Today we are launching a brand new weekly campaign to support creative freelancers, graduates or small businesses throughout the UK.

Exclusively on Twitter, the #CreativeBoomer weekly contest gives you the chance to nominate yourself or a friend to win extra publicity and support from Creative Boom.

Each Monday, we will put a call out, asking for your nominations by simply completing the following tweet: “I’m a #CreativeBoomer because…” and don’t forget to CC @Creative_Boom and follow our Twitter account for updates.

Then every Wednesday morning, we will announce a winner who will receive free publicity and support for the rest of that week. 

The winner will get:

• Tweets all week to our 30,000 followers, helping to promote them
• A mention in The Weekly Update email which gets sent out to 3,000 subscribers
• Publicity on our Facebook Page where we have over 10,000 ‘likes’
• Publicity on our Tumblr blog which also gets tweeted to 30,000 people
• 15 minute Skype call with our editor Katy Cowan (optional) to gain some free advice on marketing.

It’s as simple as that. So to get started, simply fill out a tweet “I’m a #CreativeBoomer because…” or “I nominate XXX as a #CreativeBoomer because…” and we’ll pick out the very best every Wednesday morning. 

Please note, the more you spread the #CreativeBoomer campaign - the more people we can help each week. Good luck!

It’s been just over a week since we launched the latest version of Creative Boom and we’ve been overwhelmed by the response. Running for nearly three years, we’ve always aimed to support, celebrate and inspire the creative industries and we hope this new offering is doing that even more.

So what does the new, completely bespoke Creative Boom offer? Well, you can now sign up and become a member, add and edit your own ‘free’ directory listing. And listers take note! The more you update your profile, the more you’ll be seen. The most recent updated free directory listings appear at the top of their category page!

If you want extra exposure and more features, you can pay just £50 for a ‘featured’ 12-month directory listing. This means you’ll appear on the home page of Creative Boom as well as the Directory main section. You’ll also be able to add up to 20 images for your listing and list yourself under three creative fields (Free listings only get one image and one creative field).

Elsewhere, you can add and pay for your own Jobs posts. Sticking to our original ethos, we’re keeping things affordable here at Creative Boom. We’ve checked out the competition and decided to charge way below everyone else. It’s just £50 to advertise a Job with us and that’s for an entire month. Your Job will also get tweeted to our 30,000 Twitter followers and you’ll get exposure across our site including the home page.

Overall, you’ll notice our site has changed in terms of its structure. We have split things up to make things as easy to navigate as possible. All editorial content is now within a new ‘Magazine’ section. All Directory listings are now within a new ‘Directory’ section. And all Jobs are within our new ‘Jobs’ section.

But it doesn’t stop there. We will continue to roll out new features (and sections) in the coming weeks to offer even more value. We’ve got plenty more tricks up our sleeves and will keep working hard to support you.

In the meantime, please keep the news, features and inspiration articles coming. To submit news, please email news@creativeboom.co.uk. If you’d like to take part in a feature - either an interview, review or one of our popular Readers’ Studies, email features@creativeboom.co.uk. To simply show off your work in our new Inspiration section, email a short bio about yourself plus four Jpegs (at least 700 pixels wide) to inspiration@creativeboom.co.uk.

Also - please take note of our new Footer! We’ve hooked up our Twitter, Flickr, Vimeo and Facebook accounts… The two that are hugely relevant to you are our Flickr Pool and our Vimeo Group. Join us on both and start adding things. The videos that appear via Vimeo are the ones I personally ‘Like’, so join us on Vimeo and submit your videos for consideration.

If you’ve got any questions, feedback or you’d like to say hello - please email katy@creativeboom.co.uk. We couldn’t do this without you, so thanks for all your support.

Katy