# Creative services

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{{Short description|Service providing creative ideas and/or creative works to others}}{{Unreferenced|date=October 2025}}
'''Creative services''' are a subsector of the [creative industries](/source/creative_industries), a part of the economy that creates wealth by offering [creativity](/source/creativity) for hire to other businesses. Creative Services also means a department within a company that does creative work such as writing, designing, and production. It is often a sub-department of the [Marketing](/source/Marketing) organization. Examples include:

*[Design](/source/Design) and production agencies
** [Studio](/source/Studio)s 
** Ideation consultancies
** [Software development](/source/Software_development) firms
*[Marketing](/source/Marketing) firms 
**[Public relations](/source/Public_relations) agencies
**[Advertising](/source/Advertising) agencies
**[Promotional](/source/Sales_promotion) agencies
**[Brand](/source/Brand)ing agencies
*[Entertainment](/source/Entertainment) Industries 
** [Talent agency](/source/Talent_agency)
** [Guild](/source/Guild)s

Like lawyers and accountants in the [professional services](/source/professional_services) sector, [creative services firm](/source/creative_services_firm)s sell a specialised technical service to satisfy the needs of companies that do not have this expertise themselves.

Creative services firms provide creative services to other companies or to the [public](/source/public): they 'do [creativity](/source/creativity)' to order.

Typical [business models](/source/business_models) revolve around selling the time of skilled [professionals](/source/professionals), either on a project-by-project basis or through a [service level agreement](/source/service_level_agreement), and providing [services](/source/Service_(economics)) on an ongoing basis for a fixed monthly fee. In this sense they share much in common with [professional services](/source/professional_services) firms but there are also key differences: 
* Creative services firms tend not to be bound by requirements for professional [accreditation](/source/Professional_certification)
* There are low [barriers to entry](/source/barriers_to_entry) for new [startup businesses](/source/Startup_company)

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Category:Creativity

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