Partner with the Zine

You’re not just purchasing an advertisement. You’re investing in creativity.

CRÉATEUR Zine partners with businesses, brands, and organizations that believe creatives deserve more than exposure. Together, we create thoughtful editorial, meaningful visibility, and partnerships that directly support the creative community.

EXPLORE OUR PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES BELOW


A DIFFERENT MODEL FOR CREATIVE MEDIA

Too often, creatives are asked to work for visibility instead of value. CREATEUR Zine exists to help change that.

Our mission is to redefine how creatives are valued by replacing exposure-based opportunities with thoughtful creation, meaningful partnerships, intentional storytelling, and professional respect.

We believe stories should be told with care, creatives should be respected professionally, partnerships should feel authentic, and communities should grow together.

Where Your Investment Goes

Paid partnerships and sponsored placements help cover the cost of producing and printing CRÉATEUR Zine. That allows us to focus magazine sales toward supporting and paying the Featured Creatives a percentage of our Zine sales within each season.

FEATURED CRÉATIVE PAYOUTS

Helping us direct magazine sales toward the creatives featured within each season.

PROFESSIONAL STORYTELLING

Giving creative work the time, care, and presentation it deserves.

COMMUNITY EVENTS

Supporting issue releases, gatherings, and opportunities for connection.

CRÉATIVE IMPACT FUND

At the end of each year, a percentage of CRÉATEUR Zine income is contributed to the Créative Impact Fund.

BUILT WITH OUR CREATIVE COMMUNITY

1,000+

CRÉATEUR ZINE ISSUES SOLD

200+

RELEASE PARTY ATTENDEES

40+

FEATURED CRÉATIVES PAID

20+

LOCAL CRÉATIVE PARTNERS

20+

LOCAL CRÉATIVE PARTNERS

Choose How You Want to Partner

From immersive editorial partnerships to flexible sponsored placements, there are several ways to become part of CRÉATEUR Zine.

PRIMARY PARTNER OF THE SEASON

$2000

OUR HIGHEST LEVEL OF COLLABORATION.
PERFECT FOR BUSINESSES WITH SPACE FOR AN EVENT.

A full editorial, event, and community partnership built around your business and a CRÉATEUR Zine issue.

High-level inclusions:

  • 4-page CRÉATEUR-produced editorial feature (written by a real human)

  • Exclusive sit-down interview in CRÉATEUR Studios with Founder, Aria Bird. Shot on video and audio edited for CRÉATEUR Unscripted podcast.

  • 1 hour Professional photoshoot (shoot and editing)

  • 1 hour Professional video shoot business tour (shoot and editing)

  • Primary Partner issue campaign (social, email, website)

  • Official Issue Release Party venue (planning, design, marketing, management)

  • Featured Creatives spotlight within business (one month per creative)

  • Sneak Peak “Zine Online” Blog Article Placement

  • CRÉATEUR Gala participation and recognition

  • 20% OFF All Future CRÉATEUR Advisors Services for One Year

*Must include a special limited-time offer for CRÉATEUR readers and viewers.

PARTNERS OF THE SEASON

$1000

OUR SECOND HIGHEST LEVEL OF COLLABORATION.
PERFECT FOR SMALL BUSINESSES WITHOUT A STOREFRONT.

A smaller-scale partnership that combines professional editorial storytelling with digital promotion and an intimate activation.

High-level inclusions:

  • 2-page CRÉATEUR-produced editorial feature (written by a real human)

  • Exclusive sit-down interview in CRÉATEUR Studios with Founder, Aria Bird. Shot on video and audio edited for CRÉATEUR Unscripted podcast.

  • 1 hour Professional photoshoot (shoot and editing)

  • Partner spotlight at the season’s events

  • Digital promotion (social, email, website)

  • Pop-up or activation opportunity

  • Sneak Peak “Zine Online” Blog Article Placement

  • 10% OFF All Future CRÉATEUR Advisors Services for One Year

*Must include a special limited-time offer for CRÉATEUR readers and viewers.

Self-Produced Featured Placements

For businesses with a story to tell and the creative resources to tell it themselves.

Self-Produced Featured Placements offer the same intentional space within CRÉATEUR Zine while giving your team the freedom to develop your own editorial, imagery, and design. Whether introducing your business, sharing the people behind it, or telling a story that connects with the creative community, your feature should feel like something worth reading—not simply an advertisement.

All self-produced placements are reviewed and approved by CRÉATEUR prior to publication to ensure they meet in the Zine’s editorial, visual, and production standards.

Your story. Your production. Our pages and community.

4-Page Self-Produced Feature

$1000

Take the space to tell a fuller story. Your team provides:

  • The finished editorial with sources

  • Original imagery and design with sources

  • 2 Social Posts for CRÉATEUR to share

  • 2 graphic blocks for CRÉATEUR email marketing placement

Final content reviewed and approved by CRÉATEUR prior to publication. CRÉATEUR includes:

  • Sneak Peak “Zine Online” Blog Article Placement

*Must include a special limited-time offer for CRÉATEUR readers and viewers.

2-Page Self-Produced Feature

$500

A focused way to introduce your business and what you bring to the creative community. Your team provides:

  • The finished editorial with sources

  • Original imagery and design with sources

  • A Social Post for CRÉATEUR to share

  • A graphic block for CRÉATEUR email marketing placement

Final content reviewed and approved by CRÉATEUR prior to publication. CRÉATEUR includes:

  • Sneak Peak “Zine Online” Blog Article Placement

*Must include a special limited-time offer for CRÉATEUR readers and viewers.

Put Your Business In Good Company

Not every partnership needs to begin with a feature.

Sponsored Placements give businesses an accessible way to support CRÉATEUR Zine while introducing their work, products, services, or upcoming opportunities to a community of creatives and the people who believe in them.

Each placement lives inside a publication intentionally designed to be kept, shared, revisited, and collected–not simply scrolled past.

Your Partnership Goes Further Than The Page

Every CRÉATEUR Zine partnership helps us do more for the creatives at the center of the publication.

Your support helps cover the cost of producing and printing each issue, create a richer editorial experience for our Featured Creatives, and make it possible to share a percentage of Zine sales directly with the creatives featured inside.

And the impact keeps going.

A percentage of CRÉATEUR Zine’s annual income is contributed to the Creative Impact Fund, supporting independent creative projects and experiences beyond the publication.

More than space in a Zine. It’s a way to help build what happens around it.

Let’s Start A Conversation

Interested in becoming a CRÉATEUR Zine partner? Submit your information below to connect directly with founder Aria Bird and explore what a partnership could look like for your business.

Starting with a conversation about what we could create together.