Category Archives: Creative industries

Invisible Creatives

Posted on 16/03/2021 by Phil

‘Invisible Creatives’ looks at the position of freelancers, and sole traders, in the light of Covid-19 impacts. These creatives make up, with micro-companies (less than four people), over 90% of the creative industries, which contributed over £115bn gross value added … Continue reading →

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7 Positive Steps to Successful Creative Content Marketing

Posted on 16/06/2020 by Phil

Marketing for Creatives Digital exports are a major growth point for the creative industries. A Creative Industries Federation report estimated that they were worth £46bn in 2016, a figure which is probably considerably higher in 2020, despite Covid-19.  In addition,the … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative finances, Creative industries, Creative Policy, Feature films, freelancers, Funding, micro-companies, Short Film, Uncategorized | 6 Comments

7 Positive Steps to Improving Creative Distribution

Posted on 11/06/2020 by Phil

Distribution Will Covid and the new mass use of digital networks change content distribution for UK creatives.? Traditionally, distribution systems were dominated by the few big players in the creative industries. From major integrated studio networks in film, television and … Continue reading →

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7 Positive Steps to Increasing IP Content Investment

Posted on 02/06/2020 by Phil

Covid-19, Creatives and Money The impact of the Covid crisis has been documented on theatres, galleries, games, film & TV productions etc. but its impact, as a result of the initial weakness of the Government’s strategy on creative sole traders … Continue reading →

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5 Positive Steps to Increasing Creative Content Development

Posted on 26/05/2020 by Phil

The Lockdown during the Covid crisis has produced an explosion of creativity not only in the UK,  but also globally. This has ranged from performers in their own homes e.g. One World Together to Grayson Perry’s Art Club and innumerable … Continue reading →

Posted in Art of development, Creative Collaboration, Creative Education, Creative industries, Creative Policy, micro-companies, Uncategorized | 6 Comments

5 Positive Steps to Inclusion in the Creative Industries

Posted on 21/05/2020 by Phil

In 2017 BCre8ive published ‘The Creative Pipeline’ a proposal to use digital technology to massively expand the capacity of,  and support for, creative freelancers and micro-companies, who make up over 94% of the creative industries in the UK.  Since then … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Education, Creative industries, Creative Policy, Education, freelancers, Inclusivity, micro-companies | 15 Comments

COVID-19 Financial Support for Creatives

Posted on 23/04/2020 by Hilary

The Government is being lobbied to provide a national programme of financial support for the Creative Industries.  Negotiations are ongoing but until such time as the Government agrees to recognise the specific needs of the Creative Sector then Creative Organisations … Continue reading →

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Money for Creatives Part 2: Specific Creative Work

Posted on 14/06/2019 by Phil

As part of BCre8ive’s work on developing support for creatives in the UK this is the second in a new series of blogs  linked to our series on local creative cluster development. Each of us tends to work in one … Continue reading →

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How to Support Creatives?

Posted on 17/12/2018 by Phil

In this third blog of the series on developing local creative micro-companies and freelancers we look at the various existing resources available to support creatives and what needs to be created to improve the situation. Why is this so important? … Continue reading →

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Five Questions for Any Creative Cluster

Posted on 27/11/2018 by Phil

This is the second blog in the series looking at how to build and support effective local creative clusters. In particular, how to help micro-companies or freelancers succeed in your area. Having identified the number, type and range of creative … Continue reading →

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