Artur Janibekyan

From 1993 to 1996, Janibekyan worked as an advertiser, administrator, project coordinator, and film set director for the Sharm company. Since 1994, he has been one of the founders and directors of the New Armenians KVN team who won the 1997 Top KVN League Championship. From 2000 to 2005, he was the producer for the New Armenian Radio program and the producer of Good Evening with Igor Ugolnikov on STS from 2001 to 2002.

Comedy Club

In 2003, he created the comedy show Comedy Club with his comedy sketch friends. Comedy Club introduced Russian viewers to comedy. Since 2005 Comedy Club has aired on TNT (a Russian TV channel).

In 2006, Comedy Club entered the top 10 of the most commercially successful Russian projects (a ninth place with 3.5 million dollars) according to Forbes magazine.

In 2007, he founded the multi-functional producer center Comedy Club Production, where he continues to serve as CEO and general producer. This year GQ magazine (Russia) named Artur Person of the Year in the 'Producer of the Year' category.

In 2008 he launched the 24-hour humor channel Comedy TV.

In November 2009 he opened a chain of restaurants under the name Comedy Café.

He founded 7 Art, the company that produced the popular sitcoms UNI and the TV series The Interns. 7 Art later became a part of Comedy Club Production.

In 2011, the controlling stake in Comedy Club Production was sold to TNT, a popular TV channel in Russia. The stake amounted to 350 million dollars, and was a record sale for the Russian TV.

In 2013, Comedy Club Production took second place in the list of the largest companies producing content for major federal Russian TV channels according to Forbes Magazine.

In March 2015, Janibekyan took charge of the entertainment television group, which included four terrestrial TV channels: TNT, TV-3, Friday! and 2х2. In November, the TV-3 TV channel was relaunched under Artur Janibekyan's management. On January 1, 2016, the new TV channel was launched: TNT-4.

In June 2016, Artur Janibekyan became the General Director of TNT.

In January 2017, the TNT-4 channel became the first federal TV channel to expand its broadcasting reach beyond the country's borders within a year. In May 2017, the Friday! TV channel was launched internationally. The international TV channel versions were created for Russian speakers living abroad and Russian-speaking tourists around the world.

On July 6, 2017, Janibekyan was awarded for "development and effective management, for outstanding achievements in creating entertaining and humorous content".

Janibekyan's TNT team developed and launched the broadcasting of premium TV series that increased the audience share of the TV channel, enabled collecting more precise nationwide audience coverage data, and fought piracy. From September 2017, TNT transitioned to premiere broadcasts on workdays with posting content online immediately after the TV broadcast.

Janibekyan was born to father Otari Akopyan, a top-level political party member during the Soviet regime, and mother Ella Akopyan, a dentist. He has a sister, Lilit Akopyan. He is married to Elina Janibekyan, and they have four children: three sons, Narek, Aram, and Areg; and one daughter, Eva.

“Renaissance” cultural and intellectual foundation

Janibekyan helped found the "Renaissance" cultural and intellectual foundation in 2013. It works on preserving, developing and sharing Armenian cultural and intellectual heritage. Its goal is to make the treasures of Armenian culture available to Armenians and others. Modern technologies and new solutions are used to complete the foundation's projects. The foundation has executed many projects, such as the sculptures "The Life of Eternity" and "Men"; the monument to Grigor Narekatsi in the Vatican; contributing to the development the Armenian Wikipedia, the Armenian National Musical Treasury, the Armenian translation of "Khan Academy, the Renaissance of Narekatsi, the Armenian Public Radio’s “Golden Fund”, and the Saroyan House; and supporting the “HIGH FEST” international performing arts festival. The fund also reprinted a number of valuable books, some of which were acquired and deposited at Matenadaran.

House arrest (the series)

In 2018, Janibekyan collaborated with Semyon Slepakov and Alexander Dulerain to produce the series House arrest, which was considered the "best series of 2018". House arrest took first place in the top 5 Russian television series, and became an eight-time winner of the VII APKIT Prize. The series was awarded a special prize of the 32nd film awards "Nika" "for creative achievements in the art of television cinema". House arrest”also won the ninth international television Festival "TEFI-Commonwealth" awards.

From 2016 to 2018, projects of TNT, Friday! and TV-3 channels altogether received 19 awards at TEFI in 2016, 2017, 2018 in the Daytime Broadcast and Evening Primetime categories.

In January 2018, the Super TV channel was launched under Janibekyan's management.

In 2019 Artur Janibekyan became a member of the International Academy of Television Arts “Emmy”.

Since 2022, Artur Janibekyan has been actively engaged in producing new unique digital content for digital media and environments.

In March 2023, Artur Janibekyan became a member of the Armenian National Film Academy.