While the contests weren't necessarily a large portion of each platform (NCAA contests constitute just three percent of FanDuel's total revenue), they didn't sit well with the NCAA, who are traditionally very protective of using student athletes for profitable purposes.
In the cloud-and-platform pissing contest, Microsoft's after-hours gains should keep it the second most valuable technology company, over Google, for some time to come.
Of course, ChallengePost will continue to offer its platform for contests, hackathons and challenges, but the sense I get from Kessler is that they see a lot of opportunity for revenue and platform engagement left on the table dealing only with time-constrained competitions.
Within the industry of risk capital exists a sub-industry of social networking events, conferences, digital platforms and contests devoted solely to the process of bringing together high-growth entrepreneurs and risk capital investors.
We have the in-video ads, also sponsored videos, contest platform, homepage sponsorship, click to buy.
At launch, Hello Social offers the ability to create one kind of social promotion campaign from its web-based platform, a Photo Contest for Facebook.
The Amuso platform allows the contest administrator to control how voting proceeds (for example, photos can be paired off as voters choose which one they like better, or they can be presented individually with a 10 point scale).
Like fellow Battlefield company, Meritful, GradFly is also seeking out partnerships with third-parties, like the one it recently struck with AweSweet.com, which has helped it build a contest platform on the site to let students participate in bi-monthly competitions and win prizes and scholarships.
The Global Girls Conversationn is an interactive media platform and video contest for girls around the world to share their inspiring stories of leadership in their own voices.
We have also evaluated the classification procedure of geNetClassifier using svb-IMPROVER contest platform [ 28], which includes a Diagnostic Signature Challenge with several datasets to assess and verify computational approaches that classify clinical samples based on transcriptomics data (see Additional File 3).
