Co-ops Delivering Inspired Creativity
A special report in celebration of the 2025 UN Year of Cooperatives
Your guide to the emerging creative co-op landscape
A growing consensus has become hard to ignore: business-as-usual is no longer delivering, and automation is on the rise. The same mechanics of widening inequalities of wealth also undermine creative labor, leaving many in creative fields stifled, burned-out, and unfulfilled.
Business can actually serve people and the planet as a whole, and we know how to do it. Cooperation remains one of the oldest, most powerful tools in the toolkit. This report explores the transformative potential of co-ops business within the creative economy, and the shift that is already underway.
Learn about the roots and guiding principles of the cooperative business movement.
Understand the broader shift prompting new ways of working together.
Discover examples of media co-ops uplifting fair pay and creative autonomy by design.