| Website | 99designs.com |
| Blog | 99designs.wordpre... |
| Category | Communications |
| Employees | |
| Founded | 1/07 |
99designs is a crowdsourcing marketplace where individuals and small businesses can post graphic work that they need done. Over 60% of all design contests held online are run through 99designs. making it by far the original and biggest graphic design marketplace.
99designs won the peoples choice webby award during 2010 and paid out over 5 million dollars to designers from all around the world.
Within hours of a project being posted, designers from all around the world compete by uploading fully completed concept designs, which are than reviewed and rated by the project poster. At the end of the project period, a winning design is chosen and paid out the prize money.
Typical projects receive 50-100 unique submissions, involve logo design, webpage design, and print design. A new design is uploaded to the site every 7 seconds.
99designs was spun out of SitePoint and was formerly known as “SitePoint Contests.”