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Is blogging still relevant? Here's how to promote yourself online in 2023

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Image licensed via Shutterstock With the excitement of Threads already dwindling and engagement across social media feeling sluggish and slow, what can creatives do to promote themselves online? When it comes to potential avenues for self-promotion, we're well and truly spoilt for choice as creative professionals these days.

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12 magazines and blogs that every photographer should check out

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Thankfully, there are a number of high-quality photography magazines and blogs that can help you do so. Established in 1952 to advance "creative thinking, significantly expressed in words and photographs," Aperture champions photography's vital role in nurturing curiosity and encouraging a more just, tolerant society.

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Ximena Collado on how a series of failures made her a successful fashion illustrator

Creative Boom

We caught up with her to hear about how she made her first 1,000 followers and how a series of failures made her successful. But like many creative careers, this success is built on much trial and error. Drawing and clothes have been a lifelong love of Ximena Collado. This sort of passion is hard to contain, though.

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'Say High': Gotham's new campaign aims to celebrate and destigmatise cannabis

Creative Boom

New York's leading cannabis dispensary, Gotham , is rolling out (forgive the unintended pun) a new campaign that hopes to redefine how we think of marijuana today. Hitting street and subway posters plus digital screens this week, the ads are centred around how it greets customers at its flagship store in Lower Manhattan's East Village.

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Will Instagram's massive algorithm update help or harm creatives?

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Image licensed via Adobe Stock The photo and video-sharing site is changing how it surfaces content, ostensibly to help creatives. We canvas the creative community's views. If you use Instagram to help promote your creative business, you may have found it increasingly challenging to get traction with your content lately.

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Fockups is back: funny mockup templates that offer a more realistic view of your designs

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For pitches, campaigns and websites, mockups form the basis of many client projects in the creative industry. As a designer, I use mockups to 'sell' my idea, which somehow feels awkward," Wytze tells Creative Boom. This is how I find my Fockups. Wytze puts it all down to our Creative Boom article.

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A helpful guide to marketing for creative freelancers who want to quit Instagram

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Instagram has been a beloved tool to creatives everywhere since its launch in 2010. Included in our list are suggestions and tips from the creative community. We're all busy, so how do we even get started? Image licensed via Adobe Stock. If IG has become too exhausting, what marketing alternatives are there?

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