14 DAY TRIAL // 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.