Creative Industries

London has always been a creative city, based on innovation and ideas. The creative industries - from architecture and advertising to the performing arts and publishing - add £21 billion annually to London's output, more than all the production industries combined and second only to Business Services at £32 Billion.

As a whole, creative industries represent London's third largest sector of employment, with 525,000 people working either directly in the creative industries or in creative occupations in other industries. The sector also offers London's second biggest source of job growth, contributing roughly one in every five new jobs.

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London is well positioned to provide the essential requirements of the creative process - interaction, inspiration and face-to-face stimulation. Furthermore, London offers a diverse, multi-lingual workforce that allows cultural and creative communication on a global scale. At the centre of a productivity revolution, London’s creative industries are expanding both jobs and wealth, with employment up by 5 per cent, output by 8.5 per cent and productivity by 4 per cent between 1995 and 2000.

The Mayor is determined to ensure that London remains an economically and culturally vibrant city in which creative talent can thrive and prosper and compete internationally. In April 2004, the Mayor launched Creative London, led by the London Development Agency. Creative London aims to boost the capital’s reputation and performance as a leading world centre of creativity.

If you are interested in finding out further information on the Mayor's support for the creative industries in London, please email us at creativeindustries@london.gov.uk.

Creative London
Led by the London Development Agency, the Mayor’s Agency for Business and Jobs. Creative London seeks to promote innovation and generate employment in London’s creative industries.
Creative Entrepreneurs in the Community
the Mayor's initiative to encourage London’s young creative entrepreneurs.
City Showcase
City Showcase is a yearly event which gives emerging musicians and fashion hopefuls an oppotunity to perform and show their designs.

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London's Creative Sector, 2004 Update This report updates and extends Creativity: London’s Core Business, published in October 2002.
London's core businesses
This report on London's Creative Industries was produced by GLA Economics, the Mayor's new economic data agency. It provides an authoritative and detailed study of this dynamic new sector, which was London's third-largest source of jobs in 2000 and accounts for one in every five of its new jobs since 1995. By the year 2000 it contributed £21 billion annually to the output of the UK - £5,300 for every working Londoner.
Asian creative businesses
This report is produced by GLA Economics. At a time when Asian influence in music, film and the performing arts is growing, GLA Economics has commissioned a report on the contribution of Asian Londoners to the creative industries.

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