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Australian crowdsourcing outfit 99Designs picks up Webby and celebrates with song

99designs Song1 Australian crowdsourcing outfit 99Designs picks up Webby and celebrates with songThis isn’t the first time that we’ve written about the now famous (and sometimes infamous) crowdsourcing design outfit 99Designs.

In fact, we employed the talent of its international online community to design our Magazine 2.0 cover in December 2008 (the edition where we turned over the development of editorial content to our readers, as our own crowdsourcing experiment).

I say ‘infamous’ because every time we write about design crowdsourcing we get flamed by our passionate and highly creative readers from the design sector. Rather, than articulate our position (again), critics can visit this previous post to hear our views.

But it seems that voters at the 2010 Webby Awards don’t fall into this category and have no problems at all with the concept of design work outsourced to the highest bidder, the practice 99Designs pioneered from its headquarters in Collingwood, Victoria.

Indeed, 99Designs’ achievements disrupting the global design sector scored it the Best Web Service & Application gong in the Webby People’s Voice Awards, beating international crowdsourcing heavy-weights Dropbox and Tumblr. (Wow!)

When entering, 99Design founder Mark Harbottle promised his Twitter followers that should his company win an award he would thank fans of the company in song. The following clip is the fulfilment of that promise.

Thanks from 99designs: We are the champions from 99designs on Vimeo.

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  • lanethsffarlenn

    Kudos to the 99Designs team, much deserved!

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  • http://www.bravocharlie.tv Bravo Charlie TV

    Great service, engaging promise, effective last minute below the radar vote push – they put in the last 10% and it worked – as you can see by their follow-up video :D No, no wait, must have been luck :)

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  • Jason

    love a disruptive service & 99designs should be congratulated on their win, but I'm assuming the link with the connected ventures vid was deliberate? http://vimeo.com/173714 either way nice work on the award.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=589482823 Nic Lowe

    These guys suck bigtime.
    They promise 100% refund if your project doesnt get bid on, but then make you CALL the USA to get your refund!!!

    That is deceptive advertising IMHO.

    Worst service ever.

    Use their competitor – designcrowd – online refund, no problems, no hassles.

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