America’s Got Talent Teams Up with YouNow to Host The First Live Streamed Open Auditions for the Show’s Upcoming Season 12
YouNow auditions from around the country will be live streamed at the LiveFronts in New York City.
New York, NY(25 Oct 2016)
YouNow, the live streaming network, announced the return of their live open auditions for NBC’s America’s Got Talent (AGT) today at The LiveFronts conference, hosted by BRaVe Media Ventures and Roker Media in New York City. The YouNow auditions will be streamed live during the conference where attendees can watch the first AGT season 12 hopefuls, auditioning from their homes and mobile devices, vying for a position on the hit TV show. Auditions will be hosted by AGT digital producer Adam Davis, who will be broadcasting from LA.
After generating huge viewership for last season’s open auditions, YouNow and America’s Got Talent again invite prospective contestants of any age and any talent to share their unique skills with show producers. Last season over 14,000 potential contestants signed up to audition via YouNow.
During the 9-week audition period, millions engaged with talented hopefuls via likes, comments and digital gifts more than 500,000 times. By using YouNow’s live streaming platform as an open call for auditions, America’s Got Talent is opening the door for talent to audition from anywhere in the country. Visit https://www.younow.com/AGT_Auditions to learn how to become a contestant and view the schedule for upcoming auditions.
Said Adi Sideman, YouNow founder and CEO, “TV has long strived to break the 4th wall and allow for interactivity. America’s Got Talent and FremantleMedia are going a step further by allowing people to not just interact, but to participate. Using YouNow for auditions means more talented people have the opportunity to be discovered. The live streamed auditions are also content in their own right, generating millions of new interactive experiences that did not exist before.”
“YouNow offers us a phenomenal vehicle that widens the pool of potential contestants for AGT,” said JR Griffin, vice president digital marketing and business development, FremantleMedia North America. “In addition to enhancing our audition efforts, it’s simply fun to watch. The YouNow community loves to see the people who step up and take a shot at getting on the show.”
America’s Got Talent has remained television’s most watched summer series for the past 11 years. This past summer, the show was the #1 broadcast network series in both adults 18-49 and total viewers, with a season average of 13.5 million viewers. The show also saw its own highest ratings in five years.
America’s Got Talent was created by Simon Cowell and is co-produced by FremantleMedia North America and Syco Entertainment. Simon Cowell, Sam Donnelly, Jason Raff, Trish Kinane and Richard Wallace are the executive producers.
For a complete list of America's Got Talent audition cities, details on how to submit a video and how to participate in the YouNow auditions via younow.com/AGT_Auditions, go to the official America's Got Talent audition site at http://www.agtauditions.com.
The LiveFronts conference is an invitation-only event that brings together content creators, executives, advertisers and innovators to share insights around the current and future states of live streaming ecosystem.
About YouNow
?YouNow is a live social network that enables audiences and performers to connect in real time and is devoted to the unlimited potential of human creativity. The interactive entertainment platform has over 100 million user sessions a month and live-streams 50,000 hours of new video content every day. YouNow is committed to creating a community that is a safe place where people can meet, get together and connect. YouNow is backed by Oren Zeev and VCs Venrock, Union Square Ventures and Comcast Ventures. Follow YouNow on Twitter and Instagram @younow.
About FremantleMedia North America
FremantleMedia North America (FMNA) is a premier content studio. FMNA and its portfolio of companies, including Random House Studio, Original Productions and 495 Productions, create entertaining and innovative scripted and alternative programs for network, cable, syndicated and digital partners. Its diverse, critically-acclaimed and award-winning slate includes America’s Got Talent (NBC), Family Feud (SYN), Let’s Make A Deal (CBS), The Price Is Right (CBS), The Great Christmas Light Fight (ABC), Deadliest Catch (Discovery), Jay Leno’s Garage (CNBC) Married to Medicine (Bravo), Blue Collar Millionaires (CNBC), Ice Road Truckers (HISTORY), Storage Wars (A&E), Celebrity Family Feud (ABC), Celebrity Name Game (SYN), To Tell The Truth (ABC), Match Game (ABC), Hollyweed (Independent) and American Gods (STARZ), among others. FMNA also operates BUZZR, a retro game show channel that launched in 2015, and is available in the top 10 U.S. markets, and 65 percent of the country.
FMNA is the U.S. arm of global media giant FremantleMedia, which includes a distribution arm, FremantleMedia International, a digital and branded entertainment division and a kids & family entertainment business. As one of the world’s largest and most successful creators, producers and distributors of TV brands in the world, FremantleMedia’s comprehensive global network has operations in 31 countries, creating over 10,000 hours of programming a year, rolling out more than 45 formats and managing over 350 individual titles. The company also distributes more than 20,000 hours of content in over 200 territories. For more information follow us @FMNATV and visit our Facebook page.
ABOUT SYCO ENTERTAINMENT
Syco Entertainment, a joint venture between Simon Cowell and Sony Music, is one of the world’s leading global music, film and television production companies responsible for some of the most successful global TV and music franchises and is the world’s most successful producer of international talent. Syco Music was named the UK’s number 1 record label for both A&R and sales in 2014 and is home to international best-selling artists who have sold more than 300 million records to date. Syco is the record label home to Labrinth, Fifth Harmony, Little Mix, One Direction, Susan Boyle, IL Divo, CNCO, Ella Henderson, and Grace VanderWaal amongst others. Syco’s television assets include the global franchises The X Factor and Got Talent. Around the world, The X Factor airs in 168 countries and is watched by more than a half billion people. The Got Talent format officially holds the Guinness Book of World Records title for highest number of adaptations, making it the “Worlds Most Successful Reality TV Format.” America’s Got Talent airs in 186 countries around the globe and has been the #1 US summer reality series for over a decade, with season 11 being the highest rated season in five years. Syco Film have recently partnered with Animal Logic (The Lego Movie, Happy Feet) to produce a number of music-based live action-hybrid animated movies.