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New competition: The Batavus BUB

November 23, 2010

After the Beemster Cheese competition, we are going to stay in the Netherlands with a brand new competition for a brand which is also typically Dutch: Batavus!

Batavus BUB

One of the oldest bicycle brands in the Netherlands (1904) has introduced a new kind of bike this year which design is inspired by a paper clip: the Batavus BUB. Click here to see how that was done by the designers of Batavus. Batavus characterizes itself for many years by combining quality, comfort, safety and design and has done that with the creation of the BUB as well.

During the launch this year, several campaigns were held for the BUB. A close cooperation with Radio 538 (with DJ ISIS and Dennis Ruyer) was established, a BUB was made for the World Championships in South Africa and together with KiKa (a Dutch charity fund that helps children with battling cancer) a special KiKa BUB was made. Starting now, Batavus asks your help to design!

You can now create an Ad for the Batavus BUB which is already has a creative and innovative design on its own. A real challenge to unleash your creativity! Click here to go to the briefing immediately!

You can not only win great money prizes, worth € 2250,-, but Batavus will also give away 6 Batavus BUBs! That makes the total value of the prizes € 5250,-!

Go to www.creatad.com, read the briefing and start designing!

 

Beemster Cheese; a whole lotta winners!

October 25, 2010

The Beemster Cheese competition is closed, and for this one we have got a lot of prizes for the winners! A total of 22 prizes are going to be given away by Beemster Cheese and these are the winners:

Company prizes

Community prizes

  • Community prize 1: Menno – ‘B&B

Congratulations to all prize winners, you will soon be contacted by CreatAd about your prizes and how/when you will receive them!

Wonder what the prizes were again? Check the competition briefing!

The board of Beemsterkaas was pleased with the creativity that was once again showed on the CreatAd platform. At the end there was a frun for who was about to become the winner of the first community prize, but at the end there can be only one. Congratulations to all prize winners and props to everybody who did their very best in this competition, we hope we can all welcome you to the next one!

On a side note, the CreatAd team wishes to stress out that we are always on the lookout for possible frauds or people who try to create spiders/bots to gain extra points. During this competition, past and future ones, we always guarantee a fair competition where all votes are gathered in a legal way.

Next competition

We are currently working on getting the next competition launched as soon as possible but we have to ask for your patience for just a little while. As soon as we have a new one ready to go, we’ll inform you immediately, so stay tuned!

Congrats again to all prize winners, hopefully we can welcome everyone again to our next competition.

Keep designing!

The CreatAd team

Lacrosse competition closed, new one coming up soon!

August 16, 2010

EC12 logo and Ad competition

The competition for an Ad and logo for the European Championships Lacrosse 2012 Amsterdam is closed. Although this was one of the toughest competitions we have had in a while, a lot of you guys managed to come up with some great ideas. The board of the EC12 was pleased to see that a lot of people jumped in to help them with the designs and are proud to announce the following winners:

Company prizes:

1. Geertje – ‘Lacrosse poster’

2. Toine – ‘Catch us with’

3. Boudewijn – ‘Lacrosse’

4. Josefien – ‘EC12 Lacrosse’

5. Frits – ‘EC12 lacrosse’

Community prizes:

1. Bas – ‘Lacrosse 2012 poster’

2. Khalil – ‘Lacrosse 2012′

3. Mr. – ‘comegetsome’

The winner of the 1st company prize was chosen because of the creativity in the logo. Comments of the EC12 board were: “This is one of the ideas we can work with best. It expresses the speed of lacrosse and combines this with characteristics of the city of Amsterdam logo.” On behalf of the EC12 board, congratulations to all winners, you will be contacted soon about your prizes! Thanks again to NikeID for putting in effort in this competition!

New competition

In a week from now, we will be launching a new competition! A brief overview of what you can expect:

- a design contest for one of the biggest and most famous cheese brands in the Netherlands;

- 1st company prize: a traveling cheque of 1000 euro;

- 1st community prize: an iPad;

- total value of prizes: € 2120;

- the winning Ads/movies will be published on the company’s corporate website;

- lots and lots of the best cheese in the Netherlands!

