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by YannigRoth

How crowdsourcing is changing advertising: insights from an expert panel

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The experts on stage during Internet Week 2011: Mike Martoccia, Peter LaMotte, Epirot Ludvik Nekaj

I already blogged about the evolution of creative crowdsourcing plateforms, saying that companies mostly adopt one of 3 models: agencies, platforms & crowd-sources. To catch up on this, I’d love to share some very interesting excerpts of last year’s Internet Week panel about creative crowdsourcing. The debate focused on how crowdsourcing was changing the advertising landscape, and was moderated by Mike Martoccia. Intendees were GeniusRocket’s CEO Peter Lamotte, 99design’s co-founder Matt Mickiewicz, AdHack’s CEO James Sherrett, Victors&Spoils’ COO Claudia Batten, Collective Bias’ CEO Johan Andrews, Chaordix’s VP of Business Development Randy Corke, Tongal’s CEO Rob Salvatore and Ludvik+Parters’ CEO Epirot Ludvik Nekaj. 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 →

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Les distributeurs français se mettraient-ils à la co-création?

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Comme l’a gentiment partagé @Ccollab, le groupe Casino vient de lancer une plateforme communautaire. Un pas vers une stratégie de co-création?

Il y a des modes, il y a des tendances et il y a des boulversements. Aujourd’hui, avec l’avènement d’internet et la légitimisation des actions participatives, on ne peut plus dire que la co-création est juste un effet de mode ; c’est une tendance de fond. A l’étranger, il existe de nombreux exemples innovants de distribution: l’enseigne américaine Target a conclu un partenariat avec la plateforme de crowdsourcing Quirky, son concurrent Walmart s’ouvre à la foule pour référencer de nouveaux produits, l’allemand Tchibo a une communauté en ligne qui lui suggère de nouveaux produits… et quid des distributeurs français? J’ai l’impression qu’on va au-delà du design de logo, aujourd’hui, et qu’ils se mettent à intégrer la co-créations dans leurs stratégies. Un petit tour d’horizon de ce qui se fait aujourd’hui. Continue reading →

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One brand, different platforms (part 8) – Nokia’s wise approach to crowdsourcing

The world is too fast, complex and networked for any company to have all the answers inside

Yochai Benkler, author of The Wealth Of Networks

Wow, it’s already the 8th part of this series about brands and their web-based participatory efforts. Companies like Danone, Heineken, Coca-Cola, Siemens, Unilever, GE and Dell do leverage web 2.0 to innovate and engage consumers, this part is dedicated to Nokia. The Finnish cellphone manufacturer seriously missed the co-creative push ushered by Apple and its applications, so they had to catch up and innovate their own way out of this crisis. Here are some of their initiatives, and they’re still learning.

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Crowdsourcing: Serial participants end up proposing less diverse ideas

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Right after writing that blog post about crowdsourcing at Dell, I read an interesting piece of research about participation in the Dell Ideastorm crowdsourcing-platform. The paper is authored by Barry L. Bayus an d will be published in Management Science in the next months (see the first version, and the second version – by the way, it’s a great way to see how mauch a paper evolves durring the reviewing process). While it has not been published yet, the findings are interesting to look at, because they’re among the first ones to analyze participation in crowdsourcing over time. And it seems that there are challenges ahead for Dell… Continue reading →

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LEGO arrête ses efforts de co-création en ligne… pour l’instant!

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Via l’excellent site InternetActu, je viens de tomber sur cette vidéo sur Lego. Le reportage de 2007, appelé Lego, les geeks s’emparent de la brique, montre comment Lego s’est progressivement ouvert à la créativité des passionnés (comme Holger, 33 ans) en leur permettant d’uploader des designs personnels en Lego sur le site Lego Factory, aujourd’hui appelé DesignByMe. En créant ce site, en 2006, Lego suit la logique de longue traîne, très bien expliqué dans la vidéo… seulement voilà… Continue reading →

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One company, different platforms (Part 5) Unilever manages co-creation for its various brands

The world is too fast, complex and networked for any company to have all the answers inside

Yochai Benkler, author of The Wealth Of Networks

 

In the previous posts of this series (about Danone, Heineken, Coca-Cola and Siemens), I used the expression “One brand, different platforms” to talk about brands’ online co-creation efforts. This time, it’s more appropriate to say “One company, different platforms“, because Unilever is not really a brand for the general public, much more known are brands like Axe, Sunsilk, Becel or Knorr. Well all of these brands have engaged in a form of co-creation in a way… and here’s how.

 

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