Is the Zealous blog just marketing for their platform?

Not really - most of the content is genuinely useful whether you use Zealous or not. They cover topics like crafting rejection emails, managing reduced budgets, and understanding audience data that apply to any organization. Sure, they mention their platform when it's relevant, but the advice stands on its own.

Are there guides for organizations just starting with competitions?

Definitely. They have complete guides covering everything from initial planning to final celebrations. There's practical stuff like setting up proper submission schedules, choosing the right metrics to track success, and even what to do when your program doesn't go as planned. It's clearly written by people who've seen it all go wrong.

Is the blog useful for individual artists or just organizations?

Both actually. While there's lots for organizations running competitions, they also have content specifically for artists - like how to spot legitimate opportunities, freelancer insights, and showcases of emerging talent. The artist interviews are particularly good for understanding what it's really like to navigate the creative industry.

Zealous Blog

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Zealous X Submission Deadline Extended!

We’ve had a remarkable number of submissions in every field, and we’re truly impressed by the quality of what we’ve seen. Give yourselves a round of applause! Now, if you weren’t able to submit by last night’s deadline, don’t worry.…
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Organisations

Unleashing Creativity at Zealous X

]Creativity has always been core to who we are and what we do, it has informed our need to create Zealous to bring the creative disciplines together in order to help creative talent find opportunities based on their portfolios; and…
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Legacy Managing Awards

6 Essential Things to Market your Blog

Its not news that blogs are a great marketing tool. More and more creatives are taking advantage of blogs to promote their projects and expertise, but what does this mean for bloggers? Well, it means competition time! If you do…
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Zealous at TEDx Courtauld

In this fast paced TEDx presentation, Guy Armitage challenges you to foresee our future and the importance in nurturing human creativity now to best serve us regardless of our technological advancement.
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Organisations

Q2 2015 – A ‘Summer of Love’

Find out all about the changes to www.zealous.co.nip.io live in June ’15
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Legacy Managing Awards

Digital Empowerment for Arts Organisations

With shrinking public funding its never been so hard for arts organisations to succeed in their remit. Luckily the digital world is here to help alleviate some of the hardest challenges we face today.
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Organisations

Zealous in Forbes

Zealous was featured in Forbes, where CEO Guy Armitage speaks of the rise of the creative economy and the reason for Zealous.
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Our first article (and it’s in Forbes!)

We’re excited to share our thoughts on how the creative industries are the corner stone to future economic development, and how Zealous aims to help with that.
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