Freelancer expands contest platform to include all 600 job categories
With Freelancer opening up its contest platform to all job categories, will this bring crowdsourcing to new heights? Matt Barrie says yes.
Freelancer.com, an online marketplace for, well, freelancers, has now expanded its contest feature to include all 600 job categories. Previously, the contest feature is restricted to just design categories, which has seen interest from both businesses and freelancers.
Freelancerがコンテストのためのプラットフォームをあらゆる職種に対して解放することで、果たしてクラウドソーシングは新たな段階へと到達することになるのだろうか?Matt Barrie氏は、そのとおりだ、と述べる。
フリーランサーのためのオンラインマーケットプレイスFreelancer.comはコンテスト機能を拡張、今では全部で600の職種をカバーするようになった。以前、このコンテスト機能はデザイン分野のみに制限されており、企業やフリーランサーから注目を集めていた。
Freelancerがコンテスト方式プラットフォームをすべての職種に開放することによりクラウドソーシングは新たな高みへと昇るのだろうか?Matt Barrie氏はそうだという。
フリーランサーのためのマーケットプレイスFreelancer.comはこのほどコンテスト機能を600の職種へと広げた。これまでコンテスト機能はデザイン分野に限定されていたが、企業とフリーランサー双方から興味が寄せられていた。
While these contests usually start from US$30 with the majority under US$500, Freelancer said that the large-scale ones have proven extremely effective. For US$25,000, companies get to use thousands of freelancers to execute a global advertising campaign. Freelancers now get to compete with each other directly and develop a lucrative ongoing professional relationship with the contest holder.
One example from what used to be the design contest platform, Justin Lang from Caringbah, Sydney, received over 900 entries from Freelancer users. He said, “Not only was the contest useful for getting a great logo but I was able to make contact and sort through hundreds of freelancers for projects that I will do in the future. This is invaluable for an employer because I have had these freelancers already show me their skills in the contest!”
Freelancer CEO Matt Barrie also shared that this is an effort to tackle crowdsourcing across industries. “While people have previously crowdsourced funding through sites like Kickstarter, and designs through sites like Freelancer.com, nobody has tackled crowdsourcing across every online industry through one platform before. Our world-first evolution of crowdsourcing is game-changing in scope and unprecedented in scale cementing Freelancer.com as both the largest and most diverse crowdsourcing platform in the world.”