Creative Review is a bimonthly print magazine and website. The magazine focuses on commercial creativity, covering design, advertising, photography, branding, digital products, film, and gaming. The magazine is published bimonthly in print and also has an online magazine and a podcast (available on iTunes and Spotify).
14-704: In addition, Creative Review runs two award schemes, The Annual, which recognises the best in commercial creativity and The Photography Annual, which celebrates the best photography work of the year. Creative Review was launched in 1981 as a quarterly supplement to Marketing Week , then becoming a stand-alone monthly magazine. In 2007, it was reported that the magazine had sold guest editorship of its February 2007 edition to an advertising agency, Mother, for £15,000, although then editor Patrick Burgoyne retained overall editorial control. He said: “I feel comfortable about it – it’s not about Mother, there’s no interview with them, it’s not puffy but it’s about important issues for
28-542: A core, controlled circulation free to marketers, ad men and selected media people. Haymarket tried to torpedo the project with the launch of MarketFact but it was too late." By the 1990s, according to a previous editor, Stuart Smith, Marketing Week magazine had become an editorial and commercial success: "Spring and autumn editions regularly boasted over 130 pages, thanks to a particularly strong performance in classified advertising. Our editorial staff exceeded 20 journalists. Profits reached levels never achieved before (over £6m
42-409: A phone call from an Anthony Nares just before Christmas 1977 saying we should meet. As I recall, he showed me a mock-up front cover of Marketing Week, to which I replied 'you don’t need to tell me any more'. In January 1978, we became partners, with Anthony as managing director and me as editor/publisher. A little over six weeks later Marketing Week was launched, cover dated 10 March 1978, price 40p, with
56-421: A rebranded marketing division. On 4 July 2019, Marketing Week announced that it was launching an online subscription service, which, according to editor Russell Parsons, would offer "subscriber exclusives" featuring "insight into the big strategic and leadership challenges" in marketing. Design Week Design Week is a UK -based website, and formerly a weekly magazine, for the design industry. It
70-678: A year)." Marketing Week is owned by the LSE -listed company Centaur Media plc . ABC primary circulation of the printed magazine for 2009 was 36,619. Like other outlets, Marketing Week has shifted emphasis to its website, which is currently said to attract about 395,000 monthly unique users. In March 2017, the once weekly magazine shifted to a monthly frequency. The print magazine was discontinued in October 2020 with print subscribers being shifted to online subscriptions. Despite its long duration, Marketing Week has had only seven editors. Chamberlain
84-517: Is a website focused on the marketing industry , based in London , that grew out of what was a weekly, and latterly monthly, print magazine. Marketing Week was launched in March 1978. Its co-founders were Graham Sherren , Michael Chamberlain , a former editor of the advertising journal Campaign , and Anthony Nares , an entrepreneur who set up Marketing Week Communications Ltd (MWC) shortly before
98-645: Is also involved with Centaur Media's Festival of Marketing, also held annually in London. Marketing Week celebrated its 40th birthday at the most recent Festival of Marketing. In May 2019, it was announced that Marketing Week Live and The Insight Show had been incorporated into the Festival of Marketing. Centaur also publishes the Design Week and Creative Review websites. On 22 January 2019, Centaur Media announced that Marketing Week had become part of Xeim,
112-466: The change: "To be successful today, free websites need lots of clicks and lots of advertisers. For the reader, that has come to mean high volumes of low-quality content. That is not what Creative Review is about. We don't want that to be our future and we don't want it to be the future of the industry we serve." Creative Review is owned by Centaur Media , and is part of its Xeim marketing and creative division. Marketing Week Marketing Week
126-426: The launch. MWC subsequently launched Creative Review and was later subsumed into Centaur Communications , a buy-in vehicle run by Sherren and Jocelyn Stevens (1982). Nares became managing director of the new organisation – a position he held until his early death in 1996. Chamberlain left Centaur in 1988 to take up a career in consultancy. Chamberlain said of this founding period: "While planning AdNews, I received
140-418: The readers.” Creative Review launched a full website in 2009, after running a blog for two years, which Burgoyne had perceived as "successful" but “limiting”. In July 2017, the magazine went bimonthly, with six issues published each year. As of April 2018, Creative Review launched an online subscription, with a selection of articles only available to paying readers. Then editor Patrick Burgoyne justified
154-480: Was Jeremy Myerson and the title was edited for more than 20 years by Lynda Relph-Knight. The final editor whilst the brand was owned by Centaur was Tom Banks. Under its new ownership the editor hired for the relaunch was Rob Alderson. Back issues to 1995 included contemporary design news and interviews/retrospectives of noteworthy but not widely known designers since c. 1960, e.g. Raymond Hawkey and Frank Stephenson . This trade magazine–related article
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#1732801930268168-550: Was first published in October 1986 by Centaur Communications . According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations primary circulation for 2007 was 8,074. In 2011, Design Week became a digital-only publication. On 22 January 2019, Centaur Media announced that Design Week had become part of Xeim, a rebranded marketing division. On 22 December 2023, Centaur Media announced the decision to cease publication of Design Week with immediate effect. In May 2024, Design Week
182-570: Was saved from closure after it was acquired by its web development company Interconnect. The website was relaunched with a new design and branding on the 07 October 2024. Design Week is a business publication distinct from design-focused publications like Wallpaper and Creative Review . Its competitors included Brand Republic and Marketing Week . Its readers came from commercial design disciplines which range from retail , products and packaging to graphics , interiors , exhibitions and digital . The founding editor of Design Week
196-598: Was the first, Stephen Foster (1980–1983) the second, Howard Sharman (1983–1988) the third, Stuart Smith (1988–2008) the fourth, Mark Choueke the fifth (2009–2012), Ruth Mortimer the sixth (2012–2014) and Russell Parsons (2014–). Among other senior staff are Group Managing Director Jane Turner (2016 -) and Ed Tillotson, managing director of the Marketing and Creative Portfolio. Marketing Week’s main columnists include Mark Ritson, Thomas Barta, Helen Edwards, cartoonist Tom Fishburne, Tanya Joseph, and Helen Tupper. Marketing Week
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