Austria's Next Topmodel was an Austrian competition reality television series based on Tyra Banks's America's Next Top Model.

The third cycle premiered in January 2011 and introduced new judges: the designer Atıl Kutoğlu and the runway coach Elvyra Geyer.

The ProSiebenSat.1 Media group announced in April 2017 that the eighth cycle would air on ATV Austria, thus temporarily moving the show from Puls 4.

Dominik Wachta, the founder of what can be described as a mix between model casting and a beauty pageant, accused the TV channel Puls 4 of stealing his idea.

Further steps to change the name of the show were unsuccessful as it was already licensed by CBS as the role-model version created by Tyra Banks.

[9] In the third cycle, contestant Magalie Berkhahn was eliminated from the show due to the racist comments she made during a phone conversation with her boyfriend.

[11] In January 2012, 21-year-old Sabrina Angelika Rauch (a cycle 4 contestant) died in a car crash after spinning out of control on her way home from a party.

[13] Only three days before the episode featuring Rauch's elimination was aired, a nude photo from a shoot she did before her participation on the show was exposed.

[14] At the beginning of the next episode of the show, the broadcast station expressed their condolences to Rauch's relatives and friends on a silent screen.