01/09-11   -   Press releases

Not only 1 but 3 award winners for the concept development of the next “it" app

A few months ago eBay invited to a global competition on Boblr reaching out to creatives around the world to get the most innovative mobile app business model. The many submissions were so inspiring that eBay chose to award 3 winners from Denmark, Germany and the UK.

Extract from the jury’s comments:
“The winner solution is a truly creative and innovative concept, that makes life easier and lets us have more fun. There are already lots of apps around, however the three winner concepts inspire us to new and exciting ways to connect products and services from stores with private individuals.

The solutions have a commerce focus but at the same time they are human and attractive. There are ideas to how we use social media in a more human way, and engage both retailers and users in the daily shopping. Ideas answering the demands of the competition to develop the app that every urbanite will want to use over and over again!"

More about the specific solutions cannot be revealed, but the ideas will be used in the development of eBay’s bid for the next “it" app.

The winners say
Winners of eBay’s global competition is the interdisciplinary team from Aarhus, Denmark, consisting of a design student from the School of Architecture (Kerstin Kongsted), two university students, one from Computer Science (Kristian Kongsted) and Information Science (Andreas Ohn):

“It´s been very exciting to participate in an international design competition and through our interdisciplinary collaboration we have all gained valuable experience. Our different backgrounds have generated a synergies, where we have utilized our expertise in concept development, usability and visual design."

Runner up concept winner Nigel Willis, United Kingdom:

“It was great fun developing a viable concept for such a prominent brand as eBay and I am thrilled my idea has been selected. I very much look forward to the concept turning in to reality over the coming months which I hope will deliver real benefits for the eBay community."

Runner up concept winner Marion Koelle and Bernhard Hering, Germany:

“Participating in the eBay competition has been a great experience for us, as it was the first time we designed a concept for a ´real-world´ application outside of university."




About eBay
eBay Classifieds Group is the largest online classifieds business in the world with more than 60 million unique visitors, five billion pageviews and 18 million active classifieds per month. Their number of strong brands span the globe, such as eBay, Kijiji, MarkPlatts, DBA, Bilbasen, Gumtree, Rent.com, Stubhub,MarktPlaats, Shopping.com, Mobile.de, Half.com, Loquo, slando, quickr, and Milo.

About Boblr
Boblr is the open marketplace for creativity: www.boblr.com, a new way the world develops and buys professional creative. We connect clients needing brand, design and communication work with the global creative talent pool. Clients include eBay, DONG Energy, Danfoss, Novo Nordisk, European Athletics Championships.