| MusicMogul | |
| Owner: | Music Mogul, Inc |
| Company Type: | Corporation |
| Foundation: | 2008 |
| Location City: | Hollywood, California |
| Location Country: | United States of America |
| Key People: | Rodney Jerkins, Chief Creative Officer Nicholas Longano, CEO |
| Num Employees: | 120 |
| Url: | MusicMogul.com |
| Registration: | Recommended |
| Launch Date: | February 8, 2009 |
| Current Status: | Inactive |
| Language: | English |
| Advertising: | Google, AdSense |
| Website Type: | Social network service / Online Music World |
MusicMogul.com was an online music world targeting aspiring musicians. They hoped to combine the popularity of social-networking sites, music television shows like "American Idol" and online multiplayer games.
Founded in 2008, Music Mogul was the product of a collaboration between professionals from the gaming and music industries: CEO Nicholas Longano, a video game industry veteran; Chief Creative Officer & Music Supervisor Rodney Jerkins, a Grammy – winning music producer; Chief Talent Operations Ray Brown, formerly with Ribeiro & Brown Management, Nu Life Entertainment and Southern Boy Entertainment.[1]
Registered users uploaded videos or linked YouTube videos to their profile. These videos were auditions for the Music Mogul Competition. Other users can vote on each video a maximum of one time on a scale of 1 to 10. Musicians are rated both on their points and their average rating.
Performers were to be selected by their online peers and an industry panel of judges to win a three-song demo deal with Rodney Jerkins’ Darkchild Productions.[2]
One live competition was hosted in Los Angeles in August 2009, and was won by Nashville-based singer/songwriter Suzi Oravec.
The site appears to be defunct as of 2010.