This Crowdsourcing Week blog explores the Creator Economy, its current state, and what the future trends mean for content creators and innovators.
Future of Work
How the impact of artificial intelligence and freelancing aka the gig economy is changing traditional workplace practices
Earn From Your Smartphone In The Crowd Economy
The gig economy provides opportunities for people to earn money from what they already own. A new one is to earn money from your smartphone.
How Can Crowdsourced Data Annotation Help With Data Structures?
Crowdsourcing data annotation involves outsourcing data labeling and annotation tasks to large groups of non-employee individuals
Use of AI for Training Data in Global Organizations
Using AI for training data unlocks a powerful tool enabling organizations to make better decisions, improve efficiency and enhance customer experiences.
Boosting Payment Trust through Crowd Testing: Ensuring Smooth Transactions for Your Customers
To ensure online payments are secure and trustworthy, businesses can mitigate risks of failures and fraud and boost payment trust through crowd testing.
Innovation in the Age of AI
Many businesses are exploring and investing in new solutions to stay competitive in the age of AI, from banking and customer service to autonomous cars.
The Year of Creator Economy 2023 – Crowds, Collaboration, Communities and Connectors
Our theme for 2023 is the Creator Economy, and how it sits in the context of Crowds, Collaboration, Communities and Connectors.
How Brand Experts Can Deliver Extraordinary Customer Service
GigCX can improve customer service with benefits for both brand owners and brand customers, and creates an income stream for knowledgeable brand experts.
How to Unlock Collective Intelligence and Boost Staff Retention through Empowering Employees
Contributing to collective intelligence and co-creation roles within a company could be enough to retain staff who are considering a move.
Crowd-based Trends in Innovation for Education
Open innovation challenges are a crowd-based innovation for education, stimulating extracurricular ideas and solution innovations from students
Learn how new AR and VR tech applications are transforming 7 key business sectors
This article has many augmented reality and virtual reality examples that demonstrate the growing importance of this technology
How to 10X R&D Using Connected Innovation Intelligence
At Crowdsourcing Week we champion the benefits of open innovation as a means to accelerate the development of breakthroughs, solutions and inventions. A growing number of organisations utilise open innovation platforms to go beyond in-house R&D teams, who work in...
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations are the Future
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, provide a flat, secure and democratic structure for people to collaborate towards achieving agreed aims.
The Crowdsourced World of Freelancing and Remote Working in 2025
Freelance jobs and the remote working future of work have already arrived for a large number of the online white-collar workforce. According to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs report published in October 2020, 84% of employers are set to rapidly digitalize...
Crowdsourcing Week Presents its Ultimate Resource for All Things Crowdsourcing
Our commitment to being the global leader and innovation platform for all things crowdsourcing is founded on a mission to inspire and power breakthroughs through collaboration with our crowdsourcing partners. Those partners mean that through Crowdsourcing Week’s...
The Key Proposition and Value of Crowdsourcing: a Podcast with our Founder and CEO
The availability of low cost, high speed, low friction communications has enabled the value of crowdsourcing to make it an increasingly important activity in a wide range of business sectors. It has disrupted and altered the way we think about creating value. The...
How to Use Crowdsourcing in Advertising
Advertising is one of many business disciplines being disrupted by the ease of crowdsourcing input from a range of remote though specialist advisers and expert freelancers. This is largely, though not exclusively, in the areas of creative design and production. Ease...
Top 10 Video Conferencing Platforms
Video conferencing is one of the technologies that has advanced more in pandemic lockdowns than it would have done in years. Whether used for work meetings, for virtual events with perhaps many attendees, or for dislocated families and friends to get together and...
Top 10 Freelancing Platforms
More and more companies, particularly startups, are turning to gig platforms to find skilled freelancers who can fill a wide array of what are sometimes temporary positions.
How to Protect Cybersecurity when Working in the Crowd Economy
Home networks are much less protected than corporate networks, putting any remote employee, freelancer or gig-economy worker at a cybersecurity risk.
Top 5 Speech Recognition AI Platforms
Speech recognition technology is a form of AI. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) enables machines to register a set of words they hear used in spoken language, match them to a text transcription, and then search multiple transcribed possible responses for the best...