Archive | Competitions

06 September 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Crowdsourcing Watch Design

Crowdsourcing Watch Design

You probably have already seen a watch by japanese brand Tokyoflash – they have the strangest watches and whenever they release one, it gets posted on almost every gadget blog and the like.
Now they are holding a design challenge where people can submit their own cooky watch designs or as they call it “unique wrist [...]

Continue Reading

23 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

The $200 Million GE Ecoimagination Challenge

Over time, we’re seeing the figures around crowdsourcing getting higher and higher, and with further importance.
Proof of this is another great example, GE has a competition for students, businesses or pretty much anyone with an idea for Renewable Energy, Grid Efficiency, or EcoHomes/EcoBuildings, to submit them and the best ones will get funding from a [...]

Continue Reading

23 June 2010 ~ 1 Comment

SyFy Channel Is Crowdsourcing A TV Movie

From Aintitcool.com comes the news that the SyFy channel will be asking its audience (and everyone, really) to contribue to an upcoming TV movie.
This fits in the recent trend and examples of crowdsourced movies and filmmaking in general, but mostly to brands realizing they must highten the engagement of their audience, and this brings them [...]

Continue Reading

14 June 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Audi Crowdsourcing A Car

So Fiat had their experiment at crowdsourcing a car: everyone got to suggest ideas to make the Mio.
Now it’s Audi that continues the trend, in ia competition that is looking to crowdsource the design of their next generation of cars, the electric cars no less.
The prizes (not specified yet) could include possible employment for finalists, [...]

Continue Reading

13 May 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Glee Is Crowdsourcing Casting

Crowdsourcing really is reaching every business!
Popular Fox tv show “Glee” is looking to cast a new member, through the process of crowdsourcing where people have to submit an audition tape.
Glee Open Casting Call Video with Matthew Morrison

Glee Auditions | Vídeo do MySpace
Of course, what was usually called open casting call we’re now calling crowdsourcing casting, but [...]

Continue Reading

18 March 2010 ~ 0 Comments

The Cisco 1 Billion Dollar Business Idea

Cisco is having a competition where people can submit ideas for which they think can be a billion dollar business – the iPrize. The winning team gets $250.000 to help develop the project.
The crowdsourcing platform is powered by Spigit, and the deadline is the 30th of April.
Now we’d think a company like Cisco with huge [...]

Continue Reading

11 March 2010 ~ 2 Comments

Using crowdsourcing to engage a community

As you may know, ABC’s Lost is on its sixth and final season, and they have the most rabid fans you can find.
And yesterday ABC sent some emails letting fans know of the “Ultimate Lost Fan Promo Contest”: they made a call for fans to make 35 seconds promos to air before the season finale [...]

Continue Reading