Partner with Creative Boom

Since 2009, Creative Boom has been more than a magazine. Founded by Katy Cowan as a humble side project, it has grown into one of the most trusted independent platforms in the creative industry, reaching over a million creatives every month.

Our audience doesn't just fly by. They read our articles and listen to our podcast. They join in with our community. For many, we're a daily habit. We're the first thing they look at every morning while enjoying a cup of coffee, and we remain open in a tab, as though we're a friendly companion. Why? They trust us, and they like our founding mission: to inspire and support creatives. It's why we haven't annoyed them with spammy adverts or annoying pop-ups.

Many tell us they've followed Creative Boom since school or university. They've grown up with us. That's why our audience is experienced: 80% hold a degree or higher, 60% have more than 10 years' experience, and over half are self-employed or run their own studio. These are the design leads, studio founders, and decision-makers your brand is eager to reach.

We're a team of professional journalists who travel the world to find the stories that matter to our industry. Proudly independent, we've spent 17 years earning our readers' trust – online, in studios and at events around the world. Partner with us and your campaign gets in front of a loyal community that pays attention.

The whole Creative Boom ecosystem

We meet creatives wherever they are. And each of our channels feeds the other:

  • Creative Boom magazine – our home for inspiration and advice, with around 332,000 monthly visitors and 605,000 page views.
  • The Creative Boom Podcast – consistently in the top five of design shows on Apple Podcasts with a five-star rating. It has passed a million downloads and gets more than 40,000 listens a month. Guests so far include Paula Scher, Stefan Sagmeister, Oliver Jeffers, Annie Atkins, Gail Anderson, and Malika Favre.
  • Our weekly newsletter – goes out every Tuesday morning to 55,000 subscribers, with a 32% average open rate. We built this list organically over a decade. We've never spammed people to join it.
  • The Studio is our new private community. It launched in early 2025 and already has over 8,000 members. It has a 67% retention rate, more than 70,000 visits a month, and interesting conversations going on every day.
  • Creative Boom IRL – our grassroots meetups, which grew out of The Studio. Relaxed networking in 14 cities, from Belfast to New York. And more chapters to come, including Berlin, Antwerp, Liverpool, Sydney, and more.
  • Social media – more than 635,000 followers. Over the last 12 months, that's added up to 10.8 million impressions and 247,000 engagements across Meta, X, and LinkedIn alone.

Put all this together, and you get over a million creatives a month, spread across the world: 29% in the US and Canada, 25% across the UK and Ireland, and 19% in Europe.

Over the years, we've worked with Microsoft, BBC, Disney, Meta, Huawei, Samsung, Canva, Frontify and Canon, among many others. The difference is in how we do it. We shape every collaboration to fit naturally within our own ecosystem, so our audience finds it useful rather than an interruption they have to scroll past or ignore.

Why Creative Boom?

Reaching creatives has never been harder. Social media platforms are saturated and keep moving the goalposts. The old trade media model is on its last legs, and search traffic is falling. Everything about marketing is changing, and fast.

Creative Boom is still growing because we were built the other way around: community first, run by people, and made by creatives for creatives.

Partner with us and you get more than visibility... You get the trust and attention of one of the most influential creative audiences in the world.

Ready to talk? Contact our partnerships director, Jon Everall, at [email protected].