News & Updates
Latest updates from Zealous: platform announcements, founder insights, industry trends, and creative sector news. Stay informed about awards management innovation.
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Meet the Zealous Amplify Future Judges
It is time to meet all of our Zealous Amplify: Future judges!
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Introducing Zealous Amplify: Future
We are coming in to our third year of Zealous Amplify! We are so excited to celebrate even more artworks from our Zealous community.
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Meet Our Zealous Elevate Winner
With Zealous Elevate coming to a close, we are so excited to tell you all about our winner!
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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…
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Creativity makes our world a better place
Why it is important to champion creativity and how you have helped the creative industries so far.
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Meet our Zealous Amplify: Environment Winners
With Zealous Amplify: Environment coming to a close, we are so excited to tell you all about our winners!
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Meet the Amplify Environment Shortlist
As Zealous Amplify: Environment is reaching its final results, we are excited to share with you our 20 shortlisted artists.
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Zealous awarded a Top Performer in 2023
Software Review sites are a great way to make an informed decision of what tools you might want to consider for your project. Here’s how we did in 2023….
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Introducing Zealous Amplify: Environment
Welcome to Zealous Amplify: Environment!
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New Logo, Same Us
You might notice we’ve changed our logo. We thought it was important to share the reasons we made that change, and the process we went through before doing it.
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Founder Update 2023
Our mission to reduce the barriers to entry for creating opportunities for the creative sector has never felt so important. In 2023 we promise to do our part in building the creative world we wish to see tomorrow.
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Winners Announcement – Zealous Amplify: Mental Health and Wellbeing
With the closing of the first iteration of Zealous Amplify, which touched upon Mental Health and Wellbeing, we are so happy to announce the winners!
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Migrating Zealous
Zealous is undergoing a complete migration of its data to a series of real-time databases hosted across Europe.
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Founder Update 2022
This year, everything changes for the better. In 2021 we strengthened our foundations. 2022 will be all about building.
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Major Entries Upgrade
We have some exciting news! Based on all your feedback, we are rebuilding how you and your judges will experience processing entries from the ground up. Here is a quick preview of what you can expect very soon.
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Celebrating our 10th Anniversary!
It is humbling to see an idea I had ten years ago develop into a network of over 45,000 artists and arts organisations. And although we should use our anniversary to celebrate what we achieved, this feels only like the…
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Continuing to support you during COVID
Supporting the creative community? You might be eligible for a deep discount to use our submissions and selection platform.
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2021 pledge to diversity and inclusion
We built Zealous so that everyone has equal access to opportunities. Our commitment to equality is ever-evolving. Here is what we will improve in 2021.
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Founder Update 2021
Although we have been robbed of the fresh start we were promised at the start of 2021, we shouldn’t let that deter us from making the most of the year ahead. Here’s how Zealous plans to make the most of…
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Black Lives Matter.
We are committed to equality for the black community. We also believe that meaningful action is more powerful than words. Our relative public silence should not be perceived as inaction but reflection. More important voices need to be heard right…
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Doing our part
We have worked hard to understand how we can serve you meaningfully during the COVID outbreak. Here’s what we are doing to support you as best we can.
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Waving Goodbye to 2018
There’s no denying it, 2018 has been a strange year in the UK. Our politics have felt like a roller coaster ride infused by the terror of discovering the tracks are being laid down in front of us as we…
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Emerge Awards Ceremony (2018)
We hosted our inaugural Emerge Awards in celebration of the UK’s best emerging creative talent at arts space, Ugly Duck! With cocktails, creative happenings and inspirational company aplenty, the Awards left us feeling excited and hugely optimistic for the future…
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Emerge Finalists Announced
It’s time to celebrate the Emerge finalists! Our guest judges selected the top 3 submissions from each category’s shortlist—no easy feat when you consider the exceptional variety of creative talent in all 12 categories.
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Emerge Shortlist Announced
We’re thrilled to celebrate our Emerge shortlists! Thousands of submissions across 12 categories were whittled down to just over 180. It has been so uplifting to see such incredible talent among the UK’s emerging creative community.
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2017: A Year in Review
What a year! 2017 has been our best yet, and we couldn’t have done it without you. Here’s a look back at everything we’ve achieved together.
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We’re funded!
Zealous has always been a labour love, for myself and those that have worked alongside me in making our company what it is today. A simple idea to bring creative talent from all the creative industries together and help them…
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New on Zealous: December 2017
Running an open call? Zealous is jam-packed with loads of exciting new features and functions to help you accept, review and manage applicants.
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New on Zealous: August 2017
If you’re running an open call, Zealous is jam-packed with loads of exciting new features and functions to help you succeed.
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We’ve been funded
It’s always been our plan to secure funds to allow us to grow and, ultimately, become self-sufficient. It’s important for us to raise from the right people to protect our community and we’re thrilled to say we’ve found that person!
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Is Personal Branding more Important than Authenticity
We celebrated our second installation of Zealous Meetups – another evening of cross-disciplinary connections, happy chatter, and a lesson in why creativity matters. Our panelists Lanre, Francesc, and Lennie swapped wisdom and shared experiences of dance theatre, holiday lights, and…
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Our first meetup: Creative Collaborations
Nearly 100 of us gathered in the Waterstones basement for drinks, laughs, story-sharing and a brilliant panel of collaborative creative professionals who cannot be stopped by funding, freak-outs, or other people’s parameters.
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Why We Exist
Creating isn’t easy. It’s a constant balance of making time to produce great work, seeking the resources to do so, sourcing the talent to make it happen, and keeping up with shifts in technology, distribution, funding…Whether you are creative, dependent…
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2016: A Year in Review
2016 saw us welcoming 10,000 people to Zealous X, organise an impromptu exhibit at the Green Rooms Hotel which sold nine of our artists’ works and put 32 of you in front of the UK’s biggest cultural organisations, and much…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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!…
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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…
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Grow, Evolve, Engage, Challenge and Learn with us!
We are all creatives, but do we know what that means in today’s world? In a forever changing and competitive environment it is becoming more and more complex to identify the challenges and source genuine opportunities in the creative industry.…
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Zealous X Winners announced soon!
This Thursday the 5th, we will be announcing the winning artists whose work will be featured at the 2016 Zealous X Festival. We were amazed by the quality of all of the submissions we received, and the judges have had…
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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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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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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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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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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.
