Originally Posted by Jillian Goldin
Why is there no list of the artists who are actually winning the industry sponsored prizes?
I'm certainly not trying to make any accusations, but I think it'd be nice if that information could be made public. Artists could potentially learn a lot from seeing who actually gets picked;

If Danny or anyone else from the OurStage staff is reading this, I'd appreciate hearing your thoughts on the matter!

Jillian,
I agree, since they have a big "splash" with a long list of prize sponsors on this page:
http://www.ourstage.com/about/prizes
it would make sense to have a listing of monthly prizes that were distributed to any/all winners. They even provide a review of past month's prize offers from a drop-down date menu (at top left) of the Prizes & Awards page. For example for July:
http://www.ourstage.com/about/prizes/music/2008-07-01
it says: Prizes for the July competition will be awarded starting on August 01, 2008.

Now that's we're in August it says:
Music prizes & awards for august 2008

So yes, it would be great if they could provide a monthly listing of all the top winners (from top-10 on up) that have received any kind of sponsorship prize. This makes the awards more transparent, adds promo value for the sponsors, motivates the contest entrants and also lets everyone (fans, artists & industry) know how the prize "stakes" got fullfilled and distributed.

In my opinion this would be a much more valuable service compared to the "Talent Scout Challenge" feature which is pretty much a meaningless game to try to pick past winners. They'd do better to focus more on the actual winners, prizes and surrounding success stories! smile

Michael

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