About
Casting to the People is a crowdsourced casting solution for TV, film, and commercials. Under the current system, only 5,000 of the 160,000 Screen Actor's Guild Members in the U.S. have agents. Actors who are lucky enough to have family and friend industry connections are the one's who get agent representation and thus the ability to apply to premium, principal roles. Our product changes all that. We let users create a short 10 second audition video directly from their mobile device. They pay $3 to submit their audition, afterwards we show them 5 other video submissions based on a google news feeder inspired algorithm of new and trending people. They vote for who they think would get the role if they don't, and if they vote for the right person they get their money back. Then we submit the auditions to the casting director in order of those who got the most votes first. Our offline test have shown the top 5% get roughly 90% of votes, meaning they get the top 50 out of over 1,000.