Zealous exists to grow your impact
Zealous is visual submissions management platform built to remove friction when running programs to support your communities.
Founded in 2011 to support the creative industries, our awards software has been used by thousands of clients from across all sectors to scale their impact.
Our mission
Facilitating the creation of more opportunities
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.
News
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Green Rooms Exhibition Party
Last night, the team kicked it in Wood Green for Green Rooms’ September Showcase Artist Launch Party – what an evening! There’s nothing like seeing a space light up with the work of Zealous artists. Congratulations to the nine artists who debuted their exhibited work last night! We could not have been more pleased with… Read article
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Zealous Visual Art Prize 2016
The £1000 prize will go to one exceptional artist to help them sustain their artistic practice, and continue doing what they’re best at. As well as the cash prize and the exposure the Zealous Visual Art Prize provides, this is also a great opportunity to get your work in front of some high profile judges… Read article
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May Update: What’s New This Quarter
A jam-packed May update: it’s been a crazy year, and we’re not even halfway through! As Zealous races towards 10,000 users, more opportunities listed than ever before, and some seriously tasty site upgrades. We thought it was time to share the exciting things happening at Zealous (with a few spoilers of future plans thrown in… Read article
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Creative Industry Opportunities with Sir Peter Bazalgette
Sir Peter Bazalgette, chairman of Arts Council England, is asked to talk about the challenges and opportunities in today’s creative industry opportunities. Zealous is honoured to have been granted essential development funds from Arts Council England (chaired by Sir Pet! This not only means that our festival’s actions and initiatives are going to be supported,… Read article
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Zealous’ Social Media Takeover: A Good Kind of Hack
Zealous X doesn’t just promote creativity, contemporary art dialogues, interaction, diversity, inclusiveness, innovation: it is defined by them. It is a combination of all the above notions and their practical explorations. It pushes the boundaries of interdisciplinary art festivals’ operation and perception. On that basis the festival’s programme and activities could only be communicated effectively using an unconventional formula.… Read article
