Consensus Point is excited to bring back The Ticker. We’ve partnered with Gannett Media to expand the popular Tennessean Ticker game.  Six Gannett media companies – The News-Press, Tallahassee Democrat, Greenville News, Clarion-Ledger, Tennessean, Florida Today, and a television news station, First Coast News, are participating in the game that is free to the public.

The Ticker is a stock market style game that allows players to predict the outcomes of future events. Players who make the most accurate predictions can win a weekly $100 ROI prize and a potential grand prize.

Questions will cover a variety of topics from whether Phil Mickelson will finish in the top 10 at the British Open to weather there will be eight named storms in the Atlantic by August 7. Past markets have accurately predicted events such as the winner of the Heisman Trophy in correct finishing order days before the results were announced.

The Ticker offers Gannett properties a way to connect with their communities and make the news fun and interactive. It will reach a broad audience by providing a wide range of questions and will create an interactive relationship with readers. “Our platform provides a new way for media outlets to engage their audience and understand the probability of future events,” said Linda Rebrovick CEO of Consensus Point.

To play The Ticker, go to tennessean.com/ticker.

Consensus Point would like to thank all of our customers, partners, and friends for a wonderful 2011, and we are already predicting that 2012 will bring even more exciting opportunities.

2011 has been an amazing year for us at Consensus Point. We were excited to expand our team, including the addition of three outstanding managers and VPs, Lead Software Architect, Jason Vowell from Apple, VP of Development Brian Evans from FanLab and Ashton Brand Group, and Marketing Manager, Hayley Hovious from E.J. Gallo Winery. And we launched a sports public market, Football Futures, with Gannett and the Tennessean. This public facing market successfully predicted the Heisman Trophy winner days before it was announced and has successfully provided a new way for Tennessean readers to engage with the paper.

Additionally, Consensus Point won numerous awards in 2011. Of notable recognition was being named to the Nashville Post “Tech Top 25!” Our CEO Linda Rebrovick was also recognized as a Nashville Business Journal “Technology Power Leader”, one of Nashville’s most powerful women by the Nashville Post, and as a YWCA Woman of Achievement, and still found the time to do numerous interviews, including an interview on board governance with Corporate Board Member.

And our clients continue to do amazing work with prediction markets as well. We are proud to highlight the work of Logica, a leading global, UK- based consulting firm, for the 2011 results of LogicaFuturescope. This public market generated some valuable and insightful insights about the future of Cloud Computing for their clients and consultants! Please let us know if you are interested in the latest LogicaFutureScope Cloud Computing predictions.

We can truly say that 2011 has been memorable, and all of our predictions indicate that 2012 will be even better. Happy New Year!

Consensus Point and Gannett’s Football Futures market is proving the power of prediction markets once again. Days before the announcement was made that Robert Griffin III had won the 2011 Heisman Trophy, Football Futures was clearly predicting RGIII would be taking home the prestigious award. We were thrilled when our friends at The Tennessean felt that the prediction provided by the Football Futures market were interesting enough to appear in the Saturday, December 10, edition of the Tennessean’s sports section. See the chart they used below.

For those of us in the business of predicting the future, results such as these are not surprising at all. Prediction markets have been proven time and again to be more accurate than polls or surveys. Their ability to uncover information and aggregate the knowledge that is dispersed within the crowd is unparalleled. Because those in the market are asked to invest in predictions where they feel most confident, the collected information is not only much richer than that produced by surveys or polls but is also available in real-time when used for forecasting or business intelligence.

We are excited to be working with Gannett and the Tennessean to produce a public prediction market that is raising prediction market awareness among a much wider audience. If you are interested in learning more about prediction markets and their application in either the enterprise or research space, go to our website. If you want to see a market in action or if you just want to see how good you are at predicting the future, take a look at Football Futures.