Editing Creative services

{{Short description|Service providing creative ideas and/or creative works to others}}
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'''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
** [[Studio]]s 
** Ideation consultancies
** [[Software development]] firms
*[[Marketing]] firms 
**[[Public relations]] agencies
**[[Advertising]] agencies
**[[Sales promotion|Promotional]] agencies
**[[Brand]]ing agencies
*[[Entertainment]] Industries 
** [[Talent agency]]
** [[Guild]]s

Like lawyers and accountants in the [[professional services]] sector, [[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]]: 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 [[Service (economics)|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 [[Professional certification|accreditation]]
* There are low [[barriers to entry]] for new [[Startup company|startup businesses]]

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