by YannigRoth

Can’t The French Do Better Than That? #Creativity #Consumer #Innovation

Image via La Fabrique à A Innovation's newsletter (click to read)

Image via La Fabrique à A Innovation’s newsletter (click to read)

A couple of weeks ago, I published a post about French competitors of Quirky. I briefly presented 3 of them: Nov’In, MyKompany and La Fabrique à Innovations (The Innovation Factory, in French). Earlier this week I received their newsletter in which they announced that they were moving to bigger offices in Marseille (South-East), leaving Narbonne (South-West). I think this is great news and I’d like to congratulate them very sincerely; it’s a good step for this promising French start-up to develop and push consumer creativity in France. However, what bugged me in the newsletter is the presentation of products currently being developped. Continue reading →

by YannigRoth

Présentation sur le crowdsourcing et l’innovation collaborative chez @BELGroup

BEL Group Inspiring Lunch Crowdsourcing

Hier, grâce à la recommandation d’un ami doctorant, j’ai eu le plaisir de faire une présentation sur l’innovation collaborative et le crowdsourcing chez BEL Group (Leerdammer, La Vache Qui Rit, Kiri etc.). L’objectif était d’inspirer les équipes marketing à de façons de faire du marketing autrement, à leur présenter ce qu’il se passait à la marge des pratiques dominantes. Bien que le crowdsourcing devient de plus en plus mainstream, c’est encore une pratique peu connue. J’espère avoir apporté ma contribution au “Inspiring Lunch” organisé par BEL hier. Pour les curieux, voici (ci-dessous) une partie de ma présentation. Continue reading →

by YannigRoth

Oxylane Launches (Another) Sports-Related Open Innovation Platform

Today (February 12th) the Open Oxyale page is still in teaser mode. Click to access

Today (February 12th) the Open Oxyale page is still in teaser mode. Click to access

On April 1st, Oxylane Group will launch “Open Oxylane,” a sports-related open innovation platform. That’s what the French trade magazine LSA reported yesterday. Despite the launch date, it’s probably serious business. Oxylane Group, which runs the Decathlon department stores, has already made inroads into co-creation and open innovation: in October 2011 I blogged about b’Twin Lab, a co-creation platform dedicated to cycling products (which has closed since), and in April 2012 I blogged about a series of contests run by the same brand with Local Motors. These didn’t seem to have been a success, but with Open Oxylane, the company keeps pushing.
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by YannigRoth

The Three French Challengers of Quirky

Quirky’s mantra is to “make invention accessible” to all – and it seems to work if you judge by the success of Quirky in the United States. But as soon as you have success, you also start having competition, either globally or locally. A lot of entrepreneurs want to replicate that idea in their respective countries, adapt it, tweak it a bit.

In France, a country that pioneered the concept between 2007 and 2011 with the rise and fall of CrowdSpirit, where I also happen to live and work, collaborative innovation platforms are popping up like mushrooms. What are they called? Who are their founders? What is their model? What are they ambitions? Let’s have a look at Quirky France… and three of their challengers: Nov’in, La Fabrique à Innovations, and MyKompany. Continue reading →

by YannigRoth

Getting Consumers’ Attention Becomes More Expensive (#Advertising #Research)

Consumers are looking at more screens. One of many reasons that explain the rise of consumer attention (photo via cisco.com)

Consumers are looking at more screens. One of many reasons that explain the rise of consumer attention (photo via cisco.com)

The quality of consumer attention has been falling for decades, and consumers find product informations on the web rather than on TV these days. That what’s Thales Texeira, assistant professor in Harvard Business School’s Marketing Unit, explain sin a recent working paper. What can marketers do about that? Beefing up advertising or setting up price promotions can have negative effects on current profits and future revenues. Hence, Texeira says that marketers should focus on reducing cost (create & distribute advertising for less money, using crowdsourcing, for example) or on increasing quality (create better ads and tailoring them to increase conversion). Continue reading →

by YannigRoth

Should Creative Crowdsourcing Participants Get Working Contracts And Salaries?

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For one year, there have been two important legal events that could shape the future of the crowdsourcing landscape. First, on October 26th 2012, one-time Crowdflower worker Christopher Otey filed a lawsuit (PDF) against Crowdflower alleging that the platform violated the U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act. Second, on October 22nd 2013, a group of Yelp reviewers filed a class-action lawsuit (PDF) against the business review site, claiming that they are unpaid writers who are vital to the company’s existence. These two lawsuits are claiming Labor law applications to micro-task crowdsourcing activities.

Could this happen in creative crowdsourcing?

Up to this day, neither of these lawsuits -which have very similar claims- have been closed, which shrouds the entire crowdsourcing industry in a big question mark. In this post, I briefly describe these cases, clarify the legal situation in the U.S. and in France, and tell whether creative crowdsourcing participants should get working contracts with platforms and sponsors – or not. Continue reading →

by YannigRoth

Gelehrter Betriebswirt, Professionneller Tänzer und Animationskünstler

Die "Fette Moves" Crew, mit Florian Genal, links

Die “Fette Moves” Crew, mit Florian Genal, links

Ich habe seite langer Zeit nichts mehr auf Deutsch geschrieben. Seit sehr langer Zeit, sogar! In diesem Post möchte ich Florian Genal vorstellen, ein professionneller Tänzer aus Karlsruhe, der nebenbei auch sehr erfolgreicher 3D-Künstler ist. Florian a.k.a. FlojoArt hat in der Tat über 10 Wettbewerbe auf eYeka gewonnen (bei seinem letzten Interview vor über einem Jahr waren es noch 7), und wird wahrscheinlich in den nächsten Monaten noch einige Preise gewinnen. Wer ist er? Wie kam er zu diesem Hobby? Was macht er heute?

Hier sind einige Antworten… und die Erkenntniss, dass mann im Leben alles mögliche erreichen kann. Continue reading →