Twitch is an online platform that gives video game steamers the ability to make money directly from the viewers they attract. Unlike many traditional content creators that must achieve a minimum size to attract ad buyers and corporate partners, or even YouTube content creators who require YouTube to sell ads on their behalf and sometimes don't see a direct correlation between views and revenues, Twitch streamers are able to form a direct relationship with their viewers and to easily monetize their popularity.
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From Citizens-Connect to Connected Citizens
For too long government-citizen interactions have been disconnected. Every once in a while, in a democratic system, people would go to the polls and express their preferences by electing representatives and delegating in these individuals a lot of power until […]
Bottoms up! Casemates.com offers a new community-driven wine marketplace
The new online venture, recently launched through a Kickstarter campain, aims to build a community of wine lovers and consumers interested in buying cases of wine together, directly from US producers.
“Activist mapping” at Ushahidi
How a non-profit tech company is combining crowdsourcing, citizen journalism and geospatial information to drive social activism and public accountability
Learning New Lessons at Duolingo
Duolingo faces challenges with crowdsourced translations and is building new monetization plans.
Topcoder: An Original Platform for Crowdsourcing Solutions
Topcoder is a platform that host the world’s largest community of competitive designers, developers, and data scientists to offer on-demand crowdsourcing solutions to its clients.
Premise: Using Crowdsourcing to Connect Governments with Markets and Citizens
Premise’s network of 80,000 contributors across 30 countries gather local data to provide fast insights into local economics and more. Can the company grow its work with government?
CrowdFlower: Powering the Human Side of Artificial Intelligence
CrowdFlower is solving machine learning's dirty secret – that humans are still needed to train the models we all rely on every day.
Crowdsourcing for Cash – Cryptocurrency Mining
Bitcoin has taken advantage of distributed computing. What other resources are underutilized and ripe for crowdsourcing?
Building Together: How LEGO leverages crowdsourcing to sustain both innovation and brand love
LEGO has created an online community of nearly one million members and is using crowdsourcing both to select new product ideas and provide their most loyal supporters an outlet to share their creations.