digital Climate Library, a Guinness World Record collaboration with The Remington Group, and minor partnerships with Holt Renfrew and Museum Macan.

Name

Arts Help

Legal name

Arts Help

Website

https://artshelp.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Arts Help is a Canada-based non-profit operating a Ghost-CMS editorial platform serving the global creative community with articles on art, climate, and sustainability, alongside grant, NFT, and exhibition programs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Digital Arts Media & Journalism

SIC

Miscellaneous Publishing (2741), Services-Mailing, Reproduction, Commercial Art & Photography (7330)

akta.pro primary industry

Arts Education & Community Arts Programs (BPAGAHAC)

Keywords

• Digital art publication
• Artist grant programs
• Climate art advocacy
• Sustainable art journalism
• Creative community platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Toronto

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Subscription Services: The platform offers subscription services to users for access to premium content and community features. The website displays 'Subscribe' options alongside free content access.
2. Grant Funding: Arts Help distributes grant funding ($3.5M in artist grants) to climate-focused artists through the Conscious Crypto Creator program, suggesting diversified funding from crypto/Web3 initiatives.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Arts Help is a non-profit digital media platform that publishes editorial content covering art, artists, climate change, and social issues. Beyond its core publishing function, the organization runs the Conscious Crypto Creator (CCC) grant program distributing $3.5M in funding to climate-focused artists, and operates an NFT Store for digital art and climate advocacy commerce.

Product overview

Arts Help is a digital media platform serving as a network for the creative community. The platform comprises a content publishing system (built on Ghost CMS) delivering editorial articles, news, and features about art, climate change, and social justice. The main offerings include the core Arts Help Platform for content consumption, the Conscious Crypto Creator (CCC) grant program supporting climate-focused artists, and an NFT Store for digital art sales. The company also partners with organizations like the UNFCCC for initiatives such as the Digital Climate Library.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Conscious Crypto Creator (CCC): A platform/program distributing artist grants to verified conscious crypto creators fighting climate change. Currently distributing $3.5M in Artist Grants.
• NFT Store

Products and services

• Arts Help Platform

Quantifiable outcome

• $3.5M in artist grants distributed to climate-focused artists

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerArts Help partnered with UNFCCC for the Digital Climate Library initiative, collaborating on climate advocacy through art. This partnership aligns Arts Help's creative community with UN sustainability goals and climate action initiatives.
• Holt RenfrewminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerArts Help announced partnership with Holt Renfrew for a collaboration with Vancouver-based artist, combining retail presence with artistic programming and cultural content.
• The Remington GroupcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerArts Help and The Remington Group jointly set a Guinness World Record together, demonstrating successful collaboration in art and community initiatives.
• Museum MacanminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerArts Help covered and featured content about Museum Macan's CARE exhibition by Patricia Piccinini, featuring the artist and connecting the institution with Arts Help's creative community readership.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Artsy: Artsy is a global online marketplace and editorial platform for collectors and art lovers, with curated artist stories and a primary market platform — directly comparable in mission of connecting the creative community to wider audiences.
• Hyperallergic: Hyperallergic is a leading digital publication covering art, culture, and politics with a focus on underrepresented voices — a direct editorial peer in the digital art journalism space where Arts Help operates.
• It's Nice That: It's Nice That is a UK-based online publication championing creativity across art, design, and visual culture, with a contributor-led editorial model very similar to Arts Help's community_led GTM motion.
• Widewalls: Widewalls is an online art marketplace and editorial magazine covering contemporary art and artists globally — comparable in combining editorial content about artists with a marketplace component (analogous to Arts Help's NFT Store).
• Juxtapoz Magazine: Juxtapoz is a long-running art magazine covering contemporary and street art with online editorial and a print publication, comparable in targeting the creative community and visual arts readership that Arts Help serves.
• Colossal: Colossal is a widely read art and visual culture blog and shop covering contemporary artists and creative projects worldwide — comparable in being a community-driven, editorially rich publication for art and creative audiences.
• Artnet: Artnet is a leading online art world platform combining editorial journalism, market data, and an auction house — a closely comparable digital art media and marketplace business competing for the same creative community audience.
• Creative Boom: Creative Boom is an online magazine and community for creative professionals covering art, design, and visual culture, comparable to Arts Help in serving writers, artists, designers, and creative professionals with editorial content and community features.

Broad incumbents

• The Art Newspaper: The Art Newspaper is an established global publication covering the art world, exhibitions, and cultural institutions, comparable in editorial coverage of artists, museums (e.g., Museum Macan), and cultural institutions that Arts Help also features.
• WePresent by WeTransfer: WePresent is the editorial platform of WeTransfer, publishing stories about creativity with global brand reach — a broader incumbent that overlaps with Arts Help's mission of celebrating the creative community.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ArtsHelpNet

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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