Posts Tagged ‘web design

03
Apr
12

Victors And Spoils

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Categories: advertising, creativity and crowdsourcing
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https://victorsandspoils.com
Their Service Description: Everything an ad agency does.
Our impression: Traditional agency model with a handful of people on staff, but a crowdsourced creative department. V&S’s creative director makes sure the work is solid and on brief.

This just in: Today, French advertising company Havas has acquired a majority stake in U.S.-based Victors & Spoils, for an undisclosed amount.

Since its humble start in 2009, V&S has added the following blue-chip clients to their roster: Chipotle, Coca-Cola,  Converse,  Crocs, Discovery Channel,  Dish,  GAP,  General Mills,  Harley Davidson,  Levi’s,  Mercedes Benz, Oakley, PayPal, Unilever and Virgin America. Havas said that one of the first joint projects between the two companies will be to use Victors & Spoils technology to “create a 15,000 person professional Havas ‘crowd’ to source ideas from”.
Questions arise. How will the “crowd creatives” react? Will V&S’s pioneering culture vanish? Is V&S about to enter a world of client conflicts? Will V&S’s CEO John Winsor be fully absorbed by the challenges of holding the new title of Chief Innovation Officer for all of Havas?
Operation is based out of Boulder, Colorado, US.

24
Sep
11

pomegranate

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Categories: advertising, creativity, crowdsourcing and crowdsourcing marketing ideas
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http://pom8.com/
Their Service Description: Pomegranate is a digital marketing and creative agency structured to function as dynamically as our clients require. Pomegranate’s mission is to organize the world’s best creative talent, and make it available to clients in a scalable, collaborative form.
Our Impression: While the site and descriptive video are put together quite well, it is impossible to tell how successful or miserable Team Pomegranate is. Given the lack of news and site updates it sure seems like the latter. The reason we mention Pomegranate as part of Agency Killers, is because of their ambition to create a vast and functional creative community, rather than having everyone on staff. Verdict is still out…
Operation is based out of New York.

18
Sep
11

crowdlanced

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Categories: creativity, crowdsourcing and crowdsourcing design
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http://www.crowdlanced.com/
Their Service Description: Crowdlanced is an online marketplace for website design. We offer website design and coding services, custom logo design and banner ads. We differ from traditional website design agencies in that we help you host contests on our platform to get the most creative and affordable designs.
Our Impression: The only reason we’re dedicating a blog entry to Crowdlanced, is because we feel for the ambitious, but seemingly naive entrepreneur behind it. The idea to be a crowd sourced one-stop-shop for small businesses’ web needs isn’t very inspired, but it has potential. Crowdlanced however has not been able to convince enough clients to try them out, which comes as no surprise, as the site lacks professionalism and decent work samples, to gain anyone’s trust.
Operation is based out of Toronto, Canada.

 

 

 

 

 

03
Sep
11

mycroburst

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Categories: creativity, crowdsourcing, crowdsourcing design, crowdsourcing logo design, crowdsourcing sites and design
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http://www.mycroburst.com
Their Service Description: Need a design that stands out? Just post your requirements to our community of 1000’s of designers. Watch as entries arrive from all over the world. It’s that easy.
Our Impression: This two year old business seems to be doing well. It services around 10 design contests per day and is in the same league as 99designs and crowdspring. In fact, logocontestreviews.com gives Mycroburst its highest rating by scoring a few points for having lowered the cost barrier to start a contest to a minimum. The quality of the work is at par with its competition – meaning 95% of the proposals are a waste of time, but the occasional, smart and well-crafted solution is what keeps the crowdsourcing design model alive and an unbeatable deal for clients.
Operation is based out of Langhorne, Pennsilvania, USA.

21
Jul
11

theidealists

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Categories: advertising, creativity and design
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http://theidealists.com/
Their Service Description: Matching Ideas, Opportunities and Talent. We make matches; we don’t source crowds. Our community is invite-only. To compliment our basic matching service, we offer a full range of client services: This includes ‘curating’ matches that offer the best solution to your specific need.
Our Impression: Pretty fantastic. Part of the initial concept was to match non-produced ideas with clients looking for shortcuts to creativity, but that idea seems to have gone away, making room for straight forward match-making between a communication need and the talent to pull it off. Theidealists may seem like an ordinary agency which can’t afford to keep creatives on staff, but in theory, this young agencykiller, with its very diverse and top talent, can service projects much better than any traditional agency should be able to.

