In today's virtual world, connecting businesses with freelance creative talent has become a premium for the web 2.0 marketplace. CreativeHub.com, an online freelance marketplace for creative talent, bridges these needs by connecting freelancers to businesses and advertising agencies better than ever before. Connections are optimized by the user's merit-based rating, which is based on unique algorithms developed by Wharton Business School statistics professors.

    Since launching in February 2008, CreativeHub.com has already attracted 500 members and counts Unilever's AXE men's grooming products brand as one of its first clients. Unlike other freelance websites where projects are chosen based on cost- bidding, the rating system on CreativeHub.com is merit-based; using client feedback, the success of the campaign and peer review metrics.

    Neel Premkumar, founder of CreativeHub and current Wharton MBA student noted: "CreativeHub.com is a unique marketplace that combines the best of job boards, social networking sites and online communities in a way that benefits both freelancers and businesses. CreativeHub.com provides businesses with superior ways to create advertising campaigns, post freelance projects, and hire talent."

    This system allows creative talent to be judged on quality rather than cost, while offering businesses a broader range of high level proposals to choose from. Businesses can search for freelancers on CreativeHub.com based on user rating, hourly rate, availability, geography, project experience, and their online portfolio. CreativeHub.com is free to join for creative professionals. To connect freelancers with businesses quickly and easily, CreativeHub.com offers a slick, easy-to-navigate interface.

    CreativeHub.com also hosts members' portfolios and creative work online and provides each person with their own personalized URL to share with clients. Even more than sending design work to the new intern, businesses love to hire out freelance work to the designer who is going to get the work done as fast as possible with the best quality. Thus creates the compulsion for designers to sit for long hours in front of the computer screen, writing flash and drinking near deadly doses of coffee until you get those all too familiar heart palpitations and hunger pangs by trying to finish a 5 minute animation overnight.

    "CreativeHub.com is truly the next level of optimized service for creative professionals and businesses alike. With its easy-to-use interface and unique rating technology, CreativeHub.com allows creatives to connect with marketers better than ever before," stated Dave Reibstein, co-founder of Shopzilla.com and CreativeHub advisory board member.