There is a type of crowdsourcing known as crowd voting. It is as simple as the name : the crowd votes to determine the best. Entities may choose to use crowd voting to engage stakeholders, such as employees or customers, as well as the public to help prioritise ideas or determine a course of action.
Crowd Voting leverages the community’s judgment to organize, filter and stack-rank content such as newspaper articles, music and movies. It is the one of the most popular form of crowdsourcing, which generates the highest levels of participation. Crowd voting is based on the 1:10:89 Rule, which states that out of 100 people :
For 10% that vote and rate content “the act of consumption was itself an act of creation.” The Internet offers various mechanisms to perform voting – ratings of articles by end-users or computer-driven algorithms that assess popularity via links and page views. Reality TV shows offer another example of Crowd Voting. Some have called "American Idol" the largest crowd voting ever conducted.