The brains and doers behind Boom Ideanet belong to the good guys in the Crowdsourcing industry. Steve Wood, the man in charge, communicates brilliantly when it comes to briefs and very timely when the results are in. Boom Ideanet has a very fair compensation structure and I am happy to say that I have been compensated for most of the contests I participated in. It’s one of the few sites where there are regular contests with participation payment.
Boom mostly has TV script briefs, but every now and then there are Selling Idea Briefs and Mood Board Briefs. The client is a Fortune 400 Retailer and working on this brand regularly is very different from other Crowdsourcing sites where every contest you enter is a different brand/product/company/service. You get a hang of the brand and your ideas improve with every brief. Of course, there have been other clients as well and Boom is doing well to attract more.
There are tons of Logo Contest sites out there for Designers, but very few that writers can regularly take part in – Boom is one of them. Tongal is there with its Idea Stage in Contests, but it is more directed towards filmmakers and all aspects of production. Alternative Genius has TV briefs, but they aren’t too regular.
Boom’s payment system is very good. They are assigned creators and open participants. The assigned creators get a guaranteed participation amount provided they enter a minimum number of ideas that satisfy the brief. The open category contestants don’t get a guaranteed amount, but for those that win from this pool, the award amount is higher than that of the assigned creators. In all cases though, if yours is one of the few early bird entries you get a nice participation prize, usually around $250. The total award pool per project varies from a $5-20k and sometimes even more. Before the entry deadline participants don’t get to see what others have entered, but Boom’s portfolio page lists the produced videos later on, so everyone can see and be inspired by all the ideas in the running.
