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Idea Hunting is a crowdsourcing platform that rewards creativity and innovation. Through this platform, brands and companies launch creativity and innovation pitches that are answered by a huge creative community of people from around the world, thus getting lots of ideas, and then choosing the best ones. Close

Idea Hunters are companies or individuals registered on Idea Hunting to literally hunt for the best ideas to their business, by launching pitches among our global creative community. If you want to become an Idea Hunter, sign up here. Close

Idea Creators are individuals or companies with creative skills that answer the pitches launched by Idea Hunters, submitting their Ideas and being rewarded in cash whenever these are considered Winning Ideas. If you want to become an Idea Creator at the Idea Hunting community, sign up here. Close

No. The registration is totally free, both for Idea Creators and Idea Hunters. Close

He who launches a pitch on Idea Hunting is the one who decides what price he is willing to pay, although there are minimum participation fees to launch a pitch: Creative Pitch – Minimum 1.000 Euros. Innovation Pitch – Minimum 1.250 Euros. Naturally, the higher the price, the greater the chances of getting more Ideas to your briefing. The contribution of the creative community is influenced by the complexity of the pitch, in relation to its set price. If you demand a lot for very little, it is unlikely that you will atract many Idea Creators to your pitch. Close

An Innovation pitch aims to get ideas for products and services. In these pitches, Idea Hunters look for innovative ideas to improve their business – improving a product or a service they already have or even creating a new one. To answer these pitches, you should just describe your Idea. You do not have to produce layouts or any graphical materials. Nevertheless, you may enrich your idea by adding images (photos, illustrations, videos) that help the Idea Hunter realize the potential of your idea. The minimum Prize Money for each Winning Idea will be 250 Euros. In Innovation Pitches, the number of Winning Ideas may be 5, 10 or 15 ideas. Close

A Creative Pitch aims to get a materialized creative Idea (e.g.: a logo, a brand name, a press ad, a maquette of a viral film to be played online, a radio spot script, etc.). In these pitches, Idea Hunters are looking for ideas ready to be produced and implemented. The simple description of an Idea is not enough to answer these pitches. Idea Creators must make them happen, graphically and visually, and then upload their Ideas. The minimum Prize Money of a Winning Idea will be 1.000 Euros. In Creative Pitches there can be only one Winning Idea. Close

Our creative community has people from different nationalities, working areas and experience levels: students, advertisers, designers, web designers, creative freelancers, creative industry companies, and people who simply are… creative on how they see the world around them. It is this diversity that makes the whole process exciting and brings a multitude of perspectives to the pitches that are launched at Idea Hunting. Close

If your ideas are good, you can make a lot of money. Each Pitch launched by an Idea Hunter has always a prize money in cash and it always has at least one winner. In addition to the prize money, the creative will also gain experience in participating in a global creativity pitch, enriching their portfolio. Close

No. Idea Creators will win a prize money whenever its Idea is chosen by the Idea Hunter. The act of submitting ideas is unpaid. Close

We will only publish the pitch online after the Idea Hunter has transferred us the amount of the prize money set for the pitch. Without payment, there will be no contest at all: this will prevent pitches to be canceled, assuring our creative community that the prize money will always be paid to someone. Close

No. Idea Creators are free to choose which pitches they wish to enroll, either because it is about something they like, either because the prize money is attractive or simply because they don’t have anything else to do, thus finding time to create. Close

By default, pitches are published in the language they were originally written by the Idea Hunters. However, they may be translated into other languages so it can reach Idea Creators from all over the world. To do this, when launching a pitch, the Idea Hunter must simply indicate in which languages should the pitch be available. Here are some of the languages available on Idea Hunting,: Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Dutch. Close

That will depend on how multilingual our Idea Hunters are. All they have to do is, when launching a pitch, to define in which languages they are willing to receive the ideas. Close

The use of our service will cost Idea Hunters 20% of the total prize money set for each pitch. The use of the service by the creative community is free. E.g.: If an Idea Hunter sets a total prize money of 1.000 Euros, our service cost will be 1.000 Euros plus a 200 Euros fee. Close

Idea Hunting has established some rules to protect the intellectual property of all creative ideas submitted to each pitch. You may consult these rules on the link “Legal”. Whenever an Idea Creator submits an Idea to a pitch, he must accept an agreement stating that the submitted Idea is originally his and that he transmits his intellectual property rights to the Idea Hunter in case it is chosen as a Winning Idea. Whenever an Idea Hunter starts a pitch, he must accept an agreement that stipulates that he will only own the intellectual property rights of the idea(s) he buys. The intelectual property rights of ideas submitted to a pitch but not bought by an Idea Hunter will remain property its authors. Should an Idea Hunter use an idea that has not been paid for, its author may take legal action to sue him. Close

Pitches posted by Idea Hunters can be anonymous, i.e., brands and companies do not need to identify themselves to our creative community. On the other hand, registered Idea Creators have total access to the all the information on any published pitch. Those who are not registered at Idea Hunting have limited access to the information of each pitch. In order to launch a pitch or answer a pitch you have to accept in advance our Terms & Conditions which, among other things, protect the confidentiality of the information published on Idea Hunting. Close

Idea Hunters and Idea Creators may choose to remain anonymous. The Idea Hunting service is the sole responsible for collecting and processing its users’ data. Collecting information from users happens in strict compliance with Portuguese applicable law, concerning personal data treatment and protection, and in accordance with directives and recommendations issued by competent authorities, including Comissão Nacional de Protecção de Dados (CNPD) – National Commission for Data Protection. Close

Idea Hunting is a service owned by Projecto Manhattan Ltd., a portuguese company established in Travessa Particular à Rua da Centieira, nº8, Lisbon, Portugal. Projecto Manhattan is the first specialized Strategic Planning for Marketing and Communication company operating in the Portuguese market. Close

No. The company that has purchased the idea will be responsible for its implementation. Idea Hunting may help Idea Hunters to find a partner to do the implementation. Click here to learn how. Close