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Below you will find some Motion Array experiences and information about the stock material platform for creatives and content creators. From the right music to sound effects, templates, stock video and much, much more. Motion Array combines everything a creative needs for content production.

The platform has been around for a few years and has had time to develop bit by bit. Since last year, it belongs to the creators of Artlist and Artgrid, which further expand their platform portfolio and now really bundle any kind of stock material on one platform.

What Motion Array offers

• Unlimited downloads for the whole marketplace for all demands
• Over 80,000 premium quality files. From design templates to contemporary stock videos to audio files that will help you make your own production even better.
• Helpful plugins and effects for your video editing software, such as Adobe Premiere and Co, with which you can achieve even better results in a short time.
• No hidden fees.

Motion Array Review – Assets and media in detail

• Templates
• Presets
• Motion Graphics
• Plugins
• Royalty-free Music
• Soundeffekte
• Videos
• Fotos

8 reasons that make Motion Array so recommendable

1. Wide selection and good quality that meets every need
2. Membership can be paid either monthly or annually and you can use the downloaded files for anything.
3. You can cancel your subscription at any time, but the files used until then may remain in your projects used until then.
4. There are no hidden costs or licenses.
5. It is simple and clear. In a few seconds you can download and use files, plugins and assets.
6. Motion Array is one of the platforms for stock material with the largest selection.
7. You can test Motion Array for free
8. The built-in review platform gives you the ability to speed up the video approval process.

Motion Array Review – Costs at a Glance

Paying $249.99 annually saves you $109.89 and some receipts in accounting compared to the monthly membership.

My recommendation: Subscribe to the service for one year and save the renewal date in your own calendar. Then you can try the service for a good price of $21 for the first year, and if you find you use it less than you thought, cancel before renewing.

The Motion Array License

The universal license of Motion Array gives you the possibility to download as many files and assets from the marketplace as you want and use them in as many projects as you want. It doesn’t matter how big the project or the distribution of the final project is in the end.

All projects you complete as a Motion Array member remain covered forever under Motion Array’s Universal License.

Note: If you cancel your Motion Array membership, you do not have to adjust your projects published until then! Only the use of the files downloaded during the membership period in new projects is no longer covered.

How MotionArray wants to control that is still a mystery to me, in my eyes it can only go by upload date, which would be very bold, or creation date of the file. Either way, I still think it’s a fair deal that you get the usage rights as long as you are a member, but after membership you don’t have to take old projects offline or adjust them.

These uses are covered by the Universal license

• Commercials
• Youtube Videos (with Monetazation)
• Sports Programming
• Social Media Marketing
• Broadcast / Television
• Live Events
• Firmen Kommunikation
• Feature Films
• Non-Profit /NGO Communications

Motion Array Experience and Advantages

In summary, Motion Array offers a great advantage in my eyes: It bundles all conceivable media types on one platform. Hopefully, this will eliminate the need for many platform memberships in the future, and you will finally have one place where you can find all the assets you need.

I also like the fact that the platform is much more modern and tidy than many competitors in the market. For example, Themeforest, Adobe Stock and some others.

Motion Array is also interested in terms of price, so it hardly costs more in an annual subscription than the platforms I have used so far, Artlist or Artgrid.

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The future will show whether Motion Array will manage to unite Artlist and Artgrid in a common platform without losing quality. It would be desirable, because then not only the administrative effort due to two parallel running platforms would be reduced, but also the annual fixed costs for stock subscriptions would be halved in one fell swoop. So it remains exciting, and it’s worth a try.

Also because I could imagine that Motion Array’s subscription prices might increase in the next few years. Then it’s true again. Who is early, profits.

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Any questions? Then feel free to use the comment function under this post and I will try to help with my experience as best I can. This has the advantage that other people besides you may also benefit from it.

The people behind the music platform Artlist.io have a new baby: Artgrid. With Artlist.io they have already made it their business to make life easier for content creators and created a music platform with easy license management and flatrate thinking. This has already saved me countless hours of work and at the same time enriched my videos with good music. I have written about this in more detail here. There you can also get 2 months for free if you don’t know Artlist yet and you want to test the music platform.

