Model agencies in the Netherlands

By city

• Amsterdam (17)
• The Hague (2)
• Haarlemmermeer (2)
• Hilversum (2)

By province

• North Holland (24)
• South Holland (4)
• North Brabant (3)
• Limburg (2)
• Flevoland (1)

How to check a model agency in the Netherlands

Unlike Belgium, the Netherlands does have a free public check. Anyone who supplies labour for payment must be registered in the trade register for that activity (Waadi). Fines reach €32,000 — for the client too.

How to read that check

We tested the KVK Waadi Check ourselves on 2026-08-09. The search box returns every company, registered or not. As a control we searched a business-directory publisher — which lends no staff — and it came back exactly like a model agency. Appearing in that list means nothing. You have to select the company to get the real answer.

So we publish no Waadi status for the agencies listed here: we did not establish it, and inferring it from the search list would be wrong.

What you can check yourself

The KvK number. Every Dutch company must show it on its site. In practice almost none do: 2 of the 105 agencies in this list publish one. Where it is there, we show it — then you run the check yourself.

You never pay to work. If you are asked for a book, a registration fee or a photographer, the answer is no.

A real address. Some agencies deliberately publish none — that is not in itself a warning sign. A fully virtual agency asking for money is.

All agencies

105 agencies shown

How this list is built

Every field comes from the agency's own website, fetched on 2026-08-09. No field comes from another directory — not even a phone number. The municipality is computed from the official PC4 reference, never typed by hand.

A postal code that does not match the municipality name read on the page is rejected. That is necessary: 2025 and 2026 are real Dutch postal codes, so a « © 2026 » footer would otherwise put six agencies in Haarlem. 80 entries have no address for that reason.

This list is not exhaustive. Many Dutch agencies run on software that puts no address in the page: we then show what is there, and say the address is not published.