A recent article explained how the installation of the Weward app on your smartphone means that you can Gain awards to just walk. The application encourages people to walk more by granting a virtual currency called “neighborhoods”. It also displays advertisements inspired by social networks, which contributes to its financing and collaborates with brands such as Nike, Adidas, Amazon and Booking.com. He receives commissions on sales made via the application, part of which is redistributed to users. However, Weward does not seem to really use the data it collects.
Rewarding people for having done simple tasks they perform on their smartphone is increasingly used by companies in the crowd economy sector. They crowdsource merchant Data from their user networks that can reach hundreds of thousands of people and monetize by providing valuable services for which organizations and individuals are ready to pay. Here are five examples.
Vitality
Vitality is a health insurance company based in the United Kingdom. Similar to Weward, it collects the exercise data of its user network via portable technology. But then, it goes further by continuously implementing its database which correlates the levels of physical form and exercise with impact of illness and injuries.
Vitality can then more precisely carry out an analysis of the risks of each of their policy holders and invoice bonuses accordingly. In any case, it attracts relatively healthy people, and those who make more efforts to reach and maintain high fitness levels can expect to pay lower bonuses and guarantee higher value rewards. The awards include film tickets, a free coffee in certain brand points of sale, a reduced price subscription and savings on Wearable Healthtech.
Natix
Walking or driving in town and having images can earn rewards from the Natix application. Natix is a revolutionary entry into the geospatial data market of several billion dollars that allows anyone with a smartphone camera to provide geospatial data (images) in exchange for $ Natix tokens. The data is updated in real time to include road works, accidents, even the location of speed traps.
This market is highly appreciated because a large part of the data is maintained behind the payment walls of intellectual property, accessible by expensive subscriptions. Natix democratizes data access for all its users, while marbing its content.
However, what was previously described as “crowdsourcing” data from a network of Gig economics workers Depolish (Decentralized network of physical infrastructure), due to the superposition of the intelligent blockchain contract which controls the management of physical resources.
Rune
The time spent shopping is another opportunity for people to become concert workers and win awards via their smartphone.
Roamler is a Dutch computer company and is the European leader in field marketing activities based on the crowd. Thanks to its network of pre-uttered buyers, it performs a variety of store verification tasks for the largest manufacturers of packaged products for consumers, consumer brands and retail chains. This includes the Unilever and P&G brand service, as well as other notable brands, including Red Bull, with store audits on demand, sales and merchandising services.
Buyers are informed of the brands they must check, and they record images of store screens in store and promotional equipment. The images are immediately sent to Roamler where they are checked, gathered and compiled in the store verification reports. The rapid reports allow the brand managers of products to identify all the locations where the products are not displayed according to the last agreements with the retailers and to correct the situation.
Nevo
To walk to speak. Neevo is the data capture arm of words spoken of defined.ai, a high -quality voice data supplier and a wider infrastructure of solutions for the formation of artificial intelligence, all focused on the rendering of AI Plus intelligent.
Neevo has a network of more than 500,000 world contributors to its automatic voice recognition data sets. Everything everyone needs is a device to connect to the Internet, a free time and a PayPal account to receive payment.
Simple tasks include the transformation of the text into pronounced words. The contributors read what they have to say and read it aloud on their smartphone. To ensure precise use, the data of spoken words are then transcribed and annotated, by other concert workers, using words or related sentences so that it is used correctly. Neevo found that the use of different crowds to speak, transcribe and then annotates the level of data accuracy.
The large database makes it possible to define.Ai to provide speech samples of more than 50 languages, including the content spoken with accents and regional dialects, as well as data provided by people who do not speak in their language kindergarten. When more complete data like this is used to train AI systems, the final results are better in terms of customer service or any other reason to use chatbots.
The other companies providing a similar service include Bemyeye based in Italy and the American Gigwalk.
Pamper
FOAP helps brands evolve their visual content efforts by accessing a diverse community of 4.5 million photographers and videographers around the world. For brand marketing decision -makers, it allows “still in progress” production with access to a flow of engaging content created by the creator. It saves time by assessing only the final results without having to select and communicate with individual creators.
It is also a great way for anyone to start transforming your photos and videos into real money. They simply record and publish their fixed images or video content on the platform. As the owners of brands begin to collaborate more deeply with specific creators, it is possible that they inform them about the creation of a flow of content, rather than a single-off. Individual creators have opportunities to go from a hobby to the management of a business.
More than 3,000 brands have used Foap. FAAP creators cover 194 countries and have so far gained more than $ 3 million to respond to more than 10,000 labor memories.
The broader impact of concert work
The rise in work opportunities on the economy of concerts – in particular those accessible via smartphones – represents a significant change in work models and career paths. These platforms reflect broader economic and technological trends that shape a more decentralized future of work, in which individuals are less likely to count on a single employer.
He also follows the example of the creators’ economy that more people will want to find ways to express themselves in “third way” beyond their family life and their professional life on income. In the future, we can see hybrid employment models combining traditional jobs, improved concert work and behaviors focused on behaviors that monetize daily actions. This will redefine what it means to “work” in the digital age.
Personal income opportunities that go Beyond the use of a smartphone And connect with depths already include the sale of solar energy created by the consumer to central networks and the provision of personal electric vehicle chargers available to other private motorists. With automated payment through smart contracts based on blockchain, it could almost become as simple as walking to receive a passive income.