For their new video platform called Artgrid, they have also made it their business to provide B-roll footage without much license management. Thanks to the first very high-quality content producers in the network, there is already some video material available that cannot be compared to the classic stock footage. Of course, I have already registered and tested the platform, which is currently in the beta phase.

Proven Artlist concept also works with Artgrid

Artlist users will notice that the entire website concept was simply based on the Artlist successes. So the whole Artgrid website comes in the same outfit and uses the same search mechanisms and filter methods. With Artgrid, you can filter for filmmakers, video themes or shot types with just a few clicks. Especially interesting: The shot types. You can use them to pre-filter the existing footage by location (interior / exterior) format (4K+, raw & log), speed (realtime, slow, super slow, fast) or camera movement and framing. Very, very practical.

Artgrid has also adhered to the “shopping cart principle”. During the search, videos can be easily placed in the shopping cart one after the other. With a click on Checkout you will receive an e-mail with all download files or a click on “My Footage” leads to the selected material, which is downloaded one by one directly via the platform.

Simple license management thanks to Artgrid

Due to the larger selection and more important technical characteristics of the respective video files, Artgrid is currently available in 3 different flat rate subscriptions.

With Professional, Artgrid addresses the real video people. With Creator, especially Content Creators get the perfect package. If you only need a little B-Roll material or maybe only film a little, you might already be satisfied with the cheapest version, the Junior Plan. No matter which plan you choose, every subscription guarantees the “Universal Artgrid License” and “Unlimited Downloads” for a whole year. That’s the duration of every Artgrid plan.

Professional	Creator	Junior
RAW / Log Clips Log Footage 4K Clips ProRes / DNxHR HD Clips Graded Footage Universal Artgrid License Unlimited Downloads 1 Year Subscription Plan	4k Clips ProRes / DNxHR HD Clips Graded Footage Universal Artgrid License Unlimited Downloads 1 Year Subscription Plan	HD Clips H.264 Format Graded Footage Universal Artgrid License Unlimited Downloads 1 Year Subscription Plan
50,00 Dollar / Month (599 Dollar per year)	40,00 Dollar / Month (479 Dollar per year)	25,00 Dollar / Month  (299 Dollar per year)

With the free test account you can already test the interface and view the current material. Only the download function is not yet activated in the trial month.

The Artgrid facts at a glance

1. Hand selected material from videographers from all over the world
2. All rights of use are included
3. Three simple price models (Junior, Creator and Professional)
4. No hidden costs!

The Artgrid license for video footage

Like Artlist, the Artgrid license is relatively simple and very convenient for the users. Because it covers both commercial and non-commercial uses of the footage for all platforms worldwide. Even after the end of your annual membership, you can continue to use the videos without the risk of producing extra costs. The only thing you won’t be able to get is new footage after you cancelled your subscription.

• For private and commercial use on any platform worldwide
• All packages give you access to the entire Artgrid library
• New material every day

My review of Artgrid.io so far

Just like Artlist, the platform is super easy to use and very straightforward. The flatrate principle with an “all-inclusive” license for all uses makes it much easier especially for the users, because the license management is omitted. One could really attribute to the founders that they “reinvent stock platforms”. The annual plan will certainly put off one or the other at first glance, because you pay almost 300 euros directly. In reference to the other stock providers, however, this is a very fair price.

The disadvantage of any stock platform is of course the non-exclusive content. One can assume that especially the modern and well-graded content will be used very often and will be identified very quickly as stock footage by consumers of the final videos. That’s why I would be careful about how much stock footage I use, especially for commissioned work.

But for all free works Artgrid is already a real recommendation in my opinion, which makes missing mood-shoots and B-Roll super easy to access. As already with Artlist, there is a clear recommendation from me.

More information about the license, the footage and the payment can be found in the Artgrid FAQ.

Short video with Artgrid contents by Hans Peter Schepp

A nice example of what you can find on Artgrid is this short video. It is completely cut out of video content by Content Creator Hans Peter Schepp, which you can find on Artgrid of course and which is available to you in the flatrate model after registration with all rights.

