[3] Most notable film festivals, such as Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Sundance and Toronto, have prizes awarded by a competition jury.
[8] During the Middle Ages in 1441, a public poetry competition called the Certame Coronario was held in Florence with the intention of proving that the spoken Italian language was not inferior to Latin.
[9] More recently, but before the advent of the Internet, national and international juried competitions were (and still are) advertised in trade publications, with jurists selected from among the artistic or literary elite.
Written works such as poetry and prose, being less bulky, were entered in competitions via post and received in their original format.
The growth of the Internet also saw service firms appear offering organizational tools for juried competitions allowing for such conveniences as online storage and access of digital images.