A Complete, Practical, End‑to‑End Manual for Creators, Editors, Agencies, and Businesses 1. Introduction: What Artlist Is and Why It Exists Artlist was created to solve one of the most painful problems in modern content creation: legal music licensing . Before subscription libraries like Artlist existed, creators had three bad options: • Use copyrighted music and risk takedowns, demonetization, or lawsuits• Pay per‑track licensing fees that scale badly with volume• Use free m

AI image and video generation has gone from “cool but obviously fake” to “useful in real creative pipelines”—and in some cases, genuinely hard to distinguish from traditional production at a glance. The biggest shifts since ~2020 aren’t just “higher resolution.” They’re about consistency, controllability, speed, and workflow integration —plus the business reality: compute costs, licensing/IP risk, and distribution . Below is a deep (and intentionally wide) tour of the space—