Short video with video content from Omri Ohana on Artgrid

Another good example is this clip with content from Omri Ohana. Is by far one of my favourite videographers on the Artgrid platform and has already uploaded countless clips with different moods. For one or the other project I have already used his content. You can also get his clips with a subscription to Artgrid.io. This clip is a result of his “Writer” snippets.

Artgrid.io discount code for your stock footage flatrate

You have already made a decision and are simply looking for a discount code for your subscription? Then I can help you. There are no real discount codes for Artgrid.io, but there is a partner link. If you sign up for your subscription via the following link, you will get two months on top of Artgrid for free. So you save at least 2/12 on your next subscription.

Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links from Artgrid. You don’t have to pay one Euro more, but you support my work as a photographer and blogger. So if you find my recommendation useful, I would be happy if you subscribe via my links. Thanks for the support.

There are many stock video platforms out there, but I’m fully committed to Artgrid.io. Why?here I have compiled 10 good reasons for Artgrid, which in my opinion are the most important ones. Both the music platform Artlist and the video stock platform Artgrid.io I had already presented and recommended here in various articles. For example in this detailed experience report about Artgrid. I use both myself – also for the content of my blog or other social media channels and productions.

There are many reasons when the video stock material from Artgrid can be used. For example, if there are no cutaways or you want to pimp the video with an aerial shot, but you didn’t have a drone with you on your road trip through Iceland. For many eventualities Artgrid offers a lot of contemporary video material, which can be easily downloaded and used! In this blog post, we will now summarize 10 good reasons for Artgrid

Unfortunately there is no discount code available at the moment to help you with Artgrid, but there is a referral gift. With our link you get 2 months for free on top of your Artgrid.io subscription for stock videos.

Here are my 10 good reasons to use Artgrid

1. Fixed costs! No hidden fees or license costs. Everything you find on the platform, you can download and use for a fixed annual price. One year, one price, all inclusive.
2. No opaque use licenses! There is money to be made with licenses, which is why they are so opaque and often complicated. You don’t have that problem with Argrid. Once you fall in love with the material, you can use the moving image scenes for anything you want.
3. Clarity! The Artgrid platform is modern and simply designed. Countless filter options let you find the perfect material. In addition, you can favorite material and find it later again and again, when the day has come when you want to use it.
4. High quality! In the most expensive subscription, the Pro RAW/LOG for just under $600 a year, you get 4k-8k material as RAW / LOG clips and can grade them yourself if you want. This also allows you to perfectly integrate and customize the stock footage from Artgrid into your own shots. Even with the Creator package for just under 480 $ a year you get but also already 4k-8k clips
5. Simple calculation: If you need several clips for a project, Artgrid.io guarantees you a clear calculation thanks to the flat rate price model. A fixed price per year guarantees that the costs neither explode nor increase with increasing usage! This gives security and saves time.
6. The material is yours! If you don’t use Artgrid anymore or don’t need it as often as you thought, you keep the rights to your downloaded footage. So you don’t have to throw it out of your publications or channels after the subscription ends.
7. Contemporary grading! Most of Artgrid’s material suppliers are young videographers from all over the world. So even the pre-graded footage in the two starter subscriptions offers a contemporary, high-quality look that can already be used well in social media channels without any further adjustments.
8. Easy payment processing! With Paypal, Artgrid is very easy to complete. You don’t have to enter any credit card information or anything like that. The subscription fee will be debited after the trial period and then every 365 days.
9. Huge selection! Artgrid already offers a huge selection of video material on every imaginable topic. Even contemporary and political world events, such as material on the Black Lives Matter demonstrations can quickly be found on Artgrid. But the topics of food, cities, people, emotions are also covered. Due to its modern business model, Artgrid’s stock material cannot be compared at all with the quality of other platforms.
10. Simply fun! Especially because of its easy handling and the all-around subscription at a fixed price, Artgrid and the search for suitable stock video material is simply fun. If you realize that a clip is not so suitable, you simply download another one and try it out! Rarely has content research been as little of a headache as it is with Artgrid!

Want to try Artgrid? If you want to test it for your own projects, you can get 2 months free on top of your Artgrid.io subscription via this link. You can also test Artgrid for a few days for free.

