Tape Ark is a privately owned company headquartered in Australia. Founded in 2017, it employs approximately 20 individuals and reported $2.9M in revenue as of 2023. The company specializes in broadcast professional services, with a core focus on migrating data to the cloud.
On April 30, 2026, a German production house unlocked 40 terabytes of dormant footage, utilizing a migration layer to join the AI data economy and shift from passive storage to active monetization. This followed news from April 20, 2026, when Tape Ark's North American partner, In Balance IT, secured a major multi-year contract with a leading healthcare organization in Chicago, USA, for a large-scale tape liberation project to unlock decades of critical legacy data stored on tape. Earlier, on April 15, 2026, Tape Ark announced a strategic partnership with Versos AI to convert legacy tape archives, specifically video stored on physical tape, into structured, searchable data for AI systems, aiming to unlock one of the world’s largest untapped sources of AI training data.
Tape Ark's customers primarily consist of museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos companies. Examples of Tape Ark's customers include Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and TGS.