Gym Rat: Crowdsourcing Personal Trainers
Why pay for expensive personal trainers when you can leverage gym rats in your neighborhood? Here's a business idea to use crowdsourcing in the gym industry.
Crowdsourcing
Zooniverse: Scientific Research through Crowdsourcing
Zooniverse allows the general public to analyze scientific data and allows faster solving of big scientific problems.
Amazon Studios: Using Crowds to Find Their Next Hit
Amazon Studios is disrupting the traditional film and TV development process by letting crowds submit scripts and help pick their next productions.
Amazon Studios: Crowdsourcing Content and Feedback
Amazon Studios successfully uses crowdsourcing to increase the number of television and film submissions and to decide which ideas to produce.
[2] Kaggle: Building deep communities for deep learning
Kaggle is a competition platform that leverages crowdsourcing to find solutions for deep learning problems. This blog summarizes how Kaggle managed to create value and its challenge to stay relevant
GoPro: Falling short in capturing value from crowds
GoPro’s attempts to capitalize on User Generated Content has led them through a journey of value creation, to value capture, and then back to value creation again, as it struggles to grow beyond its camera product line.
Gigwalk
Expanding the Brand Manager’s reach through Crowdsourcing
Salesforce IdeaExchange: CrowdSourcing Ideas from the Users!!
How Salesforce utilized the collective wisdom of the crowds to build an innovation engine for itself, its partners and ultimately the user.
Innocentive : Incentivizing Innovation
Innocentive pioneered the concept of crowdsourcing for R&D especially in the Pharma Industry which is highly dependent on innovating novel ideas. It lent challenge a new meaning through sourcing ideas from a wider auudience.
Tradiio – Experimenting with Crowds in the Music Industry
This is the story of Tradiio, a music startup that launched as a crowdsourced virtual stock market for emerging artists and later pivoted to become a direct-to-fan crowdfunding platform.