Artlist: The counterpart for music and sound effects

Of course, Artgrid reaches its full quality in interaction with the music platform Artlist, which works on the same principle and offers royalty-free music and sound effects in a huge library. The Artlist subscription is significantly cheaper and offers the same advantages for people who are looking for music to accompany their content. You can also find a detailed review of my Artlist Review here on the blog.

Artgrid – Reinventing Stock Footage

Finally, here is one of the many Artgrind commercials. Already here you get in my eyes a good foretaste of what the available footage from the platform can offer.

Examples of use of Artgrid

Finally, here are a few usage examples where you can see how we used Artgrid material for our Instagram account, for example. A relatively simple use, but I think the usefulness of the material becomes very clear.

If my 10 good reasons for Artgrid have convinced you, you can now try Artgrid for free for a few days and get 2 months free on your subscription via this link. I hope that I could help you with my experience and 10 good reasons for Artgrid might have convinced you. Have we forgotten any reasons? Then let us know in the comments.

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How long did I search with Kristof for a decent solution for licensing background music for our YouTube videos. With Artlist.io, we found the perfect music flatrate for your and my videos. Beforehand, we really tried everything. TheMusicBed, Soundcloud, artist accounts on Myspace or YouTube. Just everything. The biggest criticism was either the waiting time or the 100 different licenses to choose between.

With the Israeli startup Artlist.io, Kristof has finally found a really pleasant and uncomplicated solution. You may already seen their beautifully made videos flickering across your screen on the social web. In contrast to many other audio archives, Artlist specializes in a simple licensing model in the form of a flat rate. For a really cheap (!) 199 $ a year you can get a huge pile of music that can be downloaded, used and played endlessly. Without annoying restrictions.

Especially the intuitive interface of Artlist makes music research pleasant

The developers do one thing exactly right with it. They have built what I expect from a portal for background music: it facilitates my work. The intuitively and stylishly built website with its mood archives and genre filters rounds off the overall offering perfectly. Therefore, in my opinion, music research is no longer an annoying work step. Never before has it been so efficient and easy to find and buy music for your own purposes. I am simply a fan of it. As you probably already noticed.

The Artlist.io license facts for your music flatrate at a glance

• Unlimited number of downloads
• non-commercial and commercial usage rights
• Lifetime usage rights for each downloaded song
• incl. approval for your YouTube monetization
• New songs to choose from every month

In almost all my videos of the last 6 months Artlist.io tracks were used already. If you would like to get an impression of Artlist yourself, you can get 2 free months by clicking the following link. The Artlist.io music flatrate for your videos can be cancelled within 14 days, after that, you have to pay annually in advance. However, I’m pretty sure that you will like it and you’ll never have to spend hours searching the internet for suitable and licensable music again. That’s a promise. I hope that one or the other of you will save some time in the future!

The “Spread the Love!” ad by Artlist

Refinance the Artlist.io music flatrate for your videos

For many people 200,00 USD per year sounds like a lot of money, since Artlist is paid at one go and not in small monthly subscription fees. But those who have used other platforms before already know that with other administration licenses a 0.99 Euro song with the proper license for YouTube, App, Web and so on can easily cost 700.00 Euro or more. Conversely, this also means that Artlist can already be much cheaper by using one single suitable song than licensing it from case to case. Besides that, you save a lot of work.

An example: The customer has decided on a song – you license for the YouTube video properly. Later, the customer wants to use the song in a new image video on their booth at a fair. Here, it is very likely that you will have to re-license. With Artlist, you don’t have to. One or two jobs a year can already refinance your Artlist fee. All the free projects that you have to license from other service providers, although cheaper, are not included.

Artgrid – The new stock video platform from the makers of Artlist

Note: If you already use Artlist.io for your videos or are looking for a similar model for moving image content, you should have a look at Artgrid.io. The second baby of the Artlist.io makers is supposed to save you time and money when you buy stock video material. I’ve reported a bit more about the Artgrid.io platform here in the blog.

