This document discusses using creative crowdsourcing to source marketing and advertising ideas from online communities. Some key points:
- Crowdsourcing leverages the wisdom of large, connected crowds to accomplish tasks more cheaply and quickly than traditional agencies.
- For the right briefs, crowdsourcing can generate innovative ideas from thousands of diverse creatives, provide consumer insights, and be lower cost and faster than agencies.
- Challenges include protecting intellectual property, selecting the best idea from many submissions, managing community expectations, and dealing with resistant agencies.