The world's first global 24-hour virtual talent search competition and booking marketplace.

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The talent booking and competition marketplace for everyone the big shows never call back. Discover artists, compete for rank, book real gigs, and go live, all from your phone.

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Telepharaoh, Founder of FameUS
From the founder

Before any of this, I was just a kid who loved energizing, inspiring, and empowering people through music. That love turned into thousands of events over 30 years, including shows alongside Usher, Boyz II Men, the Black Eyed Peas, and Imagine Dragons, plus event work with brand and corporate partners like LinkedIn, Sony, and the NFL Pro Bowl. It all started with me dancing on the streets of Chicago for spare change, just trying to help my mom out. FameUS is the platform I wish existed back then, built from a lifetime inside the industry it's meant to fix.

Telepharaoh, Founder

Introducing FameUS.

Talent search and bookings, 24/7, worldwide

The full picture in about two minutes.

The FameUS Overview

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The gap

Talent shows built a funnel. We're building the exit ramp.

10 to 15M

People worldwide attempt to compete in major televised talent search shows every year, and under 0.01% of them ever make it to television.

Every year, millions of people audition for a shot at TV talent shows. A handful make the cut. The rest, genuinely gifted performers, go back to posting for likes, with no path to real bookings or recognition.

FameUS is the social-first alternative: no gatekeeper panel, no single audition day. Just a ranking system, a stage, and a booking button.

Applicants worldwide10 to 15M
Regional auditions5K to 15K
Broadcast episodes~100
Season winner1
The opportunity

The appetite for talent competition is already massive. The infrastructure just hasn't caught up.

These aren't projections; they're what the existing, broken system already proves the audience wants.

Talent-show audience appetite

10 to 15M

Global yearly applicants

People who attempt to compete in major televised talent search shows every year, worldwide.

<0.01%

Ever reach television

The size of the gap between people who try out and the tiny fraction who ever get real exposure.

1B+

Got Talent global viewers

Combined audience across 70+ country adaptations. Officially named the most successful reality TV format in history by Guinness World Records, with over $500M in format sales in a single recent year.

$3B+

The Voice franchise revenue

Global revenue generated by a single talent-show format, across 140+ countries.

160 to 200M

Eurovision annual viewers

Proof that audience appetite for talent competition formats is enormous and global.

$883.7M

American Idol peak ad revenue

Peak US ad revenue in 2008. Season 6's premiere alone drew 37.4M viewers.

19.4M

The X Factor peak UK finals

Peak UK annual ad revenue topped £100M+ ($130M+) during the show's height.

17.3M

Britain's Got Talent peak finals

Peak viewership for a single national adaptation's finals broadcast.

The live booking market: real money, outdated tools

$200B

Global live entertainment market

The size of the market today, before a single-booking-transaction model gets replaced by a dynamic, competition-driven one.

$1.8B → $4.6B

Live music booking platforms

The closest existing category to FameUS's booking marketplace, projected to more than double within the decade.

Today

Real money already moves here

Platforms like GigSalad and Encore Musicians prove this category monetizes now, but they're built for a single booking, not a dynamic, competition-driven marketplace.

A huge share of that time is already spent on entertainment

5.79B

People on social media worldwide

The addressable audience for a social-first, mobile-first talent platform.

58%

Of all social media time goes to short-form video

Not networking, not news: a majority of the time people spend on social media is spent consuming entertainment. That's the exact appetite FameUS's home feed is built to capture.

3+ hrs/day

Daily use among FameUS's core demographic

16 to 24 year olds hit 95% platform penetration and spend 3+ hours a day on social media, already the heaviest entertainment consumers on the internet.

2h 20 to 24m

Average daily use, all ages

The baseline across every user. FameUS's core demographic spends noticeably more of their day already primed for exactly this kind of feed.

Figures are public data on existing talent-show franchises, booking platforms, and social media usage, compiled for investor reference. FameUS is not affiliated with or endorsed by any show, network, or platform named above. Sources available on request.

The booking problem, up close

Right now, booking talent is a scavenger hunt.

Discovery, negotiation, payment, proof of credibility, and reviews each live in a different app, a different inbox, a different one-off transaction. Nothing carries forward. Nothing builds on itself. FameUS replaces all seven with one system.

Today

Discovery is scattered across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and whatever platform an artist happens to post on.

FameUS

One home feed. Every artist, every genre, ranked and rated in one place.

Today

Negotiations and contracts get stuck in scattered email threads with no paper trail.

FameUS

Booking happens in-app, instantly, with terms locked in at the tap of a button.

Today

Auditions and bookings are slow, manual, and disconnected from one another.

FameUS

A 24-hour live arena where discovery and booking happen in the same motion.

Today

Payments are handled ad hoc (invoices, checks, Venmo) with no protection for either side.

FameUS

Payments run through the platform, with commission handled automatically.

Today

There's no centralized, credible record of an artist's track record. Every booker starts from zero trust.

FameUS

A digital press kit builds itself automatically from every competition and booking.

Today

Existing booking platforms treat every gig as a one-off. Nothing an artist does today helps them tomorrow.

FameUS

Bookings feed the ranking system, and the ranking system feeds more bookings. It compounds.

Today

Reviews live scattered across Yelp, Google, and Facebook, easy to fake, easy to bury, and disconnected from any actual verified booking.

FameUS

Every review is tied to a real, verified booking or competition result: no anonymous ratings, no way to buy your way past a bad one.

The FameUS Agent Experience

Ranked, ready-to-book talent: no more digging through cold DMs.

Inside the app

Five pillars. One stage.

Every part of FameUS feeds the same idea: the more you perform, the more you're seen, ranked, and booked.

01 · Discover

Home feed

An immersive, full-screen scroll: swipe down for more artists in a genre, swipe sideways to jump genres entirely.

02 · Compete

Rankings

Audience-driven scoring turns every performance into a leaderboard placement: no single panel decides your future.

03 · Book

Marketplace

Venues and event organizers browse ranked artists directly and book them through the app, real gigs, not just views.

04 · Profile

Artist pages

A living portfolio: performance history, rank trajectory, genre tags, and booking availability in one place.

05 · Go live

Livestreaming

Casual Q&As and backyard sets that feed straight into the ranking system, earning tips while they're at it.

06 · Overflow

Built for the funnel's overflow

Every pillar exists to catch the talent traditional shows never had airtime for, and give it somewhere to go.

The FameUS Talent Journey

Your stage, your rank, your booking: built for the artist who's ready.

The signature move

Vertical stays in genre. Horizontal changes the show.

Most discovery feeds are one long scroll of everything. FameUS splits direction from intent, so browsing feels like flipping between stages at a festival, not scrolling a single infinite line.

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Scroll down

See more artists in the same genre you're already watching.

→
Swipe sideways

Jump entirely, hip-hop to comedy to aerial arts, instantly.

Real product walkthrough: browse, book, and track, live in the prototype.

The FameUS Fan Experience

Rate, gift, and watch your favorites climb the charts in real time.

For investors

Three ways FameUS makes money, and one massive, underserved applicant pool to make it from.

We're not competing for the handful of people who make it onto TV. We're building the platform for everyone else.

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Booking commission

FameUS takes a cut on every booking made through the marketplace, connecting ranked artists directly with venues and event organizers.

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Livestream gifting

Audience tips and gifting during live sessions, with FameUS taking a percentage, a direct, recurring revenue layer on top of engagement.

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Paid virtual concerts

Artists host ticketed livestream performances; FameUS takes a share of ticket revenue while artists reach audiences with zero venue cost.

The FameUS Sponsor Experience

Reach audiences the moment they're forming, not after they've moved on.

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