Case Study: Prodigious achieves instant global management of 1,500+ freelancers with Shortlist

Helping Publicis Manage and Collaborate With 1,500+ Freelancers

Prodigious, the global production arm of Publicis with 3,000 employees across 37 locations, faced a fragmented, manual approach to sourcing external talent—siloed “black books” and slow phone-based referrals for thousands of freelancers and partners. To centralize and modernize how it finds and manages 1,500+ freelancers, Prodigious selected Shortlist’s talent-management platform.

Shortlist delivered a global, searchable community of external talent with individual profiles, peer ratings, custom onboarding workflows and sourcing/proposal tools. As a result, Prodigious can instantly find and manage external talent across offices, onboard freelancers quickly, and scale its talent pool—turning a dispersed 4,000‑partner network into a centrally managed, efficient resource.

Prodigious

Luc Labadie

Chief Information Officer