Creative Review

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Creative Review
Creative Review Autumn 2024 cover.webp
Cover of the Autumn 2024 issue
EditorEliza Williams
CategoriesMagazine
FrequencyBimonthly
Circulation Global
Founded1981;44 years ago (1981)
Company Centaur Media
CountryUnited Kingdom
Based inLondon
LanguageEnglish
Website www.creativereview.co.uk
ISSN 0262-1037

Creative Review is a bimonthly British 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.

Contents

History and growth

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. [1]

Creative Review launched a full website in 2009, after running a blog for two years, which Burgoyne had perceived as "successful" but “limiting”. [2]

In July 2017, the magazine went bimonthly, with six issues published each year. [3]

As of April 2018, Creative Review launched an online subscription, with a selection of articles only available to paying readers. [4]

Ownership

Creative Review is owned by Centaur Media, and is part of its Xeim marketing and creative division. [5]

Award schemes

From around 1999, Creative Review ran a scheme known as the Creative Futures Bursary Project in 2008, to celebrate "emerging talent in visual communications". In that year, Kate Moross was selected as a winner of the bursary. [a] [6]

As of 2019Creative Review runs two award schemes: The Annual, which recognises the best in commercial creativity; [7] and The Photography Annual, which celebrates the best photography work of the year. [8]

Footnotes

  1. Later known as Aries Moross.

References

  1. "Creative Review 'sells soul' for £15,000". Press Gazette. 26 January 2007. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
  2. Davies, Laura. "Editor's Desk: Patrick Burgoyne, Creative Review". www.prweek.com. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
  3. "CR Is Going Bimonthly". Creative Review. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
  4. Burgoyne, Patrick (4 April 2018). "Introducing the new (and old) Creative Review". Creative Review. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
  5. "Xeim: Excellence in marketing". Centaur Media. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
  6. "Creative Futures Bursary Project: Kate Moross". Creative Review. 11 August 2008. Archived from the original on 13 March 2017. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
  7. "Winners of The Annual 2019". Creative Review. 29 April 2019. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
  8. "The Photography Annual - celebrating great images". Creative Review. Retrieved 18 September 2019.