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Just describe your shoot in plain English. Our AI instantly builds your production brief, matches crew, and gets you booked — no forms, no phone tag, no waiting.

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Nationwide coverage across all 50 states • 65+ countries worldwide • 6 continents

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The One-Stop-Shop-Shoot Management Software From beginning booking to final billing of the crew to the client. One invoice that allows everyone to work smarter, not harder, with an end to end cloud based solution for booking, crewing, managing and invoicing your gigs.

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10,821 shoots booked in the last 12 months

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Every shoot is personally managed by our team, leveraging our trusted network to match the right talent to the right role. From production through post, we book every type of media crew position, offering coverage across 24+ US cities and 80+ countries worldwide — from London to Tokyo, Dubai to Sydney. No project is too big or too small. You can count on us for fast, reliable, and role-specific crew sourcing every time.

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What People Say

About working with Assignment Desk Crews

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AKA Media

“Everything went really well! Crew was fantastic and the end result was great. Thanks for the collaboration as always!”

— AKA Media

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Stadium

“Thank you for everything with our two days in Brooklyn, and for rolling with the situations and added needs that sprung up during our two shows”

— Stadium

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The Pay-to-Play Problem: How Crew Staffing Platforms Exploit Workers

A deep dive into predatory pay-to-apply models, the Phan v. Talent Systems lawsuit, ghost jobs, and why Assignment Desk charges clients — not crew.

Understanding Your Crew Booking Rate: What It Means and How to Improve It

What your booking rate measures, what a good rate looks like, and specific strategies to improve it on Assignment Desk.

Why We Show You Everything: Our Transparency Promise

Assignment Desk's philosophy on crew transparency — what we show, why we show it, and how it compares to platforms that keep crew in the dark.

Hacking Assignment Desk: How to Get on Every Shoot

A practical, step-by-step guide to maximizing your bookings on Assignment Desk — from profile optimization to coordinator relationships.

How Assignment Desk's Crew Directory Algorithm Actually Works

A full breakdown of our 3-tier master rating system, Bayesian smoothing, and every factor that determines where you appear in the crew directory.

The Production Coordinator Relationship: Why It's the #1 Factor in Getting Booked

Why coordinators book the crew they know, what the data says about repeat bookings, and how to build trust from your very first gig.

The Ultimate Crewing Software for the Production World!

The best teams should work together and it should be easy every time.

Crew Directory

Find and be found.

This is a current list of people that are actively working in the industry. If you're not on here, you should be. Staff Production Coordinators use this database exclusively for some companies.

Be part of an active list of crew members for key positions that you can book directly or have a staff production coordinator work with you. Our coordinators and managers are experts. This isn't a call center.

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About working with Assignment Desk Crews

AKA Media

Stadium

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Roger Woodruff

Nate Galluppi

Zach Reed

Nate Silverman

Ryan Brower

Jordan Woods

Reinaldo Gentile-Rondon

Karl Egbe

Joe Owens

Zach Machen

Derrick Butler

Jalen Phillips

Manny Frances

Emerson Brown

EJ Watson

Jack Gaertner

Cooper Patterson

Brian Behrens

Hayden Broomhead

Rachel Sanchez

Carlos Martinez

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