50 Top CreativeLive Courses of All Time

After we wrote about the pending shutdown of CreativeLive, CourseHorse stepped in, acquired the platform, and reopened learner registrations.

Founded in 2010, CreativeLive was the go-to platform for creatives looking to sharpen their skills. The platform emphasizes art and design, with 62.3% of their courses in these subjects. Business courses make up 16.4%, with personal development a further 11.8%, humanities 2%, and the remainder from various other topics. On average, courses have received ratings of 4.62 out of 5. The total enrollment is over 28 million, with an average of 12 thousand per course.

With around 2,300 courses to pick from, it can be difficult to find the best ones. So we’ve analyzed CreativeLive’s catalog to identify the top 50 courses offered on the platform.

Here’s a quick summary of CreativeLive’s 50 most popular online courses of all time, based on the number of enrollments:

Enrollments range from 55K to 167K. Seven courses have over 100K enrollments
Together, they account for around 3.9M enrollments, with an average of 78.9K
The top 50 courses offer over 600 hours of learning
On the CreativeLive platform they have an average of 100+ reviews and a rating of 4.73 out of 5
88% of the top 50 courses are in art and design (mainly photography). 6% are personal development, and the remaining 6% are business.

Because some CreativeLive courses have Fast Class versions, they may not have officially made it into the Top 50 list. One popular example is The Power of Body Language, which has two versions. If your time is tight, you may prefer to join the Fast Class version.

Here are the top 50 CreativeLive courses, sorted by number of enrollments: