Creative Action Network

Name

Creative Action Network

Legal name

Creative Action Network

Website

https://creativeaction.network

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cause-themed apparel, prints and gifts

NAICS

Gift, Novelty, and Souvenir Retailers (459420), Gift, Novelty, and Souvenir Retailers (45942)

SIC

Costume Jewelry & Novelties (3960)

akta.pro primary industry

Creator Merchandise & Print-on-Demand Platforms (MPACAFAE)

Keywords

• Activist merchandise retail
• Cause-themed apparel
• Artist-designed prints
• Progressive nonprofit gifts
• Digital protest posters

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Direct-to-Consumer Product Sales: One-time retail purchases of artist-designed physical goods (socks, prints, face masks, hemp buttons, enamel pins, magnets, mugs, books, apparel) through the Shopify storefront, with cross-sells and discount promotions.
2. Digital Downloads: Sale of instant-download PDF poster packs (e.g., Green New Deal Print-at-Home Protest Posters at $3.99) for activists who want to print their own protest signs at home.
3. Wholesale Orders: Bulk/wholesale purchase channel for retailers and resellers, operated via a dedicated 'Wholesale Orders' page linked from the site footer.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Creative Action Network sells independent-artist-designed, cause-themed physical merchandise (socks, prints, face masks, books, hemp buttons, enamel pins, magnets, stickers, patches, accessories, home goods) and instant-download PDF protest poster packs via a Shopify storefront. A portion of proceeds from each cause collection is routed to a named nonprofit partner (e.g., Sunrise Movement, UltraViolet, NPCA, Earthjustice, Headcount, ADL, Boys & Girls Clubs), and a separate Submittable portal lets independent artists submit designs for inclusion in the catalog.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Feminist Icon Socks Cotton crew and ankle socks featuring inspirational quotes from feminist icons printed on the soles, including a men's Joe Biden option; proceeds support UltraViolet.
• Activist Face Masks Two-layer breathable cotton face masks designed by independent artists with activist messaging (Be Kind, Spread Compassion, People Over Profits, Essential Workers Need Essential Rights, Vote Like Your Rights Depend On It, WE CAN DO IT!); one mask is donated to an essential worker with each purchase.
• Wall Art & Prints Fine art prints and posters (3,934 SKUs) available framed or unframed in multiple sizes (8x10, 12x16, 18x24, 24x36) featuring independent-artist designs across campaigns including Green New Deal, See America, Recovering the Classics, What Makes America Great, Space Horizons, Transcend and many others.
• Digital Downloads (Print-at-Home Protest Poster Packs) Instant-download PDF protest poster packs (e.g., Green New Deal Print-at-Home Protest Posters 1-4) priced at $3.99 each, designed for grassroots activists to print at home.
• Cause-Themed Publications (Books) Cause-themed published books including the See America Book: A Celebration of Our National Parks & Treasured Sites (with NPCA) and The Green New Deal Poster Book (with Sunrise Movement), with proceeds supporting partnered nonprofits.
• Hemp Buttons & Hemp Magnets Eco-friendly hemp-paper buttons (22 SKUs) and magnets (15 SKUs) manufactured by Busy Beaver Button Company in Chicago, IL, with Vote, Green New Deal and feminist/women's-rights designs, available individually and as variety packs.
• Enamel Pins, Stickers, Velcro Patches & Compact Mirrors Small-format activist accessories including enamel pins (e.g., Green New Deal Enamel Pin by Devon Bragg), stickers (e.g., United in Love), velcro patches (WE CAN DO IT! Vote, Vote, Vote in Peace, etc.), and compact mirrors designed by independent artists.
• Mousepads, Neck Ties & Water Bottles Artist-designed everyday accessories including mousepads (5 SKUs), neck ties (1 SKU) and water bottles (1 SKU) featuring activist artwork.
• Mugs, Pillows & Home Goods Artist-designed home goods including mugs and pillows featuring activist artwork from the company's cause-themed collections.

Quantifiable outcome

• Catalog of 4,128 total products across 119 pages
• +4 more outcomes

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration13 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

13 partnerships are on record, tiered flagship cause partner (see america initiative), flagship cause partner (green new deal collection), core cause partner (feminist socks line), core cause partner (vote campaign), core cause partner (see america / environmental campaigns), minor cause partner, strategic content partner (recovering the classics), operational supplier and operational technology partner.