27
Jun
11

Jade Magnet

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Categories: creativity, crowdsourcing, crowdsourcing design, crowdsourcing logo design and design
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http://www.jademagnet.com
Their Service Description: Jade Magnet is a crowdsourcing platform for creative services. First of its kind in India, it is an ecosystem where services range from branding, advertising, animation, communication, graphic design, and product design across various media.
Our Impression: Not unlike other sites in this directory, Jade Magnet is still trying to figure out its core offering. Their services seem to cover absolutely everything, but the business clearly revolves around logos and webdesign, similar to crowdspring and 99designs, its U.S. siblings. Never-the-less, Jade Magnet has only been in business for about a year and a half and delivered on over 700 projects.

Operation is based out of Bangalore, India with a small outpost in California.

 

10
Apr
11

choosa

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http://www.choosa.net
Design made easy.
Their Service Description: Our unique platform provides a space where both creative designers and project owners can participate in the creative design process. Choosa.net takes care of a wide range of processes efficiently.
Our Impression: Choosa is the Latin American version of crowdSPRING and 99designs (see Previous Entries). Having their site fully translated to English however, signals that it is open for business to North America. The great majority of the 15,000 registered designers are Latinos. So far, the Choosa crowd has designed over 700 contests, mostly logos. The design quality, or lack of, is at par with its global competitors, but like with any crowdsourced solutions, there is always a small number of surprisingly good submissions to pick from.

The founder is Dutch, but the operation is based out of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

18
Mar
11

blurGROUP

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Categories: advertising, creativity, crowdsourcing and design
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http://www.blurgroup.com/
Blur Group is the world’s largest Creative Services Exchange.
Their Service Description: Our 9,500 creatives and exchange staff, our unique business model and advanced technology radically alter the marketing services space – delivering the most cost-effective, real time and relevant design, marketing, advertising, media and ideation services.
Our impression: A very ambitious organization with a very broad service offering positioned to make a real dent in the agency world. Quotes like “No more agency beauty parades, no more hefty retainers.” on their site are clearly trying to position blur as a valid, full-service alternative. Their single largest reward of $130,000 is no pocket change either, which proves that their reputation and credibility is growing.
Operation is based out of London, England.

08
Mar
11

DesignCrowd

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Categories: creativity, crowdsourcing and design
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http://www.designcrowd.com
Their Service Description: DesignCrowd is an online marketplace providing logo, website, print and graphic design services by providing access to freelance graphic designers and design studios around the world.
Our Impression: To claim that 100+ designs are posted per brief is a bit of an over promise when the actual number is around 60, as per their own project tracker reveals. But in general they seem like a very ambitious and solid management team with 28,000 registered designers to back up their claims. One notable feature is a client’s ability to browse individual artists’ portfolios.
Operation is based out of Sydney, Australia.

08
Mar
11

crowdSPRING

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http://www.crowdspring.com
Their Service Description: Saving entrepreneurs and businesses millions of dollars on logo design, web design and writing services.
Our Impression: Not unlike 99designs, crowdspring claims to produce 110 submissions on average from a community of 85,000  designers and writers. Logo designs and naming services start at the bargain prize of $200, which makes crowdspring a great option for all budgets.
Operation is based out of Chicago, US.

08
Mar
11

BootB

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Categories: advertising, creativity, crowdsourcing and design
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http://bootb.com
Unlimited Creativity by the word’s best creative department.
Service Description: 31,000 creators from around the world are providing an average of 200 creative solutions per brief.
Our Impression: BootB is a Europe-based giant and crowdsourcing pioneer. The model is build to provide the same results as ad agencies, but without the customer service and strategic guidance. All kinds of projects are welcome, ranging from TV commercials to logo designs.

08
Mar
11

99 designs

By AdminAK 3 Comments
Categories: creativity, crowdsourcing and design
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http://99designs.com
Design done differently.
Service Description: Logo, stationary, web and product design.
Our Impression: A good resource for small businesses and their graphic needs. The average contest produces about 90 designs. A total of over 65,000 projects have been completed to date by 100,000 registered designers.
Operation is based out of San Francisco, US.

08
Mar
11

12designer

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Categories: creativity, crowdsourcing and design
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http://www.12designer.com/en
Design Your Day. Style for everyone.
Their Service Description: We are conceptual artists, designers and project managers from the agency world to produce your logo, flyer, visiting card, writing paper, diagram, sticker, poster, web page, illustrations and banner.
Our Impression: Undoubtedly a good design resource in Germany with over 12,000 registered contributors. Beware of posting English language based projects, as the site itself has had its translation challenges. Their own tag “Design Your Day” raises more questions than it provides reassurance of creative quality.
Operation is based out of Berlin, Germany.

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