Tag / creativity

by YannigRoth

“The video contest space is getting very competitive” – An interview of Brett Slater

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In my “quest” to understand crowdsourcing in creative industries better, I would like to share another interview of an avid participant. After interviewing Jared Cicon a.k.a. the Video Contest King, here’s an interview of Brett Slater, a successful video contest participant and the founder of Slater’s Garage Ads & Audio. The tagline of Slater’s Garage is “Helping Your Small Business Find Its Voice” but Slater also works for big brands. How? By participating in crowdsourced video contests.

In a previous interview published on Entrepreneur.com, Brett indeed explained that crowdsourcing sites allowed him to gain exposure, cutting through geographic obstacles: “I live in Bangor, Maine. My work wouldn’t have been seen otherwise,” he explained. Contests on platforms like Poptent allow him to apply his talent to big brands (Brett writes the word brands with a capital B, Brands), not only local businesses. You can read more from him on his blog… or you can just read his interview below. Enjoy! Continue reading →

by YannigRoth

Présentation sur le crowdsourcing à La Cantine Numérique Rennaise

J’ai eu le plaisir d’intervenir à La Cantine Numérique Rennaise hier, dans le cadre d’une rencontre sur le crowdsourcing organisée par le Social Media Club de Rennes. Je viens de mettre ma présentation en ligne:

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La rencontre était organisée par Anthony Chénais, et une présentation intéressante a également été faite par Nicolas Kayser-Bril sur le crowdsourcing dans le journalisme et les mouvements citoyens ; passionnant! Merci à tous ceux qui sont venus nous écouter et échanger avec nous, n’hésitez pas à me contacter si vous avez des questions ou des remarques.

Juste quelques liens utiles (tirés de ma présentation, puisque Slideshare ne copie pas les liens hypertexte visiblement):

by YannigRoth

How Pepsi engaged the Chinese youth with creative crowdsourcing

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The world’s first timeline of crowdsourcing by brands is being constantly updated with past and present cases, and there are now more than 200 crowdsourcing initiatives featured – lots more to come (I just need to find the time…)! In this post, I’d like to present one of the first crowdsourcing examples that has been of strategic importance for a brand in a local market: Pepsi’s Creative Challenges in China. Even before the well-known Pepsi Refresh Project, this series of crowdsourcing initiatives have allowed the brand to get consumers’ attention in the country. Here’s how. Continue reading →

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Defining creative crowdsourcing (crowdsourcing of creative activities)

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“Creatividad”, an ad for an insurance company from Peru (via adsoftheworld.com)

In the first year of writing a PhD thesis, you’re basically asked to define key terms and to set up a research question. I’m particularly interested in crowdsourcing, and more particularly crowdsourcing of creative tasks. This post proposes to define the term creative crowdsourcing, or crowdsourcing of creative activities, as it hasn’t been defined yet (to my knowledge). I would love to have your thoughts about the proposed definition, it can only help me refining it in order to improve my doctoral dissertation! Continue reading →

by YannigRoth

“The video contest landscape is like the Wild West” says an experienced participant

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Image via Gerard Elmore (vimeo)

I recently read a very interesting blog post from Jared Cicon (a.k.a. Video Contest King) about participation in crowdsourcing. Jared is a pioneer participant in video contests; he was one of the finalists of the first Doritos contest in 2006, and has taken (and won) a lot of contests since then. In his blog post “You…against the rest of the freelance world“, Jared shares his point of view about the current video contest lanscape. In his blog post, he says how much more competitive it is now: “what I’m hoping to demonstrate […] is how difficult it can be to freelance in our video world, and that we are clearly facing ongoing increased competition with every passing week“. As a consequence, he says, brands’ expectations are getting higher and it is therefore more difficult to win contests and earn money.

While it is always tempting to do those things that feel more ‘artisitic’ and which are more personally fulfilling, they must be balanced with content that the brands can use and that ‘get the money to pay the bills’

The crux of his blog post is “Evolve or die” – much like in the Wild West. I invite you to read the great post that he wrote on his blog if you want to find out more. After reading his insightful post on his blog, I thought it would be great to talk about crowdsourcing “from the other side”. He nicely took the time to answer a couple of questions about himself, his activity as a producer and about crowdsourced video production in general, and it’s my pleasure to publish the interview here on the blog. Continue reading →

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Consumer creativity across cultures: the case of basketball fans

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Li Ning’s “Year of the Dragon” collection is specifically targetted towards the Chinese consumer (image via solecollector.com)

Currently my PhD work is taking an interesting direction: how does crowdsourcing work across borders? I just blogged about a crowdsourcing experiment in China, and about evidence from Mechanical Turk, and in this post I’d like to share the findings of a paper that looked at creative expression across cultures: A Comparison of Creative Behaviours in Online Communities across Cultures (Jawecki, Füller & Gebauer, 2011). To my knowledge is one of the few papers today to compare creative consumer behaviour across cultures. “We find that culture does have an influence on creative processes and expressions“, the authors say. Here’s why. Continue reading →

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Crowdsourced video contest reveals how people feel about luxury today

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Image via Zooppa.com/contests/what-is-luxury

French reserachers Lobre & Lebraty say that the value of crowdsourcing lies in the innovativeness of ideas and in the authenticity of contributions. Similarly to what is explained in this whitepaper, this post is about a specific case where crowdsourcing is being used by a company to get authentic market feedback from consumers: The What is Luxury contest on Zooppa. This competition has been sponsored by Euro RSCG and explicitely asks videomakers to interview consumers about their perception of luxury. Since all the videos were available to everyone, I thought I would do a brief content analysis… and found some interesting insights! Continue reading →