10 more reasons for your Artlist subscription

If you are still not quite sure if Artlist.io is worthwhile for your videos and applications, I recently put together my personal top 10 reasons for an Artlist.io membership. Maybe it helps you with your decision making! Otherwise, I’ll be happy to answer any questions in the comments below or you can send me a DM in one of the countless social media networks. You are also welcome to send me a classic e-mail on the topic. I’m always happy about new input and answer all e-mails in detail and in peace.

10 good reasons for Artlist. Last year I already introduced you to the music platform Artlist.io in a detailed blog post with my Artlist experiences. Videographer Kristof and I had been looking for a solution like Artlist for a long time and finally found it last year.

The platform has now recently launched a film stock counterpart, Artgrid.io. For all content creators who are still looking for the right background music for their videos and content, but want to avoid costly usage licenses, I have therefore compiled my 10 good reasons for Artlist again today. Have fun reading.

10 good reasons for Artlist from me to you

1. Fixed costs! No hidden fees or changing price models. One year, one price, all inclusive.
2. No expensive usage licenses! Also means no price surprises for different songs
3. No documentation effort! Time-consuming license agreements and, above all, the documentation of purchased licenses are no longer necessary.
4. Clarity! A clearly laid out platform that can be filtered very well according to various criteria!
5. Payment processing! Easy payment thanks to PayPal!
6. Save time researching music! Artlist.io can be your central point of contact for your music research. You save time as well as money!
7. Bookmarking! With the practical bookmark function, you can save songs for later projects!
8. Simple calculation! If you need several songs for a project, your costs are still capped!
9. The customer benefits too! You don’t need to calculate for contract work and the customer is also flexible in the use of your material!
10. The songs are yours! Even if you leave Artlist.io, you may continue to use the songs you downloaded during your subscription and do not have to edit videos retroactively.

We at Chips & Champagne have already relied on Artlist in almost all of our freelance projects and event recaps over the past year and are very satisfied!

If you are interested in testing Artlist.io for your own projects, you can get 2 months of Artlist.io for free via this link!

Artlist prices according to plans

Artgrid: The counterpart for video instead of music stick

By the way, if you’re looking for something similar for stock video, check out Artgrid.io. There you can also get modern stock videos for a fixed price. I had also already presented the platform in a detailed article. (→ 10 good reasons for Artgrid)

note: This post contains affiliate links with which you can support my work without paying a cent more. We are happy if you support us and of course we are even happier if we can make your daily project life a little bit easier with this little tip.

Up to now Artlist.io has mainly been about music. With or without vocals in different tempi and styles. Throughout of good quality. For more than 2 years now, I’ve been using the music database of Artlist, because it saves me a lot of time with the license searches and I can put more time into the projects themselves. Furthermore, the price of 199 Dollar per year is more than fair. Compared to often difficult to understand and very dynamic license models it is even very cheap. A detailed test and field report about Artlist.io I have published here.

A few weeks ago, the Israeli start-up added another product to its range, an SFX subscription. Now all content producers, who are not happy with background music alone, will finally get their money’s worth. But also sound designers can now use the constantly growing SFX library.

Artlist.io keeps its promises also in SFX sound effects subscription

• unlimited choice of sound effects
• New sound effects are added every week
• unlimited number of downloads of as many sound effects as you want
• Effects can be used for a lifetime
• And be used for as many projects as desired

Combined with the simple licensing model, this is for me the best source of audio content for pimping videos, short films, social media content and other visual material for which no larger budgets are available.

At 12.41 dollars a month, the SFX subscription is even slightly cheaper than the music subscription at 16.60 dollars a month. If you don’t have a subscription at Artlist yet, you should consider now to choose the Best-Value package with 25,00 dollars per month with the music and SFX content. Since Artlist pays its subscriptions once a year, you only pay 299 dollars a year for the combo model and save 49 dollar compared to two single subscriptions. With the price structure, the subscription is already worth it if you use it once a year. By the way, this link will give you two months free on top of every subscription! You are welcome to try it out.

If you have any questions about the Artlist models, please let me know in the comments below and I will try to help you as best I can with my experience.

Artlist.io discount code

You are just looking for an Artlist.io discount code? Then maybe I can help you. Although there are no real discount codes from Artlist, you will get two months for free if you sign up for one of the Artlist.io subscriptions. Have fun.

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