If someone wants to offer work to be done on Mechanical Turk, but doesn't want to deal with the complexities of it themselves, or isn't able to directly sign up with Amazon, there are middleman/intermediary requesters who offer to post HITs for another person/business for a fee. I wanted to list in one place the ones I know of so far, both for workers to be aware of, and for anyone who might want to use such a service. Amazon features a number of these companies on their requester information site, as 'technology partners' and 'consulting partners'; some other companies included on those pages might not post HITs themselves, just help with the process, so I'm only listing the ones for which I know their MTurk requester name.
General varied types of HITs:
MTurk requester name: OCMP, and a bunch of others
Customer-facing name: WorkFusion, fka CrowdComputing Systems
Notes: See MTG OCMP requester thread and partner page (screenshot).
MTurk requester name: Alegion, fka Significant Bits
Customer-facing name: Alegion, part of Significant Bits LLC
Notes: See MTG Alegion requester thread and partner page (screenshot). In addition to batch work, posts simple single-question polls for Zipinion.
MTurk requester name: Mturk Data and Mturk Data2
Customer-facing name: Mturk Data Consultants
Notes: See MTG Mturk Data requester thread. Currently posts mostly international academic surveys on the second account, and other random types of HITs on the first account. Operated by turker Joe Miele et al, who has signed the Dynamo guidelines.
Surveys only:
MTurk requester name: SurveyComet
Customer-facing name: SurveyComet and TurkPrime, part of 'Crusoe Development, Inc.'
Notes: Active on MTurk since 2011, they offer to post researchers' surveys through the SurveyComet account, in addition to tools to help researchers post through their own accounts.
MTurk requester name: PickFu
Customer-facing name: PickFu
Notes: Simple single-question polls. Results from many previous polls are viewable at http://www.pickfu.com/feedback-polls . Active on MTurk since 2009.
MTurk requester name: Quiz The Crowd, fka Jillian Jordan
Customer-facing name: Quiz The Crowd
Notes: Simple single-question polls, created through an iPhone app.
MTurk requester name: Title Tester
Customer-facing name: TitleTester.com
Notes: Simple single-question polls for article/post titles.
Audio/video transcription HITs:
MTurk requester name: CastingWords
Customer-facing name: CastingWords
Notes: See partner page (screenshot).
MTurk requester name: SpeechInk
Customer-facing name: Speechpad
Notes: See partner page (screenshot).
Image tagging HITs:
MTurk requester name: Tagasauris
Customer-facing name: Tagasauris
Notes: See partner page (screenshot).
Usability testing:
MTurk requester name: UserBob
Customer-facing name: UserBob
Notes: Website and Android app testing, with screen/audio recording. See MTG requester thread.
General varied types of HITs:
MTurk requester name: OCMP, and a bunch of others
Customer-facing name: WorkFusion, fka CrowdComputing Systems
Notes: See MTG OCMP requester thread and partner page (screenshot).
MTurk requester name: Alegion, fka Significant Bits
Customer-facing name: Alegion, part of Significant Bits LLC
Notes: See MTG Alegion requester thread and partner page (screenshot). In addition to batch work, posts simple single-question polls for Zipinion.
MTurk requester name: Mturk Data and Mturk Data2
Customer-facing name: Mturk Data Consultants
Notes: See MTG Mturk Data requester thread. Currently posts mostly international academic surveys on the second account, and other random types of HITs on the first account. Operated by turker Joe Miele et al, who has signed the Dynamo guidelines.
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Surveys only:
MTurk requester name: SurveyComet
Customer-facing name: SurveyComet and TurkPrime, part of 'Crusoe Development, Inc.'
Notes: Active on MTurk since 2011, they offer to post researchers' surveys through the SurveyComet account, in addition to tools to help researchers post through their own accounts.
MTurk requester name: PickFu
Customer-facing name: PickFu
Notes: Simple single-question polls. Results from many previous polls are viewable at http://www.pickfu.com/feedback-polls . Active on MTurk since 2009.
MTurk requester name: Quiz The Crowd, fka Jillian Jordan
Customer-facing name: Quiz The Crowd
Notes: Simple single-question polls, created through an iPhone app.
MTurk requester name: Title Tester
Customer-facing name: TitleTester.com
Notes: Simple single-question polls for article/post titles.
Audio/video transcription HITs:
MTurk requester name: CastingWords
Customer-facing name: CastingWords
Notes: See partner page (screenshot).
MTurk requester name: SpeechInk
Customer-facing name: Speechpad
Notes: See partner page (screenshot).
Image tagging HITs:
MTurk requester name: Tagasauris
Customer-facing name: Tagasauris
Notes: See partner page (screenshot).
Usability testing:
MTurk requester name: UserBob
Customer-facing name: UserBob
Notes: Website and Android app testing, with screen/audio recording. See MTG requester thread.
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