That's it. When you are an artist in 2014, creation seems the easiest part. However, being known is another business. With internet, it is not so easy, marketing-wise. You have to pay for your name to appear in the main art sites. They will not choose you for what you are worth, artistically speaking, but for what you pay. I can even display my cat "artwork" if I pay the price. With a couple of hundreds of dollars, my cat can become one of such "artist" in these very expensive yellow-pages. As a collector, I choose to look at competition site because I'm more interested by the art, and less by the capacity of the artist to pay marketing campaign. By looking at these sites, you can find and discover artists that do not appear in main artist list. I also imagine that, for an artist, the minimum fees to enter the competition are way more accessible than the fees for regular marketing. That being said, not all competition web site worth the visit for various reason: bad design, bad browsing, not a lot to say about the artists in competition or even the winners... I've just reviewed Exhibeo and I have to say: I’m very impressed. Apart that Exhibeo site is beautiful, I am impressed by the quality of the prize: the artist interview is stunning. The questions of the interviewer are excellent, not generic, and really motivate you to know more about the artist (I've just discovered Donna Marsh, a painter since the '90). This is the kind of interview you can find in renowned international publication.Anyway, great job guys, collectors and artists will thank you one day. Sorry for the bad english, it is not my mother language.