iCasting: opportunities for all

Cemre Ercan
iCasting-blog
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2 min readAug 24, 2018

People all have their own goals and dreams that they would like to achieve. iCasting acknowledges the desire that one is unique and that, in addition to living their day-to-day life, people want to pursue their dreams. We believe that everyone is gifted with talent and potential. Our mission is to give all these talents a fair and equal opportunity to pursue their dreams, their creativity and to build their careers, whether they are amateurs or professionals.

Current situation within the casting industry

This makes our strategy unique. Existing casting agencies, as we know them, focus only on the semi and high-end professionals rather than amateurs.

Currently the casting market worldwide is severely conservative and extremely centralized. The great power that major traditional casting agencies and agents have obtained, ensure that they are able to define individuals’ careers and even exercise their power on the entire market. Traditional casting agencies focus only on the top of the market, where the margins are most profitable. In addition, global discussions such as the #metoo movement and discussions based on (gender) discrimination and bad payments have arisen. This affects the industry negatively. Their bureaucratic way of doing business and acting as the intermediary causes a slow and expensive process.

We create a new marketplace for these millions of motivated amateur and semi-professional talents who are left behind by major traditional casting agencies. At iCasting, these talents can benefit from all the opportunities that we offer, by simply registering at our platform for free. We believe that talents should be able to control their own careers and seek their potential by themselves. We also believe that most clients are able to select the right talents for their jobs.

iCasting: cutting out the intermediary

However, they need a supportive platform that can help them in finding each other and interacting with each other. By disregarding the intermediary and offering the right tools on the iCasting platform, these talents and clients are in full control of their booking process and the agreements, resulting in a fast, secure and inexpensive process.

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Cemre Ercan
iCasting-blog

📍the Netherlands | International Business & Languages student | Interested in sports (management), politics, literature, technology, business and languages