ComeUnited Artists And Freelancers Marketplace

Hamburg based ComeUnited is a new platform for people working in media, entertainment and various other creative industries to promote themselves and their work and to hook up with fellow members or potential customers.

The site lets its members create a profile page to provide an overview on their skills, portfolios and past activities, profiles can be annotated with photos, videos or audio files. Besides profiles ComeUnited also lists events, aggregates related news and provides forums, groups and a section for castings and jobs.

Since jobs in media and entertainment more often than not are accomplished by an essemble of losely coupled group of people on a per project basis the social network between everyone involved becomes crucial, both for service provides to attract interesting jobs and for customers to assemble good teams when needed. ComeUnited wants to become the marketplace for these two groups to connect and meet.

Basic membership is free but highly crippled – e.g. you only can upload one photo, no videos, etc.; €10 per month will buy you a premium status to fully use the site and rebats for agencies to create multi-profil accounts are available. Another stream of revenue is AdUnited which lets members buy the top position on searches on the site on a per klick basis.

Coming up with a reasonable pricing scheme is tough these days, but charging prices based on a anticipated monopoly before any actual value is created in the platform is probably a bad decision and will not help them with their initial growth. Unfortunate pricing models is becoming a recurring theme here it seems.

Company blog: Blog

(This article originally was written for blognation Germany. Since blognation is gone I have reposted it here)