Thanks for the coverage - always nice to come across people chatting about and engaging with Idea Bounty.

Just to clear a few things up that you mentioned in your post. Firstly most of the submissions we receive are written but we do give the option for you to upload anything from short videos to PDFs and power point presentations - I think the important distinction to make here is that we are looking for an idea and not a finished bit of work - we try and give you as many ways to express your idea as possible. It is interesting to note that some of the ideas that have won in the past have literally just been a five line paragraph explaining an idea.

We would also love to let you all know what the winning ideas are - unfortunately we cant do this until they have been implemented by the brands that have paid for them. We will be letting you all know when this happens, I know Red Bull is due to roll out the idea they bought soon.

If you were wondering about our community - currently as of this morning we have 3680 registered creatives, we grow by about 10-15 a day. The majority of our creatives come from the USA, Europe and South Africa (in that order) overall there are over 50 countries that are represented by our creatives.

We also do absolutely everything we can to protect a creatives IP, when you register you are required to enter some of your personal details. These details are then used to time and date stamp a submission - essentially marking it as your legal IP. If you have the winning idea the client pays for for it (the bounty) and both parties sign a legal assignment agreement which transfers the IP from the creative to the client. Obviously this also means that if you ever see a campaign that looks suspiciously like your idea that you have not been paid for, there is our legal frame work you can fall back on. If you would like to read the legal agreement you can view it here - http://www.ideabounty.com/license-agreement

So far we have hosted a total of six briefs and awarded 6 bounties - our winners have come from the UK, France and South Africa. I think the single most important thing about Idea Bounty is that its about the ideas and not developing or researching a product. Most of our briefs are marketing or communications problems - something that we believe anyone regardless of their profession can work on and have brilliant ideas/solutions that then can be developed future into a campaigns or execution.

Thanks again for the mentions - if you have any more questions please shout.

Cheers,

Dan

Idea Bounty Captain