Who We Are...What We Do

Creative Images is an award-winning, full service advertising, public relations and graphic design agency based in the city of Ventura. The agency was founded in 1978, making it the oldest full service marketing, advertising, public relations and graphic design agency in the city, and one of the oldest in Ventura County. Creative Images has achieved an enviable measure of growth in an industry in which long-term survival is historically quite difficult.

Creative Images’ clients, both current and past, represent a broad cross-section of the business community, and include both public and private sector clients.

Public Sector:
City of Oxnard, Merchants’ Fair
City of Oxnard, California Strawberry Festival
City of Ventura, Parks and Recreation Division
County of Ventura, Department of Mental Health
County of Ventura, Environmental Resources Agency
State of California, Department of Food and Agriculture, Division of Fairs and Expositions
State of California, Department of Food and Agriculture, 31st District Agricultural Association
(Seaside Park, the Derby Club and the Ventura County Fair)
State of California, Department of Transportation
University of California, Hansen Trust
Ventura County Economic Development Association
Ventura County Museum of History & Art

Private Sector:
Affordable Communities, Inc.
Aids Care, Inc.
CH&I Technologies, Shell Oil Lubrications Division
Doubletree Hotel (Ventura)
Farm Bureau of Ventura County
Hilton Hotel (Oxnard)
InterLab, Inc.
Island Broadcasting, Inc.
Livingston Memorial Visiting Nurse Association
Pro-Ag, Inc.
Radio stations KVEN-AM, KBBY-FM & KTND-FM
Rainmate International
Shapiro RK & Laser Centers
Sheraton Four Points Hotel (Ventura)
Sintra Investigations
Soares, Sandall, Bernacchi & Petrovich
Southland Sod Farms
USA Petrochem
Ventura College Foundation
Ventura County Star newspaper group
Waste Management, Inc.

These clients and numerous others reflect Creative Images’ ability to service a diverse client base and perform effectively in the interests of each.

Creative Images’ client service capabilities include market analysis, advertising campaign planning, media research and planning, media and third party contract negotiation, media buying, creative and production for all media, copywriting, corporate image development and enhancement and collateral materials development and production. Further, public relations and promotional services include press release writing and distribution, press conference planning and execution, ongoing news media relations, promotional sponsorship development and special promotions development. The agency’s in-house facilities include fully computerized graphic design capabilities, media research, planning and buying, accounting and clerical staff support. Creative Images has been honored with numerous local, regional, national and international awards for its creativity, design and promotional program development and implementation.

Creative Images chooses to maintain a limited number of clients to be represented on an ongoing basis in order to ensure all clients of hands-on, personal involvement by the agency’s principals. The resulting bond between agency and client is such that the agency becomes an extension of the client’s management team, and shares the client’s vested interest in long-term success. Creative Images feels that this type of relationship is much more effective than one in which the agency operates as an impersonal third party. Personal commitment on the part of the agency’s principals is perhaps the greatest resource that Creative Images provides its clients.

Creative Images’ success is due in large part to the individual strengths of its partners and the combining of those strengths to achieve a unified, consistent, aggressive team operating on behalf of the agency’s clients. The stability, credibility and integrity of the agency is also of paramount importance, not only relative to the agency’s ability to perform, but also to the client’s sense of readily available professional expertise that will best achieve his needs in his target market.