99 Designs for Music

Great idea! It's cool that you can listen to the submissions in public too. As you could expect, the quality is insanely variable so far.. anyone who can make it through entry #2 at http://musikpitch.com/songcontests/reach-for-your-college-dr... has my eternal respect. I'm almost tempted to create an account just to submit humorous a-capellas.

I definitely like the idea of pushing the 99 designs concept into new verticals. That being said, it seems like one would want to target the low end of the market such as people doing music for a friend/lover, podcasts, indie games, etc. Bigger ticket items are likely to be done in-house by a studio or outsourced to an already known quantity. As an analogy, I'd be happy to make use of 99 designs for a personal side-project or a place without much money, but when it comes to bigger projects that have a little more money to spare, I'd be much more inclined to go directly to a trusted professional and feel happy that I was in good hands.

In Chrome 6.0.453.1 dev, neither the "Submit an Entry" nor "View Entries" button works on this page:

http://musikpitch.com/songcontests/pump-up-music-for-warm-up

You can click them all you want but nothing happens. It essentially makes the site unusable.

As with 99designs, there is a high risk here for the buyer to end up paying for plagiarism and rip-offs. People with low/non-exiting ethics will throw together rip-offs and submit them to a broad range of "contests" hoping that a fraction of them will lead to money. The buyers on the other hand will find themselves liable for using the rip-off.