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Category
Commercial modeling agency alternative
Advertising, catalog, lifestyle and stock work: the widest-booked category of the nine.
Live results
Commercial models, filtered
The category filter is already applied. Narrow it further by city, age, height or availability.
No profiles are published yet
The grid only ever shows profiles a person has read and approved, and it never pads itself with people who do not exist, so it is empty rather than filled with stock faces. Here is the shape of a card instead: the fields every profile publishes, and the nine categories they publish them under. Search and filtering work now, and the first approved profile appears here the moment it passes review.
What a card holds
The image a search result shows.
And what it publishes
- Display name
- Set by the model
- Category
- One or more of nine
- City
- Where they work
- Age · Height
- From date of birth · cm
- Day rate
- Published range
- Availability
- Now · this month · booked
Where a profile can list
A model can list in several at once, and a brand can filter on several at once.
What brands book it for
Product advertising, catalogs, website imagery, packaging, corporate and healthcare lifestyle.
The buyer here is usually an in-house marketing manager, a photographer or a production coordinator with a brief and a date, not a casting director. That is why the filters are city, availability and physical criteria rather than credits and union status.
Hire a model →What your portfolio needs
Approachable headshot, lifestyle images with real expression, a range of wardrobe, at least one image with a product in hand.
Quantity is not the point. A booker opens a profile, decides in about fifteen seconds whether you fit the brief, and then checks whether your rate and your availability make the shoot possible. Everything in the profile should serve one of those two questions.
Building the portfolio →Commercial modeling agency
Do you need a commercial modeling agency?
Not for most of the work. A commercial modeling agency earns its commission on national advertising, where it negotiates a usage buyout and chases payment. Catalog, e-commerce, lifestyle, healthcare and corporate shoots, which make up most commercial bookings, are cast by the brand, the studio or the photographer, and they book the person who fits, is in the city and is free on the date.
Commercial and print boards are local businesses, concentrated in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta and Miami, and each takes a commission, commonly 10 to 20 percent, sometimes plus a client service charge. If one wants you, sign with open eyes. Outside those markets, and for the everyday work inside them, a reviewed profile with your city, day rate and availability puts you in front of the people shooting this month, with nothing taken out of the fee.
Questions
How do I find commercial modeling agencies near me?
Do commercial modeling agencies charge a fee?
Can you do commercial modeling without an agency?
Rates in this category
We do not publish a rate table
Every site that prints one is either quoting a survey it will not name or making the number up, and a stale figure does more damage than no figure: it becomes the ceiling a brand negotiates down from. On MaxGirls the rate is whatever the model publishes on their own profile, visible before anyone makes contact, and we never take a share of it.
What actually moves the number is the same in every category: the usage license, the length of the day, the market, and whether exclusivity is being asked for. Those are worth understanding before you set your own range.
The other categories
The rest of the sheet
Commercial models by city
Get started
List in Commercial and be findable by the brief
Create your profile, and a person will review it before it goes live.