Portsmouth Creates is a Community Interest Company that champions the city’s creative and cultural sector. It runs the Portsmouth Creative Directory, the We Connect wellbeing conference, the We Shine festival and a busy calendar of workshops, networking events and talks for artists, makers and creative businesses.

With so much happening, the team needed social media that could keep up: promoting events, celebrating local creatives and showing the wider city why Portsmouth’s creative scene matters.

Portsmouth Creates speaks to several audiences at once: freelancers and makers, venues and arts organisations, funders, businesses and the public. Every event needs its own build-up, from the first announcement to speaker reveals and last-chance reminders, while the brand stays bold, colourful and instantly recognisable.

Since September 2025, Delivered Social has planned, designed and published Portsmouth Creates’ content across Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn, turning a full programme of activity into a steady flow of posts, reels and campaigns.

Across Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn, Portsmouth Creates has grown from around 16,560 to more than 18,780 followers in the last year, a rise of 13%. LinkedIn grew fastest, up 77% from 631 to 1,120 followers, while Instagram added almost 900 followers to pass 9,700 and Facebook grew by 845.

Video has made the biggest difference. In March 2026 a single reel was watched more than 108,000 times and reached over 45,000 people in one day, bringing in 121 new Instagram followers on its own. Week after week, the feed now gives Portsmouth’s creative community a consistent, colourful home online.