UK Promotional Staffing

Promotional staff,
UK-wide

Whether you're hiring for a campaign or looking for promo work, Stuck For Staff is where the UK's brands, agencies and promotional staff connect.

Promotional staff are the people who put a brand in front of real customers - in supermarkets, at festivals, on city streets, in retail stores and at trade shows.

Since 2002, Stuck For Staff has been the UK platform connecting promotional staff with the agencies that book them. Thousands of staff and hundreds of agencies use the site to find each other for sampling campaigns, brand ambassador work, demonstrations, and consumer engagement activations.

What promotional staff do

  • Sampling campaigns - handing out product samples in supermarkets, train stations, festivals or on the street.
  • Brand ambassadors - representing a brand at activations, pop-ups, sponsored events and experiential marketing campaigns.
  • Retail demonstrations - in-store product demos, often for food, drink, beauty or technology brands.
  • Exhibition and conference staff - manning stands, scanning visitor badges, and qualifying leads.
  • Leafleting and street teams - flyer distribution, surveys, and guerrilla marketing.
  • Mystery shopping - undercover store visits to assess service quality.

Get started in minutes

Looking for promo work?

Build a free profile, browse live promotional jobs across the UK, and apply directly to agencies. No subscription, no fees - ever.

  • Free profile, free applications
  • Get found by agencies hiring in your area
  • Build a verified rating history
Join as Staff - Free

Hiring promotional staff?

Post a job alert that reaches opted-in staff in the right area, or search our live database by location, experience and availability.

  • Post job alerts to matching staff
  • Search by location, gender, experience
  • Manage staff and ratings in one place
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Frequently asked questions

What is promotional staff? +

Promotional staff are professionals hired to represent brands at events, in retail, on the street, or in-store. The role covers sampling, brand ambassador work, demonstrations, leafleting, and consumer engagement for field marketing and brand experience campaigns.

How do agencies hire promotional staff through Stuck For Staff? +

Agencies register a free account, then either post a job alert that goes out to opted-in staff matching the criteria, or search the live database of staff profiles by location, gender, experience and other filters.

Is it free to join as promotional staff? +

Yes. Staff registration is completely free. Build a profile, browse live jobs, apply directly, and collect verified ratings from the agencies you work with.

What kind of campaigns hire promotional staff? +

Product sampling, brand activations, retail demonstrations, festival and event activations, conference support, exhibition stand staff, mystery shopping, and leafleting campaigns are all common.