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Become a Hollywood Star Online!

This is your chance

By Vlad Constandes, SEO News Editor

17th of January 2008, 10:10 GMT

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Monetizing on those who think they are good enough to make it to the well-lit stages is the idea BigShotLive founders had. A pretty good one indeed. It's what an entertainment site should be: people trying their best and failing miserably and for those who aren't in it for the laughs, it shows some pretty good artists that have, most likely, not been signed yet.

BigShotLive works pretty much like Google's YouTube.

Users upload videos of themselves performing and others vote them. One day a week the show will host one of the following: modeling, singing, acting, dancing, TV host, comedy and sports. All the videos received in one week will only go through the "finals" of the judging process in that day and the winner will get the chance of an audition with the TBA tinsel town "Big Wig".

The target of the web site is pretty obvious and I sincerely doubt that too many of those who "audition" on the site will get to make it big time. Nevertheless, in case you're tired and are just too tired to surf through the videos on YouTube until you find something as funny as it probably was embarrassing for the person that recorded it, this might be your destination of choice. Not too many times a week, though, at one point you get tired of stumbles and people pretending to be what they're not (interesting and noteworthy that is).

In a manner of speaking, this will most likely be at first a family site in that if one member will upload a video, the others will be those voting it higher in ranks. From a different point of view, it will be a failure if it doesn't manage to launch somebody pretty soon. With no good history behind it, why should new users upload videos? And not many labels will be watching this site for new talents. I don't know that for sure, but my gut just tells me this is going to be the case.

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Comment #1 by: Alicia Mento on 18 Jan 2008, 19:07 GMT	reply to this comment
I think this could work cuz people are always lookin for funny vids like you said and so many peopel want to be famous.

Comment #1.1 by: ellaisbella on 18 Jan 2008, 19:34 GMT

It's like star search for 2008. Are you gonna enter? I think it sounds kinda cool.

Comment #2 by: Treshan on 18 Jan 2008, 19:09 GMT	reply to this comment
How come I never heard this??

Comment #3 by: Kieran on 06 Feb 2008, 00:28 GMT	reply to this comment
I think this is a really good idea. Like Alicia Mento said, so many people want to be famous and this could be a really big chance for them! And it will make them feel good about themselves being on the internet showing the world their talent. I know I'd like too! This sounds really cool.

Comment #4 by: intercutie on 25 Sep 2008, 05:10 GMT	reply to this comment
okay, im new to this, what do you actually do? it sounds kinda fake, oh yeah, you can become a big hollywood star online when people dont even know you. Tell me about it.

Comment #5 by: lisa on 25 Sep 2008, 05:12 GMT	reply to this comment
OMG! This is soo cool! become a huge hollywood star online? its just so easy, I cant wait!

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