displayed on various international marketing and advertising related sites.
Furthermore, the brief attracted a considerable amount of PR with extensive coverage
both online and offline due to the nature – both positive and negative - of crowdsourcing
at the time. In fact, Unilever received close to a million dollars return on investment off
the press coverage alone (Splendid Communications, 2010).
The brief closed a full two months after launch and in total received 1 185 submissions.
This was an extraordinarily large amount of ideas considering every entry met the
basic requirements laid out in the brief.
Submissions made by creatives were of exceptional quality. Overall, the hosting of the
brief was a massive success.
The large amount of quality submissions was due to the brief coming from a wellknown
brand with an engaging problem. The cherry on top was the Bounty on offer
that encouraged people to invest their time and energy in their submission.
After much deliberation due to the quality of submissions, Idea Bounty and Unilever
announced two outstanding winning ideas paying out a total Bounty of $15 000.
The end result of the crowdsourced campaign is viewable at the Idea Bounty blog
(http://www.ideabounty.com/blog/post/2624/peperami-launch-their-crowdsourcedtelevision-
ad).