Global Moguls Gaining Momentum With Fans Around The World

Sixty of the hottest up and coming bands have uploaded their tracks and rough-cut videos to compete in the Global Moguls music and creative media competition.

There has already been a tremendous reaction to the Global Moguls talent search and a further 160 bands are still in the process of uploading their content in order to meet the 31 August deadline. Unregistered bands still have 10 days left to include themselves in the competition and to stand a chance to make it to the top six and to possibly win the R250 000 grand prize.

Besides the bands and creatives who are joining the Global Moguls competition, the fans are also flocking to the website to see what the best of the South African music scene has to offer. Fans from as far as Japan, India, Australia, USA, Canada, Turkey, Russia, UK and all over Europe have visited the site and some have registered as fans, voted, rated and left comments.

“The fantastic thing about this platform and competition is that we have fans from the four corners of the globe, looking in and contributing in a real way to the competition.” said Jade Carlisle, co-founder. “It’s just amazing that a band like Ward Eleven from East London has a fan in Thailand supporting them and adding their vote. What is also mind-blowing is that fans from all over can add their favourite tracks to their Global Moguls play-list and play their selected tracks in a loop on their laptop while they carry on with their work. So in some office in Moscow, someone is listening to a track that originated in a garage in Pretoria”.

Global Moguls is purely web-based in nature and the success of each team lies in their ability to recruit fans online through utilizing their social media platforms. As explained by Philip Carlisle, co-founder: “The leader board changes almost every half an hour, with new bands joining the competition every day. There is still plenty of time to join in and reach the front page of the leader-board. We have seen bands join on day one, get almost 100 ratings and hit the top 6 within 24 hours. In the music business today, bands need to get out there and be proactive. You need to treat it like a business if you are serious, get your content on as many platforms as you can and start creating a demand by building your fan-base”.

The Global Moguls site www.globalmoguls.com is open to the public to register as fans where they can listen to the songs, view the videos, rate, vote, comment, and contribute in a meaningful way.

Once the six top-rated bands have been chosen by the fans, they will progress through to a live final at Ratanga Junction in Cape Town on 27 November. Their performances will be live-streamed to the broader online community for fans to vote in real-time on the Global Moguls platform. The bands will have the opportunity to perform with Afrikaans rapper Jack Parow if their fans vote them into the top 6

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