CreativeLive Company Update
by CreativeLive Staff
Posted on September 29, 2025
Over the last 15 years, we’ve taught and inspired tens of millions of students, and provided a celebrated platform where world-class creators could teach and inspire.
Unfortunately, we're unable to continue operating, and we will be closing the site on December 31, 2025.
What does this mean?
- Until shutdown, the CreativeLive site continues to be available to all our paying students:
- If you’ve ever bought any class or subscription from CreativeLive,
you have full access to the customer-only site, and can purchase new content as well.
- If you purchased classes individually that you love, we encourage you to download them.
You can now easily download everything in a few clicks with our new bulk downloader,
although you will still also have access to your library online.
- Monthly subscriptions will not renew beyond the end of the year. Annual subscriptions are no longer renewing, but will maintain access.
- The site is not available to anyone else.
- If you’ve ever bought any class or subscription from CreativeLive, you have full access to the customer-only site, and can purchase new content as well.
- If you purchased classes individually that you love, we encourage you to download them. You can now easily download everything in a few clicks with our new bulk downloader, although you will still also have access to your library online.
- Monthly subscriptions will not renew beyond the end of the year. Annual subscriptions are no longer renewing, but will maintain access.
Why?
Through streaming our classes live and sharing a behind-the-scenes view of our productions, we’ve always believed in the value of showing the twists and turns of the creative journey, not just the polished end results, so here's the story:
The last few years have been challenging. In this era of self-publishing, short attention span clips, infinite free content, and reduced interest in photography education, meeting the economics of running CreativeLive as originally envisioned became tough.
Our formula was magic for many years, but what worked for us in 2015 no longer works in 2025. Producing the highest quality content, hosting a popular media site, and providing free 24/7 livestreams is an expensive venture.
A small and dedicated remaining crew (mostly 10+ years at CreativeLive!) kept things running through some hard times, but the company was operating at a loss. Without significant investment plus the passion and talent of a full team to continually produce competitive new classes, there was no way to recover.
We’re immensely proud of what we collectively built at CreativeLive, and thank you for all your support over the years!
FAQs
It says I'm not eligible to log in, but I'm sure I bought a class years ago!
Perhaps it's under a different email account? Contact Support for help.
Will I still be able to download my purchased classes?
Yes! Lessons may be individually downloaded from each class page, or you can try our bulk downloader app to automate the process. To ensure you successfully download any classes you want to save before the site closes, we recommend you start the process early.
Can I still purchase classes?
Yes, you have until the end of the year to purchase and download. (This is the last time most of our classes will be publicly available!)
When will my subscription end?
The final renewals for Monthly subscribers will be throughout November, providing access for one month forward into December. Annual subscriptions will terminate at their current scheduled end date. (The small number of Annual subscriptions that have an end date extending into early 2026 will continue to have access to the site after December 31.)
Will the free On Air streams still be available?
For our free content, please visit our YouTube channel.
Will the apps continue to be available?
We have removed our apps from their respective app stores. Paid users with the apps already installed may continue to access CreativeLive until shutdown in this manner, but we're unable to provide support for this use. (We encourage anyone who has purchased classes through the apps to migrate to using the mobile website or casting to their TV instead.)
I bought classes in the app, how do I save them permanently?
Classes purchased in the app must be downloaded from the CreativeLive website in order to maintain permanent access to the video files. (The "save for offline viewing" feature in the apps is not designed for archival storage.)