Curious to see what the briefing will be and for which brand you can start designing?

Just come back soon, we will be launching on Monday, August 23!

Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve got ourselves a winner!

February 10, 2010

Evelien has won the first price as company winner for the 94wines competition with her design! The people at 94Wines really loved the strong visuals of the colors and the fact that it is really mysterious. A very decisive part in naming her winner was the fact that she came up with a slogan: ‘Vintastic’ which the people over at 94Wines really loved! The rest of the winners are:

Name DesignerName Design

1st place: Evelien – Vintastic

2nd place: Giovanni – Unlock your code

3rd place: Savannah – Iphone add 94wines

4th place: Giovanni – Sparkling Splash

5th place: Kees – Even if…

6th place: Meneer Campagne – 94wines_mer

7th place: Hugo – Kurken

8th place: Jesse – Kind White Wine

Congratulations to all of you! The winners will be contacted as soon as possible. Make sure you do the WineID test on 94wines.com and that you send the result to info@94wines.com so that 94wines can send you the wines of your taste!

Besides the winners we want to thank the whole community again for submitting so many great designs! Both the board of 94wines as the community responded great in this competition because of the submission of all kinds of designs. Some designers took a little risk by changing a company’s logo but that might have inspired others in their design. We were surprised specifically by the characteristics of the 94wines that were expressed in different designs. Stuff like this show true dedication and we appreciate that! Stay tuned, because some very interesting competitions are coming up soon!

And the winner is…

December 7, 2009

Last week it finally happened. The members of the jury announced the winner of the Utrecht University competition. Monique Fuchs with her ‘Follow your ambition’ video is the lucky winner!

The members from the jury will contact her personally to congratulate her.

Check out her video, HERE.

We’ve also received some other great news last week. Like you prabably know, we helped out Dutchcowboys by putting their logo design competition also on our website. We’ve received a lot of great entries. It was nice to see that our members also enjoy creating logo designs.

The great news was that one of our members, Joost de Jonge, was selected for the final 15 designs. Finally someone else made the winning design. But for us and our members it was nice to see that we’re not inferior to a  lot of great designers in the Netherlands. Here you see the shortlist that Dutchcowboys made. The design that’s placed in the right down corner is from our member, Joost de Jonge.

Start working on a start-up screen!

November 30, 2009

We just ended the Dutchcowboys logo design competition. This was a new experience for us and our members. Never before we asked them to design a logo. But they came up with a lot of great ideas and designs. We were impressed by the big amount of entries in such a short period of time. Now we’ll just have to wait on the Dutchcowboys professional jury to see which entries won great prizes.

After this successful competition we’ve launched a new one today! This is also a kind of strange but challenging one. We’re asking our members to design a start up screen for an iphone app.

On the 10th of November the wine market met a new name, 94Wines. This wine brand characterizes itself by combining the traditional wine market with innovative technology. The result is a fantastic wine in a modern and extraordinary bottle with a QR code. 94Wines brings you a unique way to send a personal message. You can attach a unique QR code to each bottle you send. This code can embrace every kind of message. If it’s a text, photo or even a video, you can send it together with your bottle of wine. The QR code can be read with almost every modern phone. 94Wines makes sure that your message is transferred to the right QR code.
 
An innovative concept like this couldn’t be introduced without an Iphone Application.
94Wines has launched an interesting App that can be downloaded for free from the App Store. But 94Wines asks the members of CreatAd to design the Start-up screen for this app. It’s up to them to design the best Start-up screen in the App Store.

The Start-up screen will be shown on the Iphone display when the App is started. The new design has to show in a blink of an eye that 94Wines is the winebrand of the future!

Our message to the CreatAd members, get creative and design the success factor for this application. Winners can take a chance on a lot of money and a lot of bottles of wine. So what are you still doing on this blog? Get crazy on your sketchbook or design software!

RTV Utrecht mediaplayer: BV Utrecht van zondag 8 november 2009

November 9, 2009

This weekend CreatAd was interviewed for the tv program ‘ BV Utrecht’ (in Dutch) .Check out our performance starting at minute 9:30.Enjoy!