• National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA)flagship cause partner (see america initiative)Strategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2016Co-developed the See America campaign and See America Book ('A Celebration of Our National Parks & Treasured Sites') in conjunction with the 2016 centennial of the National Park Service, designed to revive and reimagine the legacy of WPA-era national parks posters. Proceeds support NPCA. The catalog includes 1,248 National Parks prints as a direct output of this partnership.
• Sunrise Movementflagship cause partner (green new deal collection)GTM or Marketing PartnerProceeds from the entire Green New Deal collection of products (136 items) are routed to Sunrise Movement, a youth-led climate organization. The partnership is highlighted on the Green New Deal collection page and in the site-wide 'Proceeds Support' section. Sunrise Movement logo appears on the storefront as a beneficiary.
• UltraVioletcore cause partner (feminist socks line)GTM or Marketing PartnerFeminist icon socks (and related products) give back to UltraViolet, a feminist advocacy organization. UltraViolet is listed in the site-wide 'Proceeds Support' logo wall.
• Headcountcore cause partner (vote campaign)GTM or Marketing PartnerHeadcount is listed as a proceeds-support partner on the storefront and tied to voting-rights merchandise collections.
• Earthjusticecore cause partner (see america / environmental campaigns)GTM or Marketing PartnerEarthjustice is listed as a proceeds-support beneficiary on the storefront's 'Proceeds Support' logo wall, tied to environmental and See America collections.
• DreamCorpsminor cause partnerGTM or Marketing PartnerDreamCorps is listed in the 'Proceeds Support' section tied to the 'What Makes America Great' collection.
• Surfrider Foundationminor cause partnerGTM or Marketing PartnerSurfrider is listed as a proceeds-support beneficiary on the storefront's 'Proceeds Support' logo wall, tied to ocean/environmental collections.
• Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)strategic content partner (recovering the classics)Strategic or Co-development PartnerDPLA logo is linked directly to dp.la from the storefront footer, indicating partnership around the 'Recovering the Classics' public-domain literature campaign that supplies public-domain classic literature titles used for Creative Action Network's 822+ classic literature prints.
• Courage Campaignminor cause partnerGTM or Marketing PartnerCourage Campaign is listed as a proceeds-support beneficiary on the storefront's 'Proceeds Support' logo wall, tied to the Marriage Equality collection.
• Anti-Defamation League (ADL)minor cause partnerGTM or Marketing PartnerADL is listed as a proceeds-support beneficiary on the storefront's 'Proceeds Support' logo wall, tied to the 'We Were Strangers Too' immigration/civil-rights collection.
• Boys & Girls Clubs of Americaminor cause partnerGTM or Marketing PartnerBoys & Girls Clubs is listed as a proceeds-support beneficiary on the storefront's 'Proceeds Support' logo wall, tied to the 'Transcend - Moments in Sports that Changed the Game' collection.
• Busy Beaver Button Companyoperational supplierOthersChicago, IL-based Busy Beaver Button Company manufactures the eco-friendly hemp paper buttons sold by Creative Action Network, as stated on the 'Vote Like Your Rights Depend On It Hemp Button Variety Pack' product page.
• Submittableoperational technology partnerTechnology or IntegrationSubmittable (creativeaction.submittable.com) hosts the dedicated artist-submission portal used by independent artists to submit designs to Creative Action Network for consideration. The portal is reachable via a separate artist login linked from the customer login page.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• INPRNT: Curated artist print marketplace focused on higher-end art prints, comparable on print-merchandising, fulfillment, and artist curation mechanics.
• TeePublic: Artist-designed apparel marketplace with a community submission portal; comparable artist-merchandise business model and cause-adjacent customer overlap.
• Redbubble: Global artist marketplace for prints, apparel, and stickers with independent artist fulfillment. Comparable product categories and artist onboarding model; much larger scale.
• Threadless: Community-driven artist apparel and home goods brand that runs its own artist submission and voting pipeline — directly comparable artist-onboarding flywheel and design-led positioning.
• Fine Art America: Artist print marketplace with framed and unframed prints across topical collections — directly comparable on the 3,934-print core of Creative Action Network's catalog.
• Design By Humans: Artist-designed apparel and accessories storefront built around independent designer submissions — directly comparable artist-first e-commerce model.
• Society6: Artist-designed marketplace selling prints, apparel, home goods, and accessories — directly comparable SKU mix and customer base, though Society6 is broader and not cause-themed.

Broad incumbents

• CafePress: Long-running custom and cause merchandise marketplace with broad catalog of apparel, accessories, and gifts — overlaps in cause-themed and personalized merchandise but operates as a generalist platform.
• Zazzle: Custom merchandise marketplace enabling user-generated designs across apparel, prints, and accessories — broader portfolio but overlapping on artist-created cause and gift merchandise.

Others

• Busy Beaver Button Co. Chicago-based button and pin manufacturer that supplies Creative Action Network's hemp buttons and is a thematically aligned small-batch maker in the progressive-cause merchandise space.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/TheCreativeAct
• Facebookfacebook.com/CreativeActionNetwork
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/2951985

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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