unilever's $15k crowdsourced campaign

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  • ukit0

    I used to get pissed off about it but I've concluded that crowdsourcing is 99% hype.

    How many dollars from how many ad firms were lost to crowdsourcing this year? I bet it's about enough to pay the salary of a couple interns.

    For crowdsourcing to be a threat you'd also have to explain how it can even feasibly replace the work on projects more in depth than a basic concept or logo pitch.

    On this particular project, interesting detail that isn't in the press release is that the guy who won the $10k is a veteran creative/ copywriter...for Unilever. They picked a guy they knew out of the hundreds of submissions.

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