List of Crowdsourcing or On-Demand Workforce Vendors

Useful information about emerging categories is often tough to come by. It’s typically fragmented across a variety of views and experts. My search for useful information about paid crowdsourcing technology vendors has been no exception.

Several months ago, I published a list of crowdsourcing technology vendors. Within about a month, it had reached the number 1 position in natural search. It was a fairly rudimentary list, but apparently, it was the best current accumulation. For all those that have been searching for consolidated information for the on-demand workforce market, we’ve created two new sources for your consideration.

We’ve greatly enhanced the existing list with more vendors and more vendor characteristics. And, we’ve compiled a full report on the vendors and progress in the space over the past 10 years. The list is open to all, the report is free to those that sign up and attend our Sept. 17, 2009 online event. It’ll be $200 a copy after that.

Here’s the link to the enhanced list, and here’s a few columns of the data resident within it. Enjoy.

-Brent

Vendor	Website	Category
Smartsourcing (Smartsheet)	www.smartsheet.com	Any Tasks
99designs	http://99designs.com/	Graphic Design
Amazon Mechanical Turk	www.mturk.com	Volume Tasks
Bid-Job.com	www.bid-job.com	Project Marketplace
BigCarrot	www.bigcarrot.com	Problem Solving
BizReef	www.bizreef.com	Project Marketplace
CastingWords	www.castingwords.com	Transcription
CGILance.com-Freelance CGI programmers	www.cgilance.com	Programmer Marketplace
Channel Intelligence	www.channelintelligence.com	Large Scale Categorization
Colspark	www.colspark.com	Problem Solving
CreateAd	www.creatad.com	Graphic Design
Crowdflower (Dolores Labs)	http://crowdflower.com/	Volume Tasks
Crowdsifter (Dolores Labs)	https://crowdsifter.com/	Content Moderation
Crowdspirit	www.crowdspirit.com	Graphic Design
CrowdSpring	www.crowdspring.com/	Graphic Design
Data Discoverers	www.datadiscoverers.com	Volume Tasks
Design Outpost	www.designoutpost.com	Graphic Design
DesignBay	www.designbay.com	Graphic Design
DesignContest.net	www.designcontest.net	Graphic Design
DesignQuote.net	www.designquote.net	Graphic Design
eLance	www.elance.com	Project Marketplace
EUFREELANCE	www.eufreelance.com	Programmer Marketplace
Freelance job openings	http://www.freelancejobopenings.com/	Project Marketplace
Freelance switch	http://jobs.freelanceswitch.com/	Project Marketplace
Freelance web market	http://freelancewebmarket.com/	Project Marketplace
Freelance Web Programming	www.freelancewebprogramming.com	Programmer Marketplace
GeniusRocket	www.geniusrocket.com	Graphic Design
GetACoder.com	www.getacoder.com	Programmer Marketplace
GetAFreelancer	www.getafreelancer.com	Project Marketplace
Getfriday	https://getfriday.com/	Project Marketplace
GFXContests	www.gfxcontests.com	Graphic Design
GoFreelance - Freelance Work Exchange	www.gofreelance.com	Project Marketplace
Graphic Competitions	www.graphiccompetitions.com	Graphic Design
Guru	www.guru.com	Project Marketplace
HitBuilder	www.hit-builder.com	Volume Tasks
HumanGrid	www.humangrid.de	Volume Tasks
I can freelance	http://www.icanfreelance.com/	Project Marketplace
Idea Bounty	www.ideabounty.com	Problem Solving
IdeaScale	www.ideascale.com	Customer Surveying
iFreelance	www.ifreelance.com	Project Marketplace
Innocentive	www.innocentive.com	Problem Solving
Jobtonic.com	www.jobtonic.com	Job Referral
Ki Work	www.ki-work.com	Project Marketplace
Kluster	www.kluster.com	Customer Surveying
LeadVine	www.leadvine.com	Sales Leads
Lime exchange	www.limeexchange.com	Programmer Marketplace
LivePerson	www.liveperson.com	Expert Help
LiveWork	www.livework.com	Any Tasks
LogoTournament	http://logotournament.com/	Graphic Design
Mahalo Tasks	www.mahalo.com	Simple Tasks
NamingForce	www.namingforce.com	Product Naming
Net4manpower	www.net4manpower.com	Project Marketplace
oDesk	www.odesk.com	Project Marketplace
People per hour	www.peopleperhour.com	Project Marketplace
Prefio.com	http://prefio.com	Job Referral
Process Outsourcing	www.contractedwork.com	Project Marketplace
PROGRAMMERMEETDESIGNER.COM	www.programmermeetdesigner.com	Programmer Marketplace
Programming bids	http://www.programmingbids.com/	Programmer Marketplace
PROJECT FOR HIRE-Freelance Marketplace	www.project4hire.com	Project Marketplace
ProjectSpring.com	www.projectspring.com	Project Marketplace
Rent A Coder	www.rentacoder.com	Programmer Marketplace
Samasource Inc.	http://www.samasource.org	Volume Tasks
Scriptlance	www.scriptlance.com	Programmer Marketplace
Serebra connect	www.serebraconnect.com	Project Marketplace
SocialMod	www.socialmod.com	Content Moderation
TopCoder	www.topcoder.com	Programmer Marketplace
United states freelancers	http://www.unitedstatesfreelancers.com/	Project Marketplace
Verbum soft	http://directfreelance.com/default.aspx	Project Marketplace
Vois	www.vois.com	Project Marketplace
Work Outsource	www.workoutsource.net	Project Marketplace

Comments

[Keenan]

another interesting crowdsourcing vendor is UserTesting.com. They crowdsource usability testing for websites and record the sessions at a low fee.

http://www.usertesting.com/index.aspx

[Rachel Shaw]

You should also consider www.squadhelp.com for business naming. This site leverages the "wisdom of crowds" allowing users across the world to submit domain name suggestions. The best suggestion wins a prize that is setup in advance by the contest holder, creating a win win situation for every one. Contests can start as low as $35.

[graphic design outsourcing]

There is one more new graphic design crowdsourcing website : www.shopfordesigns.com