Artos Digital, a Lebanon-based, Christian media company, announced its formation today and revealed plans to serve a diverse market of international Christian leaders, authors, and church-based volunteers.
“Artos Digital is actually an expansion of a prior business that has been operating out of Lebanon for well over a decade,” noted Rick Edwards, President of Artos. “Seven Interactive, a Christian publishing business, took on new owners in May of last year and has been transitioning and expanding in the months since then,” he added.
Artos Digital delivers Christian content through books, church curricula, and interactive web sites. “We currently have roughly 60,000 email recipients with 100,000 people visiting our sites each month. Some of our sites generate revenue by selling content or services while others are monetized through advertising,” Edwards continued. “And because so much of our work is web-based, we also have a significant international audience, with more than 170 countries represented among our users.”
Artos’ larger business plan involves an interaction of individual clients with businesses, ministry organizations, and a variety of audiences grown through web sites, social media, and event participation. According to Edwards, “each source of revenue complements the others. Each client typically brings a new audience and each audience is a source of new clients.”
This relationship between business components accounts for Artos’ diverse mix of brands. Sunday School Zone is the oldest brand serving a large audience of parents and children’s ministry staff and volunteers. Seven Interactive Publishing provides custom book publishing services to individual authors as well as organizations interested in creating a publishing arm within their business. The Artos Learning Platform is the most recent brand to launch, making a growing set of online courses available to homeschool families, church leaders, and individuals. Scheduled for launch in early February is Bible Activity Zone, an interactive site with robust functionality that allows users to create and share custom Bible activities, certificates, and other printables that support a church’s ministry to kids.
On January 14th, Artos launched its corporate web site, ArtosDigital.com. In addition to helping explain what the company does, the site serves as an easily accessible, digital media kit for advertisers. “Of course, it also invites people interested in our services to contact us to begin a conversation,” Edwards explained. “Our other web sites do the heavy lifting of engaging users and providing products and services while ArtosDigital.com functions like a front door to introduce the visitor to everything we do.”
Adding to its mix of business components, Artos Digital also shares ownership with Clover Digital Brands, a strategic business partner based in Nashville, that serves a more mainstream market. These separate businesses share marketing assets, web development resources, and select functional roles among employees. Clover Digital provides mainstream educational resources to parents and teachers through Reading Vine and K12 Math Worksheets. A new web site serving adults in senior living facilities is planned for launch this Spring.
Artos Digital currently employs two other middle Tennessee residents as well as two individuals living in central Texas. Weslea Bell, another Lebanon resident, is managing Artos Learning and serves as Dean of Artos Academy. Emily Charles, from Nashville, creates graphics for Bible Activity Zone and is leading an initiative to leverage Artificial Intelligence for the sake of future illustrations and content.
Trish Weeks is from the San Antonio area and leads the development of Kids Ministry Zone, a collection of resources for a church-based ministry to children and their families. Christine Mullins, also from Central Texas, manages the business’s systems infrastructure, including web site design.
More information about Artos Digital and its plans for the future can be found at ArtosDigital.com.
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