''Creativity'' is a website that covers the creative aspects of

advertising Advertising is the practice and techniques employed to bring attention to a Product (business), product or Service (economics), service. Advertising aims to present a product or service in terms of utility, advantages, and qualities of int ...

and

design A design is the concept or proposal for an object, process, or system. The word ''design'' refers to something that is or has been intentionally created by a thinking agent, and is sometimes used to refer to the inherent nature of something ...

. ''Creativity'' started as a printed magazine in 1986 but moved online in 2009. ''Creativity'' is part of

Crain Communications Crain Communications Inc. is an American publishing conglomerate based in Detroit, Michigan, United States, with 13 foreign subsidiaries. History Gustavus Dedman "G.D." Crain Jr. ( Gustavus Demetrious Crain Jr.; 1885–1973), previously the ci ...

, a privately held publisher of more than 30 trade titles.

AdCritic.com

Founded in 1999, AdCritic.com is a site containing a library of videos, namely television commercials. Due to the high cost of the

bandwidth Bandwidth commonly refers to: * Bandwidth (signal processing) or ''analog bandwidth'', ''frequency bandwidth'', or ''radio bandwidth'', a measure of the width of a frequency range * Bandwidth (computing), the rate of data transfer, bit rate or thr ...

, the site shut off access to all videos in December 2001. The site was acquired by Ad Age Group in March 2002, at which time it changed to a

subscription The subscription business model is a business model in which a customer must pay a recurring price at regular intervals for access to a product or service. The model was pioneered by publishers of books and periodicals in the 17th century. It ...

-only service bundled with ''Creativity'' magazine. In August 2007, the site was relaunched as Creativity Online.

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