ProScout
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ProScout is an American model and talent scouting corporation, working independently to organize meetings between aspiring talent and industry leading agencies. The company was first incorporated in 1993 with its main office in Chicago, Illinois. In 1999, the company moved its headquarters to its current location, Scottsdale, Arizona.
ProScout acts both as a pre-screener of undiscovered talent as well as a meeting organizer; its main focus, providing convention style meetings between aspiring artists and well-known professional talent agencies from New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, and other cities prominent in the entertainment industry.
, or AFTRA. Some disreputable companies have sometimes imitated the industry-accepted ProScout business model but have exceeded the limits of promising work. If there is an implication of work, and a required upfront fee - it is referred to as an "advance fee" enterprise and is generally shunned by the industry, and in many cases, illegal. Talent Scouting firms, such as ProScout, are not "advance fee" enterprise because it is engaged in meeting arrangements, not the pursuit of work. ProScout acts as an "ambassador" between an artist and the agencies through a convention style meeting where aspiring talent can been seen and network with multiple agencies at one place. They guarantee nothing more than this opportunity. Though a fee is earned for the meetings and workshops provided by professionals in the industry, it is not considered an "advance fee" enterprise because meeting attendees are seeking an audience with agents to gain representation; not the promise of work, clients, or "end-user's" that hire and pay clients.
ProScout acts both as a pre-screener of undiscovered talent as well as a meeting organizer; its main focus, providing convention style meetings between aspiring artists and well-known professional talent agencies from New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, and other cities prominent in the entertainment industry.
The concept of ProScout
ProScout does act as an agency, and it does represent artists or talent in the traditional role of a talent agency. Rather, its pre-screening service acts as a "clearing house" to find new talent that are interested in meeting with agencies that are generally difficult to meet. In theory, qualified event participants meet national level agents, managers, and casting directors that are conveniently brought into close proximity of where hopeful talent live. This "bringing the agents to the people" concept is designed to increase exposure while reducing the travel and personal out-of-pocket expenses that would accumulate for emerging models and artists attempting to make these contacts on their own.Supermodels
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Advance fee controversy
A frequent confusion results when persons do not understand the difference between ProScout and the agencies they work with. Talent Agencies advise and represent models and artists in the pursuit of work and engagements; whereas ProScout works in the capacity of promoting new artists to the agents at these talent agencies. Whereas a talent agent customarily charges a commission fee of 10% in acting or 20% in modeling, ProScout does not represent talent for work and thus does not work on commission. Rather, ProScout arranges personal meeting services on a one-time flatfee basis with no commissions. A talent agency must be licensed by the state, and may also be franchised with an actor's union, primarily the Screen Actors GuildScreen Actors Guild
The Screen Actors Guild is an American labor union representing over 200,000 film and television principal performers and background performers worldwide...
, or AFTRA. Some disreputable companies have sometimes imitated the industry-accepted ProScout business model but have exceeded the limits of promising work. If there is an implication of work, and a required upfront fee - it is referred to as an "advance fee" enterprise and is generally shunned by the industry, and in many cases, illegal. Talent Scouting firms, such as ProScout, are not "advance fee" enterprise because it is engaged in meeting arrangements, not the pursuit of work. ProScout acts as an "ambassador" between an artist and the agencies through a convention style meeting where aspiring talent can been seen and network with multiple agencies at one place. They guarantee nothing more than this opportunity. Though a fee is earned for the meetings and workshops provided by professionals in the industry, it is not considered an "advance fee" enterprise because meeting attendees are seeking an audience with agents to gain representation; not the promise of work, clients, or "end-user's" that hire and pay clients.