Creative services

Creative services are a subsector of the creative industries, a part of the economy that creates wealth by offering 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 organization. Examples include:


 * Design and production agencies
 * Studios
 * Ideation consultancies
 * Software development firms
 * Marketing firms
 * Public relations agencies
 * Advertising agencies
 * Promotional agencies
 * Branding agencies
 * Entertainment Industries
 * Talent agency
 * Guilds

Like lawyers and accountants in the professional services sector, creative services firms 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: they 'do creativity' to order.

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