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Commercial casting · Kuala Lumpur & nationwide
Commercial model agency in Malaysia
Send a brief and get a shortlist of models who are confirmed available for your dates, usually within 24 hours. We cast for e-commerce, campaign, event and video work across Malaysia, and we ask about usage and territory before we quote, because both change the answer.
No fee to see a shortlist. Rates are quoted against your brief, not from a price list.
The board
Featured commercial models in Malaysia
A selection from the roster. Tell us the market and the audience and we will send the ones who fit, with availability already checked.
23 featured · more matched to your brief
How it runs
Brief, shortlist, call sheet
You send a brief
Dates, location, wardrobe, look direction, language on set, usage and a budget range. Eight fields, about four minutes.
We send a shortlist
Comp cards for models confirmed available on your dates, with a quote scoped to the usage you named. Usually within 24 hours.
You approve, we run it
Booking confirmation with media, territory, term and exclusivity in writing. Call sheet, fitting if needed, and someone on set.
Availability is checked before a name reaches you
The slow part of casting is not finding faces. It is finding out who is actually free on the fourteenth. A shortlist assembled from a database looks impressive and falls apart the moment two of the five turn out to be on another job, so every name we send has been contacted about your dates first. That is why a shortlist takes hours rather than minutes, and why it holds.
Options, and what happens when someone else wants the same date
Once you like two or three people, we place an option on them: first option means the date is held for you, second option means someone else asked first and you are behind them. If the first option is challenged, the holder gets a short window to confirm or release. It sounds bureaucratic until the day a client loses a model because nobody wrote down who asked first.
Wardrobe, sizes and the fitting
We ask for measurements because your samples have a size, not because measurements make someone a better model. For e-commerce and fashion the sample size decides the shortlist almost on its own. For campaign and event work it barely matters, and look direction, presence and language do the deciding instead. If the shoot needs a fitting, it is scheduled before the shoot day, not squeezed into the morning of it.
The booking is written down before anyone shows up
A confirmation goes out with the date, the call time, the rate, and the usage: which media, which territories, how long, and whether the category is exclusive. Everything after that follows from it. Overtime runs from the call time on the call sheet. Travel outside a model's home city is quoted separately. And when the shoot moves, which it does, the confirmation is what everyone argues from instead of memory.
Shoot day
Someone from our side is reachable through the day, and on larger jobs on set. Most of what goes wrong on a shoot day is logistics rather than talent: a call sheet that never reached the model, a location change sent to the wrong number, a two-hour overrun nobody agreed to. Those are cheap to prevent and expensive to fix afterwards.
The brief
Eight fields, about four minutes
Fill this in and it goes straight into WhatsApp or an email, already written up. Nothing is stored on this page. Anything you leave blank we will simply ask about.
Usage and territory move the total more than the day rate does, which is why we ask for them before quoting.
Casting for a market that is not one audience
Malaysia is Malay, Chinese and Indian audiences plus everyone in between, and a cast assembled for one is not automatically right for another. We ask who the campaign is addressed to before we suggest anybody, because the shortlist changes completely with the answer.
Models, creators, or both
A model gives you time on set and the right to use the images. A creator gives you access to an audience. Some briefs need one, some need the other, and a growing number need the same person to do both. We run both sides, so the recommendation is not shaped by what we happen to sell.
Casting types
The casts Malaysian briefs actually ask for
These are brief categories, not boxes people live in. Most models on the roster fit more than one, and plenty of campaigns deliberately mix them in the same frame. It is a faster way to describe what you need than adjectives are.
Malay, including modest wardrobe
The default cast for national FMCG, telco, banking and government-adjacent work, and the one most often needed with tudung or modest styling. Ask early: wardrobe, styling and what the model is asked to do are agreed before the booking, not on the day.
Chinese-Malaysian
Beauty, skincare, property, retail and every Lunar New Year campaign in the calendar. Mandarin or Cantonese on set is a separate requirement from the look, so say whether you need the language spoken on camera or just understood.