Deadline University of Utrecht Competition

October 30, 2009

All good things come to an end. That’s also the case with our competition for the University of Utrecht. The last few months we received loads of Ads for this competition. The amount of people that visitied our site and voted on these Ads were beyond all our expectations.

Today and tomorrow will be the last two days for new Ads. Hopefully you can get your latest ideas worked out in print, video or animation. Voting on all the Ads is possible until the 6th of November. We’re looking forward to assemble all the great ads and to announce the winners in the second week of November.

The CreatAd Team

One of the great entries from the UU Competition

UU afbeelding1

 

 

Evaluatie crowdsourcing advertentie actie CreatAd voor Rabo Mobiel

September 1, 2009

Geplaats op Marketingfacts.nl|Harrie Vollaard (Rabobank Groep ICT) dinsdag 1 september 2009, 9:13|

Crowdsourcing staat sterk in de belangstelling en kan worden toegepast op veel verschillende gebieden, zoals voor het oplossen van problemen (InnoCentive), opstellen van business concepten (Battle of Concepts), beantwoorden van vragen (Yahoo), het verbeteren van producten (UserVoice) of het generen van ideeën (IBM). Ook liggen er mogelijkheden voor het creëren van advertenties zoals het platform van Boomerang laat zien. De potentie van crowdsourcing wordt heel hoog ingeschat en de voorbeelden worden uitgebreid beschreven en besproken.

Zicht op een evaluatie en wat het nu heeft opgeleverd is veelal onbekend. Het is daardoor moeilijk te bepalen of een bepaalde casus succesvol is of niet, daar het ontbreekt aan referentie. Vandaar dat we de resultaten van onze Rabo Mobiel actie (lopend in de periode mei-juni) op het advertentieplatform CreatAd willen delen (zie ook: ‘Universiteit Utrecht crowdsourced Marketingcampagne met CreatAd’). Aan iedereen de oproep om soortegelijke cases te delen, zodat we met elkaar wel referenties kunnen opbouwen.

Waarom

We hadden een drieledig doel met deze actie, namelijk:

  1. Algemeen de toegevoegde waarde van crowdsourcing op het gebied van reclame-uitingen aan te kunnen tonen: Levert de toepassing meer verrassende en beter toegespitste advertenties op dan via de reguliere weg.
  2. Specifiek voor Rabo Mobiel; Levert de toepassing een uiting op die kan worden gebruikt in een campagne voor Rabo Mobiel
  3. Communicatieperspectief: hoeveel mensen doen er actief mee, hoeveel mensen worden er bereikt en hoe wordt het merk gepercipieerd door de gebruikers.

Opzet

We hebben gekozen te vragen naar een reclame-uiting voor Rabo Mobiel in de leeftijdscategorie 18 -30 jaar. De creatievelingen van CreatAd vallen namelijk voornamelijk binnen deze leeftijdscategorie én deze leeftijdsrange is voor Rabo Mobiel een interessante doelgroep. De prijzen waren in de vorm van geld en natuurlijk een nieuwe mobiele telefoon. De Rabobank jury bepaalde initieel de drie prijswinnaars. De community van Creatad bepaalde, door te stemmen op de inzendingen, de overige drie prijswinnaars. De briefing was in vergelijking met de normale briefing open en kort om de creativiteit niet te belemmeren.

In de voorwaarden van CreatAd is de overdracht van het intellectueel eigendom, auteurs- en portretrecht verder geregeld. De hoogte van het prijzengeld is afgestemd op de maximale ondergrens die gesteld is vanuit de Wet op de kansspelen. Of prijzen uitgereikt via een crowdsourcingsconcept nu wel of niet onder deze wet vallen, is trouwens nog een onderwerp van discussie.

Naast het feit dat het gebruik van een crowdsourcingsplatform inzendingen oplevert, waren we ook geïnteresseerd of de communityprijzen een viraal effect opleverde. De creatieveling kon namelijk zijn inzending ook als gadget neer zetten in Hyves en vrienden oproepen hierop te stemmen.

