Entertainers and animators for events
Entertainers and animators keep an event moving between its fixed points. At a family day they run the games for each age group, during a gala dinner they look after the children while the adults are at the table, and at a staff party they host the main moments of the evening. For a marketing team, an HR department planning a day for employees’ families or an agency putting together an event for its own client, we work as the entertainment agency that finds these people for a given date and city. The Event Manager matches them against your brief before you see a single profile.
What the booking covers is people. The creative concept of the entertainment, and the kit that goes with it, such as inflatables, props, set dressing and craft materials, stays with the organiser or with the supplier you already work with. Bands, singers, tribute acts, lookalikes and celebrity names sit outside the catalogue too. Where music is part of the plan, the role on the platform is a DJ, and event DJs can go into the same request as the animators, so one Event Manager handles both.
Entertainment for every event
Event performers are chosen around the guests and the venue, which is why the same kind of request can produce very different teams. The contexts we staff include:
- Corporate events and staff parties: someone to greet guests at the door, team games and a host for the moments that hold the evening together, around a programme that stays yours.
- Store openings and brand activations: a children’s corner or a games area that keeps families at the stand while the adults talk to your people.
- Birthdays and other private parties: games, a kids’ disco and creative workshops for the children while the adults are busy elsewhere.
- Corporate family days: activity stations split by age group, with animators supporting the welcome staff for the whole day. When the day itself needs organising, corporate family day events are a separate service that includes the animators.
Games for adults can also be the core of a day built for a group of colleagues. If that day needs its own design from start to finish, team building events are the service to look at; if the programme already exists and what is missing is the people to run it, a request for entertainers covers it. Other roles fit into the same request, from hostesses at the entrance to a bartender for the adults’ drinks, and the full range of event staff for every need sits in one catalogue.
Formats outside these examples start the same way. An open day at a factory, the end-of-season party of a sports club or a themed evening at a resort are described in the quote request, with the type of event, the dates, the place and the roles you have in mind, and the proposal is built from that description.
Face painting, balloon modelling and storytelling
Some skills are specific enough to be booked by name. Face painting, balloon modelling and storytelling sessions for small children are requirements that go into the request, and the Event Manager uses them as filters when putting the shortlist together. Professionals list the services they offer and the events they have worked on in their profiles, so you can check a skill for yourself before choosing who comes.
Why choose ToGet4U entertainment
Before any profile reaches you, the Event Manager has read the brief and filtered the network for the guests’ ages, the activities and any requirement you have set, such as a second language for international guests. The shortlist arrives with each person’s experience. You choose the staff: nobody is confirmed for your event until you have compared the profiles and picked the people you want.
Behind that shortlist sits a network of over 50,000 professionals registered on the platform. ToGet4U managed more than 1,800 events in 2025 and over 6,000 since launch, and in peak weeks 90% of selections are closed within 48 hours. More than 1,300 clients and partners work with ToGet4U®.
Every entertainer works on a digital contract signed on the platform. The quote is comprehensive, covering the staff fees with statutory contributions, the agency costs of contracting them and a dedicated Event Manager, and the insurance and paperwork for the staff are carried by the platform instead of landing on your desk. A dedicated Event Manager follows the booking remotely, from the request to the post-event stage, while the briefing given to the entertainers covers dress code, times, where each person is stationed and who their contact is at the venue.
How to book entertainers
A booking starts from a request, and no account is needed to send one. It covers the type of event, the city and dates, the hours to cover, how many guests are expected and how old they are, and the kind of entertainment you have in mind, from a children’s corner to someone who hosts the evening. Nothing changes with the location: the platform covers cities across Europe, and we operate in Italy, Germany and Spain.
A comprehensive quote comes back first, and once you accept it you receive the profiles the Event Manager has selected; you compare them and choose, and only then do the entertainers sign their digital contracts on the platform. Pricing is worked out in that quote from how many entertainers you need, for how many hours, in which city and on which dates. A birthday afternoon and a family day that fills the whole day end up with different totals, even though both start from the same form. You can request a free quote for your entertainers with no obligation to book.
How many entertainers an event with children needs
The headcount depends on how many children are coming, how old they are and how many hours need covering. Those details go into the request, and the number of entertainers appears in the quote, so you know it before confirming. Age groups far apart, such as toddlers and teenagers, work better with separate stations and dedicated people for each. An activity spread over a garden and several rooms also changes the kind of experience the Event Manager looks for in the profiles.