Indian-Malaysian
Deepavali campaigns, jewellery, gold, banking and healthcare. Chronically under-booked the rest of the year, which means availability is usually better than for the other two and the same faces have not been in six competing ads.
Pan-Asian and mixed heritage
What regional clients ask for when one shoot has to run in six markets. It buys reach across the region and costs specificity at home: a face that reads as broadly Asian rarely reads as local Malaysian, and local is what a domestic campaign usually needs.
Expat and Western
Hospitality, property, education, luxury and anything selling an international feeling. Worth pausing on: if the audience is Malaysian, a Western cast can read as a campaign made for somebody else. We will say so before you book it.
Men, mature and family casting
Banking, insurance, healthcare, property and retail all need people over forty, and there are far fewer of them on any roster than there are twenty-five-year-olds. Family groups are cast for chemistry as much as looks. Both need more lead time, so send these briefs earlier than you think you need to.
Before you write
Questions we get first
How much does it cost to hire a model in Malaysia?
It depends on the shoot and on the usage, which is why we quote against a brief rather than publish a price list. A day rate covers time on set only; where the images run, in which countries and for how long are priced separately and often move the total more than the day rate does.
How fast can we get a shortlist?
Usually within 24 hours of a complete brief for a standard commercial booking. Unusual combinations take longer, since a specific language plus a specific sample size plus a specific date needs more calls.
Can we see the full roster?
The board above is a selection. The full roster is matched to your brief rather than browsed, because a shortlist of eight people who fit is more useful than several hundred who might.
Do you work outside Kuala Lumpur?
Yes, across Malaysia, and across Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. Travel and accommodation are quoted separately when a shoot sits outside a model's home city.
Do you cast for events as well as shoots?
Yes. Event and activation work is a different casting job from a stills shoot, mostly because language and stamina matter more than measurements. Say which one you need in the brief.
Are you a modelling agency or a talent agency?
We cast commercial models and creators for brand work. If you searched for a modelling agency in Malaysia, that is the same thing in different words.
Can you cast models in hijab or modest wardrobe?
Yes, and it is one of the most common requests we get for the Malaysian market. Say it in the brief rather than at the fitting: wardrobe, styling and what the model is asked to do on camera are agreed before the booking is confirmed, which is fairer to everyone and cheaper than discovering a mismatch on the day.
What is the minimum booking, and how is overtime counted?
Commercial bookings are usually a half day or a full day, and events are quoted by the hours you need on site. Overtime runs from the call time written on the call sheet, not from when the first shot happens. If a shoot is likely to overrun, tell us in advance and we will agree the overtime terms up front instead of negotiating them at eight in the evening.
What happens if a booked model cancels or falls ill?
We replace them. That is most of what an agency is for. Because we already know who was shortlisted and who else was available for those dates, a replacement usually comes from the same shortlist you approved, and you get told immediately rather than on the morning of the shoot.
Is there a fee to receive a shortlist?
No. Briefing us and seeing a shortlist costs nothing, and there is no retainer to be on our list of clients. Money changes hands when you book someone.
Can we book the same model again later, or extend the usage?
Yes to both, and they are separate things. Booking the same person again is a new shoot day. Extending usage means keeping images you already have running in more places, for longer, or in more countries, and it is quoted against the original booking terms. Ask before the term expires, not after, because renewals are ordinary and retroactive fixes are not.
Do you work with production houses and photographers, or only brands?
Both. A good share of the work comes from production houses, photographers, event agencies and creative agencies casting on behalf of their own clients. If you are briefing for a client, tell us what you can share and what you cannot, and we will work with the version you are allowed to send.
Insights
Worth reading before you brief
Written for the person putting the brief together, not for search engines. The whole set lives in Insights.
Tell us who you need on set.
Dates, look direction and where the images will run. We will come back with names who are actually free.