Zealous exists to grow your impact
Zealous is a a visual intuitive online submissions platform to saves you time & money creating opportunities for your community.
Founded in 2011 to support the creative industries, our awards software has since been used by hundreds of clients from across all sectors to scale their impact.
Our Mission
More opportunities for everyone
Our journey began with a mission: to create more opportunities for creators to be celebrated and advance in their craft. To achieve this, we focused on providing the best tools to those supporting the creative sector, enabling them to scale the impact of their programs.
This vision led to the development of a modern, highly visual submissions management platform that allows candidates to showcase the full stories behind their work and empowers judges to make informed decisions through a transparent process that respects their time.
The success of our product has led to its adoption beyond the creative sector by agencies, foundations, and corporations seeking more effective ways to manage submissions for their programs.
The Idea
Creating a virtuous circle
By empowering more people to create opportunities within the creative sector, we aim to ignite a global explosion of creativity. During our journey, we discovered that our service can help other industries celebrate their communities and engage with their stakeholders.
Since opportunities span across disciplines, we believe that expanding them across all industries benefits everyone in the long term.
Read how artist Maggie Williams grew her practice through Zealous.
Our Belief
Creativity makes our world a better place
We continue to exist to support the creative industries. By serving a diverse range of clients, we can scale our revenue, increasing our positive impact on the creative sector.
We do so by running our own programs (using our platform – of course!) to support emerging creators and organizations in scaling their ambitions and producing works that enrich our world.
Initiatives we have run to support the creative eco-system include showcases, events and awards. You can read more about them here.
Our Journey
so far
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Turning Disruption into Growth: A Creative Founder’s Roadmap for 2025
At the start of each year, I look back on the previous one reflecting on our progress . This year I’m looking at progress differently – focusing on the world today, sharing the challenges we all face and understanding our role in all of this. Read article
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Meet the Judges for Zealous Amplify Future
It is time to meet all of our Zealous Amplify: Future judges! Read article
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Breathing Creativity back into your Life (and Organisations)
When was the last time you felt truly creative? Don’t worry if you can’t remember – you wouldn’t be the only one. 75% of us feel we’re not living up to our creative potential. Explores how to breathe that creativity back into your lives (and work!) in this post. Read article
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The Questionnaire Conundrum: Unraveling the Complexities of Audience Data
Capturing data is vital. It shapes our programming, informs our funders, and, ultimately, determines our impact. Yet, with increasingly stretched resources, it is a time-consuming and expensive endeavour for organisations. In this article, we’ll unpack the purpose behind audience questionnaires, explore their limitations & explore alternative solutions. Read article
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Introducing Zealous Elevate
As a company, we are all about building a more creative world together, but with funding cuts and the cost of living crisis, we know that this has become more difficult. We understand that not all organisations get the funding they need to use platforms like Zealous to easily streamline their submissions process. Because of… Read article
