Contest Watchers is a premier and award-winning global directory dedicated to international creative challenges and competitions. Launched on 23 November 2009, by Goce Mitevski, the platform provides artists, designers, and creators with a curated database of opportunities to gain global recognition and win prestigious prizes.
Our database is updated Monday through Friday to ensure a continuous stream of fresh, reliable listings. The same goes for our social profiles on X/Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
🗂️ Database Structure
We organize the contests in categories, grouped by status, discipline and several other parameters.
Open, Expired and Finished are the three most important categories and contain all contests on site. Contests move between these categories upon certain events. A contest is open until its deadline expires. As such, it is firstly contained in the Open category. Once its deadline expires, it is automatically transferred to the Expired category and assigned a pending status. Finally, when the competition results get announced, we transfer the contest to the Finished category and link to a page with detailed information about the results.
Additionally, contests always belong to a few more groups of categories. We have separate categories for competition disciplines – almost all creative disciplined are covered – as well as for annual, free, Students only, residency, scholarship and grant contests.
Creative Disciplines
We monitor and organize international competitions across all major creative fields:
- Design: Graphic, Fashion, Industrial, and Interior Design
- Fine Arts: Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, and 3D Art
- Media & Lens: Photography, Filmmaking, Video, and Multimedia
- Audio & Spatial: Sound, Music, and Architecture
📢 Share a Contest!
Are you hosting a contest, or did you stumble across an awesome creative opportunity we missed? Help us grow our community using our specialized tools.
- Suggest Contest: Found a cool opportunity online? Send us a quick tip through our Suggest Contest form so our team can check it out.
- Submit Contest: Are you an official organizer looking for maximum reach? Use our official Submit Contest form to get your event considered for listing directly in front of thousands of global creators.
🚀 Staying in the Loop
Never miss a life-changing deadline! Subscribe to our Daily or Weekly Newsletter to get the world’s best creative challenges delivered straight to your inbox.
🤔 Frequently Asked Questions
Is Contest Watchers free?
Yes. Browsing our database, utilizing advanced filters, and subscribing to our newsletters is 100% free.
Do you host these competitions?
No. We act as an aggregate directory. We source global competitions and link you directly to the official organizers for submission.
How frequently is the site updated?
Our directory is updated daily, Monday through Friday, with new international listings.
Why are deadlines listed in UTC?
We use Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) as a universal standard to prevent time-zone confusion and protect users from missing deadlines.
🌌 In A Parallel Universe…
In a parallel universe, Contest Watchers is operated by a super-serious gang of five fictional characters. They have managed to link up with our world, working behind the curtain to keep our creative spirit bright. We just hope that magical connection is never broken! ❤️