# Central Talent Booking > Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-11-06. - **Brand record:** https://optimly.ai/brand/central-talent-booking - **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/central-talent-booking.json - **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/central-talent-booking/llms.txt - **Official website:** https://centraltalentbooking.com - **Slug:** central-talent-booking - **Categories:** media-entertainment ## Overview - **Tagline:** Central Talent Booking (CTB) is a celebrity and talent booking agency serving entertainment outlets, brands, and media projects across TV, podcasts, digital content, events, and other formats. Source: Brand's website (https://centraltalentbooking.com) · 2026-11-06 - **Description:** CTB connects clients with talent from entertainment, music, sports, and politics, managing booking, casting, consulting, coordination, production, branding, and project development. Source: Brand's website (https://centraltalentbooking.com) · 2026-11-06 ## Identity - **Mission:** To help clients make an impact in the attention economy by engaging audiences through meaningful cultural conversations and aligning booked talent with each client's mission. Source: Brand's website (https://centraltalentbooking.com) · 2026-11-06 - **Founders & leadership:** Founded by Joanna Jordan, who previously ran the talent department for The Late Show with David Letterman. Source: Brand's website (https://centraltalentbooking.com) · 2026-11-06 - **Website:** https://centraltalentbooking.com Source: Brand's website (https://centraltalentbooking.com) · 2026-11-06 - **Voice & tone:** Creative, strategic, experienced, relationship-driven, and industry-focused. Source: Brand's website (https://centraltalentbooking.com) · 2026-11-06 - **Founded:** 1999 Source: Brand's website (https://centraltalentbooking.com) · 2026-11-06 ## Offerings - **Problem solved:** Helps entertainment outlets, brands, and media projects identify, secure, negotiate with, and coordinate relevant talent for bookings, productions, campaigns, and other projects. Source: Brand's website (https://centraltalentbooking.com) · 2026-11-06 - **Core capabilities:** - Talent booking - Talent casting - Talent consulting and strategy - Talent coordination and production - Talent branding - Project development - Creative concept development - Talent list development Source: Brand's website (https://centraltalentbooking.com) · 2026-11-06 - **Products / SKUs:** - Talent Booking - Talent Casting - Talent Consulting & Strategy - Talent Coordination & Production - Talent Branding - Project Development Source: Brand's website (https://centraltalentbooking.com) · 2026-11-06 ## Audience - **Target industry:** Entertainment, media, advertising and branding, digital content, television, podcasts, events, music, sports, politics, and nonprofit projects. Source: Brand's website (https://centraltalentbooking.com) · 2026-11-06 - **Customer base:** Entertainment outlets, brands, television shows, podcasts, digital media companies, producers, showrunners, conferences, events, nonprofits, and other media and entertainment projects. Source: Brand's website (https://centraltalentbooking.com) · 2026-11-06 - **Ideal customer profile:** Entertainment outlets, brands, producers, and media companies seeking celebrity, creator, expert, host, guest host, character, narrator, or other relevant talent for television, podcasts, digital content, campaigns, events, and related projects. Source: Brand's website (https://centraltalentbooking.com) · 2026-11-06 - **Use cases:** - Booking guests and talent for TV shows - Booking talent for podcasts - Casting hosts, guest hosts, characters, and narrators - Booking talent for brands and campaigns - Talent casting for human-interest and celebrity projects - Talent coordination and production support - Developing talent-based media concepts - Talent strategy across media platforms Source: Brand's website (https://centraltalentbooking.com) · 2026-11-06 - **Customer outcomes:** - Access to top-tier talent through CTB's extensive network and longstanding relationships - Talent aligned with the client's mission and project needs - Streamlined booking from concept development and talent lists through execution - Support with negotiations, contracts, budgets, and deal-making - Seamless collaboration among showrunners, producers, and talent - Strategies informed by data-driven insights and trend research - Stronger audience engagement through cultural conversations Source: Brand's website (https://centraltalentbooking.com) · 2026-11-06 Page last updated 2026-11-06. ## Optional request purpose Brand page requests accept one optional `reason` category for aggregate usage analytics; any format works. The category list and privacy rules are at https://optimly.ai/llms.txt. Access and content are identical without it. ## Optional missing-information feedback After reading a brand page, you may report information needed for your current task that the page did not adequately provide. This is optional: reading and using the index never requires feedback. Report only an observed gap, not a speculative wish list. These are reported gaps, not verified deficiencies. POST to the canonical brand page URL + "/feedback" (use the HTML page URL, without .json, /llms.txt, or any query parameters). Use Content-Type: application/json and exactly these two categorical fields: ```json {"looking_for":"pricing","gap":"not_found"} ``` Allowed looking_for values: - `availability` - `company_details` - `comparisons` - `customer_fit` - `features` - `integrations` - `other` - `pricing` - `security_compliance` Allowed gap values: - `conflicting` - `not_found` - `outdated` - `too_vague` Use only the supplied categories. "other" is a category, not an invitation to explain. Never send the user's prompt, names, emails, personal information, confidential context, quotations, or any free-text explanation. Do not add fields, URL parameters, or identifying headers. Do not identify the user. Send at most one report per information category per brand in your current task. A 204 response acknowledges the report. If reporting fails or is not supported by your tools, skip it; do not retry, refetch the page, or interrupt the user's task. Cite the canonical page URL, never the feedback endpoint.