In het afrekenmodel met CreatAd telde dit laatste voor 40 % mee in het behalen van hun target, zoals in onderstaande tabel is weergegeven. De targets zijn in onderling overleg opgesteld.

Rabo_Mobiel_Tabel_CreatAd

Resultaten

Uit bovenstaande resultaten blijkt dat we de kwanitiatieve doelen, die we vanuit communicatief perspectief (doelstelling 3) hadden opgesteld, ruimschoots zijn overtroffen. Verder was de competitie erg in trek. In vergelijking met de vorige competitie voor Sportlife zijn er 2 keer zoveel inzendingen. Van de 138 inzendingen waren er 14 video’s. Kwantitatief heeft het platform dus zeer goed gescoord.

Kwalitatief liggen de resultaten echter anders. Opvallend is dat 90 % van de inzendingen sterk op elkaar leken: een witte achtergrond met daarop een design gecombineerd met tekst en de Rabo Mobiel karakteristieken (klik hier voor een voorbeeld). Dat is een teleurstellend resultaat. Waarom echter 90 % van het totaal een plaatje met praatje is, is lastig te verklaren. Is dit nu de natuurlijke associatie van de creatievelingen bij het maken van een advertentie voor een merk als Rabobank met een te sterke vooringenomen creatieve uitwerking? Of is de boodschap van Rabo Mobiel te veel en te complex en het bereik van CreatAd te beperkt (700 creatievelingen)? Of was de briefing toch te strikt opgesteld? Duidelijk is dat er weinig inzendingen zijn die iets van doen hebben met de doelgroep een enkele uitzondering, zoals deze van een studentenkamer, daargelaten. Ook waren er slechts enkele uitingen heel bijzonder en sterk associatief zoals de inzending van deze zwerver laat zien (2e prijs Rabo-jury).

De 1e prijs van de competitie, een fraai vorm gegeven mobiel geïntegreerd met je portomonnee, sluit wel heel goed aan bij wat Rabo Mobiel in essentie is. Daarmee is doelstelling 2;  maak een uiting die gebruikt kan worden door Rabo Mobiel, behaald.

Dat de inzet van een crowdsourcing-platform voor advertenties leidt tot meer verrassende en meer toegepaste reclame-uitingen (doelstelling 1) hebben we hiermee echter nog niet aan kunnen tonen. We hadden de verwachting veel on the edge inzendingen te krijgen waar we over zouden moeten discussiëren of de inzendingen wel direct de doelgroep zouden aanspreken. Met deze opzet heeft het crowdsourcingsconcept zich echter nog niet waar kunnen maken.

Conclusie

Onze participatie heeft geleid tot een zeer grote hoeveelheid inzendingen en heeft ruimschoots aan de kwantitatieve doelstellingen voldoen. Kwalitatief vielen de resultaten echter tegen en waren deze niet overeenkomstig met onze verwachtingen.

Dit betekent trouwens niet dat we hiermee het crowdsourcingsconcept of het platform CreatAd hebben afgeschreven. Aan de hand van de learnings gaan we binnenkort nogmaals een (andere) reclame-actie op een crowdsourcingsplatform uitzetten. De briefing schrijven we nog minder strikt en we willen de creatievelingen expliciet uitdagen om met brutalere inzendingen te komen. Wellicht kunnen we dan ook op kwalitatief niveau aantonen dat de inzet van crowdsourcing loont.

Winners Rabo Mobiel competition!

July 9, 2009

Yesterday, after a long and intensive meeting, we elected the winners for the Rabo mobiel competition. First of all, we would like to thank all the competitors and voters! We can proudly say that this was one of the biggest competitions we had so far.

The winner that was chosen by the Rabobank is Jeffrey. He had a great design in which he combined a phone and a wallet. See how smooth he did this:

Afbeelding 3

The community decided that Menno, with his businesslike design, made the best creation. See how he made a clear design about the possibilities of Rabo Mobiel:

Afbeelding 1

To see all the other prize winning designs check out our Winners page.


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