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Remotasks is a crowdsourcing marketplace where taskers can earn money doing online microtasks like data labeling, data categorization, transcription, and other things related to AI training. Founded in 2017, the platform has worked with popular companies like GM Cruise, Lyft, and Google, and claims to have paid out over $15M to its 240k+ taskers.

GoTranscript is a crowdsourcing platform that connects those looking for transcription, captioning, or translation services with a crowd of paid freelance contractors. Founded in 2005, the platform claims to have facilitated the transcription of over 1.7M hours of audio and video.

Appen is a crowdsourcing marketplace for gig work and AI-related tasks. Here, organizations can hire from Appen's crowd of contributors (freelance contractors) who get paid to complete tasks like data collection, data labeling, search evaluation, transcription, and more. Founded in 1996, Appen claims to have over 1M contributors across 170+ countries.

TranscribeMe is a crowdsourcing marketplace for transcription and translation services. Here, organizations can quickly hire crowdsourced help while freelance contractors can get paid for transcribing and translating content. Founded in 2011, the platform is based in San Francisco.

Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing marketplace that connects businesses with workers who earn money by completing small tasks through the web. Founded in 2005, the platform is owned and operated by Amazon.com and is home to over 500k crowd workers.

Clickworker is a crowdsourcing marketplace platform that connects businesses with freelance contractors for the completion of small, digital tasks (ie microtasks). These tasks can range from writing and translating to researching, data processing, and more. Founded in 2005, the platform has facilitated the completion of over 1 million tasks.