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Talk Live With Olympic Athlete Maurice Greene on New Looped App November 17, 2019 (EUR EXCLUSIVE!)

*Are you tired of just reading, listening to, or watching your favorite celebrities? Well, with the new Looped mobile app, released just last month, you may get the chance to talk it up, one-on-one, with your favorite singer, actor, dancer or even athlete, like Maurice Green (go here to signup), in a live video chat

(Photo: Looped website)

Looped was founded over a year ago by four college roommates, with backgrounds in music, consulting, digital marketing, and as venture capitalists. The EUR caught up with one of the founders and CEO, Prajit Gopal, in a phone interview, who explained what fans can expect on the chat app.

“It’s a platform that allows any type of celebrity, artist, athlete, authors, and politicians to connect with people on video chat – one-on-one, personal, live video chats.”

Top music acts such as KT Tunstall and Haley Reinhart are in the Looped family as well as newcomer HappyBirthdayCalvin. Even multi-Grammy-winning singer/songwriter David Foster, who has worked with Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Chaka Khan, Mary J. Blige, and Celine Dion, is in the mix.

Harry Hudson, in the video above, was the first celeb to work with Looped. In fact, the original idea for the app started out as a way for music acts to talk shop with fans but that changed quickly.

“Pretty early it started out as a platform for music artists since that was my background,” said Gopal. “I used to be a talent manager for many years. And with Ben, a Looped co-founder, we started a management company together in college.”

The Columbia University graduate continued, “We were managing for a long time, and (not being able to video chat real-time with celebs) was a problem I saw in the music industry.”

“We designed (Looped) as a solution,” Gopal continued. “As we started building it and showing it around, we very quickly realized it was really more than that. It could be applicable to any industry.”

Prajit Gopal is the co-founder and CEO of  Looped. (Photo: Looped website)

Aside from music celebs wanting in, another type of celeb also wanted to feel the love – athletes. Additionally, to Greene joining the lineup, other athletes including Eryk Anders (college football star turned MMA fighter), Saad Abdul-Salaam (soccer player), Ivica Zubac (Los Angeles Clipper), and Vanessa Serros (fitness model) said yes to the live chats.

“Music artists have interaction with fans with meet-and-greets during tours,” said Gopal. “But it’s been really interesting seeing how many athletes have been excited about it. There aren’t many outlets for athletes to get that type of one-on-one connection with the fans.”

Gopal added, “Fans for athletics are passionate. They really do want that type of access but there hasn’t been an outlet for them to do that. There’s usually no meet-and-greets after a game, fight, or race. So, it just became an outlet for them to have that experience.”

One celeb Gopal would love to land for the platform, “I love Lizzo. I have been following her from the beginning. I’ve never met her and I would be very excited to meet her.”

Looped’s Prajit Gopal would love to have Lizzo on the platform. (Lizzo’s Facebook)

Social media has been getting hammered for its lack of real human connection, especially with celebrity culture, and Looped hopes to be the answer to move it in the right direction.

“It is very personal and it is live,” said Gopal, “It’s an interesting thing with celebs and fans and being able to bring each other into their worlds in a way that otherwise wouldn’t be possible. Some celebrities will be on their couch, in their studio, backstage, or in their garage. They could be anywhere.”

HappyBirthdayCalvin was recently featured on Looped. (Photo: Looped website)

“For the fans, they’re in their bedrooms, at school or at work, anywhere right? We’ve had really cool moments. Like one celeb met this fan who was in his bedroom and saw artwork, pets, his family, and all this cool stuff that wouldn’t be able to happen in a physical space. There are advantages to doing it anytime, anywhere.”

For more information on having a one-on-one, live video-chat with a celeb on Looped, go here. You can even put in requests if you do not see who you are looking for. Meanwhile, head here to schedule your chat with Olympic gold medalist Maurice Greene on November 17, 2019.

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