Why Should I Get Student Membership?
Last year, we introduced a new way to be part of the LBB community with the launch of our Pro User membership for individuals. Now, we're offering a new student version for free until after you graduate, helping you build your presence in adland ahead of time...
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What's It All About?
Student membership allows fresh talent to build their creative profile, adding all their projects and getting it in front of the industry alongside their studies, so they can hit the ground running when they start looking for work.
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See The Students
Check out our brand new Student tab in LBB's People section, so companies looking for emerging talent can find you even more easily.
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Get a Profile
All you need to do is create a free login for LBB, then search your name in our People section to see if you already have a profile. You can claim it if you do, or if not, you can reach out to get one set up from scratch.
Once this is done, you can get yourself verified as a student to gain the additional access to curate your profile.
We're really excited to be helping up-and-coming talent in a brand new way on LBB. To offer all emerging talent programme participants free personal membership until after they graduate enables them to build a strong portfolio of creative work, and get it in front of industry professionals way before they start the hunt for their dream role.
Hannah Baines, Head of Department, Creative Talent at Little Black Book
The Benefits
There are many reasons as to why you should be getting on board with LBB’s free Student membership, from the ability to upload all your work to our Creative Library, to standing out among the masses with your own student verification badge. Take a deeper look at the numerous benefits below...
More Uploads to Your Profile
While as a Free User of LBB you can simply 'claim' your profile, as a Student you will gain access to a new level of your account, enabling you to upload all your projects via your own profile – adding any relevant credits and ensuring that your creative portfolio isn’t missing a beat.
You can search to see if you have an existing profile below, or feel free to drop us an email and we can get one generated for you (contact details can be found below).
Optimisation and Cleanup of Your Work
Perhaps there is already work you’ve been involved in that’s been uploaded to LBB, but you haven’t been credited on it. This is another way being a Student member can help!
As soon as you sign up, you will be invited to send a list of links to any relevant work and news already living on LBB that could –and should – populate your profile. We will then check them out and add your credits for you. Once approved, these projects will sit within the Credited section of your profile.
Order How You Like to Highlight Your Best
Once your profile is full of all your great work, you can focus on curating and reordering everything so you can proudly use it as your central platform, moving your best stuff to the top and hiding anything you might want to from the public eye.
Be Found with Our Filters
We've introduced a new tab in our People section just for Students, meaning any companies looking for fresh creatives can search for you directly.
Plus, when anyone comes to search for new talent to work with, they can use additional filters to find the specific type of creative they're after - from art directors to sound designers!
Don't forget, we have 600,000+ unique visitors per month on LBB, so you have a perfect audience at your fingertips ready to find you.
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The Student Community
Following its launch with D&AD this June, LBB will continue to evolve this membership to ensure students have access to new opportunities and stay ahead of the game, including hosting networking events, talks, screenings and more.
For now, you can join our Community on LinkedIn, where you can ask and answer questions, connect with other students, share your work, or soon even be awarded Student of the Month!
Sign up for Student membership to get your invitation to the online Community.
Build a Reel of Your Work
The ability to make a Collection is available to Free Users, but becoming a Student member on LBB expands its capabilities.
For example, you can upload all your own work to your profile, then build different Collections to easily share for university projects, pitches, your socials and more. You can also keep them private, which is a handy tool when generating ideas or producing treatments and moodboards for upcoming projects.
Everything on LBB is paywall-free globally, so making sure all your work is uploaded to your profile and then building Collections would give you the ability to promote yourself in different ways, to different people.
Global Insights and Data
All data on LBB content (both for your own projects as well as global data) can be found by logging in and going to
'My LBB' > ‘My Insights’.
LBB collects information on how many unique views every piece of content amasses, alongside lots of other information. All views accrued from across the platform are counted, and you can analyse all the data in one place using our filters.
You can also see our Most Viewed People section below - we'd love to see your name there one day!
We’ll Be Here to Help
Last but not least, you'll be the priority of LBB's head of department for creative talent, Hannah Baines.
Whether there's something you need relating to your Student membership, or you have a question or idea, she'd be more than happy to hear it.
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The concept here is that we can offer students a place to be before they join the creative business. We can help them to be seen and found, and we will expand this offering as we go. To be launching this with D&AD is incredibly exciting.
Matt Cooper, CEO & Founder, Little Black Book