Can You Dance? Super Convention Casting Call Adopt JamarGig
Background
CYD? Are the UK’s largest touring dance conference and host over 17,000 dancers at their annual Super Convention in Liverpool, England. CYD?’s founder, Tom Shilcock in partnership with Industry Auditions, embarked on an ambitious plan to create the UK’s largest casting call to be hosted at the CYD? Super Convention.
CYD? wanted to provide an experience for applicants and auditioning companies that set the CYD? Casting Call apart from all others.
The Challenge
CYD? needed a branded online solution that provided applicants an easy way to create and manage their profile and simply submit their applications to the casting call.
The solution also needed to provide casting directors with a professional streamlined solution that enabled them to assess talent in the auditions without the need for messy emails, spreadsheets or paper. Something that was almost unheard of…
A Solution was identified
With the recommendation of Industry Auditions, CYD? identified JamarGig as the only solution available that could meet the demands of managing multiple large auditions across different companies within one private and secure solution.
JamarGig was the only solution that could fulfilled the following critical requirements:
- Provide white-labelled CYD? branding,
- Applicants are able to create and manage their talent profile,
- Ability to index and search all profiles within a private database,
- Ability to create custom questions specific to each audition,
- Ability to apply for multiple company auditions in one application,
- Ability to create segregated casting calls for each company,
- Ability for each company to only have access to talent who have applied to their auditions,
- Ability to manage in person check-in and audition number assignment,
- Ability to invite shortlisted talent to auditions,
- Ability to organise talent for live assessment so paper notes and decisions were not required.
“There was nothing else on the market that was so well suited to managing talent and auditions at scale. JamarGig was a breath of fresh air and we knew it would provide our applicants and guest casting directors a delightfully streamlined experience.” Says Tom.
The first CYD? Auditions go live
The JamarGig team helped CYD? configure the platform to exactly meet the needs of this huge audition. “The team from JamarGig helped us every step of the way and were able to recommend a streamlined process that worked perfectly.” says Tom.
Over 500 talent over two days were auditioned. JamarGig handled the entire application, check-in, audition number assignment, grouping, assessment and shortlisting of talent for four separate company auditions.
All without a single email, spreadsheet or paper document. The talent found the whole experience simple and streamlined and communications were seamlessly managed through JamarGig.
“We don’t think the auditions would have been as successful as they were without JamarGig. It made everything so professional and streamlined. This is definitely a solution the industry has been crying out for.” says Tom.
The casting directors were impressed with the ability of JamarGig to streamline the entire process and have the everything visible and organised. The speed of the solution to be able to progress through the auditions was also game changing.
CYD? UK’s Biggest Casting call was a Success
The CYD? auditions were so successful that the Super Conference auditions are returning even bigger and better!
JamarGig has helped make the UK’s Biggest Casting Call a reality and has been adopted as the strategic solution for the CYD? auditions.
If you are looking for a solution to better help manage your talent for both online and live auditions then JamarGig may be just the solution you need!
